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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 8, 1940)
Croivd Expected for Weekend Luncheon Coronation To Be Affair's Main Feature Minstrels Will Play Music Suggesting Viennese Theme Students and visitors will an nihilate 4500 sandwiches at the Junior Weekend campus lunch eon Friday noon. If placed end to end, the hand wiches would reach nearly half a mile, and stacked they would tower 375 feet in the air, Grace Irvin, chairman, said yesterday. “Those staggering figures won't mean a thing to the diners,” Miss Irvin declared. An army of 90 girls will prepare the standwich es, cutting the luncheon expenses by $100. The coronation stage will be moved farther north than its po sition in former years, Miss Ir vin stated, so as to give the spec tators a better view of the coro nation of Queen Betty Buchanan and her princesses—Laura Jean Maurice, Suzanne Cunningham, Janet Foster, and Eleanor Col lier. Six hundred chairs will be available for visiting mothers. A more festive spirit will be promoted by minstrels who will circulate through the crowd, play ing music suggestive of the “Springtime in Vienna” theme of Junior Weekend, Miss Irvin said. Assisting in the plans for the luncheon are Janet Goresky, as sistant chairman; Karolyn Kort ge, serving; Ken Bowles, set-up; and George MacKin, finance. Reporting Classes Publish City Dailies As Class Project Tuesday’s edition of the Eu gene Daily News was put out by journalism students of the Uni versity of Oregon, with Lowell Dick as managing editor, Doris Murphy as city editor, and Bill Phelps, sports editor. Reporting and editorial writing will also be taken care of by Ore gon undergrads in journalism. Today’s Eugene Register Guard will be put under the same conditions with Doug Parker as managing editor, Helen Angell as city editor, Buck Buchwach, sports editor, and Mari Medill, so city editor. 2 MAJOR FEATURES! “Over the Moon” with Merle Oberon and Rex Harrison — plus — “House Across the Bay” with George Raft and Joan Bennett Another First-Run Picture! “Too Many Husbands” starring JEAN ARTHUR and , i ; | MftyVYN DOUGLAS Men's PE Majors Will Elect Officers The men's Fizzed club will hold its election of officer at 7:30 this evening in room 101 PE building. Entertainment for the meeting may be furnished by the Hawai ian trio directed by Harold Chung Hoon. Definite plans for the mixed picnic will be made tonight and the meeting will be followed by a volleyball game, students versus instructors. Law Students Vie For Hilton Prize Five law school students will talk for 15 minutes tonight at 7:30 in 307 Fenton hall, as they compete for the $50 first prize offered in the annual Hilton prize contest. The prize has been offered since 1922 by Frank Hilton, a Portland attorney, for the purpose of pro moting and fostering oral discus sion of legal subjects. A $25 sec ond prize will be presented from the lgfw school dean’s trust fund. The subject of this year’s speeches will be that “courts should adopt the attitude that money damages are never an ade quate remedy as compared with specific relief.” Speeches will be made without the use of manu scripts, although notes may be used. George Tichy, third-year stu dent in the law school, and Floyd Hamilton, John R. Hay, William J. Roberts, and Theodore E. Thompson, second-year students, are this year’s contestants. Judges for tonight’s contest are L. L. Ray, district attorney for Lane county, and Eugene V. Slat tery and Fred E. Smith, practic ing attorneys of this city. Westminster Plans Dinner for Tonight Westminster house will hold its covered dish dinner and business meeting starting at 6 o’clock this evening. Anyone is welcome to attend. Plans for the annual spring conference to be held this year at Kitson Springs, May 18 and 19, will be the main topic of business. Mrs. J. D. Bryant, hostess, is advising those interested in at tending to make reservations early. Filmed on the McKenzie— “ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS’’ starring RAYMOND MASSEY Another Top Program! “Private Detective” with Dick Forham and Jane Wymann — plus — 4 Young as You Feel’ with The Jones Family Dancers to Present Satire on College Life By MARTHA WODAEGE The idiosyncrasies of college characters, the fundamental faults and virtues of people all over the world, and the lilting dances in waltz time are a few of the themes for the dances in the free Master Dance recital to be given Friday evening at 8 in Ger linger hall. In the satirical “Our Campus” appear the typical college profes sors who walk sedately around the campus, bowing stiffly from the waist to greet students. Like the professors are the studious Phi Betes who dwell upon their many books in concentrated study. In contrast the activity girls cover the campus, flitting from place to place, never seeming to accomplish a great deal in spite of their many and hurried mo tions. The glamour girls in this number lend a quiet grace to the Joe College atmosphere with their movements of dignity and suspension. In “Us Humans,” the take-off on human characteristics, the group presents “Gossip,” “Un rest,” “Godliness,” and “Cleanli ness.” “Gossip” shows women in tent upon gathering juicy bits of news; “Godliness,” as the name implies, is a religious theme; and “Cleanliness” shows industrious women engaged in the less for mal and more virtuous occupa tion of washing clothes. The Viennese theme of Junior Weekend is carried out in two waltzes, “Waltzing Through the Rye” and “Vienna.” In “Prologue to War,” a solo, the dancer de nounces war in striking percus sive movements. The remaining program con tains “Carnival,” a number by several men dancers, a solo, and other group numbers with a va riety of themes. SEND MOTHER FLOWERS ON SUNDAY, MAY 12 MOTHER’S DAY A true expression of your love. We surest: plants, corsages, and cut flowers. If she will not be here, your order can be mailed to her florist saving telegraph cost, if done at once. COLLEGE FLOWER SHOP Across from Sigma Chi Phone 3018 HER WHITE HANDBAG Simulated leathers and nov elty rayon fabrics. 98c GIVE WHITE GLOVES 6-button and embroidered. Gleaming rayons. 59c WOMEN’S SLIPPERS Classic d’Orsays with flexible hard leather soles! 98c A SLIP FOR MOTHER Lace trimmed or tailored ray ons. 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