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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
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i Co-Editors: Betty Ann Stevens
Carol Greening
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Marguerite Wittwer
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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.
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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
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going to church the other Sunday
in a three-piece tailoiecl lavender
suit. Black accessories added a
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It's not hard to see that the
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Yellow, cherry, lavender, blue, and
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