Shan-Kar Will Present Music and Dances of India
Zora, Shan-Kar, Simkie ... in the Vilasa, dance of love.
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Malhavar
. . . strikes a pose as Kartikeyya, the god of love.
Three girls of the chorus ... in a native dance.
Shan-Kar . . . wields an implement in one of the dances.
Colleges Near R uin
Says Carnegie Body
By ALYCE ROGERS
The Carnegie Foundation for the advancement of teaching recently
reported that unbridled competition has so extended to American col
leges that those institutions are on the verge of ruin. The foundation
views with alarm the increasingly greater problem of “maladjustment”
in college.
This problem is that of college students having only the vaguest
of ideas in reeard to their college life and training. Cut rates, rebates,
and the like have produced man’
and slightly shady practices whicl
bring hundreds of students inti
colleges who have no idea of wh;
they are there or what they an
going to do once they are there.—
Los Angeles Collegian.
Not So Cheap ...
"How's your son doing in col
lege ?”
“Well, I guess he must be doinj
pretty well in languages. I jus
paid for the courses — $100 fo
Latin, S10 for Greek, and $100 fo
Scotch.”—Exchanges.
Experience Wanted.
Social workers may dry some o
their tears for the under-educatei
girls who can’t earn a living and
direct some attention to the young
women college graduates who can’t
find jobs in Washington.
The girl college graduate is a
serious unemployment problem
here in the capital, according to a
recent report to American Associa
tion of University Women. They
may be highly trained, say, in home
economics, but they can’t get prac
tical experience until they find
jobs.
The report suggested college
training that includes practical ex
perience. A course in dietetics, for
instance, would include six months’
restaurant work during the junior
and senior years, beginning at the
humble task of potato peeling.
Hindu Ballet
To Perform
Monday Night
Greeters Committee.
Skull and Dagger
To Greet Dancers
On Arrival
The time? Monday night at
8:30.
The place? McArthur court.
Who? Uday Shan-Kar and
his Hindu ballet.
Approximately 4000 persons are
expected to flock to McArthur
court Monday night to witness
Shan-Kar and his talented troupe
in dances and music in the style
of India, presented by masters of
the art.
The University of Oregon offi
cial greeters’ committee headed by
Chairman Jack Enders, together
with Skull and Dagger, sopho
more men’s servive honorary, will
be at the station to greet the Hindu
group when they arrive in Eu
gene late Monday afternoon. The
University representatives will ex
tend an official welcome to Shan
Kar and his ballet, and will then
escort them to their hotel.
Brings Large Troupe
Extra stage hands will be re
cruited in Eugene to augment the
working crew which travels with
Shan-Kar. The troupe brings its
own stage sets, lighting equipment,
and musical instruments, plus 27
trunks of costumes used in the pre
sentation. Much of the beauty of
the ballet is said to be in the
heavily decorated costumes of the
dancers.
This will be the last chance for
Eugene people to witness the spec
tacle of Shan-Kar's ballet, this
being his farewell tour of the
world. After his current tour,
Shan-Kar will retire to his native
India where he will found an all
India center of Hindu arts.
Good seats for the event are still
available, according to concert tic
ket offices in McArthur court, with
reserved seats at $1.50 and $1.25,
and general admission 50 cents.
Ballet Movements
Interpret Emotions
Gestures play a major part in
Hindu dancing. The hands, neck,
and eyes are particularly expres
sive. When the dancers tell of some
simple love story, a circle of the
arms becomes a sign of love, while
joined hands with fingers inter
locked means strength. A simple
swist of the wrists with the fin
gers laced together will mean the
epitome of mother love. There are
55 different hand movements or
“mudras” employed by the Hindu
dancers in their ballets.
While the hand-gestures indicate
ideas and objects, the emotions are
expressed by the head and eyes.
Certain glances convey certain
emotional states. A side-to-side
swaying of the head signifies a
feeling of affection, of mounting
pleasure, of sympathetical saying
“Well done!’’
Shan-Kar’s dances deal with
love, playing its whole octave of
emotions, rising finally to their
culmination in the rarified air of
divinity. His dances also deal with
gods, whose dramas are the dra
mas of human beings elaborately
symbolized.
Hindu Princesses
In Dance Troupe
Two Hindu princesses are among
the dancers of the troupe. Both
spring from a famous line of ma
harajahs, and both have western
education.
