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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 21, 1944)
GoeA of the. fWeeJz Blcut&e SitUf&i^elll rUi&ufiL 041 Mu^iCf Jlife By MARGUERITE WITTWER •‘To be an interpreter of music you have to be a very well balanced individual,” stated Marie Rogndahl simply and emphatically. An hour's conversation with her provided convincing evidence that Marie, junior in music who recently won widespread recognition by winning the local and district finals in radio’s Hour of Charm ‘‘Undiscovered Voice of America” contest, is the personification of her own description of an artist. Radio Future? Records of the district finalists ^ have been sent to New York for judging and the winners will re ceive auditions on the air with the Hour of Charm program. The final winner will receive a thirteen weeks radio contract, and any girl like Miss Rogndahl who plans to go on the concert stage and into opera would certainly find this a useful step in her career. Marie can also visualize future possibil ities in radio and television. With her long natural blonde and curly hair, expressive blue eyes, friendly smile and personality plus the sheer beauty of her versatile color atura soprano voice Marie Rogn dahl would thrill television audi ences as much as she has been doing ever since she started to study music in Portland's Frank lin high school. Sang to Herself Miss Rogndahl was born in Wolfpoint, Montana, September 5, 1923 and moved with her Nor wegian parents to Portland when she was a year old. A high school girl friend studied music and per suaded Marie, who had been sing ing inconspicuously all her life to herself, to take voice lessons. She majored in music, drama, and speech, and it was only a step to leading roles in school productions. In Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The *- Mikado’’ she played “Pitti-Sing” and in “HMS Pinafore’’ she was “Josephine.” Happiness Marie’s simple and unusual phi losophy presents a viewpoint worth consideration: “The greatest sin in the world is to be unhappy—when there is so much to be happy about. Progress is the most important thing and unhappy people make no contributions to progress. Too many people spend their lives frit tering away their time doing little things for other people; instead people should develop their own talents and possibilities to the full est extent and in this way they would be able to make a much greater contribution to the world.” Miss Rogndahl believes that life should be full and complete and well rounded and those who desire this must create that life for them selves. Marie is that kind of per son to whom anything undertaken must be done to perfection. In her spare time, like sailors who canoe and soldiers who hike, Miss Rogndahl listens to music, sings as soloist in the Congrega tional church choir; in high school collected autographs of celebrities and now she bowls and plays ten nis. Regarding the familiar con troversy between classical and popular music, Marie believes that one cannot distinguish between them by saying one is "good” or "bad.” “Music is music in any form and it has a purpose. I like swing and I thing it has a definite place in American culture; people wouldn’t dance to a Hungarian rhapsody!” Fine "The University school of music is fine!” Miss Rogndahl stated en thusiastically. "Dean Kratt is marvelous and I think Mr. Nilssen is one of the most outstanding teachers.” The young coloratura had only one comment for the im provement of the school; it should be enlarged in order to make more practice rooms for the students. Asked about recitals and other public display of student talent, Miss Rogndahl explained the extra work connected with such under takings and said that she con sidered practice and development of the talents more important in music than the "show” side. Arias The "Bell Song” from Lakme, "Queen of the Night” from the “Magic Flute” by Mozart were de scribed by Miss Rogndahl as two Brighten Up your wardrobe... Spring is here! These brightly colored JER SEY PRINTS are a good purchase for both spring and summer. Functional, smart, ' and right looking, these j lovely frocks will serve you ‘‘round the clock.” \' KAILE’S 1044 Willamette Woman's Page Staff i Co-Editors: Betty Ann Stevens Carol Greening Staff: Martha Thorsland Marguerite Wittwer jbuo- . . 