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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 16, 1940)
First Concert Of 1940 Series On Schedule Violinists to Solo In 8:15 Music Auditorium Event Conductor Rex Underwood and the 70 youthful musicians of the University of Oregon symphony orchestra will open their winter concert series in the music audi torium Tuesday night at 8:15. Four student violinists, Jane Young, Gordon Hogan, Elizabeth Walker, and Verne Sellin, will appear as soloists. Ticket sales have been rapidly going ahead on the campus and in living organizations under the leadership of Mil Phi Epsilon, honor society for upperclass wo men in music, and Phi Mu Epsi lon, men's music honorary, it is reported by Charlotte Plummer, member of the women’s group. The Eugene Symphony associa tion is sponsoring downtown sales, for which a booth has been placed in Miller's department store. February 14 has been set as the date for the second concert, for which Fritz Neumann, the Cze choslovakian violinist, will be guest soloist. McArthur court will be the scene of the final program on April 7, when the orchestra will join Ur. Theodore Kratt and the University Choral union of 350 voices in a performance of Men delssohn's oratorio, "Elijah." The complete program for to night follows: Overture to "Russian and Lud milla" (Glinka); Ballet music “Andaiouse,” "Aragonaise,” “An bade,” and "Navarraise”—from "The Cid" (Massenet); First movement from “Concerto in D Minor for Two Violins” (Bach) with Verne Sellin and Elizabeth Walker as soloists. "Prelude in E Major” (Bach Stoessel) played by the string or chestra, with first violins as so loists; "The Girl With the Flaxen Hair (Debussy) with Jane Young, violinist, as soloist; "Marionette ; ' (Glazounow) with Gordon Hogan as violin soloist; Overture fan tasia, "Romeo and Juliet” (Tschai kowsky. Winter Wonderland to Be Theme of Year’s First Big Formal Dance Saturday 'Dark Suits, No Flowers/ Says Social Chairman; Fashion Show of Winter Sports Clothes to Be Featured if i By ELLIE ENGDAHL Attention, Joe College,! Next Saturday night will come the big event on the campus this weekend, the first big formal dance of the year. This is going to be a major milestone in the life of your best girl, provided you remember to ask for the pleasure of her pres ence at an early hour. Miss Oregon will finally be able to bring out her most beautiful evening gown, apply all the tricks of enhancement that the ages have taught her, and prepare to set your heart palpitating at a furious rate of speed when you behold her in all her glory. Dark Suits, No Flowers But to make you happy, young man, Betty Buchanan, campus so cial chairman, has decreed that you wear dark suits instead of tuxedoes, and the florist needn't receive that needed spending mon ey as there are to be no flowers. At any rate, it should be a grand evening, with both of you happy to start with. You will have a chance to dance to the strains of a new , orchestra in these parts, Curt Sykes from San Francisco. Don’t. miss the premiere of what may be \ a hit band, or what promises to be one of the decoration accomplish ! ments of the year with "Winter Wonderland" the theme and some new ideas in original lighting to be ; carried out. At ‘The Half’ If skiing is a pet sport or yours, or skating, you'll be interested in that part of the scheme. Besides the various stationary models of these sports, a winter sports fash ion show will be given at "the half,” if that term pictures for you an intermission. Your girl will be ; sure to tiave a hankering lor a ! glimpse of this part of tlie pro gram, anyhow, and it would be terrible to disappoint her. Don't rush, don’t crowd, there'll be plenty of dates for all if you "do your formal shopping early.” Okay? SHOPPING SHORTS HERE'S CLEANING CLEANING & PRESSING IRVIN & IRVIN 64a E. 13th Phone 317 LOANS MONEY TO LOAN on anything of value EUGENE EXCHANGE & LOAN CO. (Eugene’s Only Pawnbroker) 095 Willamette HARDWARE Eugene Hardware Company Everything in Hardware Bdwy &. Oak St. Ph. 670 Emerald advertisers are coop erating with students through this paper to save shopping time . . . and shopping money. DRUGS Everybody’s Drug Eugene, ()re. Agents for Kim* Cosmetics Barbara Gould Old Spice Yardley Colonial Dame SCHOOLS Enroll Any Monday EUGENE BUSINESS COLLEGE Miner Bldg. l’hone 666 REPAIRS 1\>! REPAIRS PLUMBING HEATING INSTALLMENTS It’s Best by CHASE CO Phone 243 936 Oak St. UPHOLSTERY Eugene Mattress ; and ' Upholstering Company Phone 812 1122 Olive ! Dad’s Day DOINGS jHiiiiiiiliiiiiiiifiiuitiiiuiiifniitiiiniiiiitniiiiiitiiimiiiiiiiiiniiiiifiniuiitiiiniimiiim!! January 26, 27, 28 Table decorations will look as good to eat as the tasty meal which is planned for the plates at the banquet, according to Eliza beth Steed, chairman. She has named as her decoration commit tee: Elizabeth Daggett, Margaret Rawson, Phyllis Foster, and Nan cy Reisch. Over their afternoon cokes in Taylor's at 4 o’clock today the general committee will report what progress they have made in this week’s work. * * * This kind of a phone