MARJORIE M. GOODWIN EDITOR ELIZABETH EDMUNDS BUSINESS MANAGER MARJORIE YOUNG Managing Editor GLORIA MALLOY Advertising Manager ANNE CRAVEN News Editor Published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, and holidays and final examination periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. RefoweUaua . . . This is written ahead of time, so that it will not be too late. Horace Robinson, acting educational activities manager and director of campus plays for several years, has received his call from the army. He will remain on the campus for an indefinite length of time, but expects orders to leave at any time. The students will miss his unhurried efficiency that al ways seems to get things done well and on time. They will ■miss his advice on handling student dances, traditional pro grams, and special events. Drama students will miss his classes in technique of acting', introduction to theater arts, theater workshop and others. iji ^ ;{« While he has been on the campus Horace has accomplished a lot. He helped to formulate the new policy for the University theater, a policy planned to allow each generation of college students to see representative types of drama of all periods and types, lie stepped into the place of Dick Williams, former activities manager, when Williams left for the navy. He has continued in teaching his classes and in working on dramatic productions. His direction was responsible for such hits as ‘"Of Mice and Men,” and “Of These We Sing.” >Jt ^ :•< 5}c The less tangible things, but the ones that students appre ciate without even particularly recognizing, are a part of his personality. For one thing, there is the ease that students feel in addressing him by his first name rather than by the formal “Mr. Robinson” that a less friendly person would demand. There is the slow drawl that comes in to make some chuckle inspiring remark, the easy gestures of the actor. All these make Horace a distinct personality on the campus, someone who will be remembered long after he has left. For these reasons it is well to say goodbye a little ahead of time, to tell the man we will miss so much what he has meant to the campus.—E.N. • • # cMaVuf, and Jlana There’s ;i new campus combination, an inseparable couple. Heads turn when they pass, and smiles break. For he is Harry Lipsit, blind senior in journalism, and she is Foma, a seeing eye dog. And the combination is one which seems so right that we smile involuntarily, and go around the rest of the day thinking that the world can't be so bad after all. Harry left the campus shortly before the end of last term to go to Morristown, New Jersey, to obtain his dog. It was a journey of which he had dreamed for three years, and for which he had been working and planning for many weeks. Before he left, lie had to take a physical examination—“almost as rugged n physical as the army exams,” he said. Working with a seeing eye dog—learning how to handle him—is not all plav, especially when the dog is such a frisky cat-chaser as J ,011a. * * * * Cat chaser or not, Lona is jnst the dog Harry wanted. Al though he was willing to have a boxer or a cross-breed, he realls wanted a Herman shepherd, which is l.ona's breed. And temporarily, thev were made for each other, or at least selected for each other. Jiarry explained before he left that the blind person and the seeing eye dog are titled to each other, because the dogs and their owners have "definite personalities.” Stir dents and professors who see Harry and Lona together agree that the friendly, lively, likeable personalities of both are ideally suited. Both are full of fun, too, but with a slight difference— l.ona's idea of fun is a wild, gay dash after the nearest cat or squirrel. In fact, that's her main trouble, Harry says, but lie thinks she'll improve. Squirrels are so numerous on the old campus that Lona will probably soon be just bored at the glimpse of a brown feather-tail scurrying up a tree or scamper ing across the daisy-sprinkled lawns. * * * * Harrs l.ipsil has been a well-known figure on the Oregon campus for several s ears. Ilis ability to get around the campus unaided has evoked startled admiration. Now his necessarily slow pace ss ill be stepped up a bit. Perhaps stepped up a little too much at first—"Lona likes m run"—but soon that light hearted lads' ssill settle dossil somewhat, and Harry and Lona s ill walk together across the campus, striding with the easy, swinging step of those svho walk together often.—J.N. Up From UO By PEGGY OVERLAND A career rubbed out of Aladdin s own magic lamp has thiust Edgar Bohlman, '26, into the top American position as paintei and designer. Fantastic and incredible both for its brilliance and swiftness of movement, Bohlman staunchly credits his success to the trainirur be received while on the campus as scenarist in ths University theater and to the time he spent on the decorations for college dances. Whether or not that had anything to do with it, the fact remains that, as one en thusiastic French critic said, . . Edgar Bohlman will leave a name.” The first sign of his creative genius was revealed three years after his graduation from the Uni versity as a major in art under Maude Kerns, when he was ac cepted by the theatrical world of New York and immediately swept through that Broadway season with the startling record of having staged, costumed, and designed scenery for three out of the five operas produced in English. Rob ert Edmund Jones and Bel Geddes handled the other two. His staging and costuming for the only opera by Bach, ‘‘Phoebus and Pan,” first given in New York was acclaimed by the critics as ‘‘a most exquisite and rare produc tion.” It was not beginner’s luck either. His subsequent work, marked by his settings for the beautiful' but ill-fated “Venetian Glass Nephew” (a musical drama tization of Elinor Wylie’s book), proved such distinguished ability that he won an invitation to a conference with Max Reinhart in Germany. This visit was length ened into a summer tour of France, Germany, Italy and Austria. On his return he was immediately signed up as scenic designer for a Metropolitan Opera production. Goes to Africa It was in 1932 that Bohlman joined up as artist for a scientific expedition in Northern Africa. He spent the entire trip painting the people, costumes, and landscapes of remote districts, and later ex hibiting them in the Modern gal lery of Casablanca, Morocco. His interpretation of the spirit and costiimes of the land won him fame throughout the European j continent, and his water colors were