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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 30, 1945)
For the first time since briefly in 1942, the Webfoots are peiched securely at the top of the Northern division standings. Their two-game sweep of the series with Washington last v\ eekend boosted the Ducks lead to two full games over Oregon State. The Oregon team will be facing some of its toughest games during the remainder of the season and is still cpiite a ways fiom having the title safely tucked in the Igloo trophy case. I iist, they journey to Seattle this week for two more games with the Huskies. And this time, the Washington team will '-^Padded with at least two naval trainee starters. That means that not only will the Ducks have to watch the high-scoring trio of.Washington’s Jorgenson, King, and Carnovale, but will have five dangerous men to guard. Aftei the Husky series, the Webfoots will return home for a Dad's Day encounter with the Beavers from Corvallis. The new OSC center, Red Rocha, is the hottest player in the league light now, and the Orange quintet has come back after three straight defeats at the start of conference play, so the Beavers are another big obstacle in Oregon's path. The best news on the squad was the return of Captain Bob Hamilton to his high-scoring antics of last season. Hamilton has been doing a lot more “feeding” of the ball to his team rftfttes than last season, but with time running out in the last Washington game, he proved that he had his old touch In putting in the tying and winning counters for a total of 15 points during the game. For the second time this season, Dick Wilkins, lanky fresh man forward, is not leading the league’s scorers. First Rocha of OSC edged him out last week, but Wilkins poured in enough points during the first Husky game to jump back into the top spot. Now, however, it’s 6-foot, 8-inch Vince Hansen of WSC, who dunked in 40 counters against Idaho over the weekend, who wears the crown. Hansen has 113 points, Wilkins 110. Jorgeson (Washington) 103, and Rocha 90; however Wilkins stdl retains his lead as national scoring king, with 373 points against Hansen’s 365 counters. • Slight Problem—Dead Fifty Years Too Soon! By JEAN LAWRENCE "Riot in Reincarnation” is the way one columnist described “Heaven Can Wait” when it appeared on celluloid a few years ago. -Then titled “Here Comes Mr. Jordan” this “in and out of this world” comedy has owned up to three different names ir> us oriel career. It first appeared on Broadway in 1942 titled “It Happened Like This.” It seems that heaven was sup posed to wait some 50 years for Joe Pendleton, sax-playing light weight pugilist, in which time Joe was destined to become champ and fa# in love with a blonde named Bette. Naturally Joe doesn’t want to miss all this and raises an awful fuss when over-energetic heavenly messenger No. 7013 prematurely "NONE BUT THE LONELY HEART" ^ with ETHEL BARRYMORE rescues him from his crashing plane. Mr. Jordan, who runs the “out ward-bound” conveyance, checks with The Book, discovers No. 7013's slight mistake of 50 years, and promises Joe a new body to replace his own which has meantime been cremated by Joe’s manager, Max. Therein hangs the very funny tale which University theater fans will see enacted, intimate style, Febru ary 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, and 17, third floor Gerlinger. The movie, “Here Comes Mr. Jordan” cast Claude Rains as that heavenly gentleman, with Robert Montgomery as Joe, Edward Ev erett Horton as No. 7013, and James Gleason as Max. These parts will be played by Edward T. Lyons, John Moore, Shubert Fendrick, and Dale Fredrick respectively. Two new additions to the cast are Lee Patraselc, 1st escort; and I Darrel Boone, Lefty. Mrs. Anna belle Wilkerson Davis and Jo Anne Bush play the lead women roles. Coed Hoopsters Win By Default University house and Orides won ; the women’s intramural basketball games Monday night, but they didn't have a chance to play. Pi Beta Phi has dropped from its league, leaving University without a game. Orides won by default from the Chi Omegas. Games remaining this week, at 5 p.m., are: Tuesday—Gamma Phi Beta vs. Zeta hall; University No. 2 vs. Alpha Gamma Delta. Wednesday—Alpha Omicron Pi vs. Sigma Kappa; Alpha hall vs. Delta Gamma. Thursday—Rebec vs. Alpha Del ta Pi; Chi Omega vs. Highland. Friday — University No. 2 vs. Kappa Kappa Gamma. Badminton matches scheduled are: Tuesday, 4 p.m.