New Play Will
Open To Public
On Guild Stage |
Players To Present New
Comedy Tonight
STARTS AT 8 O’CLOCK
“Oneo In a Lifetime” Is Title of
IToiliietion To lie Liven
At Theatre
Tonight at 8:15 o’clock the Guild
Theatre curtain will rise on the
initial performance of its most
exacting and pretentious under
taking of the season. “Once in a
Lifetime” will bow its comic head
to a capacity audience, ushered in
by the combined prayers of Mrs.
Ottilie Seybolt, directing, and
George Andreini, responsible for
the wealth of scenic perfection
that will greet the eyes.
The task of shaping up this play
has been an unusually difficult
one. The piece is not far divorced
from Broadway, and but lately
made into an excellent movie,
hence there were from the start
many criteria for the Guild play
ers to live up to. There was the
difficulty of staging, always hard
in their cramped quarters, and
doubly so this time, with seven
scenes and lavish sets to confound
them.
Difficulties Overcome
There was the necessity for
crisping up the lines—always a
problem with a student produc
tion, and made more so in this
instance by the speed at which
this comedy must move in order j
to succeed. There was the diffi- j
culty of casting the many char- j
acter roles, of finding the right j
people for the right parts.
It has been done. The play, i
seen in dress rehearsal last night, !
has all the components of excel
lent entertainment. The sets are
good, the lines are good. It moves
ahead breathlessly and hilariously.
It will be a good play.
Well Received Elsewhere
As a matter of fact, “Once in a ]
Lifetime,” wherever shown, has
been a most popular show. We
don’t like to draw a line of dis-1
tinction, smacking of editorializ
ing, but we like to laugh. The
sombre grandeur of Guild Thea
tre’s last year presentation of
Hamlet was impressing. The
sparkling good fun of this year’s
“Once in a Lifetime" will be more
than that; it will be an evening
of let-down and hilarity for an
audience never given to anything
more than that.
Martin Trieb To Visit
Physical Ed Honorary
Martin H. Trieb, assistant direc
tor of physical education in Los
Angeles, and western supervisor
of Phi Epsilon Kappa, national
physical education honorary, will
arrive in town today to visit the
fraternity.
Friday afternoon from 3 to 4
o’clock he will give a demonstra
tion on free floor work, and from
4 to 5 he will give a talk. These
events are for physical education
majors and will be given in the
men’s gym.
That evening a banquet will be
held at the home of E. R. Knollin
and will be followed by a short
business meeting.
Quick Watson, My Sivimming Suit
These girls, members of the Dare club, help put some of the zip* in swimming down in California.
They are walking the fight rope with the aid of gas-filled balloons. This all takes place in Inglewood.
Book Week Talks
To Be Presented
Library Staff
Shaw’s Guide for Readings
List Texts Written by
Faculty Men
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National book week is being ob
served on the Oregon campus by
both Miss Casford, and Mrs. Riet
man, librarians, who are giving
talks on new reading material for
children. These talks will be given
! at McMorran and’Washburne’s de
! partment store this week.
Book circulation for October
| shows, in comparison with the cir
culation of last year, an increase
! in books for home use. A drop of
18.4 per cent was made in total
circulation.
The main library has for the use
of students and faculty members
a book called, “List of Books for
College Libraries,” prepared by
] Charles B. Shaw. Approximately
! 14,000 titles have been selected on
j the recommendation of 200 college
j teachers, librarians and other ad
visers.
Books by the University faculty
members are listed in this book
are:
J. D. Barnett’s “Operation of
the Initiative Referendum and Re
call, Macmillan, 1915; J. F. Bo
vard and F. VV. Cozens “Tests and
Measurements in Physical Educa
tion,” Saunders, 1930; E. S. Conk
lin's “Principles of Abnormal Psy
chology,” Holt, 1927, Arnold Ben
nett Hall’s “Popular Govern
ment,” Macmillan, 1929; A. E. Cas
well, “Experimental Physics,” Mac
millan, 1928.
