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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 11, 1938)
PE Class Presen is First Annual Series Of One Act Plays Laughter was in order last night as the Oregon Playground Players presented their first annual series of informal one-act plays and panto mimes. The players, lead by chief fun maker Arleigh Bentley, fairly kept the estimated crowd of over 200 in an uproar all the time. In the first play, a cast headed by Nello Giovanini, Allen Bogue, and r uru iviuiien arew uie applause oi the crowd with a play entitled “Soul Vibrations.” Others in the cast were Roald Grunseth, Betty, Hole, LaVon Oddy, Bob Kidder,! Dorothy Kyle, Elaine Goodell, and Barbara Ward. Joy Smith and Lillian Schaeffer j acted out a pantomime while Jim i Dimit and Betty Blaine read, inj the second feature of the program. Bentley Muffs Lines The highlight of the comedy came in the third feature, a read ing by Arleigh Bentley entitled ‘ “Hunchback.” During the reading Bentley forgot part of his lines and filled in with a little impromp tu comedy. “The Taming of the Shrew,” a short comedy, featured Hazel! Smith and Henry Moretty. In the final act of the evening, a group headed by many Oregon football players, was cast in a play entitled “Give the Audience a Chance.” This play was designed to show the reaction of part of an audience in a show. Many in Cast Margaret Macdonald, Cather ine Conkey, A1 Simpson, Vernon Moore, Doris Read, Bud Robert son, Claire Slattery, Jerry Donnell, Marjorie Lee, Henry Nilson, Mar garet Sprague, and Louise Pursley were included in the cast. Miss Florence Alden, Mrs. Mike Mikulak, and Mrs. Clay Pomeroy, directors of the program expressed themselves as very well satisfied with the showing of the actors and plan to continue this as an annual feature. ROCCO’S for expert repairing, dye- j ing, shining, and cleaning. | Cleaning a specialty. ROCCO’S | SHOE SHOP i Near Mayflower Theater 1 and across from Sigma Nu. HEEJelSIi^SIS/ItelSMEiEjfiiciSIEEISISIE1 Today’s Emerald IS made possible by the following advertisers Consequently they deserve your support! College Side Inn New Service Laundry Man’s Shop Dr. Elliott Rocco’s Kennell-Ellis . Prince Albert Oregana Anchorage PATRONIZE THEM I Campus Calendar ; Asklepiads will meet tonight at 7 o’clock in Villard hall. Lecture and film will follow meeting. Alpha Kappa Psi meeting to night at 7 in 106 Commerce. There will be a special meeting of the Green Goose staff members in the Emerald sports room tomor row at 4 o’clock. Members participating in Fri day’s dance recital must report to the dance studios for practice Thursday afternoon at 4 o’clock. Nurses Training School Positions Exam to Be Open An open competitive examina tion for the position of student nurse at the training school for nurses, at St. Elizabeth’s hospital, in Washington, D. C., has been announced by the United States civil service commission. Applicants for the position must be between the ages of 18 and 30, and must have attained a standard high school diploma, including cer tain specified units. More detailed information may be obtained from the secretary of the U. S. civil service board of ex aminers, at the post office in this city. The middle - west is the most tolerant section of the United States, according to Elton Saka moto, a Japanese Siox Falls college student who has traveled widely in this country. _Faith Is All Wealthy St. Louis woman . . . left America eight years ago, re nouncing name, family, and for tune to study and become ordained as a Buddhist priestess. _Lawren Leaves Dopesters Gasping _ Missouri bred and owned Lawrin won by a length in the 64th running of the historic Kentucky derby at Churchill Downs Saturday. Psychologists Debunk Mental Telepathy Idea By MURIEL BECKMAN Telepathy is all a hoax. Such is the conclusion reached by the psychology department of the University after consideration of various experiments in their own laboratories, said H. R. Crosland, associate professor of psychol ogy, recently. The so-called extra-sensory perceptions, permitting communica tion of thought, are usually due to some easily traceable cause, stated Dr. Crosland. He gave the example of the horse, “Clever Hans,” who had observers mystified by his remarkable “knowledge.” Clever Hans’ master, wno Denevea mat ne was i using telepathy on the horse, was! actually giving slight unintention-! al muscular signals to the horse,! who acted accordingly. Such unintentional muscular ac tivities explain a great deal of what is known as telepathy. Nei ther subject nor sender may be aware that it is taking place. Experiments made by Dr. J. B. Rhine of Duke university and pub lished in his book, “New Frontiers of the Mind” have raised consider able interest in the apparent real ity of telepathy. However, the same experiments were made some years before by a Stanford man with entirely different results. “My belief is that the laboratory at Duke university is saturated with belief in clairvoyance,” stat ed L. F. Beck, also of the psychol ogy department, in commenting on Rhine’s work. Other loopholes in the theory of thought communication are that there is always a fairly good chance of making a reputable score by simply guessing, that human perception is far from in fallible, and that there are fre quently statistical errors in mak ing up the results of experiments. J' Every year, in fall term, new : comers to psychology courses I evince a great deal of interest in telepathy. Tests and experiments conducted for their benefit prove to the most ardent believers that telepathy is only a word, nothing more. I _ A. E. Caswell Heads Physics Teachers Professor A. E. Caswell, head of the physics department, was elected president of the Oregon section of the American association of physics teachers, at the spring meeting of the organization in. Portland last Saturday. The purpose of this association, according to Caswell, is to improve the methods, technique, and appa ratus used in teaching physics in American colleges. A visiting dele gation from the University of Washington attended the meeting. OREGANAS GO FAST Oregana distribution Friday morning hit a new high for speed and quantity as a steady stream of students claimed 1350 of the books in slightly more than two hours, exhausting the entire sup ply on hand. Harbert to Enter Oregana in Contest The 1938 Oregana, released last Friday, has been entered in na tional competition again this year, Editor Wayne Harbert an nounced yesterday. The entrance blank was mailed yesterday; it will be followed by a copy of the ; publication which will be sent to day. The contest is sponsored by the National Scholastic Press associa tion at the University of Minne sota, the same group which last week awarded The Oregon Emer ald “Pacemaker” rating. Results of the judging will not be known until October, as hun dreds of yearbooks will be entered, Harbert said. Last year’s Oregana was among the 20 best in the nation. The 1936 volume was named the best in the entire country. Campus Officials to Be Guests of 'Dads' Dr. Donald M. Erb, University president, Frederick Ml Hunter; state chancellor of higher educa tion, and Karl W. Onthank, dean of personnel, will be in Portland to morrow night for a banquet of the Oregon Dads. Purpose of the meet ing wil lbe to discuss plans for the formation of a strong Portland chapter of the organization. Dr. Erb will speak and Dean On« thank will be present in the capa city of secretary to the group. Dean Onthank will also confer with the reunion committee of the Class of ’13, who will be on the campus the last week in May for a 25-year reunion. Anthropologists To Visit Coast on Excavation Trip Amateur anthropologists will have their chance at first hand experience with excavations this weekend when 15 or 16 members of the several classes take a field trip to the coast. The group will work on the coast between Cape Perpetua and Flor ence, and will be gone from Friday: till Sunday. Dr. L. S. Cressman, head of the anthropology depart ment, will accompany them. Don’t Be Caught 'NAPPING’ Have you neglected to order your 1938 “Streamliner?” Why not take a few minutes to stop at the Educational Activi ties Bldg. We’ll work out a “Painless Payment Plan,” that you won’t even feel. STOP IN NOW! While They’re Still Here