VOLUME XLVI
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SATURDAY, OCT. 14, 1944
NUMBER j7
“Undiscovered
Voice" Returns
After living just off New York’s blazing Broadway for three
months, singing to 20 million people every Sunday, rehearsing
on the stage at Carnegie hall, and chatting with Thomas E.
Dewey in his own spacious offices, Marie Rogndahl has re
turned to Oregon.
She has eaten ravioli, minestrone and anipasto in Joe Ra
mano s Italian restauran, Russian
borscht in the Russian Tea room,
and on her 21st birthday, Septem
ber 5, Marie dined at the subter
ranean French restaurant Voisin.
That night the city had a black
out and Marie recounts the har
rowing dash to find a cab and to
reach home before the lights went
out.
In summing up New York, the
honey-haired coloraturo said she
like the city because of its many
opportunities in radio, opera, the
theater, and other arts. As for en
tertainment, she suggested, “I
think you could live in New York
for a year and go to a different
place every night.”
Three weeks before coming home
to Oregon, Marie trouped with 10
other members of the ‘‘Hour of
Charm” through Buffalo, N.Y.,
Fort Wayne, Indiana; Detroit.
Michigan; Toronto and Montreal,
Qanada; playing one-night stands.
In Detroit they did four and five
shows a day, “which was a grind,”
and had only 40 minutes between
shows to relax and get something
to eat.
Enthusiastically greeting each of
her friends who came into the li
brary, the singer exclaimed to one
of them, a student of nursing, that
if it weren’t for music, joining the
nurses corps and going overseas
would be the “first thing she would
do.”
In planning for the future, the
bright-eyed singer intends to grad
uate from college by June, learn
ing the scores to perhaps three
operas under Professor Sigurd
Nilssen, but she has nothing defi
nitely planned and no contracts
signed.
One disconcerting thing still oc
curs. Whenever Marie is asked for
her autograph she gets embar
rassed. Marie has not changed.
"Hello” Theme
Chosen for
First Dance
An all-campus dance, a delayed
substitute for the traditional
“Hello" dance, is planned for Sat
urday night, October 21 in Ger
linger hall from 9 until 12. Skull
and Dagger and Kwama, sopho
more men’s and women's honor
aries, are sponsors of the affair,
and their respective presidents,
Nick Weddle and Roseann Leckie,
are in charge.
Music will be by George Carey’s
campus orchestra, and “Hello" will
be the theme of decorations. An
nounced admission is $1.20, includ
ing tax.
During the dance, Skull and Dag
ger will tap five new members.
To help both men and women
find dates for the dance, a date
committee of Jean Watson, Bar
bara Pearson, Russ Monahan, and
Bob Bissett has been appointed.
Anyone desiring such service
should call one of the committee
members.
Other committees working on
the affair are: decorations: Nadyne
Neet, Beatrice King, Leon Wil
liams, Nick Weddle, Dorothy Ras
mussen, Marjorie Cowlin, Jocelyn
Fancher, and Anne Scripter; pa
trons and patronesses, Elsie Ball
and Marjory Allingham; pub
licity, Jean Lawrence and Marilyn
Sage; and tickets, Florence Hint
zen, Patricia Metcalf, Martha
Thorsland, Beverly Carroll, Mari
lyn Sage, Milton Sparks, Lou Gel
los, and Margery Skordahl.
Raoul Jobin, Met Tenor,
To Give Series Concert
Campus music lovers are due for a treat when Raoul Jobin,
famous tenor of the Metropolitan Opera company, makes his
appearance as the first star of the present series October 26.
Mr. Jobin was born in Quebec, Canada. He made -his first
operatic debut in France, where he appeared for the Paris
Opera company as Tybalt in the opera “Romeo and Juliet.”
Immediately after, he left on a
fifteen-month opera tour of Eu
rope, during which he made 111
appearances. From 1934 until the
outbreak of "the present war, he
was leading tenor of the Grand
Opera Comique of Paris, in addi
tion to continuing his tours.
