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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1943)
HELEN HOLDEN . . . . . . “trips the light fantastic” 0*t ottesi *JoeA. Dancing Brunette Coed Hendricks Hall Prexy By BETTY ANN STEVENS Dramatist and “dancer mostly,” Helen Holden, entered the drama shack. “I’ve been rehearsing for 'The Eve of St. Mark’ and my voice is all shot, the low-voiced Phi Theta apologized gaily. I play this rather risque character, and I have everyone I’m around talking like this person, since I’m practicing in most oi my spare time. She shed her olive-green cor duroy coat, and settled abruptly on a divan under a picture of Marvin and Mary Staton Krenk, continuing enthusiastically, “It’s the first play in which I’ve ever acted. Of course, I've danced as long as I can remember.” Dancing Lessons With dark eyes glowing, she amusedly recounted, “I just started dancing one day, then my mother decided to steer it in the right channels, so I took lessons. -We drove into Portland every ^weekend.” Helen taught tap, ballet, and acrobatics in McMinnville, her home town, for four years before she came to college, accompanying her 70 pupils on the piano. She took her first modern dance les sons during her freshman and sophomore years in college. Hendricks Hall Prexy One hundred per cent self-sup porting, the dark Hendricks hall president now teaches modern dance in the PET department. As she briefly expresses it, “I prac tically live for it.” Smilingly she admitted direct ing dancing for ‘Of Thee I Sing” last spring term and for the canoe fete when she was a fresh man, besides directing dancing NeAAi tf-osimali have arrived . . . just in time for the beginning- of the 1943 social season! THRILLING STYLES fashioned in Nets and Lace combinations. TAFFETAS combined with Laces'and Nets JERSEYS in Two Tones WHITE and PASTELS $10.95 to $16.95 f> BROADWAY* 20 and 30 East Broadway 'Nothe/i Pome m v la ci atm emu iicuu one, No matter how well I intend My ventures are always ill starred ones And I’m holding the bag at the end. I never go out for a joy-ride But what I return by shank's mare, I never get mixed up with ro mance But I end by tearing my hair. I know how the world is con structed, I realize, plain as can be That someone is always left lonely— But why must it always be me ? —By Betsy Wootton for the junior skit in Coed Ca pers. Dancing Family With a lively twinkle she an nounced, "Marilyn, my sister, also teaches and dances. When I came to school, she taught my old pupils. I think she's just won derful.” "My parents inteicsted in danc ing? Well, we’re all Scotch, and my father claims it's from him. My mother’s a bit dubious, though.” Mischievously, she continued, "Everybody in the family has dark, curly hair. There's just a touch of French . . . enough to make it interesting.” Younger Generation "I have a younger brother. He's a football man and just darling. He’s six feet tall, with blue eyes.” Then followed a comparison of younger brothers and sisters, which Helen concluded with, "Honestly, this younger genera tion! They get away with twice as much as we ever did.” With a serious, as well as a lighter side, Helen has a three point cumulative, and has re ceived three scholarships, two Panhellenic, and one state schol arship when she was a freshman. Besides presiding over 140 girls, "which is about three times as big a job as a house,” Helen is a Phi Beta, and does general office and secretarial work in the PE department, added to teaching modern dance. Beautiful Dress "My dress at the Senior Ball? Oh, I’m glad you like it. It had 27 yards in the skirt, and was made for exhibition dancing. You know, we’re able to get beautiful stuff that we’d never be able to get otherwise, through dancing and dancing costume 3. Marilyn and I design our own clothes, and Mother whips up marvelous crea tions.” “Oh, my man is in Virginia . . . in the army engineers. You might mention it. It’s the main interest in my life.” The “Peppy Bunch” She went on to say, "He was president of his house last year, and I’ve gone steady with him for five years. He's from Mc Minnville, too. Incidentally, we did some exhibition dancing to gether. Speaking of Sig Eps, I certainly think they have a pep py bunch.” Helen intends to keep her kej’ note on dancing when she gets out of school, for “I want to di rect dancing as in 'Of Thee I Sing,’ preferably for movie or stage bits. I don’t actually want to dance. I don’t figure that I’m good enough.” Study Jtiched Contemplating the lack of the vitality-preservers, cokes and cof fee, which usually carry us through mid-terms, we valiantly resolved to start our studying early. So, at exactly 7:00, we donned a polo coat, a. fur coat, two muf flers and ski pants, and ice-skat ed to the library. There we set tled ourselves underneath a ta ble wTith a pen-size flash light to avoid being distracted by the students wandering in and out. After struggling through two sentences, we recognized the dirty saddles of a friend shuffling past and hurried out to see her about the test. We compared notes . . . on our dates to the Senior Ball, and our prospects for the Military Ball. Our notes were extensive, and before I knew it my Big Ben alarm clock—that I wear coyly over one ear in fond hopes of starting a new fad—registered 9:45. So we skated home. There we bumped square into a song practice, an executive meeting, a fire-drill, and a ga.b session which happily postponed our studying for another three hours. At 1:00, in sheer despera tion, we turned on the phono graph for inspiration and roped ourself to a chair. Ten-Minute Rest We read one word to every third beat of “Drummer Boy” and then slid out of the ropes with the ease of Houdini to take our ten-minute rest period. The ten minute period grew' into a fifty minute period, and we were so tired that .we were blowing figure eights instead of smoke-rings. "Snow'. It's snowing!” some one screamed. “S’now use.” we muttered. Then the 15-watt light in our brain flickered faintly. Why, we'd be snowed in and wouldn't be able to get to our class. So we threw our book in a 2-inch snowdrift and went to bed, leaving a note telling our roomie to wake us up spring term. We W'ere hibernat ing. Compared Notes —By Marty Beard. 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