Probably the most glamorous of
the women in the troupe is Simkie,
the only non-Hindu member of the
company. Simkie is a French wo
man who has embraced the Hindu
faith, now taking the major femi
nine part in the ballet.
All of the members of Shan
Kar’s troupe are high caste Brah
mans. Despite an age-old Brahman
prohibition against appearing in
public performances in alien lands,
an exception has been made in the
case of Shan-Kar and his company,
since they so perfectly express the
culture of the Hindus. The red cir
cle or caste mark of the Brahmans
which is painted in the center of
the forehead is also worn by Sim
kie.
Dorothy Davidson, ’31, who re
cently married John Baird, is liv
ing in Aiea, Oahu, Hawaii, where
she is recreation director for a
plantation company.
AWS Nominating Group
Meeting Today Seen as
ForerunnerofHotContest
Possible forerunner of a red-hot political campaign is this morning's
meetings of the AWS nominating committee, which comes together to
choose candidates for the March 2 elections.
The committee will make first nominations, with the addition of
nominations from the floor scheduled for March 1, the day before
elections. Candidates for the various offices of the women students’
Speech Class
Reaches Peak
Of Democracy
Practical democracy has
reached its ultimate Utopian
peak in Professor Dahlberg's 1
o’clock extempore speaking
class.
Yesterday members of the
class took a vote to see whether
they should have a class or not.
The count was nay, 10, aye, 0,
not voting 4. So they got up
and walked away.
When Walt Eschebeck, who
•was taking Mr. Dahlberg’s place
for the day, got there, the ech
oes of the 1 o’clock bell were
still reverberating in the cor
ners of the hall. But the room
was empty. Mr. Eschebeck
called the roll and dismissed
class for the day.
Two students who were late
were just in time.
Girls' Rifle Team
Leads in Matches
—
'DeadEyes' Hit Wins
Over Kan., Nev.,
Mo., Mich.
Compilations from the result of
matches shot during the past two
weeks with six other universities
and colleges in the United States,
show that the Oregon girls’ rifle
team is leading in the postal
matches wrhich they have shot up
to date.
In the match shot last week the
Oregon team won three matches
and tied four. The scores in the
fiv^ girls’ teams were: University
of Kansas, 486; University of Ne
vada, 494; University of Missouri,
500; and University of Oregon,
500. Four perfect scores were shot
in last week’s match by Constance
Kletzer, Louise Woodruff, Mar
jory Bates and Dorothy Burke.
In the postal match shot two
weeks ago, Oregon again finished
on top by winning from Gettys
burg college and the University of
Michigan.
A match with the champion
girls’ rifle team in the United
States, the Carnegie Institute of
Technology, is among the postal
matches scheduled for this week
for the Oregon team.
Browsing Room
Designers to Meet
Sunday at Library
The committee in charge of de
signing furniture for the browsing
room of the University library will
meet there Sunday morning to
make a further study of the room
in preparation for ordering addi
tional furnishings, says M. H.
Douglass, University librarian.
Further decisions as to color
scheme and draperies will be made
at that time, when the building
is unoccupied.
The committee is composed of
three members. They are Miss
Brownell Frasier, general chair
man, Miss Maude Kerns, and Mr.
Wallace Hayden.
Art 'Champeens'
Hold Tournament
Two more games in the inter
desk “champeenship” tournament
: of the architecture drafting room
1 were played off Thursday evening.
In a first series game Gerald
McGonigle defeated John Link,
21-17, 21-5. Lynn Child won the
first game in the second series by
defeating Verlin Wolfe, 21-17,
21-19
organizations win oe piCKeu.
The opening of the present cam
paign for AWS positions sets the
political pot simmering in women's
houses about the campus. Party
lines could not be drawn at this
early date, but it is believed that
similar lineups to the one which
swept in the present AWS adminis
tration might prevail.
Hot Contest Possible
If this year’s campaign has any
thing like last year’s finish, cam
pus politics, both male and female,
are in for a treat. When the final
tallying of votes was made last
year, the electees were named, but
no report of votes cast or of mar
gins of victory made. The ballots
were immediately burned, eliminat
ing all possibility of a check or
recount, whereupon the lid blew
off women’s politics on the campus. 1
The nominating committee con
sists of Brandon Young, Vivian
Emery, Harriet Thompson, Vivian
Runte, Aaida Macchi, Anne Fred
ericksen, Gayle Buchanan, and
Dean Hazel P. Schwering, adviser. I
Cornish Article in
February Magazine
The February issue of the Ore
gon Merchant’s magazine carries
the first of a new series of articles
on special sales in Oregon stores
by Dr. N. H. Cornish, professor of
business administration. The ar
ticle is entitled “The Prevalence
of Special Sales in Oregon Stores.”
