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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 27, 1943)
ScribeS/Artists Get Opportunity 'Odeon,” talent show for cre ative students at the University, will. be held February 22 in Ger Imger hall, W. A, Dahlberg, act ing director of speech and dra matic arts, revealed Monday. All students on the campus •wishing to contribute creative efforts in any of the four desig nated fields are asked to contact the following faculty members ir mediately Contributors See Dr. Horn Contributors of literature, which includes poetry, short stor ies, essays, and editorials, should see Dr, R. D. Horn in Friendly hah. hi charge of music, including any original string, piano, song o group selection, will be Pro fessor George Hopkins, in the mu sic school. Art Contributions .Art contributors should con tact, Miss Victoria Avakian or Da,id McCosh in the art school, This field includes painting, sculpture, ceramics, architecture, m.l weaving. Students interested in entering creative efforts in home econom ics should 3ee Mis3 Mabel Wood in. the home economics depart ment, Chapman hail. All contributions except art work must be in the hands of fac ulty members by February 1, Dahlberg announced. Art work will be due February 3. War Digest* (Continued front /hige two) taii: of Rommel making a stand east of Tunisia. The victorious imperials didn't 3top to celebrate the fall of Italy’s last symbol of empire, but rushed westward af ter the scurrying desert fox. Jr.p resistance has been crushed in the Papua area of New Gni neo. and has beer, virtually ended on. Guadalcanal. With tiie exception of a grow ing submarine menace the news looks good for the United Na tions, but now that our 3ight3 are set we know there is a long road abend. I Cover the Campus (Continued from, (age two) F ,,i looks worn out, ragged and tired, Pa .mount will save her; they ntill have her hired. J an Brice, Alpha Phi, took Rog' D.'oit’s Sigma Nu pin . . . Betty Clark of the same sorority took B.Uiy Si's Fiji pin . . . Phoebe South, Pi Phi, has had Wayne At wood's Theta Chi pin for about two weeks . . . Lora Chase, Pi Pi ,, will soon take a Theta Chi pin . . . Peggy Allison, Gamma P , took Lee Kilbourne’s Delt pin . , . Bobby Morrison, who return ed to the campus this term, looks more intriguing ar a brunette than she did as a blonde . . . Cur rent gossip has it that Carol Boone of tire Theta castle has a brand jnev. sparkler . , . Note . . . Can B. A. Stevens slug anything else besides "I Lost My Sugar in Salt Lake City?” Bitween the Lines (Continued from page two) tnor about, of all things, the re serves, They tell me we’ll all be called this term. I have sold all nui rubber tires and have torn tip my “C" card. I will not both er to study any move. It must be true, because a kid I know said hi- housebrother was told by ti .. cook that her husband's boss had heard it from a man who w raed there, but lie wasn’t sure if it was this term or next, or if it > as resetves or men over 50 u . were being called, and what ■ a . I going to do with these 1: ... ? You never can tell. Setless 'Figaro’ Brings Novel Ideas to Opera By BETTY I.IT SIEGMAN Frivolous, gay, and impudent, the "Marriage of Figaro," Mo zart's comedy opera, coming to McArthur court February 15 in the University’s Greater Artist series, is noted especially for its translation into English. Other than having the distinc tive characteristic that the aver age American can understand it, much of the opera’s success has been due to the fact that it has no scenery. Operatic First Gean Greenwell, narrator for the Nine o’clock Opera company which presents the production, says, "The idea of a narrator such as that of ‘Our Town’ is not new, so our Figaro is not a new idea except in this way, that a narrator had never been used in opera before.” He. continues, ‘‘In oi’dinary opi eratic roles the relation between performer and audience is rarely as intimate as either would like. The orchestra, costumes, and elaborate stage sets can make Mildred Wilson Spies (Continued from page two) Gregor invited me to an Oregon alumni dinner-—had a wonderful time seeing old classmates.'' Straight hair, a wide friendly mouth and generous stout figure, characterize John MacGregor. Among many contributions to the University he was one of a group to secure 30 volumes of William Lloyd Garrison’s “Liberator Ab olitionist" newspaper, published prior to the Civil war. 1560 weekly numbers of the paper are included in the collection now in possession of the University. It has been called a “priceless ac quisition." But MacGregor's greatest pleasure is in planning little ventures like that of the Bear Mountain stone house. Located 40 miles from New York the Ore gon alums have a pleasant re treat from the noise of the big city. Operated on a community basis, with MacGregor wearing the ‘‘gloves of authority" the Oregonians have been furnished an ideal place to “get away from it all." Another unusual meeting Mac Gregor engineered, was that of 1936 when 35 alums gathered in the studio of Leonebel Jacobs, '07, an outstanding portrait paint er. One time a special dinner was held at the famous International House—and students of all na tions heard an Oregon student tell of the “lure" of the North west. As a special honor MacGregor was chosen to represent the Uni versity of Oregon at a convoca tion commemorating the 400th anniversary of the death of De siderius Erasmu—which was held at Columbia university in 1936. As previously mentioned, the Oregon activities almost over whelm at least for local interest, the law record. It is worthy of note to mention that MacGregor was in the legal department of Travelers Insurance company of Brooklyn, later a member of Wackeman and MacGregor, and as early as 1933 opened his own Brooklyn law office. Hearing the call to the serv ices, MacGregor was recently commissioned a major in the chemical warfar division, and has reluctantly left the New York alumni files in the hands of his secretary. But it's fairly safe to predict that it won't before long till typi cal Oregon advice to a student going into the services will be. “If you ever get near Washing ton, D. C., and the chemical war fare division— look up John Mac Gregor lie's an Oregon man." too great a glut Between tne partners in the game. In Figaro we attempt to reduce that gulf to a minimum. The imagination of the audience is aroused to such a point in the description of the setting that when the actors come on, the audience has already built the set.” Story Background The story is based on Beau marchais’ ‘‘Le Mariage de Figa ro.” Lorenzo da Ponte, a Latin secretary, made a libretto from it. The translation into English in modern times was done by the English critic, Edward J. Dent. Helen Van Loon, a graduate of the University of Michigan and a Delta Gamma, plays opposite Fi garo, the ex-barber, who is played by John Tyers, a recent graduate of San Diego State college where he was a star athlete. Emerson P. Schmidt, associate professor of economics at the University of Minnesota, has left for Washington to serve as an economist for the National As sociation of Manufacturers. Mildred Kathleen Miller is cur rent queen of Tournament of Ros es at Pasadena junior college. Photo By Lyle Nelson SNOW WHITE . . . . . . the “Sweetheart of Phi Kappa Psl,” snow creation by Dave Stone, is shown here surrounded by a few of her admirers and her creator, . . . Left to right are Max Amstutz, Dave Stone, Pat Land and Glen Kennedy. This Year Is on It’s Way There is Still Time to Order an EMERALD SUBSCRIPTION for the remainder of the year 1 term $1.25 We only live once—you and I will never be doing the same things again. There are many friends in the services and folks at home that want to know what is happening on the campus today. It is up to us to keep them up to date. Oregon Emerald