call puts a chairman in paradise. One Alpha Chi O just begged Pat Taylor to let her house put on something on the program for the Dads. It seems the big brick house is just fun ning over with talent. Any more houses like that ? One morning next week sleepy eyed 8 o'clock students are going to rub their eyes in wonder when they find the campus all decked out in a new costume. Campus preparation chair m a n, Ralph Woodall has appointed his commit tee of Earl Cprtis, Bob Swan, Bob Clever, and John Sehriner and are ideas clicking in that combination! * * * Today will be the last day for the freshman activity girls to get in touch with Eleanor Sederstrom, phone 772, for a position on the registration committee. Gals with sweet smiles are requested be cause there is going to be a pho tographer lurking around. * * * White uniformed Kwamas and Skull and Dagger honoraries will greet the Dads with hospitality chairman, Walker Treece, an nounced. Vickie Sandner and Bill Loud are also committeemen to see about the professional school’s open house and one thing and an other. Fraternities Name Seven New Pledges For Winter Term Winter term pledging speeded up this week with the announcing of seven new pledges to University fraternities by Virgil D. Earl, dean of men. The new pledges are Bion C. Osburne, Beta Theta Pi, Portland; Jack Werschkul, Beta Theta Pi, Portland; N. Taylor Bradford, Beta Theta Pi, Saratoga, California; Pete Riley, Phi Delta Theta, Port land; Robert G. Barker, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Great Falls, Montana; Raymond Sehrick, Delta Tau Del ta. Portland; James G. Richmond, Pi Kappa Alpha, Coquille. MR. and MRS. NEWT Houses Vote On Displays At Noon Today Survey to Settle Dads' Day Signs Construction Issue By JIM BANKS Under fire for the past week as heads of houses and students ar gued the issue, the display for Dads’ day question will be settled definitely today noon as Kwama and Skull and Dagger poll all liv ing organizations. Helen Angell, president of the women’s service honorary, is to lead the Kwama committee in cov ering the men’s houses and Jack Lansing, Skull and Dagger head, has a squad ready to tabulate coed opinion. The respective service groups will start action at noon by polling each house to get the general student opinion. Dads’ day chairman, John Cav anagh, called for an emergency committee meeting last Friday when the interfraternity council ; ruled against the construction of house signs and displays as incur ring a too heavy load of appro priations. Cavanagh explained that the original idea was to construct inexpensive but colorful signs or j slogans to greet the visiting Dads I when they come to the campus ! T. na 0*7 oo Opposition Appears Opposition appeared from out lying houses because it was felt that their signs would not be ful ly appreciated. Other objectors pointed out that duplication would be inevitable due to the limited theme. On the pro side, many students feel that the atmosphere of festiv ity acquired on the campus be cause of the signs was entirely appropriate for a Dads’ day. To day’s poll will determine the ex i tent of opinion in either direction and will be the basis of the Dads’ Day committee’s final decision. Cavanagli said that the preee j dent set by other committees I points toward having signs and he believes that they do much in arousing spirit and adding to the atmosphere. Support or Defeat ‘‘The committee has no inten tions of going against the wishes of the student body in this mat ter,” he declared. The survey will either support or defeat the house managers’ protests on the ground that they are too expensive, the difficulty of enlisting the aid of the members in constructing the signs, and the possibility of rain ruining their effect. Geologist to Visit Here Wednesday Word has been received by Dr. Warren D. Smith, head of the geol ogy and geography departments, that two geologists from the Paci fic Northwest regional soil conser vation service will visit the geol ogy department Wednesday. The geologists, Mr. Stewart Twisst and Mr. Hite, were con tacted by Dr. Smith at the North west science meeting in December and expressed a wish to get ac quainted with what is being done in a geological way in Oregon. They will also visit various dam sites in the Lane county area. UEILIG M ■ MlURPiCIOliS i>WKl STUDENTS—It's here at last! KAY KYSER ADOLPHE MENJOU in “That’s Right You’re Wrong” and Selected Short Subjects The Secret Romance of History's Virgin Queen "Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex” with BETTE DAVIS and ERROL FLYNN That’s Right The radio and the cinema con tinue to .swap talent with about equal advantage and disadvantage to each, depending on how you want to look at it. Kay Kyser and j his musical aggregation are to I day's temporary -refugees from a ! radio show, and instead of being merely an excuse for, Kyser and friends are the reason for “That's Right, You’re Wrong,’’ currently j screening at the Heilig. The film acquires its title from one of Kyser's smarty responses j on his College of Musical Know ledge and