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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 17, 1942)
VOLUME XLIII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1942 NUMBER 56 Lights Used To Intensify J)rama Mood By MARJORIE MAJOR Five curtain calls, tributes to a superlative, honest portrayal o% a great play, marked last night's opening of “Of Mice and' Men” with the plaudits which its directing, acting, and settings de serve. University audiences have sel dom seen so direct, brutal and uplifting a portrayal of human friendship and sacrifice as the Guild players offered last night. Individual performances cannot be segregated for excellence. The flayers’ finished, restrained in terpretations left little or noth ing to be wished. Lighting Various techniques, particular ly that of a swinging lamp, the sound of frogs in the distance, and the remarkable imitation of sunlight deserve special notice. Lighting all through the play was used to intensify mood very effectively. The settings themselves — a river bank,' bunkhouse, and the interior of a barn—were designed by Director Horace Robinson. Combined with lighting that v/as s|M'k and different, the sets gave a feeling of realism that was al most startling at times. Jerry Lakefish as George does what is perhaps the best work of his University career. Robert Stedman gives a fresh, pathetic interpretation of Lennie. The old man, Candy, is convincing and (Please turn to pat/e eight) Cuthbert Gives Services To U.S. The services of Fred A. Cuth 'Ibert, associate professor of land architecture and campus planner, have been loaned to the federal government to be a technical consultant on architectural plan ning for military and civilian de velopment areas under construc tion or proposed, according to President Donald M. Erb. This new position will not oc cupy all of Mr. Cuthbert’s time as he is only working on a part time basis in assisting the gov ernment in planning in Portland, Astoria, Corvallis, and Medford or wherever he is assigned. This act is part of the Univer sity’s program of cooperation for service to the nation. 'Social Calendar . . . See Page 3 THE MICE SPEAK An episode from “Of Mice and Men" which opened Friday, is shown above. From loft are Ramona Roberts as Curley's wife, Jerry Lakefish as George, Jim Bronson as Carlson, and Bob Stedman as Lonnie. ISA Senate Plans Action First meeting of the ISA sen ate to organize standing com mittees and outline a plan of ac tion for the future will be held at 4 p.m. Monday in 207 Chap man, according to Milton Small, senate president. The most important immediate action, Small said, will be to formulate a list of independent students interested in participat ing in campus activities. Groups of 20 Possibility of organizing groups of 20 independent students not affiliated with living organiza tions who may also send repre sentatives to the senate will be considered. The standing committees to be appointed at this meeting ttdll include the activity committee and a subcommittee under it to keep in contact with the ASUO and executive committee, and a group to commence organization of unaffiliated independents. Members Senate members are: Alpha hall, Edgar Lewis, Norman Mann heimer; Campbell club, George Mosher, Stan Weber; Canard club, John Cram, Eugene New berry; Gamma hall, Minor Brady, Bill Belt; Kirkwood co-op, A1 Larsen, Harold Brevig; Omega hall, Jerry Winkler, Bill Pills bury; Sherry Ross hall, Johnny Kahananui, George Schade. Sigma hall, Ty Hutchins, Dick Bennett; Yeomen, Erwin Snyder, Bob Rockstein, Max Brown; Zeta hall, Warren Applewhite, Ted Hallock; Hendricks hall, Jean Spearow, Bernice Gay, Mary Reimers, Evelyn Nockelby; Hil yard house, Janet Wagstaff, Ruth Foreman; Orides, Alene Gardner, Margery Pengra, Audrey Lynds; (Please turn to page eight) BY THE FIRESIDE iNot memoers or a furnace gang out artists in me process of creation are Lynn Alexander (ri^'ht) and Thomas Hardy, pottery makers. A display of their ceramic work is now on display in Port land. About 70 pieces are in the collection which are the result of two years of work at the University. Pottery Artists Happy Over Ceramic Display By EDITH NEWTON Lynn Alexander and Thomas Hardy, both seniors in art, are feeling- very happy this week that their display of pottery, the results of two years of work at the University, will open as a two-man show at the Ceramics studio in Portland on Januarv 18. About 70 pieces of their work will be shown, each having' approximately 35 pieces in tne display. Much of the work is terra cotta. They explained that terra cotta is work made of ground baked clay mixed with fresh clay to make a rough surface and give opportunity for greater glaze varieties. Using this method they have in the display a variety of surfaces varying from rough to very fine. “We have done all the firing and glazing on this work our selves,” Alexander explained. For this reason they will be able to display the work as their own instead of as a class project. Miss Avakian Miss Victoria Avakian, asso ciate professor of applied design, i Please turn to page eight) • Soph Team Shows Push In Last Half By LEE FLATBERG "Hee” Edmundson's basket hungry Huskies rode rough shod over a hapless Oregon Duck last, night, in a foul-infested hoop brawl, 60 to 34. Two very con scientious officials called the astounding total of 3S personal fouls: and one technical to slow down what usually turns into n scoring race between the two ancient rivals. The two teams will play again tonight at 8 in the Ig^loo. Sophs Pave But the real story of the game was an alert, driving sophomore* team that came into the game n the second half to give the nor therners a tough time. The sophs entered the battl® with a 38 to 18 score facing them and played a whale of a game before the varsity entered the fray again, and left the struggle* with the score at 46 to 22. They entered the game again with five minutes to go and fell short but one basket of keeping’ up with the invaders on the score board. Norm Ford Norm Ford, a stocky sopho more from Washington, took over scoring honors, tossing’ in si:a buckets and three fouls for points. He was pressed by two of (Please turn to page five) Registration Feels Pinch Of Wartime Figures once more were spot lighted in the news Friday with the first announcement of regis tration figures since the campus blackout caused by Oregon's# much-censored “silver thaw." Friday's cumulative total at 3 p.m. was 2986, 14 short of 3000 and a 13 per cent decrease over last winter term for the same number of clays since registra tion. Figures Released Figures released by Clifford L. Constance, assistant registrar, showred that by Thursday night, the ninth day of classes, the total" was 2964, compared to last year':# total, on the ninth day, of 3404. The cumulative total for last, winter term was 3476. During the fall term of this school year 3444 students were enrolled at the University. Of these 1996 were men and 1448 were women. Last winter term, on the fifth day of classes, there were 1722 men, compared to 1605 on lasrt Saturday, when the last recapitu lation was made. This shows a 7 per cent decrease of men stu dents. At the same time last year there were 1145 women enrolled, < Please turn to page eight) 30 Cents an Hour The dorms pay thirty-five an hour The headlines shriek, hut without tact. If I’d been paying thirty cents. If I’d been doing such an act, I’d spend my time in silent moo 1 And trying to hush up the fact. — J.W.S.