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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 10, 1940)
CAMPUS VOLUME XLI UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1940 NUMBER 99 Betty Buchanan Chosen Queen Queen 'Bucky' Meets Her Court Photo by Ted Kenyon Petite Betty Buchanan, center, yesterday was chosen from the ranks of junior women as queen of the 1940 Junior Weekend celebration. Her royal court will include Janet Foster (left), Sue Cunning ham, Laura Jean Maurice, and Eleanor Collier. Barnes Flays US Policy SpeakerSays To Fear England Propaganda to Be Guarded Against, Lecturer States Directing a bitter challenge at the very core of American for eign policy, Harry E. Barnes, noted author and lecturer, de clared yesterday the United States must disregard' English “gold brick’’ propaganda and that Americans may save America but “let God save the king!’’ Mr. Barnes referred to Great Britain as “the king”—the one country he said we need fear as far as entering a second world war is concerned. “This is not a 'holy war’,” he explained. “All the honest people are not on one side with all the crooks, thieves, and bad men on the other. It is merely a case of the ‘new thieves’ against the ‘old1 ‘old thieves!’ “England did her stealing in the fifteenth to eighteenth cen turies, and has now had a chance to learn a few manners about ‘correct’ conduct. Germany is do ing most of her work in the twentieth century and while hav ing a better case is much more primitive and ‘blood-dripping’ in method.” Mr. Barnes urged that Ameri ca take care of work within the United States and guard against all types of propaganda to help either one side or the other. He said that the final result would be just as bad, however, whether one side or the other wins the war. (Additional details on (age J Queen Bucky'Rules Weekend, A WS Too Reserved little “Bucky” Bu chanan last night suddenly found herself the center of all campus activity as she became Queen Betty of Oregon’s 1940 Junior Weekend celebration. Excited by the news of her election, Queen Betty smiled for newsmen’s flashing cameras late yesterday at the University news bureau, while her attendants of fered congratulations on her vic tory. Dressed in a light beige colored frock of pebble crepe, simply trimmed with multi-colored but tons up the front, the Chi Ome ga’s royalty-elect declared she “just couldn’t believe that every thing that has happened this year could be true.” For the sparkling-eyed Queen Betty is only adding further glory to recent honors when she assumes the role of monarch of the Viennese kingdom which will grow up on the mill race during early May. Late last term she was elected president of the As sociated Women Students for next year. This year's monarch conies from Salem, and she mixes high grades, popularity, and activi ties in just about the propor tions of any ideal coed. Interesting is the fact that one of her best friends is Virginia Regan, queen of the 1938 Week end celebration. It was the for mer ruler who persuaded Bucky to come to Oregon. Only five feet three inches tall, Bucky will wear the Weekend crown on her brown curls May 10 as the successor to 1939 Queen Maxine Glad. Chi Omega Elected 50th Junior Weekend RulerbyASUO Voters By JIMMIE LEONARD Betty Buchanan was chosen queen of the fiftieth annual Junior "Weekend by student body and junior class voters yesterday. Chosen from a group of five girls selected last week, the grey-eyed brown haired regent comes from Salem and is a junior in English. The four members of Queen Betty's court are Laura Jean Maurice, AW5 Schedules Sale Thursday Lost, Stray Articles To Be Auctioned By Gurley. Barrett Now is the time to buy your raincoat for next year or to get next term’s textbooks, advised Barbara Stallcup, chairman of the AWS auction sale which is set for 11 o’clock Thursday morning. Lost and stray articles which were turned into the University depot will be put on the block and students will be persuaded to buy by Auctioneers Joe Gurley and Phil Barrett. Miss Stallcup announced that fountain pens, pencils, raincoats, text books are in profusion and will be put under the gavel Thursday. The proceeds of the auction will be used for expenses of the AWS convention, which will be held next Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Lois Nordling and Betty Jane Biggs are assisting Miss Stallcup in auction preparation plans. Houses Vie April 17 In Singing Contest April 17 has been set by the McDonald theater as the date for the play-offs of the 1940 campus sing contest, w'hen three Oregon sororities and three fraternities vie for the $150 prizes. Sigma Chi, Alpha Tau Omega, and Phi Delta Theta will sing for the men’s prize, and Pi Beta Phi. Delta Gamma, and Gamma Phi Beta will try for the women's $75 award. 'Idiot’s Delight’ Task For Stage Crew Hollywood goes out on “loca tion” to get their scenes, but Horace W. Robinson, assistant professor of drama, and his stage crew make the mountain come to Mahomet for their settings in the University theater’s “Idiot's De light” which opens Friday night. The play calls for an interior scene of a cocktail lounge in a hotel resort on Mount Gabriel on the Italian border. Robinson has designed a set of midnight blue, using velveteen textile walls with chromium trimmings. Further evidence that the stage workers are sparing no details to duplicate an exact portrayal is the antique leather upholstering used on the love seats. In Robert E. Sherwood's Pulit zer prize play, the stage crew is having amost as big a part as the actors to fill, Robinson stated. The entire stage size had to be increased to make room for a set having a 14 foot elevation. Two-thirds of the acting area is done on an elevated flooring. A curving stairway with a heavy maroon plush carpet dominates the scene. Flanking the staircase on either side are lower platforms with the leather - covered love seats and tables. All furniture — tables, chairs, stairway — used in “Idiot's De light’’ had to he constructed especially for this play by the white-coverall theater workers, Robinson declared. Most of the work is being done by Virginia Utley, stage man ager; Dick Jeffcott, electrician; and John Wilson, property man ager. Complex sound effects were im ported from Hollywood for the sizzling and booming of the air raids, the whining of the com bat planes, and the other noises which go to make up the air raid, Robinson, who is also director of this production, revealed. Sue Sunningham, Janet Foster, and Eleanor Collier. Their duties will begin on Friday, May 10, the first day of Junior Weekend. "Saying that we are pleased with the selection of the queen and her court is only a mild ex pression of our satisfaction,” Lloyd Sullivan, general chairman of Junior Weekend, commented last night. "We are going to do our utmost in arranging the bout weekend the campus has ever seen for the five members of our royal court," he added. John Cavanagh, promotion chairman for the weekend, also expressed his pleasure last night, when he said: “I saw the five girls photographed last night, and am willing to bet that George. Godfrey’s camera was experienc ing the luckiest moment of jt» life.” (Additional details on page School to Hear Songs Preview Fight Tunes Liked By ASUO Leaders At Band Concert Oregon's two top-notch fi{*ht song possibilities yesterday got their first public preview, when 15 student leaders were invite*! by the fight song committee to hear the University concert, band, under John Stehn’s direc tion, play the two numbers. Approval of both tunes by the listeners lead to a decision by Chairman Elbert Hawkins and ASUO President John Dick to present the two battle tunes be fore a student assembly thin term. Tentative arrangements havc been made to have the student, body decide which of the two tunes shall be Oregon's theme at the nominating assembly April 30. Meanwhile, Hawkins said, the field is still open and any new songs will be accepted. Robe Gets Position Stanley L. Robe, research scholar in Spanish, has accepted a teaching fellowship in Spanish at the University of North Caro lina. Mr. Robe will work under Dr. Sturgis E. Leavitt, co-author of the first-year Spanish book used here. IN TODAY’S EMERALD Campus C alendar . 7 Neu-a .3, 6, 7, 3 Edits 2 Once Over Lightly.% Sports . 4, S Duck Tracks . 4
