Local Film Fans Wallow
In War At the Front'
By JULES MAITLAND
-• The on-the-spot screen story of the fighting front that Prime
Minister Winston Churchill deemed fit to describe as the mili
tary move that signifies the “end of the beginning” is being
shown to Eugene movie-goers this week-end at the Heilig and
McDonald theaters in vivid technicolor and all-too realistic
sound tor all to see and hear and
to take to heart for future pre
ventive medicine against the
“easy war” attitude that tends
to influence many Americans.
* filmed by 42 photographers of
e U.S. army signal corps and
presented by the OWI, the war
film shows the viewer separate
and dynamic scenes of the ter
rific struggle being waged on the
merciless desert sands and marsh
es of North Africa between the
Allies, consisting of American,
British, and French troops, and
the highly-vaunted Nazi Afrika
Korps of Marshal Rommel.
Allied Convoy Views
The film, “At the Front in
North Africa,” moves at a fairly
fast pace with impressive views
of a small section of a gigantic
Allied convoy moving in on a
strategic African port, and after
having arrived, proceed in the
anxious task of disembarking
men and unloading supplied in
great haste so as to cheat the
jj^my bombers, which are based
an hour’s flying time away, out
of an opportunity to blast the
Allied landing.
The viewer is introduced in a
very realistic manner, void of
the Hollywood touch, to an enemy
air attack upon an Allied port of
debarkation.
concealed cameramen film the
true reactions of civilians and
soldiers alike to the paralyzing:
screech of a bomber diving and
the excruciating wait for the
cargo of bombs to strike the
earth in a deafening explosion.
Audiences who saw the film
tended to squirm in their seats
during the bombing sequences
throughout the picture.
Battle Scenes
The bulk of the picture centers
around the movement of Ameri
^n, British tank and infantry
forces into battle. Scenes show
men and machines moving up to
the front with occasional sporadic
air attacks by the enemy to har
ass their progress. The theater
goer is shown the complicated
task of preparing for a battle
with the thousand and one prob
lems to contend with before a
successful attack can commence.
Signal corps cameramen show
no partiality in the propaganda
line as there are view’s of Ger
man planes and tanks being de
stroyed as well as views of
American casualties in men and
machines. The picture also has
human interest as it shows the
happy moments of a soldier as
he and his comrades enjoy an
old-fashioned chicken dinner in
the middle of the dessert.
Tebourba Climax
The battle film comes to a cli
max with the tank battle of Te
bourba. Cameramen are concealed
in the hills above the enemy po
sitions, and as the battle pro
gresses, the audience is nearer
the German lines than the Allied
formations. The see-saw trend of
a tank battle is shown with the
viewer placed in the position of
the enemy as he hears the deadly
“expressive swish” of the Allied
shells as they hit enemy posi
tions.
As the picture closes with the
successful repulse of an enemy
attack and the consequential
seizure of prisoners and the val
ley in which they held forth, the
commentator seizes upon the
emotions of the audience with the
very impressive commentation,
accompanied by the music of
“Onward Christian Soldiers’’ in
the background.
American boys have fought in
far-off and strange land. They
have fought a battle. It was not
significant in the all-around
scene of the war, but it was sig
nificant because it proved that
freedom is on the march because
on the morn of the battle, it was
a conquered valley but tonight is
a free valley.
Something NEW
The latest in shoe styles and just
the thing for springtime campus
wear!
Horton Names
Mom’s Affair
Committees
Plans for Mothers’ day, 1943,
on the campus began to take
shape Friday when Clarence Hor
ton, chairman of the affair, an
nounced the committee members
'who will work with him for the
two day event, May 1 and 2.
Committee members, as an
nounced by Horton, are Julia
Glasby, social affairs; Betty Be
vil, registration; Bud Putnam,
promotion; Mary Bentley, hospi
tality; Dorothy Routt, executive
secretary; Bob Henderson, trans
portation; and Betty Lu Siegman
and Edith Newton, publicity.
Faculty advisers to work with
each committee member will be
• announced Monday, and the com
plete committee will meet Mon
day afternoon at 4 in the men’s
lounge of Gerlinger hall to dis
cuss plans and meet their ad
visers.
“The committee will work with
the Oregon Mothers to plan the
most enjoyable Mothers’ day pos
sible under existing conditions,’’
Horton said Friday.
Personnel Head
To Contact Coeds
University women interested
in working for Lipman Wolfe
company during summer vaca
tion will have an opportunity for
an interview with Mrs. Elizabeth
Turner Orr, personnel manager
of the store, when she is here
next Tuesday.
