’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 € 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. THE UNIVERSITY THEATRE -PRESENTS THAT GAY, HILARIOUS COMEDY ‘My SISTER EILEEN’ APRIL 23-24-27-28 ® JOHNSON HALL • DIRECTED BY HORACE ROBINSON • Plan now to see one of the University theatre's perform ances of this stage and screen hit show ! ADMISSION PHONE 3300 INCLUDING TAX 'JUo EXT 216 University Theatre