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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 23, 1939)
Senior Ball to Climax Pre-Exam Season By MARGE FINNEGAN Desiring one last dash of frivolity with which to wind up the wintei social season, students will swing forth at the Senior ball, "the aris tocrat of formals,” Saturday night for a grand finale. Then, just as the "calm before the storm,” next week will find the library filled to capacity, students aprpoaching professors for complete lists of the term’s assignments, spectacles being retrieved from desk drawers, anc the entire campus will buzz with the atmosphere of approaching- exams Dates with dreams will be broken for more pressing engagements with rooks ana Class notes. The Senior ball will be held in McArthur court, which is being elaborately decorated for the oc casion, and dancing will be to the tune of Ran Wilde and his popu lar band with their ‘‘Wild Honey” music. Using the theme, ‘‘Oregon Premier,” all the sparkle and verve of a Hollywood “first night” will be combined for a gala climax to the winter season. Committees, under the direction of George Hall, chairman of the dance, are working hard on final arrangements and elaborate dec orations are being planned. A sparkling star suspended from the ceiling and slowly rotating will cast reflections about the room similar to those of a cut diamond. Numerous spotlights will add to the effect. The walls will be dec orated with silhouette panels de picting the gaiety of a "first night.” Campus celebrities will be greet ed upon their arrival and asked to give brief interviews over a micro, phone. Friday night, with the girls hav ing only 10:30 p.m. permission, di version from study will consist mainly of the Oregon-Oregon State (Please turn to page four) I i U Spring Date Dope Tweeds in campus coats meet fashion's approval! — Smart styles including plaids in Toppers and Strollers. $8.95 to $16.75 the BROADWAY | 1 INC. 20-30 E. Broadway ^iiNiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiniuiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiuiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiHihHi^ Social Calender By Kae Coleman Senior ball—Saturday, Febru ary 25—Formals, tuxes or dark suits. Corsages in order. “Emperor Jones”—O p e n i n g night, Saturday. Formals and tuxes. Friday-OSC game (Feb. 24). Food, Fun Habits Effected hvj Lent _ Entertainment and food habits are among items being modified > by many students in observance of Lent, which started yesterday. And though customs concerning Lent are now fairly well established, few realize how they have varied in other countries and at other times. The number of weeks in a fast have varied during the ages. In some countries it was 40 days, in others two weeks, three weeks, or seven weeks. In the middle ages people were forbidden to eat eggs, milk, and meat. Women Wore mourning robes in one area during the period of fasting preceding the Easter fes tival, while young girls who lived away from their homes at this time were allowed to visit their mothers. They usually took them a gift of simnel cake, a custom which still prevails in England. Today observance of Lent is much more simple. Meat and des serts are eliminated from the diets (Please turn to Cage four) snniiiiiimiiii!iii[ii!iii!iiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiii]iiii!imti!!niiiiiii,i!iiiniiniiiiiiiii!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii': :H1ini!lllil!llllllllllllllllllllUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!Ullil “A Wild Honey Coiffure” Shorter liair adapting it self to the new spring mode but still with the easual upsweep. KRAMER’S BEAUTY SALON 1258 Kincaid Phone 1880 imiiimiiiiiiiimHiiminmiimiimiiiumu'iuunMimiiimmimiHiimiiiiMiuiiiniMi. iiuuiiiiiiuiiituiuiiiiuiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuit*’ % Your Best Sport Outfit Plaid jacket, collar less, buttoned from neck to hip. Monotone skirt, all box pleated, in a choice of fresh colors. Jackets - $3.95 to $7.95 Skirts - $3.95 to $5.95 Helen Harper Sweaters to match and mix. $2 to $3 _R.C. Hadley 1 J INC. McDonald Theater Bldg, tool Willamette Phone 6311 1 Women’s Page Editor.B. Bowman Associate Editor.iB. Chapman Society Editor.M. Finnegan Staff—S. Mitchell, M. K. Riordan, P. Robbins, M. Wodaege, S. J. Ingle, B. J. Thompson, E. A. Jones. HonoredGuest Writes for Pictures Vivian Bretherton, Portland, Pens Andy Hardy Stories Miss Vivian Bretherton, author of the "Hardy Family" stories of movie fame and foremost woman author of the Pacific Northwest, has accepted an invitation to speak at the formal Matrix table on March 28, sponsored annually by Theta Sigma Phi, women’s jour nalism organization, honoring lit erature and the arts, it was re vealed yesterday by Bernadine Bowman, president of the group. “Love Finds Andy Hardy,” a