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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1939)
Busy M usic School Presents First Concert of Year Tuesday Night Recreation Center of Music-Minded Students The Carnegie room ... is a frequent gathering place on the campus for lovers of music. Endowed by a national fund in 1927 along with many other colleges, this room is usually filled with students and their books—music and otherwise. Portland Pianist Remembers Day He Taught in Old UO Music School When the jchool of music was lodged in half of Friendly hall and the other half was a men's dorm. David Campbell, Portland pianist who will be soloist with the University symphony next Tuesday, taught piano to Oregon students. Mr. Campbell laughingly recalled those days a few evenings ago in the lounge of the music audi Lonum aiLer a lung ltuctusai wilii Director Rex Underwood and the 70-piece orchestra. Dorm Men Noisy “VVe on the music faculty thought we were- frightfully abused by the noise mae by the men in the dormitory,” he confided with a sly twinkle, "but in the long run, I think the students had the greater right to complain!” Unlike the present music building, where even insulated walls conduct a great deal of sound, Friendly hall sounded more like a madhouse than it ever has, according to the pianist. After leaving the campus, Mr. Campbell continued his studies in Germany. For a number of years he served in the A.E.F. in France. Returning to the United States, he made his debut recital in the Aeolian hall in New York with decided success. It was inevitable that he return to teaching, so it was to Portland that he went to establish himself. Appears With WPA Orchestra With his private teaching he continued his concert appearances in many western cities, among them Los Angeles and San Fran cisco and Eugene. His most recent appearance was with the WPA or chestra under the direction of Mascha Pelz in Portland last month. He is also on the extension division of the state system of higher education. The Portland pianist expressed his enjoyment on returning to the university from which he graduat ed. He numbers among his friends both faculty members and stu dents, a number of which were his music students in Portland before they enrolled at the University. He will return for an additional rehearsal before the concert Tues day night, he said. Kehrli Will Attend Portlan4 Meeting Herman Kehrli, director of the bureau of municipal research, will go to Portland today to attend a meeting of the advisory commit tee of the Portland branch of the bureau. The Portland branch has just completed an extensive survey ot the pension problem of Portland employees and this matter will be discussed. See Barker [and get re iable Musi cal instru m e n t s at reasonable prices . . . ’ufract low prices. Remember, good quality is remembered every time you use your in strument. Remember that tone is what counts when you are playing for the pub lic or for your friends. If your instrument hasn't tone quality it is disappointing to you and more so to your audience. I recommend the musical instruments I sell for their tone. For years I have readjusted instruments and improved their tone. I will be pleased to serve you. M. S. BARKER MUSIC STORE 760 Willamette Street UO Symphony Ranks Swell to 70 Members With the addition of five new players who joined the group at the beginning of the present term, the University symphony orchestra now has 70 members, it was announced yesterday by Director Hex Underwood. The group will give its first concert of the year Tuesday evening in the music auditorium. Orchestra members are: Audrey Aasen, Aleck Cohn, Ivy Cook, T /ili IT1 1 __ «J l ill A' . VW1 UV11, VJV.UVV IV V V/X I sant, James DeCoursey, Mary Ann! Holt, Franeelia Oliver, Thelma Schnitzer, June Warren, Jane Warren, Peter Howard, Lorene Mitchell, Keith Blanchard, and Helen Horner, violins. Margaret Allen and Russell Hel terline, oboes; Rebecca Anderson and Arthur Ebright, French horns; ! Paul Anderson, Jack Plummer, and I j Vinton Snyder, trombones; Fran | ces Ballantyne and Wendell Gilfry, i bassoons; Julia Balzhiser, Thebe j Breyman, and Charlotte Plummer, clarinets; Nick W. Notos, Gordon j tripp, Ruthalbert Wolfenden, Alice Coggins, and Fred Dallas, violas. Mary Booth, Madge Conaway, Jane Hall, Howard Jones, and Cor rine Pritchard, cellos; Robert Deiz, Ralph DeCoursey, Robert Edwards, Art Holman, Sevilla Riley, and George Varoff, basses; Earl Scott, Robert Carlson, and Thomas Aus tin Landles, trumpets; Donald Scott, Mary E. Sheldon, and Mayo Sorenson, flutes; Ed Wiseman, tuba; Robert Garret and H. Russell Huiet, timpanis; Gordon Hogan, THE NEW FULL VIEW SAFETY GLASSES The Numont | l ullview Bayfore Loxit jsince there