To obtain data for these articles,
Dr. Cornish and four of his re
search students, Donald Farr, As
tor Loback, Alvin Overgard and
Charles H. Sandifur, interviewed
277 selected Oregon merchants
from small towns. They found that
more than two-thirds of retail
stores have bargain sales at least
once a year. Department stores i
have them more frequently than
any other type, and drug stores
have them very rarely.
Ten jSemi-Finalists
Named in Emerald
Lucky Strike Contest
Cow is Aid to
Mankind, Says
History Prof
Where would mankind be to
day without the cow?
Nowhere, declares John T.
C.anoe, associate professor of
history. Where civilized man
has gone, so has the cow. Where
the cow goes, there goes civili
zation. In short, the history of
man is the history of the cow.
God bless the cow.
Nationally Famous
Adviser Sue Here
AWS Will Sponsor
Personality Meets
Starting Monday
Elizabeth MacDonald Osbourne,
nationally known personality con
sultant, will arrive on the Oregon
campus Monday under the auspic
es of the Associated Women Stu
dents to begin a series of personal
conferences with campus men and
women.
Four years away from home in
the companionship of one's own
contemporaries should serve as ex
cellent training in developing an
attractive appearance and genuine
personality; in overcoming oddi
ties and in forming good habits,
Miss Osbourne states.
“An opportunity for gaining all
this is offered on every campus but
the unobserving ones—those who
need help most—see neither their
opportunities nor their own short
comings. This is the gap which my
work is designed to fill.”
While Miss Osbourne is on the
campus she will have ample time
to observe the social activities as a
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Library in Need of Funds
To Relieve Congestion
By Extension of Hours
By PAT ERICKSON
An extension of library hours causing- the University library to
open at 2 instead of 2:30 on Sunday afternoons in the future starting
tomorrow is the first step in a program towards relieving library con
gestion, M. H. Douglass, librarian, said yesterday.
A statement prepared by the librarian’s office shows the need of
the library for increased funds to hire more helpers.
r or me next two weens ax least,
the library will be open on Friday
and Sunday evenings. “A continu
ation of this depends on funds
granted,” Mr. Douglass said.
With sufficient funds and help
available, it would also be possible
to open seminar and reading rooms
on the third floor which are now
unused. This would only be done
“if their use were justified,” Mr.
Douglass stated.
Hope for Old Schedule
Through the present request for
Increased funds, the library hopes
to get back on its old schedule.
The circulation department is now
open 80% hours a week, whereas
in pre-depression days it was open
941,2. The Oregon State library
is at present open 88 hours a week.
As for the University library re
serves, they are now open 80 hours
a week, compared to 94% in pre
depression days. OSC reserves are
available 85 hours a week.
Book Desks Increased
An increase in business this yea’
shews the need for more trained
helpers to take care of the rush
properly. Book circulation for the
month of January shows an 8 per
cent increase over the month of
January last year, while periodical
circulation has boomed to a 55 per
cent increase for that period.
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University Radio
Players in Show
Today Over KORE
University radio players will
present a program today, Satur
day, which will be a dramatization
of the development of trucking in
this country. The broadcast, one
of a weekly Saturday series, on
vocations and employment, is
scheduled to start at 1:45 p.m. over
KORE.
The program was previously an
nounced for Sunday, which was in
correct.
Those taking part will be Arthur
Porter, Freeman Patton, Laura
Bryant, and Dolph Janes.
V OFFICIALS LEAVE
Officials of the local YMCA and
YWCA are leaving this morning
for a joint conference with the Cor
vallis group. They will make plans
for the summer conference at Sea
beck, Washington. Those going
are: Mrs. John Evans, John Cas
teel, Miss Harriet Thompson,
Frank Chambers, Miss Janet
Smith, Dr. Nelson Bossing, Francis
Beck.
Margaret Keene, '37, is now em
ployed in a jewelry store in Spo
kane.
News Commentator Post Auditions Draw
Record Number of Students for Five
Colleges Having Broadcasts
BULLETIN
Jean Rawson, sophomore, Kay Dougherty, freshman, Hallie
Dudrey, senior, Roy Schwartz, senior, Luther Seibert, junior,
Freeman Patten, sophomore, Dolph Janes, freshman, Paul Stew
art, senior, Howard Kessler, senior, and Mary Alice Hutchins,
sophomore, are the ten students chosen by the judges to broad
cast in the semi-finals of the Daily Emerald-Lucky Strike news
broadcast.