Mrs. Orr wants to contact girls
for work on the college board at
the store, and has jobs both for
permanent help and for summer
months only.
Anyone wishing an interview
Tuesday, April 6, with Mrs. Orr
should call Miss Janet Smith,
secretary of employment office,
at her office for an appointment.
Fraternity Pledges
New pledges announced this
week by the dean of men’s of
fice include David S. Swanson,
Phi Gamma Delta; and' Don Kay,
Sigma Phi Epsilon.
Violinist Francescatti
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toire, in a concert at the Opera
house.
Successful Concert
■ The great success of this con
cert brought him a visit from
Shurmann, the manager of Sar
ah Bernhardt, who wanted, to
take this remarkable young man
under his wing.
Francescatti agreed but Shur
mann became ill shortly after
and died within a year.
During the next several years
the young Zino appeared as solo
ist with the leading orchestras
and conductors of Paris. During
his second year in Paris he was
chosen by Maurice Ravel to ac
company him on an English tour
which later turned out to be a
great success.
On returning to France he had
to admit the truth of his father’s
contention that no matter how
great your talent, it is extremely
difficult for a young man to- make
a decent living in France as a
concert artist.
Joins Paris Violinist
Because of this he accepted an
offer in 1928 to join the violin
section of the Orchestra Straram,
considered the finest group of
musicians in Paris at that time.
After playing with this orches
tra for about a year, Frances
catti was approached by Leon
Delort, noted impressario, who
promised him a series of triumph
CAMPUS
CALENDAR
W. R. B. Willcox, professoi'
emeritus of architecture, will lead
a forum discussion at Wesmin
ster house at 6:30 Sunday night
on the subject of “Education and
the Future.’’
Oregon’# Emerald
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Lois Clause, Day Manager
Shirley Leas
Mary Stanley
Office Staff:
Leslie Brockelbank
Copy Desk Staff:
Betty Lu Siegman, city editor
Marjorie Major, assistant
Tex Goodwin
Jody Hume
Jack Billings
B. A. Stevens
Jill Ames
Night Staff:
Carol Cook, night editor
Albert Howard
Betty Ann Stevens
Bob Scott
Marjorie Young
Jack Billings
ant engagements in the Euro
pean capitals if he would come
under his management.
Becomes Well Known
Francescatti accepted, and in
the next few years became known
in all the musical circles of Eur
ope as one of the most sensa
tional violinists.
He was asked to appear as so
loist with all the top-notch or
chestras of the continent. Later,
in 1938, he made his first appear
ance in the New World as soloist
with an orchestra directed by his
old friend, Jose Iturbi, in the
great Teatro Colon of Buenos
Aires.
From this event it was only a
year later, 1939, until he was
touring the United States.
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Robert Koler
Gets Medical
Scholarship
Robert D. Koler, sophomore in
pre-medics, has been selected as
the winner of the Kenneth A. J.
MacKenzie scholarship for this
year. The prize,'$200, is awarded
annually to the outstanding pre
med student who is in his final
year here.
The MacKenzie scholarship
fund was donated several years
ago by Mrs. Mildred Anna Wil
liams. She gave $250,000 to the
University, the income from
which is used for five scholar
ships each year for the study of
medicine.
Outstanding Student
One $200 scholarship is award
ed to the outstanding premedical
student at the University in the
last year of his premedical stud
ies. If the winner, in this case
Koler, continues to maintain a
high scholastic record, the schol
arship is renewable for each of
his four years of medical train
ing.
If the winner does not main
tain a high scholastic record at
the medical school his scholarship
is transferred to the outstanding
member of his medical school
class who has taken his premedi
cal work at the University.
Memorial
The scholarships are a memor
ial to Dr. Kenneth A. J. Mac
Kenzie, former dean of the med
ical school.
This is the third year that the
award has been made to a Uni
versity student. Last year it was
given to Richard F. Jones.
Univ. of Minn, cost for instruc
tion research last year was
$6,286,439.
Rollins college recently cele
brated its 58th anniversary.
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"GOOD SHOW!
WE LET THEM HAVE IT"
"NO, THANKS.
HAVEN'T YOU GOT
A COCA-COLA?”
V.
“That actually happened. And thmgs
like that are happening everyday.
Ever notice in your newspaper how
often Coke is mentioned? Boys write
home about if, too. They like the
taste that sets Coca-Cola apart.
They welcome that fsel of refresh
ment. Coca-Cqlg must remind them
of home a lot'." It reminds you to
refresh yourself.”
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