are no end pieces the possibility of strain is more than cut in half. Lens breakage and a wobbiy frame are cut to a minimum. E Dr. Ella C. Meade jjj OPTOMETRIST E Phone kd(J ' 1 i \\ est btk g I piccolo. Robert Garrctson and Robert Ingle, drums. Names of some of the members, including several townspeople, were not available when this record was made, ac cording to Mr. Underwood. Publishers Told (Continued from page one) must be followed up with actions. Governor Sprague opened his address with a review of the early newspaper days in Oregon, com paring the vituperative journalism of the day with present day prac tices. He also showed how the press, “conceived in politics,” con tinued to serve in this capacity. The governor was introduced by Dean Eric W. Allen of the Uni versity school of journalism, who acted as toastmaster. Dean Allen also presented Lars Bladine, presi dent of the ONPA; Hugh Ball, president of the 1939 conference; Dr. Donald M. Erb, head of the University; and Chancellor Fred erick M. Hunter. The Eugene Gleemen, directed by John Stark Evans, appeared for several successful numbers. The University of Calfiornia's atom - smashing cyclotron weighs 80 tons. gIfilSJS15/3iSJSJSJcy5M3EicifSJSI5JS®S(SJS.Ji || CAR SERVICE J • Motor Tune Up j.l 9 Valve Service • Brake Service tsj • Battery Recharging [a • Electrical Service $ Clark Battery & f Electric Co. J| 104J Oak St. i'll one 80 1 Portland Man To Be Pianist In Recital Noted Soloist Explains Mozart's A Major Concerto, Feature Selection Even the usually poised mem-, bers of the University symphony orchestra were excited a few eve nings ago when they met at re hearsal. The cause of their excite ment was the presence of their pianist, David Campbell of Port land, who had motored to Eugene that day to rehearse Mozart’s “Concerto in A Major’’ with them. The second movement of this concerto is considered particularly beautiful, and has more depth and feeling than is usually attributed to similar compositions by Mozart, according to the pianist. "It is hard to explain its mood,” Mr. Campbell said. "It abounds in the joyful spirit of Mozart and such pure melody that it can only be appreciated by hearing it.” Two centuries ago, Two centuries ago, Mr. Camp bell explained, composers left a break at the end of the second movement of their concertos for a cadenza, which was to be sup plied by the player. In this would be embodied most of the motifs and rhythms of the concerto, and the musicians would have a chance to show off his originality. As this is not the custom of modern pian ists, Mr. Campbell will offer the Reineckle cadenza in his rendition. The concerto was written in 1786, when Mozart was busy com posing “The Marriage of Figaro” for the emperor of Austria. In be tween his feverish hours of com position of the opera he wrote the concerto "for himself.” It shows none of the tenseness which the composer may have felt, only the cheerfulness and grace of a spirit that is truly Mozartian. Mr. Campoell will play the en tire concerto when he appears as. soloist with the symphony orches tra next Tuesday night in the mu sic auditorium. Northwestern Student Holds Sweetest Job' By ANNA MAE HALVERSON Ralph Lidge, 17-year-old North western university student, asserts that he holds "the sweetest part time undergraduate job in the na tion,” according to a United Press report. He has four million bees which produce over a ton of honey annually to help pay tuition and expenses. Lidge, a freshman in the college of liberal arts, keeps his bees on the outskirts of Chicago. He re ports that bee keeping combines nicely with attending university, for during the winter the bees cluster in their hives and require no attention. He intends to add 2,500,000 bees to his apiary in the spring. Waffles The new waffle-eating champion at the University of Washington is Hugh -Williams, SAE, who ate 20 waffles to tic last year’s rec ord. The occasion was the annual YWCA waffle breakfast and dance. It took Williams 30 minutes to eat the last ten, but he couldn’t quite make the twenty-first waf fle which would have broken the record. His nearest competitors were five waffles behind him.