’Eileen’ Rehearsal Polishes
Dialogue to Final Gloss
By AMY PRUDEN
“Did you girls ever live in a city where you sleep between
the sheets?” roared technical director Horace Robinson as Nel
da Rohrback and Dorothy Weygandt crawled into their prop
bed in the newest campus play, “My Sister Eileen,” with only
the coverlet over them. Late Tuesday night the dress rehearsal
finished, with only a few slip-ups, such as telephones ringing
BA Positions
Open in June
Mr. G. L. Rideout, personnel
manager of the Puget Sound
Power and Light company at
Seattle Tuesday interviewed 11
University seniors who applied
for full-time employment with
the company upon- graduation
next June.
Mr. Rideout said the organiza
tion was particularly interested
in business administration school
graduatees who are interested in
various types of personnel work.
Girls who want to make a career
for themselves in secretarial po
sitions in an essential industry,
Mr. Rideout said, received spe
cial attention.
“Any girl who accepts a posi
tion,” Mr. Rideout declared, “will
be placed in a 90-day training
Course for which the student will
be paid. During this time, the
course will enable the girl to ac
quaint herself with all the de
partment.”
Service, utilization, personnel,
purchasing, and sales depart
ments will be included in the
training.
Men graduates from the BA
school will take a one-year train
ing course to prepare them for
administration work in the of
fices of the company.
“A public utilities company
first of all desires people that
like people,” said Mr. Rideout.
“The personnel worker deals
v ith everyone in the city. He is
expected to handle customers
with real courtesy and to be calm
under fire.”
Civilian Defense
Talks Scheduled
Three lectures on civilian de
fense have been scheduled for
Thursday, April 22, by the cam
pus defense council as a part of
the regular lecture series spon
sored by the council.
Mrs. Dorothy Warren will
speak on nurses' aides to the Del
ta Onramas, Kappa Alpha Thetas,
Chi Omegas, and Kappa Kappa
Gammas at the Delta Gamma
house.
Kenneth Shumaker, lower divi
sion adviser, is scheduled to
speak at the Alpha Ohricron Pi
house on bomb reconnoisance.
The Alpha Delta Pis, Alpha Gam
ma Delts, and Sigma Kappas will
also be there.
Dr. D. S. Dedrick. assistant
professor of chemistry, will speak
on civilian defense during a gas
attack to the Pi Beta Phis, Alpha
Chi Omegas, and Zeta Tan Al
phas, at the Pi Phi house.
The lectures will begin at 6:30.
'Sister' Tickets Sell
Co-op Head Chosen
The University theater box of
fice opened Tuesday to begin the
sale of tickets for “My Sister
Kilecn." The box office is locat
ed on the first floor of Johnson
hall. Tickets may be reserved by
calling 3300. extension 216.
Wheat seeds from the Univer
sity of California were flown to
Russia to replant scorched earth.
when the blasting or riveting was
scheduled to sound. The finished
product of the latest campus pro
duction took on its final polished
gloss.
As the curtain rises on the in
itial performance Friday evening,
the expectant audience will be
plunged into an hilariously comic
situation. The unraveling of the
story involves the New York ca
reers of Eileen and Ruth Sher
wood, capably portrayed by Miss
Rohrback and Miss Weygandt,
and their riotous existence in a
one-room basement apartment in
the Greenwich Village section of
the big city.
Dashing across the stage at
various intervals dangerously
tangling the plot are such charac
ters as Mr. Appopolous, the artis
tic landlord, portrayed by Bob
Farrow; stupid “big stoop” Jen
sen, by Ralph Stoer; hairy mus
cle man from Georgia, The Wreck,
by James Bronson; former ten
ant of dubious character, Violet,
by Helen Holden; the meek and
stumbling Lippincott, by David
Jahn; the magazine editor, Rob
ert Baker, by Edwin Mickel, and
the wolfish newspaper man, Chick
Clark, by Ken Griffith.
With Ruth seeking a career as
a writer and Eileen having aspi
rations to become an actress the
girls settle in the noisy basement.
Eileen with her amazing attrac
tion to men, manages to enter
tain visitors ranging from army
captain (Bill Wood), who is look
ing for Violet to the suspicious
policeman (Jack Leonard) who
heckles the girls constantly.
Adding to the surprise ending
are the Portuguese sailors, played
by Gordon Cochran, Bill Wood,
Jack Titus, Art Damschen, Chic
Chaloupka, and Don Jones, as
they insist in performing the con
ga in the tiny apartment, land
ing the beautiful Eileen in a
ticklish spot
Clever lines and fine acting, as
well as the assistance of Marellen
Wilbur, student director; the
back stage crew all attributes to
the richly humorous effect of the
production.
Special note should be given to
such characters as Betsy Steffen,
playing Helen Wade; Gardner
Williams, the Cossack; Helen
Johnson, Mrs. Wade; Ethan New
man, Walter Sherwood; Marie
Hewett, prospective tenant; Rob
ert Over, consul; Jimmy Toner
and Bobby Joe Quigley, street
urchins; and Gordon Cochran and
George Fletcher, the drunks.