re cent release of Miss Bretherton's stories from Hollywood, was se lected one of the ten best pictures of the year, with Mickey Rooney in the role of “Andy.” Professor W. F. G. Thacher, of the school of journalism, knows Miss Bretherton personally, and describes her as a person “very much alive and a vivid personal ity.” He also describes her as an active sportswoman who likes to golf and swim. Miss Bretherton does her writing in a very business-like manner, maintaining an office in downtown Portland where she goes for a def inite number of hours each day. One of her “Buzzy” stories which appeared in the February 'Cos mopolitan magazine is a tale of Timberline lodge. Thacher characterized the ma jority of Miss Bretherton’s work as the "Prince Charming” type of romance. Her first big market was McCall’s magazine, and she sub I sequently wrote for many of the i women's magazines. The Matrix table engagement is the first speaking engagement Miss Bretherton has ever accept ed in Oregon, although she has been much in demand. Swirling Skirts in Spring Silhouette O course it's repetition, but when buyers keep re-ordering suits it shows the trend of spring clothes. Suit is hardly the word to use this year, however, for openings are showing the absolutely newer and much more flattering lines. Soft ness, yohth, and femininity de scribe some, for the skirts are wid er and swirl out gracefully, and go well with short, fitted, hip-bone length jackets. Then there is the tiny, feminine waist-line to consid er, too Some women, usually American, prefer the slim-clean-cut lines. Tweeds and stripes are grand ma terials for them. The three piece is practical and popular; topcoats may be fur trimmed or plain. Classed with suits are the new jacket dresses. The dress part is usually simply tailored with a pleated skirt. The jacket is of a lightweight wool, fitted or bolero. If the color of the jacket is chosen with care, it may be worn with other skirts and sweaters. SflUTY SflLOn Above Kaufman Bros. 961 Willamette Phone 881 The Senior Ball is one of the year’s most o u t s t a n d i n g social events, so of course you want to look your very best. For the latest in hair styles, visit our SALON OF BEAUTY Mrs. Gredvig (Mgr) Personnel Mr. Gredvig (Hair Stylist) Helen Hinton .Mildred Gilmour For Eicjkt ©’Clocks , Though they are said to be the height of fashion in the East, snoods have not as yet appeared on this campus. Emerald fashion consultants doubt that they have any place in campus life unless a coed has an 8 o’clock class and finds it difficult to comb her hair before it. In such a case a snood, like the one pictured above, should be useful in hiding the disheveled hair. When Your Date Is Late By SADIE IViJTCHEIT, Do you frown when he is late, Or do you sit and dissipate ? Do you laugh and let it go, Or do you hunt for things to throw? There comes the time in every girls life when she harbors the fear that she is being "stood up.’’ Oregon coeds have their own methods of dealing with dates that are past due. “When my date is late, I start getting dressed all over again,’’ said one girl, “and sometimes I make a complete change—If he’s too late I change my boy friend.” “I’m so much later than any date of mine that’s ever been late, it doesn’t really matter,” was anoth er comment on the question. Another young lady said, “I guess that’s the time that tobacco companies make all their money. I just sit and smoke and fume,” “I suppose you’d say I go through the paces,” said another coed. “I usually get pretty ner vous, so I just pace back and forth till he gets there.” Another technique was that used by a girl who wears a fra ternity pin. ‘‘I go steady,” she said, "but if he’s late I sit and think of sarcastic things to say. Then when he finally comes, I'm so sort of relieved, I just manage a weak lit tle ‘hello,’ and maybe a ‘Gee, I’m glad to see you’.” “Between the time my date is scheduled, and the time he gets there,” said one coed, "I keep won. dering about what excuses he’s go ing to use. Even if they’re not such good ones they make an aw fully good topic for the evening's discussion. I always make him wish he’d either been a lot later, or better still, hadn’t come at all.” Another more studious young (Please turn to page four) V IWACELEI OXFORD/i H Spring Jewel of a Shoe... You’re sure to shine this spring- in one of our lovely new crystal patents. FIRST First indication of an important new shoe vogue. It gently encircles your ankle and lets you cool your heels in the open. Typical of the entrancing ideas in our new Rice-O’Neill col lection. Wear it now and be footsteps ahead of the rest of the world. Exclusive with Burch Shoe G>. McPONAlD THEATRE BLDQ1032 Willamette B. B. SHOTS. Bij B. Bowman i Any Place, Any Time Sometimes when columnists get together they like to tell how they write their columns—“was