— University of Washington Daily. Insurance Something new in the line of student-managed insurance com panies has cropped up on the Washington university campus on the edge of smoky St. Louis. There Enterprises, Inc., not only insure students against failure, but also against marriage. But they only take selected risks on the latter kind of protection end an attractive freshman coed has just been turned down because directors of the company decided their risk was too great. ACP University of Toledo collegian voted 81 per rent against the new "up-sweep" hair-dos for women. The majority of the Wellesley college freshrnen have indicated • bat they prefer home-making as a career. He'll Direct Rex Underwood ... to lift baton Tuesday night for the first UO symphony of the new year. White's Mosquito' To Buzz Tuesday Underwood to Lead Performance of Humorous Song “Mosquito Dance,’’ with all the tantalizing movement of a buzzing mosquito about to light, will be played by the University of Ore gon symphony orchestra next Tuesday night. One humorous selection in a suite of “Five Miniatures” by Paul White, American composer and as sociate conductor of the Rochester civic orchestra and of the East man school orchestra, the song was written in 1924 for the composer’^ children. All five will be offered b> the orchestra. An Oriental melody, “Caravar Song,” and “Waltz for Teenie’s Doll,” especially dedicated to Mr White’s eldest daughter, are twc of these. The “Mosquito Dance” i; described as follows: “As a boy, the composer used t: sleep out-of-doors in the Maim woods, and have the annoying sen salion, when half asleep, erf a mos quito buzzing around his head, thei dancing tauntingly out of reach Someone has said that music must express emotion to be great. The “Mosquito Dance” expresses th( feeling of gloating satisfaction.” The Colgate university senioi class presidential election was wor by a single-vote margin. Home News Held Best Waij to Win Subscribers Imported Copy Use Likened to Foible By Journal Man Newspapers wishing to become | indispensable to their subscribers should concentrate on home town ■ news, Arthur J. Crookham, city | editor of the Oregon Journal, told members of the ONPA yesterday j afternoon. "Nothing can take the place of ! home town news," Mr. Crookham I declared. ‘TT believe .home town news is read even when it is on back pages.” Say Editors Like Women j Mr. Crookham said that editors seem to feel much as women do about clothing. They think the im ported articles are the best. "Today all papers tend to look alike,” he declared. He believes! personality may be returned to newspapers by playing up stories and pictures of local action. Errors Blamed on Speed Mr. Crookham pointed out that the great emphasis of modern newspapers is on circulation and advertising. Newspapers strive for ' speed instead of accuracy and al 1 wrys try to get out ahead of their | competition, he said, and this tends I | to make papers full of errors. | papers need reporters with more I sympathy and interest in human beings, Mr. Crookham said. Re porters should be versatile, willing I to hustle, curious and be able to j see humor and pathos in every day 1 occurrences. Oregon Symphony Group Will Feature Waltz by Strauss The “Johann Strauss waltz! craze,” which has apparently been i sweeping the country since the re lease of the motion picture, “The 1 > Great Waltz,” will be carried for- i ! ward another step Tuesday night • when the University of Oregon ■ symphony orchestra plays in con i cert in the music auditorium. The number to be played will be the immortal “Beautiful Blue Dan ube," the most popular of all se lections composed by the waltz king of old Vienna. It was inspired by the stream, which in spite of the advance of modernism and Hit ler, is still known as “the most ro mantic river in the world.” Composer Explains 'Dream ofMcKorkle' In an effort to explain more fully his symphonic legend, “The Dream of McKorkle,’’ Frederick Preston Search has written from San Fran cisco to help Rex Underwood in his intet pretation and direction of the piece, which will be played Tuesday evening in the music auditorium by the University of Oregon Symphony orchestra. “So much music is written today,’’ he writes, “of highly complicated and dissonant nature that I am trying to write things which will live 1*1 UU rtLtUUill, UJ. iUVIWUJ, and yot in an up-to-date manner without the experimental chords and ugly ideas.” Concerning his general style, Mr. Search believes that Alexander Fried of the San Francisco Exam- j iner understands his work as well I as anyone. Fried wrote recently: ‘‘In creative style, Search is a romantic, not a modern. The nine teenth century has taught him, besides sentiment a, colorful and fluent texture. Yet from modern istic idiom he has been resourceful enough to learn healthy freedom of solo and harmonic writing.” The composer heard of his heroic character, Daniel MeKorkle, from Dr. Minnie Howard of Pocatello, Idaho. He writes: “It seems M : Korkle was much interested in the remarkable carvings on some big rocks located where Pocatelfo now is. Dr. Howard had some of these rocks on her fireplace. Oa the back these rocks were cut up. I think the Pocatello public library used some in the walls, while many of the carvings arc lost. “.So I suppose MeKorkle must have passed through Eugene