the loyalty of Kyser fans j was evidenced at yesterday’s mati nee. This picture is the best ex- ‘ ample of the way the movies ought to treat a radio personality, that is spotting Kay Kyser as Kay Kyser, the hero of a radio-to-Hollywood to-radio story. Adolphe Menjou as the movie producer, a role which he does very well, shares top billing with the bandsman. May Robson is Kyser’s grandma who thinks that he should stay in his own back yard, i.e., on the radio. Lucille Ball is Sandra Sand, the cinema glamor girl, short on brains but long on glamor. Kyser’s principal radio helpers are seen as themselves include Ginny Simms, Harry Babbitt, Ish Kabib ble, and Sully Mason, each of whom does his or her specialty in a col j lection of songs, comic and senti mental. The idea of the picture is that when the Kyser organization comes to Hollywood, they “go Holly wood,’’ except the leader who thinks it’s all a sad mistake. So he purposely bungles his screen test by acting as a great lover. The troupe goes back to radio and the final scene shows Kyser in his deep south accent, presiding in cap and gown over a session of his College i.f aft,.-Knowledge. Barricade Samuel J. Cady, affectionately and symbolically called “Uncle Sam,” is the chief character in "Barricade.” He is an American i consul in China, appointed by President McKinley, and has been there ever since. He refuses to j leave his post in a bandit raid be cause he had no order from the state department who has com pletely forgotten him. Alice Faye, a topnotch musical comedy player and a topnotch vocalizer of popular songs is sadly miscast as a Brooklyn girl posing i as the Russian wife of an Ameri can citizen, and who is really a fugitive murderess. Warner Baxter i >s a hard-drinking newspaper man out of a job. He plays the news paper man in such a frantic man ner under Gregory Ratoff’s direc tion, that you get the idea that he knew what was going to happen to the picture when the reviewers saw it. Even Charles Winninger, the most successful of the cast in his role of “Uncle Sam," is not up to the Winninger standard. The film does have a few good mo ments and will show- at the Mc Donald with “Night of Nights” starting Wednesday. B STONE’S B CAMPUS STORE College Crest Jewelry Student Personals 1281 Alder St. CttUUIMD — Starts Today — OUT OF THE BOOK . . . . . . ONTO THE SCREEN! Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels” A full length Feature Cartoon • Second Ace Hit • ‘ WHAT A LIFE” Jackie Cooper - Betty Field 1 ; T — TWO ACE HITS — Fred McMnrray Madeleine Carroll Allan Jones in “HONEYMOON IN BALI” plus •BULLDOG DRUMMOND'S BRIDE’ with John Howard Heather Angel Symposium Team Draws Invitations Men's Group Plans Tour of Various Cities in State Fifteen invitations to speak at various clubs and schools through out the state have tieen received by the men’s division of the Uni versity of Oregon symposium team with many more on the \('ay but not yet confirmed, according to VV. A. Dahlbefg, assistant professor of speech, who is in charge of the men's group. Each year the symposium team travels around the state speaking to interested groups on current topics. The topics to be discussed by the men’s section are “Propa ganda and Public Opinion in the United States” and “Is the Cost of Distribution Too High?” The pur pose of the tours is to provide the people of Oregon with an oppor tunity to hear important subjects discussed and to show what is be ing done by the University speech department. Propaganda will be the subject of talks at the following towns: Janu ary 30, the Clatskanie Kiwanis club; February 10, the Sweet Horne high school; January 24, the Eu gene Grange; February 29, by the high school Parent-Teachers or ganization of Albany; April 4-6, Corvallis, at the Pacific Forensic league meeting, and April 9, at Lakeview. The subject of distribution will be discussed March 7, at Toledo Lions club; March 19, before a meeting of Silverton teachers; March 22, Eugene Grange, and March 25, The Dalles chamber of commerce. “The Hull Trade Agreements” will be the subject February 5 at a meeting of the Portland chamber of commerce. Smith Visits Library Xenophon Smith, assistant in the reference department of the Oregon State College library. ' spent Sunday afternoon at the University library collecting ma terial for a thesis on visual edu cation in the library. ■L i wmrnmmm Do YOU like a Clean, Well-starched, and Ironed WHITE SHIRT? If so phone S2f> Now • New Service Laundry Phone 825 For more pleasure at the movies see Paramount’s Feature Attraction THE GREAT VICTOR HERBERT starring ALLAN JONES and MARY MARTIN For more smoking pleasure enjoy CHESTERFIELD’S Feature Attractions ...REAL MILDNESS and BETTER TASTE. ALLAN JONES and Better Taste are Chesterfield’s Feature Attractions Tiie Right Combination of the world’s best cigarette tobaccos in Chesterfield gives you two features you can get in no other cigarette... Real Mildness and Better Taste. On top of that, Chesterfield gives you a far cooler smoke. You can *t buy a better cigarette. Copyright 1W0. Doom & M veils Tobacco Co.