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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 20, 1942)
Execs Present la.m. Plan To Students The one o’clock jump to beat the blinking house lights may re place 10:30 permission New Year’s eve if the student affairs committee reacts favorably to executive council recommenda tion which will be presented at its meeting of next week. Council members pointed out at their Thursday session that it ♦ was an unusual condition for stu * dents to be on the campus New Year’s eve and that enforcement of the early hours on this night would not contribute materially to the war effort nor to special study. First Proposal The 10:30 rule went into imme diate effect when school was scheduled New Year’s day, Fri day. The executive council rec ommendation will represent first official proposal for extension which has been presented to the student affairs committee. Eight recommendations for the name that will be placed on the R. A. Babb trophy for outstand ing athletes this year were re ceived. They were: George An drews, Zenas Butler, Bill Carney, Gerry Huestis, Paul Jackson, ♦ Archie Marshik, Bill Regner, and ® Francis Tuckwiler. Graduates The eight graduated last year, in accordance with eligibility re quirements for the trophy name. The council will ask recommen dations of coaches and the ath letic board, then vote on final choice at next week’s meeting. Replying to a resolution from Oregon State’s executive council, ASUO council members asked students to “maintain friendly re lations” through Saturday’s foot ball contest. Love and Marriage Nancy Riesch, secretary-treas urer of the ASUO and Walt Dick inson, sophomore representative, \yere appointed by Les Anderson, ASUO president, to investigate -^possible speakers for a Love and £ Marriage series this year. Hal Brevig, sophomore repre sentative, was appointed to han dle Christmas Seal sales this year. The council will ask Kwama and Skull and Dagger, sophomore service honoraries, to help carry out the campaign. Proposal by A1 Larsen, ISA president, that a voters’ pam phlet be printed this year was turned down because of lack of time for its publication in the one week between nominations and elections. United States soldiers station ed in Iceland helped raise $15,500 for a new dormitory at the Uni versity of Iceland by performing in a student fair for a week. Standard Oil company has an nounced two scholarships open to Venezuelan students. Look Your Best This Week-end Come to us for all Cleaning, Tailoring, and Altering. Ladies’ men’s altering a spec ialty. UNIVERSITY TAILOR 1128 Alder. Phone 2641. Parks Johnson (left) and War ren Hull, interviewers on Vox Pop, which will be aired from Gerlinger hall next Monday night. VoxPopShow HereMonday By JUNE TAYLOR Starting ten years ago as a, mere impromptu quiz session on station KTRH, Houston, Texas, the voices of the people, vox populi, have deepened and ma tured until finally they formed the nationally-known radio pro gram, Vox Pop, which will be presented from Eugene, in Mc Arthur court, November 23, at 5 p.m. The KTRH station staff, among them Parks Johnson, in terviewer, merely connected a mike to a microphone line from the station window and started popping questions at likely vic tims before they realized what was happening. Opinion Voiced Since that day in November 1932, thousands of average cit izens have voiced opinions and answered questions on Vox Pop and the other quiz shows that followed its example, tin Vox Pop alone, more than 6000 per sons have been interviewed in ap proximately 800 broadcasts. In the pioneer Houston days the broadcast crew set up a mike on a busy street corner and ques tioned members of the crowd which never failed to assemble. Even when a roving talent scout for a New York advertising agen cy lured them to Manhattan with a contract to broadcast for a na tional firm it was easy to secure quizees. Influenced Quizes As a result of that first net work show, Vox Pop had influ / enced the audience-participation trends in broadcasting, becoming responsible for the radio quiz cy cle. However, at present, Vox Pop itself is not a quiz show. The program has changed with the years. Parkis Johnson and Warren Hull, his partner and co-inter viewer, check the public pulse, anticipate audience reaction and accordingly shift technique pe riodically. Advance men, director, engineers, and other personnel travel with the show, visiting ar my bases and armament plants to bring to the public the story of the victory drive to smash the Axis. The present-day series on the CBS network each Monday night is dedicated entirely to the war effort. It will feature the lumber industry in the war effort next Monday. Fourteen Men Pledge Campus Fraternities New pledges announced by the dean of men’s office include Lu ther Thompson, Phi Kappa Psi; Oliver Bergman, Pi Kappa Alpha; Ben Whisenand, H. Keith Elsen sohn, Delta Tau Delta; Augie Johnson, Sigma Chi; Granville Abbot, Beta Theta Pi. Duayne Heathman, Sigma Phi Epsilon; William C. Galloway, Kappa Sigma; Robert L. Muller, Robert Sche, Donald A. Wells, ’Arsenic’ Opens On Turkey Day University students and faculty have been invited to enjoy Thanksgiving weekend in Eugene by attending the production of “Arsenic and Old Lace”, a com edy by Joseph Kesselring. at the Very Little Theatre. The play will have a three-night run, Thurs day, Friday, and Saturday, No vembei 26, 27, and 28. Cast of the show is made up of Oregon students, former stud ents, and faculty. Bill Wood, of Theta Chi, senior, has the roman tic lead, and Mary Elizabeth Arkley of Alpha Chi Omega will play opposite him. The part of Jonathan Brewster, played by Boris "Karloff in the opening run of the show on Broadway, will be taken by Robert W. Earl, brother of Dean Virgil D. Earl. Roles Taken Clara Fitch, secretary in the graduate division, and Ethel Chase Christie, Eugene high di rector of dramatics, have the roles of the