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VOLUME XLIII
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY IS, 1942
NUMBER 73
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Scabbard Plans
Airial Hookup
The first campus dance to be shared with radio listeners,
Scabbard and Blade’s Military ball will be on the air over
KOAC bv remote control from McArthur court Saturday night,
Ed Wheeler, dance chairman, announced last night.
From 9:30 to 10:30 the announcement of Little Colonel win
ner, description of the grand march, Scabbard and Blade’s
Cover Queen
Contest Set
The “Emerald Cover Girl” will
be unveiled Thursday, March 5,
on the publication date of the
largest Emerald ever produced in
its history.
The lucky young lady will be
prominently displayed in appro
priate attire on page one of the
jyammoth spring opening issue.
Fred O. May, Emerald business
manager, announced Tuesday that
pictures of candidates for “Em
erald Cover Girl” would be ac
cepted at the business office, 5
journalism, any afternoon this
week. Deadline will be Friday at
6 p.m.
“This first annual cover girl,”
said May, “will be chosen by an
impartial committee of judges.
The winner will be picked on a
purely ‘non-political’ basis.”
Judges
Judges will be May, Helen Au
gell, Emerald editor; Cecil Sny
der, head of the University news
bureau, and Fred Brenne, secre
tary of the Eugene chamber of
commerce. Entries may be made
by any girls’ organization on the
campus—living organization, hon
orary, or independent group.
Photographs should be in black
and white, May emphasized. Color
photographs should be avoided if
possible. Judging will be based on
“sheer beauty’.’ — face, figure,
poise — and on the candidates’
photographic possibilities.
Runners-Up
May explained that runners-up
will be pictured throughout the
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initiation, and music by Art Hol
man’s orchestra will be broadcast
over the state-owned station.
Announcer Wheeler
All voting for Little Colonel
will, be over by 10 p.m., and Ed
Wheeler will do the announcing
during the program.
Tickets went off sale yesterday
at the advance price of $1.25,
Emerson Page, sales chairman,
announced. They may, however,
be purchased from advanced
course military students for $1.50,
Page said.
Probably the last decorative
dance for the duration, the hall
will be draped by Allied Artists
of Portland, Wheeler said.
• Military in theme and formal
in dress, the affair entails the
combined features of a campus
formal dance and a military re
view.
Classes Thursday at 11
Those classes which were
dismissed Monday for a special
assembly will meet at 11 a.m.
on Thursday, February 19, the
regular assembly hour. Because
arrangements to cancel the 11
o’clock classes had already been
made, they were not held even
though the sneaker did not
appear.
Military Bail No. 3
Little Colonel,
Maid nocturnal,
Patron saint of terpsicore.
Little Colonel,
Girls’ internal
Envy’s with you ever more.
Little Colonel,
Through fraternal
Politics you make us sore.
Little Colonel,
Thing infernal,
You’re more trouble than the war.
—J.W.S.
MISS BETTY IH MI.V . . .
. . will star with symphony.
Carefree Pianist Plays
With Beecham Soon
By MARJORIE MAJOR
Slender, blonde, blue-eyed Betty Hamby, celebrated British
pianist, doesn’t look her 33 years. Her photographs don’t
betray that she has lived through months of bombings. She
appeared to be a carefee debutante with no worries greater
than her next date, and her Red Cross knitting.
Her reputation for being carefree and blithe makes it hard
for one to believe that she was
a professor in the Matthay Piano
forte school, director of the Lon
don Mozart concerts, and is one
of the world’s most renowned
pianists.
Miss Humby will appear as
guest soloist with the Seattle
Symphony orchestra and Sir
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. . . Will portray Urquhart in the
coming; University theater pro
duction of Maxwell Anderson’s
blank-verse drama, “Wingless
Victory,” next week.
\WUUaut Afonosi . . .
Guild to Show Sea Story
(See picture page 8)
A play written in a musical
form of blank verse, “The Wing
less Victory,” by Maxwell An
derson, is a romantic tale of
seagoing men, and of the small
Salem town in the 1800’s.
