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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
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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
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A LITTLE NOTE
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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
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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
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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.