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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 7, 1942)
LIBRARY U. OF ORE VOLUME XLIII NUMBER 71 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1942 Foot Lights ... hi CP Initiates TL l C I heatre oeries By MARGE MAJOR For everyone who has ever had any sheepish dramatic lean ings, or a desire to write plays, swab calcimine, and pull cur tains, the National Collegiate Players have begun pioneer plans for a series of student productions. ^The NCP, the University branch of Phi Epsilon Delta, dra matics honorary, hopes to startle campus audiences with work ui Liie cApenmemai lype ana to give them a. chance to see more varied and unusual plays. Students who wish to work in the first presentation should con tact the drama department and some job will be found for them. No previous experience or train ing in dramatics, scene painting, lights, or properties is necessary. Original Plays Original plays by students, and plays from the play-writing classes will be used by the group. This is the first attempt on the Oregon campus to present such a "series, with play excerpts and short plays scheduled at two week intervals. As a precedent for extremes of drama and comedy, the first pro gram, March 11, will include a Russian play, “Theater of the Soul,” in which the action takes place within a man’s body, at tempting to shew the conflict of emotions and reason. T^he other half of the program will be de voted to scenes from Noel Cow ard plays. Robinson “Theater of the Soul” will be directed by Horace Robinson, -assistant professor of drama. The settings will also be designed by Mr. Robinson. The Noel Coward groups will be directed by Bill Hoppe, instructor in drama. The casts have not yet been chosen, as they will be drawn from the students interested. The first program will be free of charge, to make campus audi ences familiar with the series. Initial Bill To Feature LightClassics (See picture page 3) Music of a light nature will be featured by the University sym phony for their first concert of this year to be given in the mu sic auditorium at 3 o’clock Sun day afternoon. The concert is open to the public. The program will open with an orchestra transcription by Caillet of the Bach “Little” G-minor Fugue, written originally for or gan. The second number of the program will be another Bach composition, the Brandenburg Concerto No. 3. Quartet Members of the solo quartet of the concerto will be Elizabeth Walker, violinist and concert master of the symphony, Byron Koyt, flute, Ralph McKenzie, oboe, and Ervin Lesser, trumpet. The trumpet part of the concerto wras written for a higher instru ment than is in use today and is extremely difficult to play on the modern instrument. The original score will be fol lowed, however, instead of giving (Please turn to pane ei(jht) A LITTLE NOTE JL&sv** i|*» *%%!***>#**** .<** ft ll^es»b)n^ Unite A A “letter” addressed to Lou Torgeson from Oregon Japanese stu dents affirming their loyalty was made into this enlarged replica by dell Crane shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Torgeson, left, is shaking hands with Kay Ito, representative of the Japanese stu dents. Torgeson Assigns UO Defense Duties = ll!l!ilinillllll!l!lllllllll!lllllllli;illlll!ll!l!inill!lllllllli!IIIII«ni!lllllllli!llllllllllil!ll Double Standard Time With tlie advent of the new daylight saving regulations Jack Martin seems slightly undecided as to whether to get up or not. The regulations are the result of a recent bill passed in congress. —Photo by Don Jones jbeufUcflit SlavitUf, . . . Too Early or Too Late? Confoozin \ or Amoozin ’? By BOB FRAZIER This Pacific war time is really simple. To conserve electricity for the defense effort President Roosevelt has ordered that a system similar to the peace-time “daylight saving time” be instituted. It starts Monday, February 9. It really starts Sunday, February 8, at 11:30 p.m., but when you set your clock an hour ahead (from 11:30 Sunday to Walker Talks Next Tuesday Dr. Franklin D. Walker, pro fessor of English, will speak on the “Far West in American Lit erature,’’ at 7:30 Tuesday evening in the faculty room of .Friendly hall. The lecture, one of the Uni versity lecture series, will treat Bret Harte, Joaquin Miller, Am brose Bierce, and other early western writers. An authority on literature in the west, Dr. Walker is the au thor cf “San Francisco’s Literary Frontier,” and “Ambrose Bierce: The Wickedest Man in San Fran cisco.” He is also the author of “Frank Morris Biography,” which in 1923 received the gold medal of thfe Commonwealth club of California as the outstanding nonfiction work of the year. He attended Oxford university as a Rhodes scholar and received his bachelor of arts degree there. His doctor of philosophy degree was earned at the University of California. Before coming to Ore gon a year ago last fall he taught at San Diego State. 12:30 Monday) it starts Monday. But let’s not get technical. In reality a’l you have to do is to set your clock an hour ahead before you go to bed. Leave the alarm where it would be in nor mal times. You don’t need to monkey with that. Also Rises The sun rises Monday morning at S:05, later than it usually docs at any time of the year. It sets at 6:45 p.m., or about on the April 1 schedule. So it will be relatively dark when you get up, but you will have an hour more daylight at the end of the day. But this condition will not last forever. By the first of spring term the sun will be rising at 6:45, and setting at 7:24 p.m. By the time the longest day of the year has rolled around the sun will be rising at 5:22 a.m. and not setting until 8:41. Twilight will not end until 10 53. Ideal All of which makes for ideal pigging conditions for summer picnics and the like. Oregon pig gers may take various views. But back to the original sub ject again. When you set your clock up an hour, you have lost an hour, not gained an hour. If you have lost an hour, you are behind, not ahead. Your clock is ahead. FundRaisers, War Workers Get New Jobs Allocation of projects and fund raising duties for student defense were announced last night by Lou Torgcson, chairman pro tem of the Student Defense committee. Projects will be divided among* nine undergraduate agencies. As signed sclely to raising funds will be the rally squad, Skull and Dag ger, and YWCA, assisted in .so liciting donations from campus organizations by Les Anderson. To do actual war work are: 1. Heads of houses, emergency food service. 2. Sigma Delta *Psi, rescue squad. 3. Scabbard and Blade, first aitl material. 4. Yeomen, transportation. 5. Inteifraternity council an.I Independent Students’ associa tion, fire, wardens. 6. Carolyn Holmes. Red Cross filter and supply center 7. Kwama, knitting for Red Cross. 8. Phi Theta Upsilon, sewing for Red Cross. 9. Druids, files and schedules. Torgeson hinted that six addi tional organizations were being considered for manning the air raid spotting post. No final sec tion of spotters has been made because of fear of conflict with Dean Onthank’s as yet unnamed defense police force. State to Quiz Fire Fighters University men who registered with the employment office for summer jobs in fire fighting will be interviewed by members of the state forestry department in. Chapman hall Monday evening at 7:45. John B. Woods, protection in spector, and George A. Schroeder, professor of forestry at Orqgon State college, will discuss the na ture of training classes for this summer’s work. About ten clast? sessions will be arranged to fit each student’s time during the spring term. Trained Students will be trained fur jobs as lookouts, including in struction in the use of the fire finder, use of the radio, and con struction of telephones and tele phone lines. Others will be trained (Please tin n to pa<;e chjlit) Not on Heart Hop 1 will not write on the Heart Hop. I wouldn’t if 1 could. A pome on that is senseless be cause A comp would do me no good. — J.W.S.