Slated for February 27, 28, and
March 4, the play tells of a sailing
ship which carries spices and
foreboding to the Celebes in the
South Seas.
Old Time Setting
“Wingless Victory” turns to
the Puritanical Salem of the
early 19th century for its setting.
The story concerns a Salem cap
tain who comes home from his
voyage with a royal Malaya bride.
Through the bigoted plotting of
ihe small town, a conflict arises
which serves to test their love.
Diiected by Mrs. Ottilie T. Sey
bolt, this is the third American
drama to be presented by the
Guild hall this year. Its author,
Maxwell Anderson, is noted for
delving into American history
and legend. His two epics, “Win
terset,” and “High Tor,” were
produced here in 1940.
Cast
The cast includes: Kathleen
Daugherty, Adrian Martin, Jim
Bronson, Bob Farrow, Jean Per
son, Chuck Boice, Pat Lawson,
Pat Howard, Alan Foster, Robin
Nelson, Dick Turner, Dorothy
Durkee, Lorraine Long and Frank
Loomis.
Thomas Beecham Monday eve
ning, February 23, in McArthur
court.
Active
She has been active musically
ever since the war began. She or
ganized concerts for evacuated
mothers and children in British
cathedrals. She also helped to
evacuate war’s horrors from Eng
lish minds with morning concerts
in movie houses.
The artist spent the greater
part of a year in organizing pro
grams, getting artists together
and taking them on tour without
knowing when the next air raid
would wipe out the road, the trav
elers, the town, or all three.
Tribute
In a recently published inter
view', Miss Humby pays tribute
to “the magnificent courage of
the English people in danger,”
but she adds that “the small day
by-day monotonies of wartime
need a counteracting lift. Some
thing had to be done to give peo
ple some sort of lift in their daily
lives, and the government au
thorized me to help.”
This renowned artist will play
the. master G major concerto by
Mozart when she appears here
with Sir Thomas.
Deadline Set
For Petitions
To Rally Jobs
Spring election time raised its
bashful head before the execu
tive committee of the Associated
Students yesterday, as the 12
man governing board set its house
in order for the spring term ac
tivity maelstrom.
The following business was
transacted:
1. Tabled “until further inves
tigation is made” a recommenda
tion by Dean Virgil D. Earl, ad
viser of the committee, that fresh
men no longer be permitted to
participate in class activities or
formulate a class organization
until they have been ir the Uni
versity at least one term.
2. Deadline set for rally com
mittee and yeil liing applications
for the coming year at noon on
Saturday, February 28.
3. Scheduled y t'll king tryouts
for halftime intermission, of the
Idaho game, March 2, with voting
the following day.
4. Approval of the appoint
ment of Boi» McKinney as chair
man of the all-campus sing con
test, on the recommendation of
Presided Lou Torgeson.
5. Flatly refused the Order of
the O request to have their junior
major award changed from a
navy blue ietterman's sweater to
a leather-sleeved jacket. Their de
cision was based on the. ASFQ
constitutional stipulation.
6. Agreed to officially sponsor
the Greek-Independent all-star
intramural play-off basketball'
game, March 4, naming Student
Defense Head Buss Hudson as di
rector of the affair.
7. Discussed the possibility of
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Clair Comedy
Shown Today
The hilarious story of a wed
ding day, today’s educational ac
tivities movie, “The Italian Straw
Hat,” is the most famous work
of Rene Clair. It was adapted' two
years ago by Orson Welles under
the title “Horse Eats Hat” for
the Federal theater.
With light comedy situations,
perfect settings and almost im
peccable acting it is practically
fool-proof audience fare.
The movies was adapted from
the play by Eugene Labische and
Marc Michel. The entire French
film is like modern films in the
matter of first-rate scene design
ing and even better costuming.
Expert Acting
Since the acting is expert and
all the points are just exactly
right, the film has become some
thing of a standard in light com
edy films since its release in 1927.
The schedule for the movies has
been changed to exclude the din
ner hour. The programs which
are held at Chapman hall, will
begin at 2:15, 4, 7, and 8:40. Stu
dents will be admitted with their*
educational activities cards.