stand, ing under the shower when the idea came. Seizing the pencil and paper, I always keep in my pocket —” "Just have to write it when it comes to me—walking along the street, in bed, at a dance, eating dinner—you never can tell when you’ll get an idea.” And then there is the blighted soul who once dreamed The Column of Columns— “I dreamed it—yes sir, believe it or not. I was in bed sound asleep, and then all of a sudden I dreamed it. It was perfect. Nothing like it had ever been written before. But —I didn't get up to write it. I was too sleepy—Oooh! That's why I always sleep with a typewriter un der my pillow now.” Well, all of that is fine for those inspired writers but for some rea son I just can’t think while under a hair dryer—even if I had a type writer. men wouldn't Understand I started this off with the in tention of revealing- all about the art of getting a permanent for the benefit of the men who are so mys tified by it. But somehow I found my intentions wavering as I pro gressed. I decided “men would never understand why we women undergo such treatment. They don’t deserve the results. All they see is the finished product.” And so as far as I am concerned it will remain a secret from them. And I will continue to envy those dis tant. ancestors who lived and died without the benefits of a comb and mirror. Staff Trouble Having finished the above—I dashed for the Emerald office to see how things went there. At first there wasn’t a staff then they started drifting in. The first was dear Marge. I had almost let a sigh of relief escape when I no ticed a contraption she was wear ing on her hand. It seems the in firmary had put all they had on her sprained finger, which was ac quired while participating in that fine old game of “slap." (Please turn to page Jour) Dress Of tlie Week For sheer loveliness and col or harmony, the chiffon formal, worn by Ruthellen Merchant, to the ATO dance Saturday night, takes all honors for this week. This lovely formal was shad ed from a deep apricot at the hemline to a softly blended shade of palest peach at the bust. A flowing skirt over a taffeta slip joined with a strapless bod ice, which was gathered softly at the bust line. A Grecian draped knee-length r ape fastened at the neck and Cell gracefully over the should eis. Kuthellen wore a gold brace let with gardenias encircling her wrist, and gold evening san dals. 9 Tocjs Pep Up With the promise of spring in the air, a few brave souls are giv ing their new clothes, or at least their last year's best, a pre-sea son debut. The contrast of pink and blue and purple against the black and brown of winter clothes is a cheer ful note. Walking through the campus you’re just as apt to meet someone wearing a bright green skirt, yellow sweater and bobby sox as you are to pass someone wearing rust colored clothes, a winter coat, and mittens. Especially good-looking are the light plaid jackets that some of ihe girls are wearing with their ' darker skirts to sort of show they know spring is coming but win ter’s still here. Compliments should go to the bright Hendricks hall lass who wore two yellow crocuses in her dark hair to replace the conven tional ribbon. However, there's nothing that Will add just that right touch of color better than a bow. Booh to the girls without rubber soles on their new wooden shoes— they are cute enough, but better seen than heard. Why write? Send the Emerald home to the folks. The Basque a case of reflected The I'll 11 skirled <jyp sy note lluil is sky rocketing the spring parade-in I lie I'rot hy whirl of pastel chif fons, or the pictur esquenes.s of laee and net. . . . I $12.75 to $19.75 1:L'< iiiNi'.'fc KASHION » 'ENTiili Pigging Problems By HAM Kditor’s note—The following is the beginning of a series of ques tions and answers dealing with so cial problems in college. Is it advisable to accept last minute invitations from a man? Don't be insulted if a man asks you for a last-minute date. If you like him—accept him. Too many girls refuse last minute dates be cause they are afraid the man will think they are unpopular. That's the wrong idea. Most men prefer to do things on the spur of the moment. When they ask dates in. advance, sometimes they don’t feel quite up to an evening of dancing, when at the time they asked you for their dancing date, they did. It is a lot more fun to do things on the impulse. Just because a man calls you at the last minute does not mean that he has been on the (Picas* turn to page four) WILLIAMS INC. Say!!! It’s Spring Again Blue denim for riding I Mr Dude ranch duds for rides on clear spring days — fringed or braided edges for practicality’s sake. “Jeans”-$1.95 Jackets - $1.09 -S' For your skirts that twirl ‘' Kan-Kan” s 1 i p s that, lning iiuil effectively -; their ruffled edges in u shade contrasting your dress Idue —• japouica—• ’ lime—lruvy — dusty pink. 98c