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Hubert W- Lucas, editor Eldon Haberman, manager Clair Johnson, managing editor EDITORIAL BOARD llcmicltc Ilnrak. William Mrrsh, T)nn K. Clark IT, Howard Kessler, Tom McCall, Fred Colvig, Hob Moore, Mary Graham, aecretary to the hoard. __ UPPER NEWS STAFF js,<i nanson. cartoonist Virginia Endicott, news editor Charles Paddock, sports editor Ed Robbins, chief night editor Mildred Ulackburne, exchange Miriam Eichner, literary editor Marge Petsch, woman’s editor Louise Anderson, society editor LeKoy Mattingly, Wayne Har bert, special assignment re porters. REPORTERS: Urn-el Tupling, Paul 1 letitschn.ann. Rntli Take, Tllamae Wood wnrtb' roll pollock. Sigtio Ka.'.muf-.en. Marie Rasmussen. Willrul Roadman. Roy Knud-en. Kultmi Travis. Hetty Brown. Ho i Tiner .nn Gladys llattleson. I.illian Warn, Uizalieth Stetson, Hill I case, Gerald Crisman. Ilenryetta Mummey. Georgi King it. .Norman Scott. Mddicd Blackburnc, Irmajean Randolph, Jvlgar Moore, Helen Dodds. ____ Assistant Managing Editor, this issue _ Darrel Ellis Day Editor, this issue flare Igoe Assistant Day Editor, this issue Bcrnadinc Bowman Night Editors, this issue Harold Drove Assistant Night Editors, this issue Helen Calkins Bette Needham RlTSfNFSS STAFF Dick Sleight, promotion man ager . . Walter Vernstrom, circulation manager; assistant Toni Lu cas Betty Wagner, national adver tising manager; assistant, Jane Slatky Caroline Hand, executive sec retary Advertising Manager, this issue Stanley Bromberg OFFICE ASSISTANTS: jelte Wilhelm, Lucille IToodland, ,ucy Downing, Bette Needham, Caliber of Oregon Drama Justifies New Theater AN example of the great difficulties involved in putting on first rate drama on the dinky Guild hall stage is seen in the present University player’s production of “Street Scene.” Here is one of the greatest plays written in the last ten years, rt has been well cast, well directed. And yet, the obstacles placed in his path, the tiny stage on which to build an effective set, the 50-odd characters involved in the play, have been con stant worries to Mr. Robinson, the director. Mr. Robinson chose "Street Scene,” realizing what he was up against. He has brought forth a set which would be accepted on any New York stage. He has arranged for his mob to crawl behind the scenes, through the one entrance to the stage. But that he has succeeded in putting a first rate drama on the Guild hall stage does not change the fact that he was overly burdened with worries which the physical conditions of a modern stage would not entail. The experiences he has gone through in this show may well pre vent him putting on similar plays later. Most of the high schools in the state have better auditoriums and stages than the University of Oregon. If only as a matter of pride, the Uni versity should provide modern conditions for its drama department. Villard hall could be remodelled into a suit able auditorium, but the expense involved in doing so would be very little less than building a new auditorium, in conjunction with some new depart mental building. The drama deparments of nearly every other university on the coast and of many of tire junior colleges are in a better position to give their students the proper training than the department on this campus is supposed to give, that is advertised in the University catalogue. It's not the directors’ fault. It's the tools they have to work with. They’re trying to cave out finished products in poorly-lighted caves, with flint axes and clam shells. Europe Firsthand By Howard Kessler ANY things are permitted in Prance that would be illegal in America, but as il hap pens, I'm not speaking of what you are thinking. There's a little cinema on the Champs Klysces in Paris that has "death in flames” written figuratively all along its low walls that form a narrow, exitless trap for those so unfortunate as to be inside on the day it burns. The only way out. is through small doors at the back or over the stage, which leads one to suppose that Paris has no safety laws, as there are in England, where every theater must lower across its stage an ugly blank curtain between each show, with the two words prominently displayed on its sur face ‘"SAFETY CURTAIN." However, the problem for a continental theater-goer to worry about is how to keep tlie fires of emotion burning, rather than in escaping physical flames. The thrifty managers of Italian, Spanisli and German cinemas have a mania for making one show last as long as the customers can stand it, or longer. In Genoa, I sought out what appeared to be an elite show-place to see Al'Jolson in “Wonder Bui.” Sure enough, there was Al, enthusiastically singing "Vive la France!” in a hearty Italian baritone. Gad, but it was homey, even on the stiff-backed chairs of the pit. As Jolson finished, he i tarted out on a grin that was destined not to end for 15 minutes, and with a gentle moan the projector flickered and stopped. Onto the screen flashed the sign, “End of Act Three,” and tiie lights went up. Then, with a fine show of unconcern, my neighbors pulled out sacks of pea nuts and began to crack and munch them with nonchalant satisfaction. I had no peanuts, so I sat there biting my finger nails for 15 minutes to the staccato ac companiment of myriad cracking shells. 