two old maids with homicidal instincts. Robert W. Horn, associate professor of Eng lish, will portray Teddy, nephew who thinks that he is Theodore Roosevelt, and that those bodies buried in the cellar (the “Pana ma canal”) are yellow fever vic tims. Other prominent parts are to be taken by Glenn Hasselrootii, 1040 journalism graduate, as Dr. Einstein, the plastic surgeon; Ethen Newman as Officer O'Hara who wants to be a playwright; Dr. N. B. Zane, associate pro fessor of space arts, as Mr. Gibbs, who wants only to rent a room but almost gets a glass of elder berry wine seasoned with arsen ic. Mrs. Virgil Parker, former president of the University moth ers club, is director. Also in the cast are George Northam, Dale Frederick, Dwight Newman, J. R. "Pete” Pierson. Reservations for the show are obtainable at 1167 Willamette street or by telephoning 551-J. Faculty Recital Held on Nov. 24 and professor of music at tne school of music, will present a recital of both modern and clas sical music as the second feat ure of the faculty series of re citals for this year. The concert will be held in the school of mu sic auditorium November 24 at 8:15 p.m. Mr. Hopkins is a graduate of the University of Oregon. On com pleting his course here he went to New York for several years. Later he returned and has been teaching at the University since 1919. In 1925 he became a pro fessor of piano. On the program selected by Mr. Hopkins are the Ciaia-Bartok sonata, Beethoven’s sonata Pa thetique, and a waltz by Levitski. The Ciaia sonata, originally written during the late 17th cen tury for organ and clavicembalo, has been recently transcribed for piano by Bela Bartok. Mr. Bartok appeared on the campus last year. Levitsky, whose waltz Mr. Hopkins will play, was, accord ing to Mr. Hopkins, “a phenome nal pianist.” Mr. Hopkins was a friend of Mr. Levitsky befor'e the composer’s death several years ago. Two University of Pittsburgh alumni, Regis Toomey, ’18, and Gene Kelly, ’33, are acting in motion pictures for MGM in Hol lywood. Delta Tau Delta, Guy E. Miller, John Caldwell, Sigma Alpha Ep silon; and Ted Goodwin, Alpha Tau Omega. Student Fund Drive Begins on Monday The World Student Service Fund drive, with Oge Yean and Martha Jane Switzer as general chairman, will begin o the campus Monday. Yvonne Torgler, junior in architecture and allied arts, and chairman of the faculty drive, goes into action with her committee to solicit pledges for the cammis •ofi fi from the faculty. Following- closely will bo the drive in local high schools head ed by Virginia Wells, sophomore in liberal arts. Committees work ing with Miss Torgler and Miss Wells will be announced soon in the Emerald. Tag Given Faculty members and high school students subscribing to the drive will receive the same tag that University students will when the drive covers the cam pus December 1, 2, and 3. The tags read "I've helped a fellow student, how about you?” The contributions students make through the WSSF drive will take the place of what they would be otherwise asked to sub scribe to the current Community and War Chest campaign now taking place in Eugene. Money collected by this means can be use'd for whatever the University decides as being the most valuable plan. Plans of use of money open to choice are for allied prisoners of war, for Am erican students w-ho are without funds, or for aid to American students in other countries. Survey Supplies Fans With Top Radio List Radio serials fill a definite need in American life, according to Dr. Paul F. Lazarsfcld, noted re search psychologist of Columbia university. Surveys taken by Dr. Lazarsfeld show that listeners to radio serials comprise one, of the most intelligent groups in the ra dio audience. He reports that these programs exert a beneficial and constructive influence. According to a recent survey, the nation's top radio programs are listed in their order: Bob Hope, Fibber McGee and Molly, Charlie McCarthy, Jack Benny, Aldrich Family, Radio Theater, Walter Winchell, Frank Morgan, Eddie Cantor, Mr. District Attor ney, Rudy Vallee, Bing Crosby. Kay Kyser, Burns and Allen, and One Man's Family. i: Pennies Peal For Service Aid Contributions dropped in the slot of the Liberty Box, place ! .n. the Co-op this week, will ;ing* out for the Service Scholarship fund, Charles Roffe, chairman of the campus interest drive, said last night. Co-op receipts, pen nies, or small change are suit able, he said. The money collected will too used in the Service Scholarship fund to buy war bonds that will in turn be used to finance scfeol Sirships for men returning after the war. This fund, therefore, not only helps the war but also the students who have left or are leaving now. Above the box is a painting by Stan Aldrich and Nelson Sand gren. Tho box was donated by the physical plant of the University. In the near future, Roffe said, a card will be posted with the hell giving the statistics on ships or planes lost by the enemy during the week. This will indicate the amount of pennies asked for that, week, Oge Young is in charge of the Service Scholarship fund under which the receipt drive is func tioning. Dr. Trowbridge Speaks (Continued'from page one) Coast Philological association and has placed articles with vari ous literary magazines. Especially interested in Pope and Dryden, he teaches advanced course on the subject. However, Mr. Boyer remarked that, “Ho has taken an active interest in participating with the full force of his personality in University problems and faculty committee work.” The lecture is free to everyone interested, and, according to Dr. R. H. Ernst, in charge of the se ries, “it is designed for students and faculty alike.” Tt Best of Luck Ducks ; Due to war emergencies many will be unable to attend the annual O.S.C. U. of O. game this Satur day, but we will supply the power so you may hear the game even though you find it impos sible to attend. Municipal Electric aud Water Utilities