subsequently displayed in Paris and the Sahara exposition. His costume plates of African 1 tribes were also published by the director of the library and archives of the protectorate in France and the plates were later acquired by French museums as well as being reproduced in a number of maga zines. Parisian critics described his art as noteworthy for its exact ness of color and line and the delicacy of sentiment and grace ot life. From there Bohlman swept on to even greater triumphs. His ex hibit in New York was the success of the season. Although seven oth er watercolor artists chose to ex hibit the same week, Bohlman's work attracted so much attention from the critics that it was pre dicted his career as a painter has been made. Writeups Favorable The New York Times art critics said in review of this exhibit: “Bohlman has mastered his work. Dancers, matadors, drinkers at a bar became not mere picturesque sketches in his work but are in vested with exotic individuality. Quick perception, spirited portray al, a sense of the theatrical and a delightful rhythm are implicit in his work. Bohlman’s success has proved more than mere brilliance, and he has passed beyond a scenic design er into one of the first eminent water-color painters of America. Robinson’s Drama Ideas Focus Attention on UO By MARGUERITE WITTWER J Iorace Robinson, director of the educational activities office and originator of the nationally-famous four-year drama plan, has stated : ‘‘We feel that we have offered an outlet for dramatic activity, provided worthwhile entertainment for students and faculty of the Universitv, and broadened the entire cultural aspect of the entire community by producing plays which the average person would not otherwise have had the opportunity to attend." Mr. Kohinson, who recently passed his physical examinations for the army, will probably not be able to see his plan in action until the whole staff of the drama de partment is back on the campus. "We wish to guarantee every generation of students the oppor tunity to play in or see dramas representing all periods in the art," he said. "With that in mind our plan is to pledge ourselves to pro uce six plays a year, three of them being from the greater dramas, the others to be the newest Broad way or London hits. “There are twelve definite cate gories of drama and following this plan we would be able to present one play from each of these in the four years.” l’lan Outlined The program of the University theater this year lias been a minia ture version of the plan outlined by Mr. Kohinson. Four types of plays were to have been given: farce, "Out of the Frying Pan"; drama, "Dark Victory”; experi mental. “The Great God Brown”; and musical, the production of which will probably be impossible if Robinson leaves for the army soon. Horace Robinson came to the University in 1933 from Oklahoma City university where he took undergraduate work and had been a drama instructor; his graduate work had been taken at the Uni versity of Iowa. The University theater has been established for over thirty-five years; a long succession of suc cessful plays have been produced and several former members of Oregon drama courses now have their names in lights on marquees across the country. Kdgar Buchan an, Hollywood comedian, and Wil liam Terry, who starred in the mo tion picture “Stage Door Can teen,” are two Oregon theater alumni. Many of the regular members of the Very Little Theater of Eugene received their first stage experi ence under Mr. Robinson’s direc tion. Gerda Brown, Mrs. Kenneth Shumaker, Hally Huntington, Rob-' ert Earl, Henry Korn are among them. Graduate in Army Robinson himself is an honorary member of the troupe. Among graduates of the Oregon drama de partment, three or four men are in the special service branches of the P^a and Can Dear Editor and Staff: We know you will pardon us for not writing sooner, but we know you would be deluged with tele grams of congratulations on Tues day’s Emerald, so thought it best to wait until the excitement burbled down. Reading Tuesday’s Emerald did much to buoy up our day, and we wish to express in words the satis faction we experienced in being one of the first to view a land mark in the field of journalism. The same thrill that ran through Joseph Pulitzer, when after raid ing his first beard, he found that it not only concealed the fact he had no chin, but he could scan edi torial copy with the tip of it; that same thrill, or something very comparable, surged through vari ous parts of us when we picked up that paper and were greeted by a completely revolutionary style in interpretative reporting. The technique by which you were able to present a complete picture of all six sides of every question, with complete objectivity and without resorting at any time to coloring, or as the propagandist terms it, “word shading,” has never so far as we know b.qen equalled. Most outstanding from the point of view of style and achievement of desired effect, however, was the utilization of skillfully etched subtlety. In this category the writ ers of the ages were eclipsed, ev ery one. We could dwell long on the fas cinating way in which news val ues and news play were merged with the striking human interest elements of personalities to create myriad pictures of the innermost workings of the subsconscious mind and a pattern of infinite di versity in the dream sequence. But time does not permit the expression of our approval. Let it suffice to say we feel assured that when politics comes to Oregon this spring you of the Emerald will report its events in this same completely revolution ary and most satisfying style. CHAS. POLITZ armed forces, directing plays and shows for morale purposes. Three former coeds are with the Red Cross entertainment canteens, two in England and one in Australia. Among the outstanding produc tions served up by the department, alumni and faculty members will remember the 1938 all-scliool show “Peer Gynt’’ which was given in McArthur court to an audience of 4000 spectators. An entire hillside \ias built on one side of the court and the music, dancing, and drama departments all collaborated to make it an impressive drama.. Other unusually good productions through the years have been “Romeo and Juliet,’’ which was an outdoor performance given on the embankment above the tennis courts near the law school in 1936, “Ethan Frome,’’ 1937, and “Of Mice and Men,’’ 1940. EUGENE HOTEL Presents ART HOLMAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA Every Sat. Nite Dancing 9 ’til 12 in the Persian Room