His debut in the western hemi
sphere was made at the Teatro
Municipal in Die de Janiero. Later
he came to the United States
and appeared for the Metropolitan
Opera company in 1940 opposite
Qraee Moore in the opera “Manop.”
Ms success was overwhelming and
he has been one of the foremost
tenors of the country ever since.
He has played in all the large opera
companies of the continent, as well
as being a guest soloist with the
principal symphonies.
Mr. Jobin has also been warmly
received over the airlanes, appear
ing on many outstanding programs.
Among the more recent are the
“Celanese Hour,” and Sherwin and
Williams “World of Song.”
Students will be able to hear a
preview of the great star on Octo
ber 15 when he will appear on the
Standard Hour. He is scheduled to
sing several excerpts from the op
era, “Faust.”
The campus performance will be
at McArthur court and will begin
promptly at 8:15. Admission is
limited to ASUO card holders and
members of the Eugene Civic Mu
sic association.
Bunion Race Swings
Into Second Half
While floodlights played across the gridiron of the high school
football game and Erskine Hawkins swung out at the armory,
boy met girl in the 11 houses which sponsored the Bunion Derby
last night.
At*several of the houses the ration was three men to each woman,
and from the coed viewpoint the Derby was a success.
The continuation of the Derby this afternoon from 12:30 to 1,
at the remaining houses will be equally successful if the men follow
the schedule planned by Dennis Johnson and Betty Butler, co
chairmen.
The houses open today are: Kappa Alpha Theta, Alpha Gamma
Delta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Alpha Chi Omega, Pi Beta Phi,
Delta Delta Delta, University house, Hendricks hall, and Susan
Campbell hall.
The men's groups will begin at the specified houses as follows:
Sigma Nu at Kappa Alpha Theta; Kappa Sigma at Alpha Gamma
Delta; Phi Gamma Beta at Kappa Kappa Gamma; BINFSAOMUO
at Alpha Chi Omega; Campbell co-op at Pi Beta Phi; and unaffil
iated men at Delta Delta Delta.
The men will stay 15 minutes at each house. Then they will
follow the schedule in the order named (see paragraph four) until
each house has been visited once.
Ohioan Advocates National
Housekeeping Fall Program
Slamming bureaucracy as an un-American term, Gov. John
W. Bricker, Republican vice-presidential candidate, told listen
ers at McArthur court Thursday: “We need a governmental
reorganization at Washington. It will have to be done in a
Republican administration. Turn Dewey loose on that job
W. B. Merriam
Will Conduct
First Service
Professor Willis B. Merriam will
be the featured speaker at the first
Vesper choir service tomorrow ev
ening- in the music auditorium. The
program will last from 5 to 5:30.
Helen Luvaas will direct the choir,
and Barbara Tripp is featured or
ganist.
The Vesper choir services are
presented once a month throughout
the school year. At each service, a
short meditation will be given by
a religious authority.
These services are sponsored by
the Student Religious council,
whose officers act as ushers. Stu
dents are urged to attend, as the
services are not long and consist
primarily of music.
The program for tomorrow in
cludes:
Organ prelude, “Allegro” from
Sonata in C Minor by Borowski;
Vesper choir, “Bless This House”
by Brahe; organ meditation, “Herz
lich Thut Mich Verlangen,” by
Bach; Vesper choir, “Adoramus
Tt,” by Mozart; organ postlude,
“Little Fugue in G Minor” by Bach.
The date of the second service
will be announced in the Emerald.
Sahlstrom
Names Aides
Committee heads of the Young
Democrats club were named Tues
day by Chairman Elmer Sahlstrom.
Arrangements for candidates
and other prominent Democrats to
address the students will be made
by the guest speakers committee
of which Betty Stuart, senior in
liberal arts, is chairman.
Maryann Howard, sophomore in
journalism, heads the campaign
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next November.”
