Affairs of Wally
And Duke Aired
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Butler's Ball
Set for April 21
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VOLUME XLVI
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1945
NUMBER 95
Campus Sing
For Mardi Gras
To Have Finale
All living organizations plan
ning to participate in the All
Campus Sing during Junior
^eekend should turn in their
song titles to D. Lu Simonsen
at Susan Campbell hall as soon
as possible. Miss Simonsen,
sing chairman, said that the
songs need not be in keeping
with the Junior Weekend
theme “Mardi Gras.”
A new feature to be added to
the fifth annual All-Campus Sing
is a finale by the entire group un
der the direction of Theodore
Kratt, dean of the music school.
The name of the selection will be
announced at a later date.
~^The chorus directors of 23 wom
en’s houses and 5 men’s houses
met in Gerlinger hall Wednesday
evening to determine the points on
which they wished to be judged.
Enunciation, interpretation, and
tone quality will each count 20 per
cent; balance of parts, response
to director, type of song, and ap
pearance, 10 per cent. Each group
may have from 12 to 13 partici
pants. They may choose their own
songs but must sing without ac
companiment. Three minutes is
the maximum time allowed.
Today’s World
RUSSIA ANNOUNCED ter
mination of her neutrality pact
with Japan in the midst of a
Tokyo political and military
crisis which toppled the cabinet
of Gen. Kunaiki Koiso.
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AMERICAN FORCES pressed
within 126 miles of Berlin while
other units forced the Weser
river, throwing the Germans
back toward the Elbe and the
last real natural barrier before
the capital.
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^ STIFFENING JAPANESE re
sistance has slowed United
States army units driving to
wards Naha, capital of Okinawa
island, while marines on the
north side of the island worked
forward five miles unopposed.
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THE RED ARMY has fought
into “greater Vienna” and are
pouring their forces over the
Danube between captured Brati
slava and the Austrian capital.
F U E U S ADMINISTRATOR
Ickes said he hoped to receive
an order for government seizure
of Eastern sor. .
Nlo Meat BafSs/ Surplus
Cokes, Dixie Cups, Cake
Members of Professor W. F. G.
Thacher’s short story writing
class were more than delighted
when Jean Lawrence and Bob
McGill, prize winners in the an
nual Marshall-Case-Haycox short
story contest, arrived at class
Thursday with a treat for every
member present. The outstand
ing opinion appeared to be that
prize money comes in handy for
persons other than those receiv
ing it. »
'"'S he refreshments consisted of
cokes, dixie cups, and last, but
by no means least, chocolate
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Town and Campus Journalists
To Meet at All-Shackrat Party
iter
SHACKRAT ON THE HOOF
This is a picture of a shackrat. This unique specimen of the human
species is rarely seen because shackrats are always in such a hurry
to get to the journalism building where they all hang out. Shackrats
looking for stories usually have their nose on the ground. This shack
rat has all his work in and is running to the shack to the journalistic
jive session being held tonight. We don’t know what he has in his
little black bag. What would you bring to a party?
liliom’ Dates Revealed
First Show on April 27
Advancing its four-year greater drama program, the Uni
versity Theater guild will present ‘ Liliom,” by Hungarian
born Ferenc Molnar, April 27 and 28, and May 1 and 3.
Starring in the title role is Lewis Vogler, sophomore in music,
last seen on the Guild hall stage as the inventive Mr. Antrobus
Forum to Preview
S. F. Conference
Dr. Edna Landros, head of the
University Romance language de
partment and a member of the
Oregon chapter of the United Na
tions association, an affiliate of the
Carnegie peace endowment, will
lead the forum to be held at 6:30
p.m. Sunday at Westminster house
on the problems confronting the
San Francisco conference.
Following a short social hour
from 6 until 6:30 p.m. Dr. Landros
will speak and then lead a short
informal discussion of the sensitive
points which promise to make dif
ficulties at the coming conference
in San Francisco.
Some of the problems to be dis
cussed are: the zoning system to
be used in Germany, the treatment
to be accorded to the German gen
eral staff, the attitude of the Unit
ed Nations in the Greek situation,
the Polish question, the voting sys
tem of the security council, an out
line of the Dumbarton Oaks pro
posal, and the attitude adopted by
Congress in the current discussion.
Miss Stockham Here
Miss Violet Stockham, dean of
women of the Southern College of
Education, is a visitor on the cam
pus today. While here she will ob
serve the U. of o. i .
cation system.
in “The Skin of Our Teeth.”
Cast in the divided co-star role
of Julie, are Mary Lee Steel, senior
in business administration, and
Phyllis Kiste, freshman in liberal
arts. Miss Kiste appeared last term
as Helen of Troy in “The Trojan
Women.”
Horace W. Robinson, assistant
professor of speech and dramatic
arts, is directing the production,
assisted by Marjory Allingham,
business manager for the Univer
sity theater.
Perhaps the best example of
the romantic period of European
playwriting, “Liliorn” is considered
one of the greatest love stories
ever written. The scene is laid in
Budapest at the beginning of the
20th century.
Although a near classic, “Lil
iom,” now 35 years old, was writ
ten by a contemporary dramatist.
Molnar is now a refugee from his
native Hungary, and living in New
York City.