Yoran Warns Students
Against Postal Offense
-“I wish to warn the students
of the University of Oregon of
a serious offense which has a
large fine,” said Postmaster D.
E. Yoran. “Students have been
putting notes in their laundries
or in other parcel post packages,
and there is a fine for anywhere
from $100 to $1000.”
“I don’t want to have to pun
ish so severely, but I hope the
students will be careful about ,
this hereafter,” he said.
New Use Found For Oatmeal
In Experiment By Dr. Moore
Mother may give Johnny and
Mary oatmeal with cream-and- j
sugar for breakfast, or you may!
feed it to your dog when his ears j
don’t seem as perky and lively as
usual—but that isn’t the use that i
Dr. A. E. Moore has for oatmeal.
Dr. Moore, professor of physiol
ogy both here and in Corvallis, |
has in his laboratory in the base
ment of Deady hall a dozen small j
dishes, each containing a little'
oatmeal. On top of the cereal he
has placed a small amount Of
slime-mould, a yellowish - green!
substance—no one knows whether
an animal or a plant—which eats
the grains out of the oatmeal.
This slime-mould is one of the ■
queerest things known. It grows
in the woods on fungus, eating
them the same as it does the oat
meal. Dr. Moore obtained the1
slime-mould from Massachusetts,1
dried in an envelope. He kept it
for a year in this dried form, and:
yet when it was placed on a dish
of oatmeal, it commenced to grow, j
eating the grains in the cereal
and moving from one side of the
dish to the other.
It isn’t a plant and it isn’t an
animal—or perhaps it is both.
That is one of the things Dr.
Moore is trying to discover with
his experiments.
He watches over it as carefully
as mother feeds Johnny oatmeal,
keeping it in a dark room which
is separated from his regular lab
oratory by a winding passage,
strangely reminiscent of the “Hide
in the Dark” and "Topsy Turvy”
houses at the fair. He says it
grows better back there.
Dr. Moore has some other ex
periments on hand, too. He is
crossing sea dollars and sea ur
chins—in case you* aren’t in
formed, those are some of the
things you find at the beach, and,
he says, are biologically as far
apart as lions and giraffes. How
ever, he doesn’t know much about
the sea animals yet, so that must
be left to another time.
Current Pictures
Analysis Posted
On Bulletin Board
If you're ever confused by the
ballyhoo of motion picture adver
tising, step down to the Univer
sity Y. M. C, A.’s new motion pic
ture clinic and straighten your
self out.
On the bulletin board just in
side the front door you will find
a brief, impartial, and broad
minded analysis of the current
pictures. This survey, written
each month by Mrs. Thomas G.
Winter of Hollywood, and pub
lished by the Motion Picture Pro
ducers and Distributors of Amer
ica, is stripped of all the verbiage
of “greatest ever filmed,” “abso
lutely unsurpassed in film his
tory,” and gives the reader facta
as to the relative merit of the
pictures.
The University Y. M. C. A. sub
scribed to the film-review service
as a part of its policy of service
to the students, according to Eu
gene Stromberg, secretary.
Smith To Address
Religious Groups
“Studying the World of Tomor
row,” is the title of the address
which Dr. Warren D. Smith has
been asked to repeat at the coop
erative meeting of the Presbyte
rian, Congregational, and Metho
dist churches, to be held at the
Methodist church next Sunday
night at 7:30.
Dr. Smith first spoke on this
topic some time ago before a stu
! dent group, called together at Ger
linger hall by Rolla Reedy, chair
man of the committee which is
sponsoring the series of discussions
on the world tomorrow.
“I will attempt to show that the
next great advances will be in the
field of social science by the ap
plication of the scientific method,”
Dr. Smith declared.
Dean Morse To Attend
Crime Meeting Friday
Dean Wayne L. Morse of the
law school will attend the crime
commission meeting Friday morn
ing at 10 o’clock, in Portland. The
purpose of the meeting is to dis
cuss reports of all committees and
to pass upon all recommendations
which will be passed at the next
legislature.