1 had advanced to a stage of complete mental coma, when the lights died out slowly, "Act Four ' was heralded, and the Italians’ favorite, "Blackface Al,” completed the grin. In Italy, "Wonder Bai” is a feature rating fire jcpaiato acts and retailing finer lioui., toi presentation, with the result that the customers leave the theater steamed up to the emotional heat of a very cool icicle, but also very well fed. After the fourth act, fearing complete nervous breakdown, I went out and bought myself a light lunch, and the evening passed pleasantly enough, with now and then interruptions from the screen. The fellow next to me solved this problem by sleeping throuh the picture and waking up for the intermissions, when he had a gay time with a basket of bologna, well seasoned with garlic, and half a dozen hard-boiled eggs. In Spain they cut ‘'Flying Down to Rio” to three acts, which made it very difficult to get down to any serious eating, while in Germany they have only one intermi. ion for each picture, but make that one half an hour in length and, with characteristic German frugality, fill up the time with slide advertisements of Mcndclwerfers hair tonics and Blitzenhof’s beer. As in England, news theaters are popular on the continent. You pay little and the program, consisting of news reels and a few Mickey Mouse cartoons, lasts for one hour. Incidentally, the French put out news reels far superior to the Americans, with shots of world events that are as artistic as feature length films. Except in Germany, American pictures pre dominate. Adolf is not going to have any Holly wood colossals from Jewish producers, as long as he can put out fine progaganda pictures such as “Triumph des Widens,’’ a pictorial account of the Nazi Nurnberg congress that was packing ’em in wherever I went in Germany. 4'H,,H',H"M,4'+'H"H"H"H"t,H,l”H,l,<"H"J"H"l'T Tx'ttrrs published in this column should not. he construed ns expressing the editorial opinion of the Emerald. Anony mous contributions will bo disregarded. The names of ocm municnnls will, however, lie regarded as confidential upon reyucst. Contributors are asked to be brief, the editors reserv ing the right to condense ail letters of over .100 words and _lo accept or reject letters upon the criteria of general editorial importance and interest to the campus. Editor, the Emerald: We have been very much interested in the formation of the Oregon Student Union or what ever it may he termed. However, we believe that this society should not, at least at first, become definitely associated with the American Student Union. We rather believe that it is first necessary to organize ourselves to consider more pressing local issues and eventually crystalize our opinions as to whether or not we should affiliate ourselves with the ASU upon the basis of what that organ ization may stand for from time to time. While we believe that a society of this nature is needed we cannot see the value of national association in which we would be a suppressed minority and regardless of the wish of our local society, would be identified and branded as sub scribing to the national policies and actions. In summary, we believe that this society should be organized as a local group which shall stand on its own feet and be a vital factor in progressive but not radical thinking and acting. We call upon those who have such a program in mind to support such a policy at the next meeting of this society. David Lowry Paul Plank. Other Editors’ Opinions Life’s Sanctity ASHINGTON is not the only place whore, ” ” of lute, Ihey have been inquiring into the causes of war. A royal commission has been sit ting in London, digging with Britannic thorough ness into the doings of munitions makers, and some of its best pay dirt has been found in the footprints of that mysterious and rather sinstcr gentlemen, Kir Basil Zaharoff. The commission managed to slide a witness chair under the dignified person of Sir Herbert A. Lawrence, chairman of Vickers, famous for its production of war materials. Sir Herbert did all right under direct ques tioning, making the customary denials that mu nitions makers have any wish to see war come into tlie world; but he made a little slip in a prepared statement which he read to the commis sion, and Sir Philip Gibbs, a member of the com mission, pounced on him for it. In his statement Sir Herbert referred to “an honorable but perhaps mistaken ideal respecting the sanctity of life and