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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 26, 1941)
Guild Theater To Offer INew Broadway Hit University Group Will Close Season With Fresh Comedy One of the freshest comedies to come this current season from the mecca of the theater, Broad way, is the new Kaufman-Hart show, “George Washington Slept Here,” shortly to be shown at the University theater. The father of our country en ters into the play only in a legendary sense, however, for the Fuller family acquire their “place in the country” for the sole rea son that the first American presi dent one night adorned a bed there. No Time The Fuller’s attempt a renova tion of their home and celebrate by having some young people down for a real weekend. Playing hostess is Madge, the fair young thing of the family, who can’t give much time to her guests as she has decided (temporarily, of course) to do some running around with an Errol Flynn type of actor. Perhaps the most humorous of the weekenders is Marion Wilcox, a lush blonde, who smiles sweet ly at one and all, but never gets around to saying a word during her entire visit. A laugh-packed scene occurs when the young people have all made plans to enjoy “life in the country” by swimming. All dressed for the occasion, a thun derstorm comes up to keep them indoors. They pass the time sit ting around listening to a visit ing rich uncle snore loudly, afraid Invalids Include Numerous Stars As Yet Unknown We’ll now have five seconds of silence for those poor invalids at the campus pill palace. The wea ther . . . scrumptuous for picnics. (Ain’t you jealous?). About the only signs of life yesterday were the plaintive strains of Benny Goodman’s “Sent For You Yester day . . . but still am stuck here today, etc.’’ There is certainly an assembly of feminine pulchritude . . . (two bit word if I ever saw one). Among the glammer gals there is Maggie Barett, Ruth (de shrimp) Hartley, Otillia Hofstetter, Jerry Rotegard, Jean Hoover, and Lor reta Smith. Goldwyn has been looking for men like these: Jim Kurtz, Bob Brokow, Tom (the terror) Ox man, Orville Marcellus, Paul Livesay, Bob Lovell, Redmond Rudolph, and Jim (Adonis) Durkeheimer. Canterbury Group Elects New Officers Officers of the Canterbury club, Episcopal student group, were elected recently. Hunting ton Young is president, Marian Clark, vice-president, and Lor raine Long, secretary-treasurer. Art Pulos, of the art school, will discuss music and its effect on children this Sunday at 6 p.m. to talk because it might wake the “old codger,” and unable to get the Sunday papers because he is sitting on them. “George Washington Slept Here” is just a succession of such comic situations. George F. Smith, assistant director, an nounces that it will be presented sometime in May. It is the last University theater production for this school year. Med Students Must Register All premedical students are re quested to register immediately for the American Association of Medical Schools’ aptitude test if they plan to apply for admission to a medical school before fall, 1942. The test, to be given here May 2, is one of the normal require ments for admission. By payment of the $1 registration fee stu dents obtain a practice sheet which shows the types of prob lems and also serves as an ad mission card to the examination. Students may register with H. B. Yocom, head of the zoology department, in 207 Deady. The test will be given in 105 Mc Clure. Architects’ Society Holds Supper Meet A supper meeting of the newly organized Oregon Society of Landscape Architects took place at the home of Misses Elizabeth Lord and Edith Schryver in Sa lem Thursday evening. Six new members were voted into the society. An affiliate membership was established to recognize senior students and new members of the profession. Dr. Erb to Leave For Eastern Oregon Dr. Donald M. Erb leaves Mon day to speak at two meetings in eastern Oregon Tuesday. He will be accompanied by his wife. Tuesday noon he speaks to members of the Pendleton Ki wanis club. Members of the Uma tilla county farm bureau hear him Tuesday night at Helix. Business Manager Positions Sought By Four Students Four petitions for the positions of business manager of the Em erald and of the Oregana were turned into the activities office Friday afternoon, it was an nounced by George Root, educa tional activities manager. Those who submitted petitions for the Oregana position were Emerson Page and Doug David, while Fred May and James Thayer handed in Emerald pe titions. The candidates will be in terviewed next week. Secretary Requests Students to Report Unfilled NYA Hours “All NYA students must re port hours which they will not be able to work this period to this office immediately,’’ Miss Peggy Jane Peebler, NYA secre tary in Dean Karl Onthank’s of fice, announced yesterday, "so that they can be reassigned to people who can work them.” She announced further that “no hours may be held over from the second to the third monthly period. All assignments must be worked to date at the end of the second period, May 15.” Canoe Fete Tickets Go on Sale Tuesday Tickets for the canoe fete will go on sale in the activities of fice at 8 o’clock Tuesday morn ing, it was announced from the educational activities office. No reservations or sales will be made by phone. Prices are $1 and 75 cents for reserved seat tickets. General admission will be 50 cents. Air Class Calls For Enrollees J. C. Stovall Asks Interested Students To Contact Fenton The possibility of a summer civil pilot training program, cou pled with the necessity for form ulating a list of the students who will be included in next fall’s .CPT “flying fifty” prompts the CPT office to call for immediate applications, according to J. C. Stovall, assistant director of the program. All students who desire to take the flying course at some future date are urged to go to the Fen ton hall office where full particu lars as to physical and hours re quirements will be given. The of fice is open every afternoon and Saturday mornings. As a secondary announcement, pertaining to those students who have already applied, Mr. Stovall, requests that they visit the of fice within the next few days to check over their application, as to summer address, change of address, etc. Mr. Stovall stressed the point that many positions and careers in the field of aeronautics were open to young men of today and that the primary CPT course pro vides a good basic flying back ground. Hunter at Monmouth Chancellor F. M. Hunter will be in Monmouth today to take part in the Elementary Teacher Edu cators’ conference there and to be present at the Oregon college of education alumni banquet to night. He was in Portland and Salem yesterday on a business trip. v^hesteriield Everybody who smokes them likes their COOLER, MILDER, BETTER TASTE ~ Cm the movie lot or wherever you go, the Right Combination of the best tobaccos from our own Southland and from distant Turkey and Greece makes Chesterfield the one cigarette that truly Satisfies. 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