State Senator William Wood
ward, of Portland, will make a
report on penal institutions. A
committee, on which Mrs. Martha
Randall of Portland, is chairman,
will report on parole and proba
tion, while Dean Morse will report
the form of criminal procedure.
Dean Jewell To Speak
At Education Club Meet
Omega Delta Pi, undergraduate
education club will meet this eve
ning in room 3 of the Education
building. Dean Jewell will deliver
the address of the evening which
will be, "The $10,000 Teacher.”
This club exists for the purpose
of cultivating interest in educa
tional problems. All undergrad
uate students in education are in
vited to attend the meeting.
Six in Infirmary
The number of students in the
infirmary has again risen with the
rain. Doris Homer, Alma Flaig,
Dorothy Wright, Louise Anderson,
Alfred Sessions, and Alfred Hox
worth are now under treatment.
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Progress Is Made
In Initial Attempt
Of Finance Drive
Animal VMCA Campaign
To Be Completed
By Tonight
Firty students who man the con
trols of the annual Y. M. C. A.
finance drive reported satisfactory
progress at the end of the first
day's work, and will bring the all
campus campaign to raise an op
erating budget of $400 to a close
at 10:30 tonight.
Under the direction of Cecil Es
py and Dave Wilson, the follow
ing men are acting as agents for
the drive in fraternities: Alpha
Tau Omega, Neal Bush; Beta The
ta Pi, Don Emery; Alpha Upsiloa',
Ed Kirby; Chy Psi, Tom Tongue;
Delta Tau Delta, Bob Perigo; In
ternational house, Harry Stone;
Kappa Sigma, Corwin Calavan;
Phi Delta Theta, Ed Schweiker;
Phi Gamma Delta, Graham West;
Phi Kappa Psi, John Long;
Pi Kappa Alpha, Ed Cruikshank;
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Bill Ger
hart; Sigma Alpha Mu, Lester
Goldschmidt; Sigma Chi, Cecil
Espy; Sigma Nu, Jack Guiss; Sig
ma Phi Epsilon, Dave Wilson; Sig
ma Pi Tau, George Schenk; Theta
Chi, Maurice Pease.
Bill Kidwell and Leslie Dunton
have charge of the soliciting in
the halls. The individual repre
sentatives are: Alpha, Grant Eddy;
Gamma, John Gibson; Zeta, Bob
'Holt; Sigma, Bill Shepard; Omega,
Leslie Duntan; Sherry Ross, El
dred Price, Friendly hall, Lowell
Anderson.
Rolla Reedy, Don Saunders, Jack
Bellinger, Kenneth Ferguson and
Clark Irwin are serving as team
captains for, the independent men’s
campaigners.
Among those who are working
under them are John Crockett,
Ted Pursley, Jay Wilson, Howard
Ohmart, Fred Buell, John Larsen,
Austin Hall, Gordon Holland, Hugh
Holland, Sterling Cash, Joaquin
Barr, Glenn Ridley, Don Carruth,
Verne Adams, Lloyd Jackson,
Ethan Newman and Barney Clark.
Dr. John Mueller
Speaks to Croup
That the definition of the word
family does not apply today as it
did in the days of the patriarchs,
was the opinion of Dr. John H.
Mueller, professor of sociology,
who spoke at 7 o’clock Tuesday
in the league room of Gerlinger
hall on “The Home in the World
Tomorrow.”
All that the present day census
of America requires to be neces
sary for a family to be registered I
as such, is that the same group be j
gathered around the same table
regularly for meals.
Mass Meeting
To Inaugurate
AWS Conclave
j ALL WOMEN INVITED
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' V oeaJ ional C o nf er^nce
Opens Today
; Exeeutive of T.ipman and Wolfe i
Will Talk oti Opportunities
For Women in Stores
The Associated Women Stu
dents' vocational conference will
open at 4 o'clock this afternoor
in Gerlinger lounge with a mass
meeting and fashion, tea for all
women of the campus. Cynthia
Liljequist is in charge of the en
tire conference this year.