the iniquity of war.” Sir Philip immediately quizzed him about it. "I think," said the chairman of Vickers, ‘ that the question of the sanctity of human life lias sometimes been exaggerated to the disadvantage of certain other facts of public life." "Do you think you could exaggerate the iniq uity of war?" asked Gibbs. "I'es 1 think 1 can," returned the munitions magnate. Little unintentional revelations like this can be of more importance than weighty di .closures concerning production schedules and pivfit-and loss statements; for while it is good for us to find out all wo can about the way war. the weapons war is fought with, and tlie dividends that are made therefrom, are tangled all together, it is even more vital that we know just what sort of men the war-makers are. It is hard to get an exact definition of the tiling which we prize as civilization; but assuredly one of the things that make it most worth pre serving is the slow growth of this belief in the sanctity cf human life. That was something of which the cave man never dreamed: it came into being by long and painful stages, with sacked cities and burned homesteads ami stark crosses to mark its route, and ii we lose it we lc.-e the soul of civilzatiou itself. Probably it is easy for a man grown rich on the sale of the tools of death to lose this belief. But when he doe-, it is good torus to find it out. It emphasizes the division that human society must make. On one side, war; on the other, peace. On one side, those who doubt that life is especially sacred or war especially terrible; on the other, those who still hope to see the race rise above its limitations and march from the dusk of early n*,ui.j^, *dti) full day,... ■ Gc^mtcr-Luaid. Exaggerated Tobogganing Skiing was invented by Norse men. But the Norse are a hardy race. It’s almost impossible to kill one. That's how they survived the process of inventing ski jumping, too. Take a Scandinavian of any variety, strap a pair of skis to his feet and throw him over a cliff. Is he killed ? Not on your tintype. Emerald of the Air Skits from “Street Scene,” Uni versity theatre presentation to night, will be heard over KORE today at 3:45. The Air .ingle After spending a winter season as night club impresario and en tertainer, Morton Downey has de ckled to return permanently to radio. He will join the Evening in Paris Roof program beginning February 17. The noted radio tenor will be come a permanent feature with Mark Warnuw's orchestra and tire Picken Sisters, lie replaces Odette Myrtil, singing Parisienne, and i Milton Watson, tenor. Seventeen years ago Downey was a singing saxophone player in Paul Whiteman's S. S. Leviathan band. Some people have been over hearti expressing regret that he didn’t stick to the saxophone. Fred Waring and his Pennsyl vanians, now clashing about the country on a vaudeville tour and giving a weekly broadcast over NBC each Friday night at 9, have decided that travel may broaden most persons’ minds, but it cer tainly flattens them out. It's a gay life on the road with Waring, though if you can take it. Fred says he loses from one to two pounds a week. Tonight the glee club will be heard in "Liebes traum,” more commonly known as "Dream of Love.” * * s Mabel Todd, singing comedienne with A1 Pearce and his gang, will have “Rhythm in My Nursery Rhymes" with her number on the show tonight at (5. The Three Cheers, whom you formerly heard with California bands, will sing "Lights Out." Harry Sosnicks orelu stra will feature "It’s Been So Long" and "I'm Siltin’ High on a Hill Top." Morey Amsterdam, comedian with A1 Pearce for three and a li i!f years, is o nt'ined in a Chicago h. spitrd, convalescing from an ap pendectomy. * » s Miriam Hopkins, Joel McCrea, and Merle Oberon will be Dick Powell’s guest artists during his full-hour Hollywood Hotel presen tation over CRN tonight at 7. Tire | trio id' screen stars will preview Chances are a hundred to one that he lights on his feet for a new in ternational record. But that’s beside the point. Did you know that one of the finest winter sports playgrounds on the Pacific coast is only about 60 miles away from Eugene, up the McKen zie? And what a spot that is. Ski ing? It’s wonderful. You can come down the long run up there, and there’s hardly a possibility in the I world of breaking anything but an arm or a rib or two. Which would make you practi cally a sissy among ardent skiiers, who think it’s the best fun in the world to go hurtling hundreds of feet through space with nothing between them and the devil but a pair of boards. Try it some time. If you live, you'll grow to love the thrill of grace and speed and wind whistl ing in your ears. If you aren’t so lucky, lighting on your head off a ski jump is one of the quickest and least painful ways to die. Spec tacular, too. You'll die a hero. :i» JT inter Spur Is y es, there’s tobogganing up at the