Answered by applause from the
audience which crowded the floor
of the court, Bricker continued,
"The Republican party is the lib
eral party in this country. The New
Deal is reactionary.”
A lot of shady deals in Wash
ington now need to be cleaned up,
and Dewey can do it, asserted the
tall Ohioan.
"Bureaucrat is not an appealing
name to American. It is related to
autocracy in our minds. It con
notes untied power of government.
Many well-meaning persons in the
government employ have become
involved in the bureaucratic sys
tem, and very often that system
compels them to do things on the
odd side,” Bricker said, and related
several instances illustrating mis
use of federal power invested in
some of the “pestiferous” bureaus.
"Not only are the three million
and more bureaucrats stuffed into
corners and hallways to the point
of suffocation, but the bureaus
themselves are piled one on the
other until they have spread into
cities all over the country, the can
didate emphasized.
Webb To Attend
Chicago Meeting
Carl Webb, assistant professor
of journalism, will leave Saturday
for Chicago where he will attend a
series of annual meetings of na
tional newspaper groups. He will
be present at the meetings, both as
assistant professor of journalism
on the campus, and as manager of
the Oregon Newspaper Publishers’
association.
The meeting will include the In
land Daily Press association, the
Newspaper Managers association,
the National Editorial association,
the Newspaper Advisory council,
and the Newspaper Advertising
Service. At the meeting of the
Newspaper Managers associations,
Mr. Webb will give a speech on
present-day advertising rates.
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Talent Parade
Features Men
At Frosh Party
A wholly masculine talent p.i
fficle, featuring- Bob Moran, talent
ed carrot-topped freshman, as sink
ing master of ceremonies, will en
tertain frosh women tonight at 7 hi
Gerlinger at fee first party of too
year exclusively for freshman girls.
Included in the host of talent
will be Evans Cantrell, Oregon's
own swoon crooner, Cliff Mallicot,
and Jack Howell, boogie-woogie
pianists, and Bob Smith, who w U
lead a group of fraternity men a
the singing of Oregon and fratern
ity songs. Special requests for fra*
ternity songs will be granted.
The party will be informal.
Guests will sit on the floor and a re
requested to enter the gym via the
sun porch door. To accommodate
those women who have dates later
that night the party will last only
an hour.
Kwama, Sophomore women’s
honorary which is sponsoring the
affair, is considering the possibility
ot supporting a series of future
programs and forums designed to
aid freshman girls. The party to
night will be the first in that series.
Four Houses
Hold Mixers
Wednesday night was by no
means dead for several of the worn
ens living- organizations. "We
didn t know there were so many
n.en on the campus,” one coed said.
Three sororities — Kappa Alpha
Theta, Delta Delta Delta, and Del
ta Gamma—opened their doors fox
dancing to campus men, fellov/n
from houses, those living out, and
pre-meds. The Tri Delts entertain.d
from 7 to 8; the others danced front
9 to 10:30.
Smooth cooperation was shown
between Campbell club, men's co
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Vacancy Occurs
In Co-op Board
Appointment of someone to tal o
the place of Pauline Gordon, who
did not return this year, on the
Co-op governing board was dis
cussed at a meeting of the board
Wednesday afternoon. No definite
appointment has been made.
Another subject of interest was
the question of where the Co-op
should be situated when the Stu
dent Union building is completed.
Two possibilities are including it A
the Student Union building a; id
leaving it where it is.
The cash rebate of last year, the
low stock of supply, difficulties
ir. getting stock, and the fact that
mailing service is again open at tho
Co-op were also discussed. Mr. Mc
Clain mentioned that he has only
one full-time worker at present,
and would like to have two or more
boys work for him full time. In
terested persons may see him in
the Co-op during the day.
Ballot Time Lament
The seniors are the ones that vote*
The juniors are the boasters,
The sophomores get aboard t.bo
boat,
But freshmen make the posters,
—D.F.3,