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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1942)
VOLUME XLIII NUMBER 81 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1942 Sir Thomas Stars in Concert Monday _ (See story column 4) A MILITARY CHAT . . . . . . is carried on by Lou Torgeson, Pal Wright, last year’s Little Colonel, and Colonel Lyon. 9m, ^JUete. ... Honor Roll of Service Lists 500 UO Alumni ^Over 500 names comprise the University’s honor roll of service—Oregon alumni who are in action with the nation’s armed forces. The listing, released by the Oregon Alumni association, credits the army with the majority, nearly four times as many Emerald Errs In ROTCTale An incorrect statement quot ing^ “semi-official” source ap peared in yesterday’s Emerald with the erroneous information that junior ROTC students would be commissioned 15 months later than previously believed. “This is absolutely incorrect,” declared Col. R. M. Lyon, head of the military department. The results of the war depart ment’s order suspending the sum mer training camp between first and second year advanced ROTC training are: 1. Summer training will be postponed, not “cancelled” un .Gl after academic graduation. Juniors will thus be able to work this summer if they wish and can take their field work alter their senior year. 2. The officers used in the summer ROTC training will be free for duty with troops. 3. After completion of Uni versity work, cadets will go to a training center, probably Fort Benning, Georgia, where they will receive 90 days intensive training required for their graduation from the military department. 4. Commissions will be giv en in the late summer of 1943, present plans indicate, not 15 months from then as yester day’s story might lead one to -Relieve. 5. No changes in orders have been received concerning the commissions of tips year's sen iors, Colonel Lyon said. They will be commissioned in June. as the navy. The navy claims twice as many as the marines. Location of these ex-Ducks ranges from Washington, D. C., to Guam island — or perhaps a Japanese prison camp. They are physicians, soldiers, pilots, and technicians—but all are serving Uncle Sam. In some cases no one knows where these men are — and in many others the only person that knows is Uncle Sam himself— and he won’t tell. For service roll see pages 4, 5, 7, and 8. Military Hop Sounds Off Igloo Pomp University students will cele brate George Washington's two hundred tenth birthday with pomp and circumstance as they laugh and dance at the Military ball in the Igloo tonight. High lights of the evening will be the announcement of the Little Colo nel and her court, the grand All pledges of Scabbard and Blade are to meet in the Igloo this morning at 8 o'clock. march, and Scabbard and Blade pledging of between 30 and 35 military students. One o’clock permission has been granted for the ball, which was made a major campus dance last fall. Scabbard and Blade mem bers will meet in the Igloo at 2 p.m. today to practice for the grand march. Salesmen should turn in military ball tickets at the ROTO building by noon to day. At 9:30 the ball will go on the air over KOAC in the first broad cast of a campus dance. An nouncement of the Little Colonel, and the two Little Majors and Little Captains, description of the grand march and Scabbard and Blade pledging, and half an hour of Art Holman’s dance music will be broadcast. (Please turn to /'age eight) Any 'Winyi, ^Jaday ? New V Campaign Soars By RUTH JORDAN “The Wingless Victory” by ! drama of old Salem and the So the University theater, Fridaj February 27, 28, and March 4. The play concerns a Salem c his voyage with a royal Malays CHUCK BOltK . . . . . . who takes the part of Ruel McQuestion in “Wingless Vic tory.” YEaxwell Anderson, a romantic uth Seas, will be presented by , Saturday, and Wednesday, aptain who comes home from n bride. Through the plotting of the small town, a conflict arises which serves to test their love. Ruel McQueston, played by Chuck Boice, is the no-good son of a Puritan family. In the play, “The Wingless Victory” box office will be open daily start ing Monday, from 10 to 12 and frcm 1 to 5. Holders of season tickets are requested to re serve seats as early next week as possible by calling 3300, local 216. he is witty, gay, the life of the party. Mrs. Seybolt Directed by Mrs. Ottilie Turn bull Seybolt, this is the third American drama to be presented by the Guild hall this year. The other two were “Three-Cornered Moon” and “Of Mice and Men.” The author, Maxwell Anderson, (Please turn to ['age eight) SIR THOMAS BEECH AM . . . . . . who will appear with the Seattle Symphony Monday, MuAic Molten..., Maestro Schedules 'Balanced Program’ By MARJORIE MAJOR Two famous, colorful Britishers, Sir Thomas Beecham, con ductor, and Miss Betty Humby, pianist, will appear with the Seattle Symphony orchestra in concert Monday evening at 8:15. Third in the Greater Artists concert series, Sir Thomas will direct a balanced program of classic and modern music taken from Mozart, Berlioz, Delius, and Chabrier. In celebration of the Pacific Coast Mozart festival, Sir Thomas has dedicated the first portion of the concert to his works. Miss Humby Miss Betty Humby will appear as guest soloist with the orches tra in the Mozart concerto No. 17 in G major for piano and or chestra. The Seattle symphony has as concert master the famous Hun garian violinist, Francis Aranyi, who has been widely recognized as an artist in Europe. Continuing the Mozart portion of the program, the orchestra will play the overture from the “Magic Flute” and the Prague symphony No. 3S in D major. Berlioz After the intermission, Sir Thomas will conduct the “Chasse Royale ac Orage” by Berlioz. “The Royal Hunt and Storm” is an orchestral intermezzo from the grand opera "The Trojans” which was built by the composer on the tragic story of Dido and Aeneas. One of the six operas written by Delius, "A Village Romeo and Juliet,” contains a symphonic interlude called “A Walk in the Paradise Garden.” It describes the country lovers, Sali and Vren chen, walking in the twilight. Delius is one of the modernists whom Sir Thomas has featured continually in the past few years. The final melodic climax will be an orchestral rhapsody, “Espana,” by Chabrier. In this rhapsody Chabrier combined vivacious, fiery Jota tunes and langorous Malaguena melodies in triple measure. Students will be admitted with their educational activities cards. Draftees Get Course Credit Things began to look a little more hopeful for men to be draft ed before the end of the term from the ranks of Oregon stu dents Friday as word came from Clifford L. Constance, assistant registrar, that these men would get credit for courses they are now taking or receive a refund on their registration fees. According to Mr. Constance, potential draftees, need not worry < Please i if in /a pao'c ) Defense Bond Drive Begins Representatives from campus living organizations will begin boosting defense bonds a n d stamps in their respective houses today at noon, according to Har ry Prongas, chairman of the in dividual pledging campaign. The drive will end Sunday, Prongas said. Houses achieving 100 per cent first will be prominently cited on a sign to be displayed in the" Co-op store window, announced Prongas Friday night. Junior ROTC Reprieved. Relieved. —J.W.S.