Two alternates, Sanford Moose, sophomore, and Adelaide
Zweifel, freshman, were named.
Miss Rawson will start the first of the series Monday night.
With the closing of the educational activities building doors last
night at ten o'clock, auditions ended for the position of news com
mentator on the Daily Emerald-Lucky Strike radio broadcasts. A
week's total of 1262 persons signed up to take the audition, while 1163
went through the actual voice test.
Due to the late hour the judging was completed last night, no
chance was found to check the semi-finalists’ names against the regis
trar’s books to see if the contest
ants are regularly enrolled under
graduates. Alternates will be avail
able if any of the ten are found
not to be enrolled in the Univer
sity, the judges announced.
Broadcasts Next Step
The ten semi-finalists will each
receive a prize of $10 from the
Lucky Strike company and will
compete by broadcasting one night
each for the next two weeks’ pro
grams. Records of the broadcasts
will be sent to Boake Carter and
Edwin C. Hill, nationally, known
radio commentators, for judging.
The two finalists will be regularly
employed on the news programs
over KORE each night at 10:30
starting Monday night. They will
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Two $1,000 Awards
Offered to Authors
Two literary fellowships carry
ing an award of $1,000 in addition
to subsequent royalties are being
offered by the Houghton Mifflin
company in Boston, Massachusetts.
These will be awarded to promis
ing writers who are in need of fi
nancial assistance to complete pro
jected books.
One fellowship will be given for
a fiction project and one for a non
fiction project.
In making applications for an
award, candidates will be expect
ed to submit examples of past
work, published and unpublished,
as well as definite plans for the
project for which the award is
asked, including a detailed synop
sis or a tentative table of con
tents.
Applications must be received
by April 1. Information may be
received from the company at 2
Park street, Boston.
George Hopkins
Soloist for NBC
Hook-up Concert
'Big Broadcast' by
Symphony Will Be
February 27
Featured soloist on the “big
broadcast’’ of the University sym
phony orchestra over NBC net
work February 27 will be George
Hopkins, professor of music at the
University, it was announced by
Rex Underwood yesterday.
Mr. Hopkins, will give the last
movement of the famous Beetho
ven concerto, with the accompani
ment of the symphony orchestra.
The piano solo will be one of the
main features of the program.
As announced recently by John
J. Landsbury, dean of the music
school, the broadcast will be sent
from the music auditorium over
the blue network of the National
Broadcasting company, and very
possibly may be presented over a
coast-to-coast network. The broad
cast will be one-half hour in length,
from 3:30 to 4 on Sunday after
noon.
Mr. Hopkins is well known
throughout the Pacific coast foi
hi3 mastery of the keyboard. Sev
eral concert tours have added to
his musical prestige. His latest
success was as one of the soloists
on the concerto program presented
with the University symphony or
chestra in the music auditorium
last month.
In addition to the Beethoven con
certo, a program of distinguished
concert favorites, not yet chosen,
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Stude Gives Lowdown
On "Fags' at Audition
Mirth and criticism yesterday entered the Lucky Strike auditions
when Mr. Jack Fruit, trained in strict physical condition as a boxer
and famed for refusing to join the ranks of the now-famous Portland
goon squad, walked into the audition room and gave his opinion of
smoking and cigarette advertising.
To the dismay of the technician and others Mr. Fruit read his
script, written by himself, which
he claims is the “truth.” Now
this is what Mr. Fruit read into
the mike for the judges and for
the recording:
“The idea behind a university is
to educate our youth toward the
practical and finer things of life.
Now, the colleges and universities
throughout the land are fast be
coming advertising headquarters
for the leading tobacco companies
of the country. I think Oregon is
to be congratulated on being cho
sen the principal victim of the
coast, after all, it is not every
school's chance to be educated
which cigarette is kindest to your
throat.
"Maybe ‘Luckies’ don’t give you
the ‘lift,’ but then you won’t have
so far to fall when your health is
gone. Boys and girls! think of the
advantage: this is your lucky
strike.”
All the technician could think
to say was, "Where did you get
that commercial?”
Mr. Fruit now owns a flat fifty
of cigarettes he condemns, and his
recording, featured by a rapid
lingo is a popular campus memento.