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VOLUME XLI
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1940
NUMBER 97
Iturbi Appears
Monday in Last
ASUO Concert
Musician Noted for
Symphonic Success,
Radio Appearances
Spanish music and a Spanish'ac
cent will be brought to the Uni
versity of Oregon campus Monday
night by Jose Iturbi, international
ly known pianist, who will present
the fifth and final ASUO Greater
Artists’ series concert of the year.
Although having played in the
United States every year for the
past 11, the noted artist still has
an accent reminiscent of his native
land.
Beside his ability as a pianist,
the young virtuoso is noted for his
work as a conductor and radio ar
tist. During the past few years he
has conducted the New York Phil
harmonic symphony orchestra at
Lewisohn stadium; Connecticut’s
Silvermine festival; the Philadel
phia orchestra at Robin Hood Dell;
and Los Angeles Philharmonic at
Hollywood Bowl, besides conduct
ing the Ford Sunday evening con
certs for many seasons.
Reserve seat tickets for the con
cert may be obtained at the ASUO
ticket office in McArthur court.
Free admission is offered to ASUO
members. -
Formal Opener
Set for Drama
Friday Top Hat'
Night for Opening
Of 'Idiot's Delight'
It’s top hats and formals for the
opening of the University theater’s
"Idiot’s Delight,” next Friday eve
ning, the drama department re
lease announced yesterday. Box
office will open Monday morning
in Johnson hall where seats may
be reserved for one show of the
three-day run.
“The presentation of Robert E.
Sherwood's Pulitzer prize play
with formal opening, will be the
first campus dress event of spring
term and we hope to have a good
turn out,” Mrs. Ottilie T. Seybolt,
head of the drama department
stated.
"Idiot’s Delight” is under the di
rection of Horace W. Robinson, as
sistant professor of drama, remem
bered for his production of "Our
Town,” at the beginning of the
1939-40 season. Donna Row will be
the student assistant director.
Law Library Gets
Grant of 34 Books
T. M. Cooley’s “Blackstone,” H.
C. Black’s “Constitution of Law,”
several volumes of “American Law
Reports, Annotated,” and other le
gal classics were among the 34 vol
umes recently donated to the law
school library by H. C. Saunders,
Eugene resident.
Between November 1939 and
February 1940, the law school ac
uired 46 other books and 34 jour
nals and booklets, mostly pertain
ing to state session laws for 1939,
says Miss Lois Baker, law librar
ian.
Mendelssohn's Disciples
Portland Hi-Y
Here for Meet
118 Youths to Hear
Symposium, Talks,
Visit Fraternities
One hundred eighteen members
of the Portland Hi-Y clubs will in
vade the campus today to hold
their annual business convention.
Immediately after their arrival
at noon, the delegates will be taken
to the Anchorage for a luncheon
engagement.
At 2:30 they will meet in the
faculty room of Friendly hall to
listen to an address by Dean Victor
P. Morris, of the school of business
administration, on “International
ism.”
HO Students Talk
This will be followed by a sym
posium discussion on “Propaganda
and Public Opinion in the United
States” to be given by three mem
bers of the symposium team, Ken
Erickson, Merlin Nelson, and Jack
Blankinship.
The representatives to the con
ference will be the guests of Uni
versity fraternities while they are
on the campus. At 4:30 p.m. they
will be taken to their houses.
Sunday morning the delegates
will attend one of the downtown
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Kitchen, Selieck
Frosh Glee Heads
Committee appointments for
Frosh Glee came to light yester
day when Jeff Kitchen and Lyle
Selieck were named co-chairmen
of this spring’s event by Les An
derson, freshman class president.
Work began immediately on se
lection of a theme, Kitchen said,
and he announced that attempts
are being made to contact a first
class orchestra for the occasion.
Exact date of the Glee will be given
out as soon as an orchestra is
j signed.
The dance is an annual high
light of spring term and is the
weekend that houses bring high
school rushing prospects to the
; campus.
Kitchen stated that a complete
dance committee will be announced
J Monday and definite plans will ap
pear in the Emerald in the near
I future.
(Courtesy the Kegister-Guard^
In the picture above part of the 400-voice University Choral Union
chorus are seen rehearsing “Elijah,” an oratorio by Mendelssohn, which
they will present in McArthur court tomorrow night at 8 o’clock. Dean
Theodore Kratt of the school of music (below) will direct the singers
as they end three months’ preparation.
