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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 30, 1944)
' KHAKI CLIPS STAFF Editor: Warren Miller Scribes: Dick Murway Alfred Young &>igAA,, fiee/i . And Rlosutel By AL YOUNG “With the departure of the ASTP from the haunts of the Web foot, the social life can now be listed in the same category as gas, sugar, and tires. At present, need less to say, our white hopes for campus news lie with the pre meds and the civilians,”—Betty Sailor in The Emerald. Well, well. So young, and very inexperienced, Miss Sailor has tak en it upon herself to set the boys of the “fightin’ 51st” straight with the world. It seems a pity to us that Miss Sailor ever left the “pill palace” beat and started writing a jrossip column because, as often oc curs in the case of young fillies who take the bit between their teeth, she isn't in full possession of the facts. We don’t dance . . . talk ... or go out with girls. By her own testimony, she proves herself false in this statement. Witness the fact that a good plurality of the names in her column were those of air corps men. Perhaps the young lady doesn’t read her own column. But let us suppose that for a moment we accept Miss Sailor’s hypothesis. Air corps men just aren’t going out with enough Ore gon coeds. The girls’ morale is fall ing off rapidly and some drastic step must be taken or else* the cause is lost . . . though what cause we’re not exactly sure of. It seems to us that Oregon girls are not particularly desirable, if r v FISH 'N CHIPS Take your Friday night date out to dinner. For se.afood specialties come to— NEWMAN’S Fish ’n Chips for only 45c Open 6:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. NEWMAN'S GROTTO 764 Willamete Illiterary Criticism By DICK MURWAY Week after week Bill Buell in his cutting column, ‘‘The Cutting Room,” has found fault with motion pictures which I enjoyed. The last straw was loaded on my back Tuesday when Buell informed Emerald readers that Orson Welles, as an actor, is “something which should be sliced, fried, and served with eggs for breakfast.” Buell spoke of Welles only as an bility that Welles, as a ping-pong player, is something which should be charcoal broiled, smothered with onions, and served with french fries. One must credit Orson Welles with some sort of ability. After all, he pays a lot of income tax and Rita Hayworth wouldn’t marry a man without some sort of ability. Maybe his eyes really are as white and his soul as troubled as Edward Rochester’s in “Jane Eyre.’’ “The Cutting Room” panned the picture, “Jane Eyre.” Too many shadows, too much wind on the heath, too many close-ups, the writer claimed. I agree that one could have laughed at Welles’ breathing melodramatic passion from under tremendous black brows at the Victorian maiden, if one wanted to. However, one could also have left critical analysis in the sophisticated paunch of the New Yorker or George Jean Na than, and relaxed to appreciate ninety-odd minutes of excellent en tertainment. All of which leads to the proposi tion of this little essay: the only standard by which art, literature, and music can be judged is public acclaim, interest, and satisfaction. By this standard “Treasure Is land,’’ “The Three Musketeers,” the Bible, “The Wizard of Oz,” and Ellery Queen rank near the top in literature; “Snow White” and “Gone With the Wind” in motion pictures; “God Bless America” and “Sleepy Lagoon” in music; and so forth—none of which is among my personal choices. But still the standard of popularity is the only one which can be maintained be cause the well-trained and well educated critics disagree concern ing values. Many college intellectuals lean over backwards in order to sneer at the best-selling novels and Hol lywood box-office successes. Their posture is unfortunate because once in a while the public goes for something which is “arty,” even the above is true. Surely, we are not men of such a neuter nature that we would not succumb to the charms of a lovely girl. Perhaps, there just aren't enough charming girls to go around. And then again maybe you don’t move in the right circles. After all we aren’t all on the same intellectual or social lev els. Maybe we don’t frequent your house, but that certainly is no sign that we don’t get around. P.S. P.S. P.S. For the Mortar Board Ball Send your short silk to us. it you want it done up right. Phone 75 EUGENE CLEANERS Across from the Eugene Hotel by the intellectuals’ standards. (Example: the movies "Grapes of Wrath" and "How Green Was My Valley” were huge box-office win ners.) I have known persons who couldn’t laugh at the Marx broth ers and “The Three Stooges” be cause “too many people laugh at IT'S QUICK! Only on injfonf to *moe»h on o smart, powder-soft "screen-star" complexion. , NATURAL & LAStING! Imparts J even-toned, natural looking loveli / ness that veils freckles end fine i lines end lasts hours, without re touching. Helps guard ogcinsl sun end wind end isn't drying! FLATTERING! Created for young skins ond those that would lock young in six glorious shades...for every costume or mood! 50< ands]00 _ o product of Co&sruai SDcwnaA. (NOT CONNICTID WITH ANY SOCllJY) JI*AlER-$ SIGNATURE EVERYBODY'S DRUG j them and so they can't be anyj j good." It's the same way with the : pulp magazines and the "true" 1 stories: some people should read them before condemning them out-' right, just for their popularity. And so I would like to see Bill Buell enjoy a movie and talk to someone who reads "Doc Sav 3ge . . ; MONTGOMERY WARD ■ .. _ ' 1! i tveited cctol . .1 . editor box hondbeg Fetching Ward ensemble in cr,. rayon taffeta in some of the most attractive plaids we’ve ' seen! Also in neat little > checks. Bound to add sp to your new Spring clothes! ;s ke^ jVIontgomery Ward Flowers,,, for remembrance Prompt delivery Distinctive arrangements CHASE GARDENS 58 E. Broadway Eli. 4240 Have a “Coke” = Sakabona (WHADDYA SAY?) -a =—^ Li± m I nr it 1.1'<1 If,/ -- — .. .from Bloemfontein to Buffalo In South Africa, as in the U. S. A., the greeting Have a “Coke” helps the American sailor to get along. And it helps, too, in your home when you have Coca-Cola in your icebox. Across the Seven Seas, Coca-Cola stands for the pause that rejresbes,—the friendly gesture of good-natured folks. BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO. OF EUGENE “Coke”= Coca-Cola It’s natural for popular names to acquire friendly abbrevia tions. That’s why you hear Coca-Cola called ’'Coke'’. I 3 3 ■>)