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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 2, 1940)
W Post Filled By Mrs. DeCou Appointee Replaces Mrs. J. S. Evans As Exec Secretary To succeed ilrs. John Stark Ev ans, who recently resigned as ex ecutive secretary of the YWCA because of ill health, Mrs. E. E. DeCou has been appointed to take over that position for the coming year, it was learned yesterday. Mrs. DeCou has fulfilled the ex ecutive duties of the YW in the past few months w’hile the former secretary was recuperating from an operation, and she will continue to perform these duties for the rest of this year. Attended Colombia A graduate of Barnard college, Columbia university, Mrs. DeCou first came to Oregon in the inter ests of the YWCA. Then she stayed on as dean of women at the University, which office she held for several years. Two years ago the new secretary was elected a member of the na tional YWCA board, and since then she has taken an active part in many group meetings. Traveled East She recently attended a national board meeting in New York, a re gional conference at Asilomar, California, and an international conference of YWCA groups from the United States and Canada in Spokane . Last month Mrs. DeCou was guest speaker at the YWCA an nual banquet in Portland. il'l IMM1AI.I NOW! TILL FRIDAY Darryl F. Zanuck’s production “The Grapes of Wrath” By JOHN STEINBECK starring HENRY FONDA JANE DARWELL i • i I h -3 TWO ACE HITS! “On Your Toes” with ZORINA and “The Fatal Hour” with BORIS KARLOFF CHHH See—Jungle denizens tamed as household pets! in “Swiss Family Robinson” with Thomas Mitchell - Edna Best Freddie Bartholomew This jungle night . . . was theirs! Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Joan Bennett in “Green Hell” plus “Framed” with Constance Moore Museum Receives Tomb Figures From Chicago Collection A case of tomb figures purchased from the Field museum in Chicago has been given e? special room in the University Museum of Art. They will be on display as soon as the museum is open. The figures were received late in 1938 and were collected by Dr. Berthold Laufer, late chief curator of anthropology at the Field mu seum. Dr. Lauger found the little porcelain figures when he was in Hsian-fu, Shensi Province, in 1908 to 1910. The figures, mostly around 12 inches high, were put in ancient Chinese tombs to keep the dead company. Rehearsals Begin On 'Idiot's Delight' As the war wages in Europe, so will it be waged on the University theater stage, as “Idiot’s Delight,” Robert E. Sherwood’s 1936 forecast of the battle-to-come, goes into re hearsal for presentation April 12, 13, and 16. "Idiot's Delight” is a powerful indictment of war, an exposure of the international muniton-mongers, and a disclosure of the lengths the fanatical nationalists will go. The setting is a mountain resort in the Italian Alps on the border between Switzerland and France, near an Italian flying field. The leading characters are an American vaudevillian, touring cheap European cabarets and thea ters with a bevy of blondes; a mys terious white Russian “noblewom an” with strangely Americanized characteristics, and a sinister mu nitions magnate with interests in several warring countries and loy alties in none of them. The play is under the direction of Horace W. Robinson, assistant professor of drama, and Donna Row, student assistant. Library Displays Chinese Colored Wood Printings On display in the third floor gal lery of the art museum are 24 Chi nese colored wood block printings. The prints are from the “Mustard Seed Garden Series’ ’and were printed in 1701. These prints are drawings of Chinese paintings which were made to appear in copy books of paint ing and drawing. No prints were made before the Ming dynasty, but some of the paintings they rep resent are a thousand years old. The subjects of the prints on dis play are mostly fruits, flowers, and birds. There are two famous sets of the wood block printings, the "Mustard Seed Garden Series” and the "Studio of the Ten Bamboos.” All the prints of both sets will be shown eventually. Swedish Program To Be Broadcast A broadcast on Sweden will be given over radio station KOAC Wednesday morning at 11 o’clock, as a part of the regular education program given for the students in the fourth to eighth grades. Page Coming (Continued from page one) A complete program of Mr. Page’s talks here will be announced Wed nesday. Mr. Page recently completed two books, “Must We Go to War?’’ and "Creative Pioneers’’ (co-author with Sherwood Eddy), and his publication ‘Individualism and So cialism” was recommended by thej Book-of-the-Month club. Student Union Case Presented Alumni Magazine Features Article On Present Set-up The case for a student union building at Oregon went out to alumni with the current issue of Old Oregon, alumni magazine, as winter term closed, featured in. a half-page cover illustration and an article by Glenn Williams, frosh promotion committee head. Inscribed with painted letters as the "new student union” by cam pus pranksters, the construction shack near the art museum ap pears on the cover with members of the varsity committee inspect ing the amateur artistry. On the first page is a summary of union building prospects as they now stand and a report of committee work by Williams. His picture and by-line head the story. Captioned "In Union There's Strength,” bin article is preceded by additional information supplied by Roy Vernstrom, Old Oregon ed itor and varsity committee head man. Vernstrom points out that' the faculty group appointed to study the question recommends the president “take steps to bring about the construction of the first unit of a student union bunding that will provide a suitable place for University dances and large social events.” Significant of pro gress is the 20 per cent ASUO membership fund appropriation for student union fund use. Chairman Williams stressed that student opinion favors the building, revealed by the recent canvass of living organizations of co-op store cash receipt donations. A decisive majority ok’d donation, indicating active student support. Sociology Head Back Professor Philip A. Parsons, head of the sociology department, is teaching classes in modem im provements for social betterment and in matrimonial institutions af ter an absence of two terms on ac count of illness. COLLEGE SHORTHAND — TYPEWRITING COMPLETE BUSINESS COURSES Edward L. Ryan, B.S., LL.B., Mgr T O O. F. Buildg., Eugene UNIVERSITY BUSINESS Phone 2873 Classified Ads. The Emerald runs a found column FREE for the benefit of University stu dents, whose personal belongings have been forgotten in the rush to leave classes and have consequently been turned into the lost and found depart ment by janitors and students. A minimum charge of 5c is made to each claimant of lost articles'. The following have been turned into the lost and found department, in the University Depot, which is located across the street from the AAA build ing and adjoining the heating plant: ♦ For Rent TYPEWRITER, upright preferred, reas. Call 1173R The lost and found department has been swamped by a number of umbrellas of vary ing size and hue; a large assortment of gloves; an equally large assortment of scarfs; 8 men’s hats; 2 ladies* hats; 1 muff; 1 rooter’s lid (color: yellow and green); a few coats- and rain jackets; o note books; a baker’s dozen of spiral composition books; 1 pair of women’ galoshes; 1 pair of men’s rubbers; a regular library of books ranging from Hygiene by Meredith to Accounting Fundamentals; at least 25 fountain pens, ‘ome worth finding; 4 compacts; and a va rietry of pocketbooks ainu money purses— withou^monev^^^^^^_______. • Lost SMALL GOLD diamond ring, dur ing examination week. Reward. Ross Gearhart. Ph. 2900. UO Geology Group Slates Field Trips Field trips for almost every weekend this spring have been scheduled by the geology depart ment. according to Warren D. Smith, head of the geology and geography departments. The good weather during spring term makes a large number of trips practical. Theater Players Present Melodrama "The Drunkard'’ (or The Sinner Saved), an historic old melodrama, opened last night at the Very Lit tle Theater, Eugene's self-support ed civic theater, and will continue this week. Included in the east are sev eral faculty members, old favorites with VLT fans. The cast includes Gerda Brown, Robert Horn, Archie Halcman, Kenneth and Adele Grif fith, Dan Willis, Frank Loomis, Frank Ball, Ethan Newman, Laur liam and Genevieve Tugman, Jean ette Harbert, and Lud Schmidt. An elaborate program of intermission .acts and musical numbers in the style of the good old days high lights such numbers as the "Beef Trust Ballet," "Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight” by Sally Allen, and a. pantomime by Clara Fitch and (Mary Seton. Reservations may be made now with Mrs. Kenneth Shumaker, and tickets will be on sale Saturday at the Co-op and at Miller’s store downtown. timMiiiitflBiiiiiMiiniHiiini •mantimiimniiminmiiiiBBim' New Fight Song Near Selection Committee Head Announces Judging In Final Round The final round in the select ion oi a University of Oregon fight song has been reached; according to an announcement, from the com mittee appointed by John DJelr, ASUO president, fall term. Those who serve on the committee are Elbert Hawkins, chairman; Helen Angell, Jimmie Leonard, Lyle Nel son, and Jeff Kitchen. Yesterday the committee heard the Oregon concert band, directed by John Stehn, play two of the outstanding numbers from the sev eral submitted to the group. One piece was written by Les Irvin, senior in music, who also wrote the arrangements for the entire band. The second number came from a group of Los Angeles alums. The music was written by Thornton W. Allen and Milo Sweet; piano arrangement, C.' N. Fielder; and words, C.' H. Keeney, yell' leader in 1920, 1921, and 1922. •■■When we accepted the task of trying- to discover a suitable fight song, we didn't comprehend the difficulties that would face us;” said Elbert Hawkins, committee chairman. "Everything has turned out very nicely, however, and if the student body is as enthusiastic about one of these songs as the committee is about both of there, our job will pi-obably be finished.” TO TREAT IT DELICATELY TIIE LESS SAID ABOUT THAT HANDWRITING OF YOURS TIIE BETTER TYPE YOUR PAPERS RENT A TYPEWRITER—PUT IT TO WORK OFFICE MACHINERY & SUPPLY CO | 1047 Willamette St. Phone 148 jf SEND_ The Emerald ANYWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES For Spring Term only $T -00 5 Journalism* Bldg. Herbert Anderson, Oregon Daily Emerald, Eugene, Oregon. Please send the Emerald to: Name.. Address. And bill: Name......-. Address.’...