Louise Webber, president of the
A. W. S., has extended a cordial
welcome to women of the faculty
and house mothers.
Wendell To Speak
“Opportunities Open to Women
in Department Stores” is the title
of the talk to be given by Harold
F. Windell, president and man
ager of Lipman Wolfe and com
pany of Portland. He will trace
the history of department stores,
their various divisions, and the
training needed for each, oppor
tunities for advancement, and il
lustrations of success and failure
with the reasons in each case. Mr.
Wendell's knowledge is the result
of extensive research on his sub
ject.
Fashion Is Topic
Henry Harris, stylist for the
Lipman Wolfe company, will talk
on "This Thing Called Fashion.”
Three models will show clothes
for the co-ed, and one will model
attire for the older woman.
The models are Irma Logan,
Virginia Mahan, Corinne Fox.
and Mrs. Fox. The latest trend
in campus clothes, street and
afternoon dresses, informal tea
frocks, and coats, hats, and ac
cessories will be shown.
Tea will be served on the sun
porch after the talks.
Scabbard, Blade
Pledges Students
Formal pledging of Bill Morgan,
Bill Bowerman, Russell Morgan,
and Gene Ison to Scabbard and
Blade, national honorary fratern
ity in military science, was held
vesterday afternoon at a forma
tion at the R. O. T. C. barracks.
Col. A. O. Waller and Major D.
C. Stanard, local national guard
officers, were pledged as associates
recently.
All are fourth year men in mil
itary. Morgan is a senior in social
sciences and captain of the foot
ball team. Bowerman and Russell
Morgan are seniors in business ad
ministration. Ison is a senior in
biological sciences.
The pledges were announced by
Captain Forest Paxton, head of
the local company of the society.
The initiation date will be an
nounced later.
Schmidt Will Describe
Mediterranean Cruise
The travelogue of a Mediterran
ean cruise which took her to many
countries bordering it, will be giv
en by Evelyn Schmidt tonight dur
ing the weekly meeting of the
World Fellowship group, to be held
at 8:45 in the Y. W. bungalow.
Miss Schmidt, a sophomore on
the campus, lived on the continent
for two years, from 1929 to 1931,
and attended the University of
Berlin. While abroad she took an
extended cruise in the south, vis
iting many countries which skirt
the Mediterranean. Her talk will
be devoted mainly to a description
of Italy, Egypt, and Palestine.
Helen Binford, leader, has invited
all interested, and announced the
appointment of Edna Murphy as
membership chairman.
Campus Calendar
Frosh Commission Cabinet will
hold a meeting at the Y. W. bun
galow today ^t 4:30.
World Fellowship meeting at
bungalow, 8:45, when Evelyn
Schmidt gives her travelogue of a
Mediterranean cruise. Anyone in
terested is invited to attend.
Amphibian tryouts tonight at
7:30. Anyone is welcome to try.
Jean Failing’s Frosh discussion
group will meet at the Y. W. at
3:50 today, from here members
will go to the A. W. S. mass meet
ing and tea.
Christian Science organization
will hold its regular meeting
Thursday evening at 7:30 at Y.
W. C. A. hut. Welcome extended
to all.
Socialist club meeting postponed
till Thursday evening, November
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Once in a Lifetime Leads
*
. This dulcet trio plays the lead roles in “Once in a Lifetime,”
opening tonight at the Guild Theatre. The lady in the center is
Ty Hart mils; flanking her on her left is Wilbur Walker; on her
right, Chuck Shoemaker.
Informal Dance
Decorations Will
Arrive on Friday
Free Admission to Event
Proves Alluring Even
Ten Years Ago
Although the depression had not
begun, free admission to the soph
! omore informal in 1922 was just
as alluring as it promises to be in
1932, the Emerald of the early
date shows.