McKenzie winter playground, too. Tobogganing is that form of in sanity which occurs when three or four people spend hours on end dragging a flat piece of plywood up almost endless hills, only to sit down at the top and abandon themselves to a few seconds of bumping, jolting, spine-crumbling speed. Writers have been trying for years to discover words which can adequately describe the sensa tion of caroming down a hill on a toboggan. The nearest I can come to it is saying that it’s a cross be tween a mine explosion and a sub way collision. A cheap way to get the thrill out of tobogganing is to crawl into a revolving concrete mixer and let the machinery grind you around for a few minutes. But it’s not a very good substitute. In a concrete mixer there’s no snow to fly down the back of your neck. Toboggans have been known to attain tremendous speeds. Usually when they really do get going, the national guard has to be called out to help the ambulance crew locate the pieces which have scattered lavishly about by the toboggan’s crashing into an unforseen stump. * * « Gangway! Track! * * * Who-o-o-omph .... I) . . . blank . . II . . Blank . . . @@*&**** . . . Hell’s bells. V'/-' B. W. A. W.* * (After the Wliiskerino) we'll give you an B-Z shave. Your fare will feel fine. KAMPUS BARBER SHOP Across from Sigma Chi i BUY THE BOX" i N ✓ This Valentine's Day give her a better box of candy — Johnstons and Davenports. A Complete Stock of St. Valentine’s Day cards. Send them to your friends. Wire Western Union at the drug store. CLAYPOOL, VAN ATTA DRUGS S86 Kincaid Phone 10S6 Innocent Bystander ..mm...iratr ......raimimim By BARNEY CLARK Like a whiff of ripe old Cheddar a wisp of gossip drifts in from the Oregana office to the effect that Geo. Root is burning like a hay stack. Gentle George, it seems, con ceived a photographic cover for his Oregana, the photograph to be of an Order of the “O” man in conversation with a co-ed. The idea was fiue, but when Geo. borrowed an “O” sweater and draped it over his own BROTHER and then inser.ed his GIRL as the representative co ed, the odor was terrific. Even his own staff members began to give him the bird in no uncer tain terms, since they saw no particular reason for putting two unknown freshmen on the cover of the Oregana. Geo. couldn't take it. Already somewhat inflated with the idea of his own importance, he grew sulky under the heckling, finally blew up and threw Marge Petsch out on her ear. Horak became incensed at Root's Napoleonic posturings and when Petsch lost her job she stopped speaking to Geo. and is now on the verge of throwing her own job in Root’s face. The at mosphere over in Friendly (?) hall, they tell us, now resembles the lull before the storm. And all because Gentle George wanted to keep the Oregana in the family as it were. At least Oregana sub scribers will be able to see what the Root family and female friends look like. And that should be a treat! On the bulletin board was a note addressed to us. Inside was one line, "You lie! The Thetas ain't got 42 rugs!" True enough, but Chandler and Clark could' roll at least two The tas in each rug they do have, eas ily. And that would keep them from getting lonely as they lie there in the .dark. An incident that happened the other eve left Freddie Colvig, ..the Sigma Nu intellectual, a lit tle shaken. He was looking for the Student Union meeting up in Gerlinger, and, not knowing what room it was in, asked a stooge for directions. “Kight down to the end of the hall," chirps the stooge, ‘‘and through the door there. You can’t miss it.” (Please turn to fage jour) 'i\ EVERYBODY’S Informally INVITED To Dance SOPHOMORE WHISKERINO Johnny Bush’s Orchestra 75c a Couple ^ S "I have my Rothes Moth Proofed while they re _ being cleaned! S MART women all over 1he city are availing themselves. of our new cleaning method — the MONITE Moth-Proof Cleaning Process! . And why shouldn't they? We rot only clean your clothes thoroughly — reshape them beautifully — but at the same time we make them abso’utely molh-proof! And guarantee our moth-proofing for a period of six months, or until the clothes are again cleaned. Best of all/ this revolutionary new service costs you not one cent extra. Send your woolen garments You'll be delighted with Wooten dresses, cleaned and moth-proofed, only. to us today, the results. SlaOO UNIVERSITY CLEANERS Campus Branch of Euc'emi Cleaners Phone 'uiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHimiiiiii z MllllllllllllllllllllllllllllKlillllilllllllllllllllllU I ! Located on 1 the campus I for your I convenience f £ THERE’S A REASON There's ;i reason for the increasingly larger patron j age of the corsage business of Eugene’s oldest established florist. Sixteen years of furnishing flowers and especially corsages to University stu dents is our experience. 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