Call to Colors
Voiced, in 1917;
Echoed in 1940
"War has laid its heavy hand
on the student body of the Uni
versity of Oregon," was the fate
ful maxim read by 1000 Univer
sity students as they rolled from
their beds and scanned a sleepy
eye over their Emerald on the
morning of April 6, 1917.
Today no such grim message
fills our pages. Instead, the de
cendants of the 600 students who
gave up civilian life for a uni
form roam the campus free from
no more serious worry than the
weekly date and an adequate
GPA.
In 1927, the Military Order of
the World War set aside April
6 as Army day, when the people
of the United States and the stu
dents of a university should set
aside daily cares for a moment
and think of the men and stu
dents who traded a school book
for a rifle and marched off to
war.
IN TODAY’S EMERALD
Edits . 2
Exchanges . 6
News . 6, 7, 8
Sports . 4, 5
Committee Chooses
Weekend Court
An aggregation of faculty mem
bers and Junior Weekend commit
teeman watched a parade of fem
ininity yesterday in the alumni
room of Gerlinger hall. Nineteen
coeds with ambitions of becoming
queen of Junior Weekend May 10.
11, and 12, were judged as to their
qualifications of holding the posi
tion.
Five of the group of campus
charmers were chosen to serve in
the royal court. Their names will
not be made known until they are
seen on the ballots election day,
Tuesday, April 9. The election will
be held in the YMCA hut from
noon until 4 o'clock. ASUO card
holders will be entitled to one vote.
Possessors of junior class cards
will receive an additional vote.
Mrs. Hazel P. ScKwering, dean
of women, and Mrs. Alice B. Mac
duff, assistant dean of women,
judged the 19 competitors from the
women’s point of view. The mas
culine slant came from Gordon
Wright, assistant professor of
history, and Mark Hanna, instruc
i tor in speech.
The Emerald Three o’clock club
held a lively, entertaining, but
[ sleepy meeting last night.
'Elijah' Singers
Ready to Appear
Sunday Night
Concert to Revive
Practice of Former
Years; Starts at 8
The first Sunday-evening ASUO
concert given on the campus in
many years will take place at 8
o'clock tomorrow night in McAr
thur court. It will be the Univer
sity of Oregon music school pro
duction of Mendelssohn's "Elijah,”
directed by Dean Theodore Kratt,
and featuring the 400-voice Uni
versity Choral Union and the 70
piece University Symphony or
chestra.
Sharing the limelight in the solo
roles will be the famed Chicago
singing duo. Helen Bickerton ami
Raymtind Koch, soprano and bar i
tone respectively. They will be sup
ported by Melvin H. Geist, tenor,
dean of the Willamette university
music school, and Madeline Dwyer,
Portland contralto.
Holders of student body cards
will be admitted free, as well ns»
members of the Eugene Symphony
association, * which is sponsoring
the event.
Although the oratorio, "Elijah”
is of a. religious nature, it is de
scribed as "no Sunday School par
j ty," and is considered' to be one of
the most dramatic choral master
pieces ever written.
Ad Convention
To Meet Todag
Alpha Delta Sigmat
Will Help Andrews
At Annual Banquet
Why some cogs in advertising
machinery tick and others gnauh
may be opened for a “look see"
when the University of Oregon’;!
W. F. G. Thacher chapter of .Al
pha Delta Sigma, men's profession
al advertising and business fratern
ity, meets today in Portland’s Mult
nomah hotel for its annual banquet
and conference.
Featured speaker at the banquet
will be Ray Andrews, vice-preul
dent of Botsford, Constantine, amt
Gardner Advertising agency, Ids
topic, some phases of the Jantzcii
account. Leith Abbot, former Efm
erald editor, will be toastmaster.
Awards to be presented include
the Bob Byington cup to the mem
ber who has been of greatest ser
vice to the chapter during the year,
the W. F. G. Thacher $100 schol
! arship to the best all-around junior
in advertising, the alumnus plaque
to the most helpful alumnus.
To be initiated into the chapter
as associate members are Frank 3.
McKeown of the Businessmen’.'!
Advertising Federation of Port
land; Max Frye, business manager
of the Oregonian; C. A. Larratn,
publicity director of Meyer and
Fiank; Fred Brenne, secretary of
the Eugene Chamber of Commerce;
and Ray Andrews.
Members of Alpha Delta Sigma
will attend meetings of the fed
erated ad clubs of Portland and
the ad managers’ section of tho
Oregon Newspaper Publishers’ ,ii~
sociation.