—Pi Beta Phi vs. Sigma Kappa. Thursday, 4 p.m.--Alpha Xi Del ta vs. Gamma Phi Beta. Saturday, 10 a.m.— Susan Camp bell vs. Alpha Gamma Delta; 11 a.m. Chi Omega vs. Highland. UO Professor (Continued from page one) tures of the masks used in these strange regional dances were furn ished by various national museums. Mrs. Ernst, who teaches the campus playwriting class, has had two books of plays published, and writes on theater subjects for both eastern and western magazines. Most recent is a series of sketches on. “Stage Annals of Early Ore gon” for the Oregon Historical Quarterly, among them being two stories on “Theater’s of Eugene’s Horse-and-Buggy Days,” based on interviews with pioneers associated in this field, and aided by early newspapers. The current article describes one of the still-existing masked ritual dances of the coast region, dedi cated to the god of storm. Mortar Board (Continued from page one) Patty Eckberg, Patricia Ells worth, Alice Eliz English, Phyllis J. Falk, Naida Fishback, Dorothy Fowler, Barbara Fullmer, Patricia Geil, Mary Gregg, Gloria Grenfell. Mary Bea Hall. Bjorg Hansen, Mary Anne Han sen, Imogene Harvey, Betty J. Hermann, Helen Hicks, Janet Hicks, Nancy Allen Hoerlein, Bev erly Howard, Charlotte Hughes, Barbara Johns, Florence Johns, Bernice Johnson, Donna Johnson, Della Jones. Ardelle Kerrigan, Sylvia L. Kill man, Loin a Kingwell, Lola Ruth Kirbyson, Phyllis D. Kiste, Hazel Irene Leonard, Carolyn Rose Little, Rosemary Loder, Jeanne Long, Hel en May McElfresh, Mary Elizabetn Mack, Karen Myrtle Martin, Jo anne Merwin, Betty Jo Miller, Ros etta Marrion, Georgia Moscrip, Marie Murray. Olive Oldfield, ' Caroline Olsen, Lucy Patty, Elsie Marie Peery, Alice Prather, Joan Preble, Mary Rafferty, Clara Fern Rice, Betty L. Schaefer, Lois Schmiedeskamp, Jane M. Schultz, Claire J. Sering, Jeanne Simmonds, Suzanne Sim mons, Betty M. Skofstad, Martha Smith, Mary Springer, Libby Spiruta, Bernice Stearns, Betty Stewart, Marilyn Stratton, Ellen Sutherland. Shirley J. Thurman, Victoria Utz, Lorraine Voss, Patricia Webber, Betsy West, Phyllis Williams, Vir ginia Woods, Virginia Woodward, Nancy Wortman, M a r y e 11 e n Wright, Jean Wykoff, and Wilma Wilson. 'Nightmare Boys' (Continued front page one) by Chester Gould, cartoonist of Dick Tracy. Oregon’s version of the Gravel Gertrude quartet revealed tor the benefit of the entire campus last DICK WILKINS He retained his position as the top scorer in the nation by putting ui 28 points against Washington last weekend. Saturday night in McArthur court, what their group judged to be the three most likely candidates for “Nightmare Boy.” The three eli gible men who were chosen by the “Gerties” were Gill Roberts, Bill Davis, and Evans Sav. Each mem ber of this trio will receive as re ward for their manly virtues and subsequent selection a 50-cent coke and eigaret credit account so that they may blow themselves between classes, according to reports from top flight members of the Hialeah Gentlemen’s Cultural league. The program opened with Sylvia Mitchell, University freshman, pre senting an outstanding twirling' act. As a final act, a basketball game was played between St. Mary’s school and Roosevelt junior high, ending in final victory for St. Mary’s. RAINING ? ? ? • Fountain • Steaks • Dinners Step inside and let us serve you! CAFE DON GAY 1016 Willamette Next to McDonald Theater DO YOUR BREAKFASTS NEVER CHANGE? Then . . . Buy horns at Korn's We sell delicious butter horns Korn's Bakery 14th and Mill Phone 71