also in the early days and perhaps he are sitting reading this letter.” CHAN CHEW I CHINESE HERB CO. Herb Specialist i Definite relief against ' all diseases and ebruble male, female, and cbt) dren ailments, ao yr. 4*. ^perlenee tn this work. ^Price reasonable. Call ou. mm, iv <* P. Rj 335 Oik weekday*, Son. 10-1X also, street tpuilti Uff Co. Violinists Will Be Concert Masters At UO Symphony Mary Ann Holt and Dorothy Louise Johnson, violinists, will act as concert masters for the University symphony orchestra when it is presented in concert Tuesday evening in the music auditorium, it was announced yesterday by Director Hex Un derwood. Miss Holt will be concert master for the first half of the program, and Miss Johnson the last, Mr. Underwood said. Exactly 3,269 organized events were held in the University of Wis consin Memorial Union building last year. A majority of St. Lawrence uni versity students favor subsidiza tion of athletes. Emerald want ads bring results. 'kr GRACE HALE Beauty Shop (Home Beauty Shop) Phone 3671 W 608 E. 13l!i To Open Portland Operas Coe Glade . . . guest artist with the San Carlo Opera company will sing the title role in “Carmen.” 'Carmen’ to Inaugurate Portland Opera Season; Six Performances Slated New Baritone, Ivan Petroff, Added to Sen Carlo Company Cast; Carlo Peroni Retains Director Position With Orchestra "Carmen,” the greatest theatrical opera ever written, as all musical authorities agree, will inaugurate the San Carlo Opera company’s annual season at the Paramount theater, Portland, Friday evening, February 3. Four evening performances and matinees Saturday and Sunday, February 4 and 5, will bring the total number of performances to six. Reports from the East, where Mr. Gallo opened his 1938-39 season in rujciteieiier vjenter, l^ew xon&, ■ advise that in all its years on tour j the San Carlo has never displayed such scenics. New Baritone Added Among the young, fresh voices j that the San Carlo opera adds to its personnel each season, a new baritone will make his debut in! Portland. He is Ivan Petroff, whose Boston success a few weeks ago was reported by the Boston Tran script in the following words: “But the big event of the even-] ing was Ivan Petroff. Here was a voice of excellent quality, one of your man’s baritones, which, aided by an apparently irreproachable | technic, was employed to the de sired expressive ends. . . . Since he proved also to be an able actor, \ he was thoroughly convincing. Carlo Pe^oni to Direct Carlo Peroni, as during these many years, will again direct the large orchestra. The repertory for the four days’! engagement is as follows: Friday evening, February 3, "Carmen,” starring Coe Glade as| guest artist. Saturday matinee, “Martha” (in English) followed by ballet di vertissements by the San Carlo ballet. I Saturday evening, “'ll Trova tore.” Sunday matinee, “Madame But terfly" with Hizi Koyke. Sunday evening, “Faust.” Monday evening, “Tannhauser.” Trices Reasonable Reasonable prices have won for the San Carlo Opera company the most widely scattered audience of any opera company. During eight months of each year, the San Carlo presents opera in some sixty cities, to a gross season's audience of 1 more than a half a million. Tickets for the Portland engago j ment are now on sale at the J. K. j Gill company, 5th and Stark street, j Portland, or can be ordered by mail ■addressed to the Paramount theater. c BAST TIM US TON' Kill'll “THE LAST EXPRESS’’ Kent Taylor Dorothea Kent -- Plus - Charles Starrett in BUNT MISS IT “YOU CAN'T TAKE XT WITH YOU’’ with If AM liOMII 1AMI* COW*«D ARTHUR BARRYMORE STEWART ARNULO |lll!Ullllllllllllt!|ltllllllllllllllllll!IIIIIIIH I FIRST BAPTIST 1 CHURCH S Corner of Broadway and | High on Higliway 99 Dr. Dan Gilbert General Secretary of the ‘•World’s Christian Funda mental Association” Dr. Dan Gilbert, author of the following books: “Think ing Youth's Greatest Need,” “Our Chameleon Comrades,” “The Vanishing Virgin,” “Ev olution: The Root of All Isms,” “Our Retreat From Modernism,” “The Biblical Basis of the Constitution,” "Crucifying Christ in Out Colleges,” “The Slaughter of Innocence,” has been con ducting Youth Meetings at the First Baptist church that have been well attended. He has come to Eugene under the auspices of the “Truth for Students Movement.” He will speak: Saturday Evening at 7:30 I*.M. "The Anti-Christ Terror in | Some Schools” Sunday Morning at 11 A. M. “Christ in the Twentieth ‘ Century.” Sunday Evening at 0:30 to the Young People’s Groups, ; Subject: i “The Christian's Sole Pur- . pose” Sunday Evening at 7:30 I’.M. “A Revolt of Christian : Youth” Dr. Gilbert is nut a clergy man. He is a Washington, D. C\, newspaper man. His out put. of published material hai been 1.000,000 words a year.