04 2>ie Sam Gordon writes about it. So does an obscure character named Culbertson. There are people who play it, too. In fact, there are a lot of people who like it. Milieu: anywhere . . . anytime . . . in a bus . . . underneath a chair in the browsing room or un derneath four lemon cokes. Neces sary items: kibitzers and a smoke screen, both inconvenient. Step one, shuffling tactics: Arc you a master shuffler? Do you ripple? Throw them together? Or is your method a slow, manual, painful stacking of the deck ? Mmmmmm. Try nothing. Nothing will help you. Kick Me Step two, bidding: One kick for a spade . . . scratch your left eye brow with the third finger for a. diamond . . . sigh twice for two hearts . . . beat your brow for clubs . . . run up a small American flag for no-trump, all of the pie ceding accompanied, of course, by derogatory comment concerning the dealer and his step one. Mental NOW . . . playing: This is always performed in an atmosphere of tension. (We shall now employ a stream of consciousness technique, a la Virginia Woolf). “M'gawd, lookit the ace . . . and there's only four trumps between us . . . now, if I can only finesse that . . . nope, there goes the kind . . . she gave me the Dirtiest Look on that last play . . . wonder what that last kick meant . . Speaking of kicks and the ap pendages which administer them: Over a hand of plump spades the other day a co-ed muttered wuth self-conscious aplomb, “I hate these soldiers who glance at my legs and w'hisper, ‘Sex!’ ” where upon her partner responded drly, “Uh-huh, I hate these soldiers who glance at my legs and scream ‘piano!’ ” As for the post mortem: “WHY didn’t you hang on to the king of spades?” not to mention, “Hey, girl, I’ve simply GOTTA head for my three o'clock!” —By B. A. Stevens and C. Greening of the most difficult and. outstand ing arias written for sopranos and distinguished them as the two she liked most to sing because to sing them well is a real achievement. Her interest in opera is perhaps activated by this same desire for achieving perfection despite diffi culty. “To sing opera one must be free, relaxed, be able to act well, and to interpret the music,” she said. A past president of Phi Beta and member of Mu Phi Epsilon, music I honoraries, Marie believes that the war has influenced music consider ably because people are earning more money now and are able to afford concerts and operas. The fact that these are being patron ized more than ever before now proves this statement, and the young soprano expressed the hope that people in the post war world will again turn to music and the arts with greater interest and en thusiasm. Three different speed-up plans for students who will enter the armed forces have been made available at the University of Omaha. University of North Carolina’s college of war training has the same relative position in the uni versity as any other academic school. Sfii+Uf 94. <9fe>ie . . . CaedU Piaiiam. 9*t Paitel P^iinti By MARTH A THORSLAND Funny how tlie first few sunny days of Oregon spring finds every one in new brightly-colored cotton prints. Dark colors have been pushed to the baek of every closet and along with cottons we see many pastel plaid skirts, combined with matching sweaters. A "must" on every college girl's list this year is one of the new light-col ored collarless “blazers." These campus jackets come in every color from robins' egg blue to brown, in cluding cherry, purple, kelly-green, beig", and traditional navy. They are bound in white and smartly tailored for all figures. When worn with white pleated skirts you have an ideal campus outfit. New Notes New YW prexy, Joan Dolph, has been seen dashing around in a luscious tomato-red wool suit. Her suit is plainly tailored and is very attractively set off with a fluffy white blouse. Virginia Beattie in a bright green jumper and old-fashioned style ruffled blouse looks like the picture of spring. The pinafore ef fect around the neckline is very becoming. One of the cleverest ideas seen recently was that of tinting white carnations. Dot Shepherd has been wearing lime-green carnations in her hair. Unique—isn't it ? Spring Hose Miriam Beck looked very smart READER ADS Ten words minimum accepted. First insertion 2c per word. Subsequent insertions lc per word. DISPLAY ADS Flat rate 37c column inch Frequency rate (entire term) : 35c per column inch one uine a week, 34c per column inch twice or more a week. Ads will be taken over the telephone on a charge basis if the advertiser is a subscriber to the phone. Mailed advertisements must have suffi cient remittance enclosed to cover definite number of insertions. Ads must be in Emerald business office no later than 6 p. m. prior to the day of insertion. • For Sale $17.50 Spaulding racket very good condition Sell for $5.00, plus ad. Phone 3-19. going to church the other Sunday in a three-piece tailoiecl lavender suit. Black accessories added a great deal to make the outfit a complete picture. It's not hard to see that the colors for spring are going to be shades of violet, purple, and laven der. We have been seeing a great deal of pastel colored campus coats that are ideal for a windy day. Yellow, cherry, lavender, blue, and grten casual coats look very well over fresh cotton prints. Everyone's wardrobe seems to be in tune with spring, and all that needs to be done now is to talk the sun into coming out for good. Get your fur coat before the 25% tax takes effect on April I # MATTHEW'S FUR SHOP 111 W.7th WHEN HE COMES HOME... We'll jjo o;i picnics in a pretty cotton dress like this. Had ley’s have some that you will like. 1004 Willamette Salon i^n Balcony Phone 633 Budget Accounts Accepted