Although recently presented in
the motion picture and the stage'
production of the same name, the
campus version of “My Sister Eil
een" promises to chalk up another
hit for the smooth ability of the
guild hall players.
EUGENE
HOTEL
presents
Art Holman
and his
Orchestra
75c Per Person
Dancing 9 'til 12
Every Sat. Nite
Bird Study Class
Holds Field Trip
The bird study class, sponsored
by the general extension center,
held its first meeting last Sun
day morning, April 18, under the
direction of R. R. Huestis, Uni
versity professor of zoology.
Every Sunday for six weeks
the class of fifteen members, two
of them University students, will
go on field trips.
Jump-Off-Joe
Seen by Class
A geological phenomenon—ex
tensive slipping of land—was ob
served last weekend by 20 geology
students under Dr. Warren D.
Smith, head of the geography and
geology department, when the
group drove up to Jump-Off-Joe
on the Pacific coast near New
port. The site for the expedition,
Jump-Off-Joe, is a huge rock
overlooking the ocean, but at high
water, “looks like a wash," ac
cording to Dr. Smith. Formerly
hard sandstone had kept the shale
structure between the homes and
the ocean dry, and prevented its
slipping down into the ocean.
During thousands of years,
however, the pounding ocean, Dr.
Smith said, wore the rock away.
The shale, being nothing but hard
ened mud, was lubricated by the
incoming water, and proceeded to
slip into the ocean, creating huge
fissures in the earth around.
As a result of the erosion, trees
were tipped over and houses slip
ped into the cracks created in
the region. Some houses are being
moved. One auto camp was forc
ed to do so by increasing pressure
on earth area. There is no anti
cipating by geologists of a let-up
in the sliding.
The group also collected fossils
from beds uncovered by a high
way being newly cut near New
port. The group traveled by truck
and a private automobile
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Stage Crew Prepares
Play Dress Rehearsal
By BETTY ANN STEVENS
To the tune of a conga number, nailing down of a rug, street
noises played over the public address system by Charles Politz,
assistant stage manager, added to the confusion generated by
electrician Ruth Moss climbing up a swaying ladder to “fiddle
with the spotlights,” the stage crew of “My Sister Eileen” read
ied the scene for dress rehearsal Tuesday night.
.Being produced m me eimu
Hall theater on April 23, 24, 27,
and 28, the Broadway and motion
picture hit has a basement apart
ment set designed by James Bron
son, featuring a bed which slides
under the sidewalk, a grilled win
dow, through which faces peer
and feet pass by. Other props,
according to properties manager,
Bob Over and his assistant, Yo
lande Pouteau, are two paintings,
“Dilemma in Blue,” and “After
noon of a Goat,” done by Mr. Ap
popolous, the landlord, played by
Bob Farrow, in the “blue-green
and red-red periods.” The “blue
green” number was done by Neal
Koch and Joyce Scott, and the
“red-red” inspired by Cadet Don
Shirley.
A live dog will be a member of
the cast, according to Elaine
Lakefish, business manager, de
spite any laws restricting the ac
tivities of canines.
Genevieve Graves
Heads Mu Phi Epsilon
Genevieve Graves, junior in
music, will head Mu Phi Epsilon
for 1943-44 as its president.
Other officers for the coming
year are Phyllis Taylor, sopho
more, vice-president; Helen Lu
vaas, sophomore, secretary; Jean
Phillips, sophomore, treasurer.
The group will hold its next
meeting Tuesday, April 27, at
7:30 in alumni hall of Gerlinger.
Counselor Visits
Mrs. Claire McCarthy, national
counselor for Alpha Chi Omega,
visited the chapter of Alpha Kap
pa, on the Oregon campus April
11.
WAAC Placed
’Deep in Texas’
Lt. Irene A. Van Houten ’36,
a member of the women’s army
auxiliary corps, has been station
ed at the San Antonio district
army recruiting service, San An
tonio, Texas.
Lt. Van Houten was a member
of Phi Beta, music honorary, the
University glee club and sympho
ny chorus, and in addition made
a number of public appearances.
She received a Bachelor of Arts
degree at the University in 1936.
Began December 7
Before joining the WAACs she
was executive secretary of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance com
pany, Olympia, Washington,
branch office.
She enrolled in the WAACs at
Seattle, Washington and begad#
her training on December 7, 1942
at Daytona Beach, Florida. Fin
ishing her basic training January
14, 1943, she took a specialized
two-week motor transport "blitz”
course, and now has a license to
drive anything up to and includ
ing one and one-half ton trucks.
Brother Is a Lieutenant
Lt. Van Houten took her officer
training at Fort Des Moines,
Iowa, and received her commis
sion March 30. She is assigned
to recruiting service in the eighth
service command.
Her brother is also a lieuten
ant. He is Lt. Chester Van Hou
ten, now in the army, formerly
champion badminton player of
the Pacific Northwest.
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