The play has had a number of
Broadway and motion picture pre
sentations and is now being re
written as a musical to be pro
duced in New York this fall.
Included in the cast are: Jean
McClanathan, Barbara Bentley,
Virginia Woods, Yoland and Col
lette Pauteau, Alice English,
Stuart Mercereau, Brisley Brown,
Joy Willard, Henry Korn, and Bud
Griffith of the Very Little theater,
Lee Petrasek, Jean Ashworth,
Nina Ferniman, Valerie Overland,
Evelyn Woodworth, Dick Dahl
strom, Lyle Gilbertson and Sam
Benveniste.
Combining business with pleasure and in
itiating a custom which the originators hope
will become a moss-grown tradition in the
years to come, Eugene Register-Guard staff
members, school of journalism faculty mem
bers, and past, present, and potential Emerald
workers and their friends are gathering to
Campus Views
TIME Exhibit
Of War News
A circulating exhibit provided
by Time magazine showing the
progress of war news from the
reporter until its publication is on
display in room 105 of the journal
ism building, having arrived Wed
nesday afternoon from Willamette
university. The display will be
open for inspection by those inter
ested until Tuesday afternoon,
when it again will be started on
its travels. Pictures of all the pro
cesses involved are mounted on
three extra-large cards.
The exhibit was sent here
through Hunter Van Sicklen, for
mer Oregon journalism student,
now representing Time, Life, and
Fortune in the Northwest, with
offices in Portland.
night for the first All-Shackrat
party to be held in the journalism
building.
The purpose of the party is to
provide an opportunity for stu
dents interested in journalism to
meet and talk with faculty
members and established members
of the profession, on informal
grounds.
Acting Dean George Turnbull
will be guest of honor and has been
given the special honor of crown
ing the king and queen of Shack
rats, who will be elected by those
present at the party. Members of
the journalism faculty and their
wives have been invited. Honored
guests include: Alton F. Baker,
publisher of the Register-Guard;
William Tugman, editor, Register
Guard; George Hart, city editor;
Roch Bradshaw and Edith Mad
dron, wire editors; Marian Lowry,
women's editor; Dick Strite, sports
editor; William Lindley, night edi
tor; Sam Bronaugh, business man
ager, and Staff Members Ann Con
nell and Jean Germaine.
Orchids to the Queen
The queen of Shackrats, to be
chosen at the party by those pres
ent, will be crowned with a press
flavor crown made of shiny lead
slugs and an Emerald masthead.
Emerald staff members will pre
sent her with a corsage of white
orchids, air expressed from Holly
wood with the compliments of the
“Breakfast in Hollywood’’ radio
show. The king, sentenced to re
ceive a similar crown, will be given
a 12-inch cigar which, despite the
shortage, is made of real, smok
able tobacco.
Ilula Girls and Crooners
The entertainment program fea
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Campus “Butlers” Junk Dishes;
Plan Ball to Feature LIFE,
Marine Band in Igloo Perhaps
By JACK CRAIG
At an overtime meeting early this week, houseboys, grease
balls, hashers, and soup jockies from all the dorms and sor
orities of the campus, huddled in the gastronomic emporium of
Gerlinger hall. Emerging from their stew, they announced the
decision to exchange their regular activities of dish jugglin
and hash slinging for a more peaceful occupation of staging
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Marge Dibble Returns ...
Alumna Recruits Camp Councilors
By JEANNE SIMMONDS
A strikingly brilliant suit and a
smile to match dispelled any
gloomy atmosphere the Eugene
elements may have created as
Marge Dibble, recruiting for Camp
Namanu counsellors, greeted inter
ested University girls yesterday in
I Gerlinger hall. Miss Dibble, an Ore
gon graduate of the class of 43,
returned to the campus for a few
days to interview and register
women for counselling positions.
'She is now acting executive secre
tary for the Campfire girls, in
Portland.
Marge was a prominent student
while on the campus, and culmin
ated an activity-laden career at
the U. of O. with the presidency
of the associated women students.
Vice-president of her sophomore
class, she also headed Kwama that
year. Her junior year found her a
member of Phi Theta Upsilon, and
during spring term, 1942, she was
recipient of the Gerlinger cup.
Marge, a Kappa Alpha Theta, was
a member of Mortar Board in her
senior year.
A course in Campfire executive
training at Mills college followed
her graduation, and from here she
went to the Portland office as
assistant executive chairman. Pro
moted to acting executive secre
tary, Marge still holds that posi
tion.
One of her many intriguing ex
periences in this work will espe
cially interest the .YVebfoots, for
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“Butler’s Ball” to be presented
Saturday, April 21.
Morrie Mink, general chairman
of the affair, announced the top
feature of Oregon’s first “Butler’s
Ball” will be the music of the
Klamath Falls marine corps band
which recently had the honor of
being chosen by “Downbeat” as
one of the finest on the west coastr.
THEY SELL BONDS,
TOO
Captain C. J. Heine, Imjpd offi
cer at Klamath Falls, in a letter
to Chairman Mink said: “During
a recent bond tour covering the
entire state of Oregon, the Klam
ath Marine band was credited with
selling over two million dollars in
bonds.”
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