Manifesting the spirit of the
I Montmarte, where in an imitation
of Bal Tabarin, ‘‘les garcons et
leurs gigolettes” frolicked, was the
setting of the hop which was held
in the new armory. Black and
white yama yama costumes be
J decked the orchestra members, '
j and this color scheme was used
| throughout the building.
Compare this with the new false
ceiling and clever Dutch decora
tions which are arriving Friday
from the John R. Stark company
of Portland, who are furnishing
| the entire lay-out to attire the
: walls of McArthur court.
Skull and Daggers, underclass
honorary, has general supervision
of the dance.
Rifle Range Open
At ROTC Barracks
The time between now and No
vember 20, inclusive, will be avail
able to rifle teams of living organ
izations for practice on the small
bore range in the R. O. T. C. bar
racks, it was announced yesterday
by Major R. H. Back, officer in
charge.
During the week November 27
to December 3 the intramural ri
fle match will be fired in a single
stage. Hours on which the range
will be available are: Monday, 3
to 5 o’clock; Tuesday, 9 to 1 and
2 to 5 o’clock; Wednesday, 3 to 9
o’clock; Thursday, 9 to 12 and 2
to 9 o’clock; Friday, 3 to 9 o’clock;
Saturday, 10 to 12 o’clock.
Responsible authority in each
living organization that wishes to
enter a team will submit to either
Major Back or Sergeant Blythe,
the name of a rifle representative
through whom further arrange
ments may be made. These names
should be furnished by 9 o’clock
next Monday afternoon.
Library Adds Eleven
Books to Circulation
Eleven new books were received
last week, according to Miss Rise,
assistant circulation librarian at
the main library. They are found
on the seven-day rent shelf. The
new books are as follows:
"Mary Lincoln," Carl Sandburg;
"Penhally," Caroline Gordon; "The
Narrow Corner,” W. Somerset
Maugham; “Bernard Shaw, Play
boy and Prophet,” Archibald Hen
derson; “Frank Norris," a biogra
phy by Franklin Walker; "The
Three James,” C. Hartley Gratton;
"Wanton Mally,” Booth Tarking
ton; "Seven Years in Soviet Rus
sia," Paul Scheffer; "Other Peo
ple’s Money,” Louis D. Brandies;
"Earth Horizon,” Mary Austin;
the Guild selection for November,
"John Dryden,” three essays, T. S.
Eliot.
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Frosh Ordered
Before Council
For Punishment
The following freshmen are
ordered to appear before the
Senior Traditions council to re
ceive punishment for failing to
wear their green lids:
Francis Kolkowsky, Jack
Miller, Ed Wheelock, A1 Henke,
Fred Bronn, Ralph Macartney,
Werner Brown, Dave Goodell,
Hal Beem, Eddie Vail, Bill Pad
dock, JIM Priaulx, Lorry Ford,
and Max Stanley.
Pan Xenia Fraternity
Initiates New Students
Seven new members were init
iated into Pan Xenia, international
foreign trade honorary fraternity,
at 4:30 Tuesday afternoon in Ger
linger hall. Following the initia
tion a banquet at which Mr. Far
mer of the Foreign Trade Advis
ory board from Portland was the
speaker, was held at the Anchor
age. President Lomax, interna
tional president of the fraternity,
also spoke.
Those initiated were: Percy Rid
dell, John Wade, Stan Haberlach,
Roger Comstock, Robert Schriber,
Robert Erickson, and Sherrill
Gregory.
Dean Jewell Will Talk
Before Education Club
Dean J. R. Jewell will speak on
“The Ten Thousand Dollar Teach
er,” at the first meeting of the un
dergraduate education club today
at 7:30, in room 3 of the Educa
tion building.
There will be a short business
meeting. Rolla Reedy, president
of the organization, will conduct
the meeting in which a secretary
and a treasurer will be elected.
All undergraduate students in
education and all students who are
prospective teachers are invited to
attend.
= d-Will Trio
-s II Be Guests
t5 f University
Will Arrive Here
“sday Morning
ASSEMBLY PLANNED
Visitors Under leadership of Pfaff
To Spend One Day in
Eugene
With tentative plans for a gen
eral student body assembly on
foot last night, the program for
the members of the Japan Good
Will team, which will be guests
of this University next Tuesday,
has begun to take definite form.
The Japanese students, who are
making a five-month tour of the
United States under the leader
ship of a University of Oregon
graduate, Roger Alton Pfaff, have
been able to allot only 24 hours
to their stay in Eugene, but pres
ent prospects are that they will
have an exceedingly busy day of
it.
Addressing the Eugene Rotary
club’s weekly luncheon meeting
and being guests at an evening
banquet to be given in their honor
by the international house are
high-lights of the visitors’ day. If
the general assembly is arranged,
it will make a third big feature
of the program.
The University Y. M. C. A. cab
inet has assumed responsibility
for the reception of the Oriental
visitors, placing plans under the
direction of Dave Wilson.
('lass Schedule Requested
The cabinet has asked Victor P.
Morris, professor of economics, to
arrange a schedule of class meet
ings for the various members of
the Japanese team and for Pfaff.
Arrangements have already been
made for individual members of
the team to speak to Dr. Morris’
8 o'clock class in International
Trade and 11 o’clock class in Con
servation of Natural Resources,
which will turn during winter
term to the study of international
trade policies in the Pacific.
Any members of the faculty
who would like to have one of the
Japanese students address 8, 9, or
10 o’clock classes should get in
touch with Dr. Morris, who is call
ing a meeting of the faculty com
mittee on international relations
today to make plans.
Reception Being Arranged
Officers of the Cosmopolitan
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Evans To Present
New Hymn Books
| John Stark Evans, professor of
organ will preside at the dedica
tion of ‘‘The New Hymnal for
American Youth,” to take place
Sunday evening at the meeting of
the Wesley Foundation. The Wes
ley club has ordered 50 copies of
this hymn book, which was writ
ten especially for college and young
people’s groups.
Eleanor Wharton, music chair
man of the club, will have charge
of the worship service, which be
gins at 6:30 o’clock. The service
will be preceded by a social half
hour at 6 o’clock.
H. Augustine Smuh, who edited
the hymnal, is head of the depart
ment of fine arts in religion at
Boston university and was one of
the professors of Miss Dorothy
Nyland, director of the Wesley
Foundation, who graduated from
Boston university.
University Men Better Read
Than Women, Survey Shows
By BARNEY CLARK
An interesting sidelight on the
literary tastes of college men and
women is furnished by Miss Nancy
Roberts, manager of the book de
partment of the Co-op, who states
that students have shown a de
cided preference for non-fiction
this year.
Two anonymous books of the
political debunking type head the
list: “Washington Merry-Go
Round,” a volume that has de
lighted the scoffers for some time
with it.-> revelations of graft and
chicanery in the capital city, and
“Not To Be Repeated,” its Euro
pean contemporary. Other popu
lar non-fiction works are “Our
Wonderland of Bureaucracy” by
James M. Beck, and “Epic of
America” by James T. Adams.
Pearl Buck’s famous novel of
Chinese life, “The Good Earth,”
and its sequel, “Sons,” are among
the most popular fiction issues.
William Faulkner’s “Light in
April” in the first edition is also
in demand.
Miss Roberts reports that male
students seem to be much more
literary than the co-eds. Three
men visit the book balcony to
every girl that attends.
A newly introduced dollar rental
plan which permits the student
use of the rent library for one
year upon the payment of a dol
lar, provided he does not take out
over one book at a time, has
proven a success, over 200 stu
dents being on the list at the pres
ent time.
M. F. McClain, manager of the
Co-op, stated that the purpose of
the Book Balcony was to foster
an appreciation of good books
among the students, and that
profit was a secondary considera
tion.