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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1945)
Oregon Emerald VOLUME XLVI NUMBER 107 _UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1945 Band’s Spring Concert Sprung Sunday at 4 Under the direction of John H. Stehn, the University band wiH present its first concert of this term in the music auditor ium at 4 Sunday afternoon. Johnette King, pianist, will be featured as soloist of the band, which has been preparing for the concert since last term. The band, composed of 44 mem bers, will begin with the “Inglesina March” by Delle Cese, which will be followed by the ‘‘Introduction to Act III and the Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin,” by Wagner. The third number will include seven se lected pieces by Bela Bartok, one of the greatest of living composers. Based on Hungarion folk songs, the pieces chosen by Mr. Stehn vary in mood from deepest melan choly to boisterous exuberance. Various solo instruments as well as the full ensemble will be employed. These arrangements are ‘‘String, String, Turn the String,” ‘‘They Say I Cannot Have You,” ‘‘My Daughter Lidi,” “Dringing Song,” “Mockery,” “They Killed the Lad for Gold,” and “Czardas.” Rustic Wedding “Intermezzo from Rustic Wed ding Symphony” by Goldmark will be the fourth number on the pro (Please turn to page four) Odeon to Show Creative Arts THE BIG FIVE SELECTIONS^ for the campus houseboys’ “favorite dish” contest looking their loveliest at a preview before presentation at the Butler’s Ball. One of these girls will be announced as the favorite “Favorite Dish” tonight at 10:30 in Gerlinger hall. They are (left to right): Erna Gawehn, Marylin Moore, Catharine Bobbins, Norma Davidson, and Betty Ditto. Annual Exhibit Set for April 23 With all the arts represented on the campus and numerous students participating, Odeon, a movement to stimulate interest in the cre ative arts will hold its third annual show Monday night, April 23, in the music auditorium at 8 p.m. All contributions of art, essays, music, plays, poems, stories, and journalism, were made by under graduate students of the Univer sity. A committee of students and faculty members judged the con tributions and those found most interesting will be read, played, per formed, or displayed, depending on the nature of the work. Phi Theta Upsilon and Kwama. junior and sophomore women’s service honoraries, will usher at the music building for the first part of the program and serve re freshments in Gerlinger, third floor, where the art exhibit will be presented. Free Tickets Tickets good for two persons will be given to all students asking for them at the Co-op Monday from 10 to 12. Kwama will dis tribute the tickets free, while they last. Only one ticket will be given to a person. Guest critics have been invited from among the noted literary, music, and art people in Oregon. They are Charles Voorhies, Robert Tyler Davis, Betty Lynn Thomp son, Walter Kidd, Ernest Bloch, and Marjorie Major Goodwin, Ore (Please turn to page four) Houseboys Turn Tables; Dinner Served to Them Turning the tables on their employes, campus houseboys will be served as guests of honor at the dinner table today, while the girls do the serving and dish washing. After being guests of their respective houses for an evening banquet, the house boys, some 70 strong, will become social hosts to their “favor ite dishes” and the student body this evening at Oregon’s first “Butler’s Ball.” Dancing will begin promptly at 9|p.m. to the music of the Klam ath Falls all-marine band. During the dance, the houseboys will re veal the name of their “favorite dish” and culminate the occasion with an entertainment-packed pro gram of music and racy chatter emceed and engineered by Program Chairmen Bob Moran and Bob Davis. Welcome for Marines The 22 all veteran musical ma rines will be welcomed today at the Southern Pacific station by houseboys, students and towns people who will meet them at 2 p.m. Dance Chairman Morrie Mink announced that flowers will be definitely “out” and that any houseboy coming to the ball im properly attired, will be fined one dollar. According to Russ Monahan and Don Dyer, marine welcome chair men, all favorite dish contestants will meet their marine' dates Sun day at 12:30 a.m. in front of the Co-op. Tickets for the dance will be on (Please turn to page jour) Odeon Tickets Tickets for Odeon, scheduled Monday at 8 p.m. in the music building, may be obtained at thg^Co-op store, Monday from 10 to 11 a.m. Only those students who present tickets will be ad mitted to the show. ODEON Everybody says: Odeon is the greatest show of the year. I wouldn’t miss it for anything. PhiThetasSet Twisty Sale The annual Phi Theta Upsilon twisties sales will be held May 9 and 10 in front of all important buildings on the campus, Sigue Eklund, Phi Theta president, an nounced Friday. Co-chairmen Barbara Fullmer and Barbara Borrevik will be assisted by the following commit tee: Barbara Wells, Robbieburr Warrens, Dorothy Hable, Dorothy Fowler, Dido Misley, Geneva Davis, Bernice Schroeder, Bjorg Hansen, (Please turn to page four) Janet Smith Memorial Service 7"o Be Held Sunday in Gerlinger In memory of Miss Ja^et M. Smith, University employment secretary, and adviser to the women’s cooperative houses, a short service will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in Alumni hall of Gerlinger. Miss Smith, who came to the University in 1933, died March 31 after a prolonged illness. She left many friends on the campus and in Eugene, as she enlarged the employment bu reau and took a personal interest in finding jobs for students, and was instrumental in organizing the women’s cooperative houses. Speakers at the memorial ser vices will be Karl W. Onthank, dean of personnel administration, and Mrs. Golda Wickham, acting dean of women. Dr. L. O. Wright, professor of Romance languages, will give the benediction. A vesper choir selection, a vocal solo by Elida DeBortili, freshman in music, and a stringed arrangement will make up the musical portion of the services. As sponsors of the services, members of the four women’s co operative houses will serve as ush ers. No flowers are to be sent, but money may be contributed to a MISS JANET SMITH Janet Smith memorial scholarship fund, which will become a perma nent fund. It is being handled at present by Mrs. Blanche Beckett. Houses to Draw Places for Campus Sing at 12:30 Today “Judging from the song titles turned in today, the All Campus Sing will offer an evening of exceptionally fine music, ranging from the Negro spiritual to the semi-classical type of song,” states D. Lu Simonsen, chairman of the Sing. With out accompaniment, the music will be better suited to the acoustics of McArthur court. This will also enable the iudees to grade on a fairer basis. The design for the stage back drop- will be in keeping with the Mardi Gras theme, but the accent of the evening will be on the sing ers themselves. There will be three judges, one from out of town. Drawing for places on the pro gram will he today at 12:30 in the Emerald news office. Each organ ization competing in the Sing should send a representative for the drawing. Rules for the contest are: chorus membership between 12 and 30, a 3-minute limit on the length of the song, and singing without accom Library Presents Spanish Records Records from the library of Mrs. J. H. Beck will be played in the weekly browsing room concert at 4 p.m. Sunday. The concert will be presented by Mrs. Howard Hall, and the program includes “Sym phony Espanole’’ by Lalo (played by Yehudi Menuhin-Paris sym phony orchestra), “Cordova” by Albeniz, “La Playera” by Enrique Grandos (El Puerto by Emilio Lehmberg). Hostesses are Mrs. Hall, Mu Phi Epsilon patronesses, Betty Ben nett, actives, Miss Wanda East wood, alumnae, Nancy Williamson, Alpha Omicron Pi house librarian, and Miss Patti Patton, library staff. paniment. Judging will be based on the following: enunciation, inter pretation, and tone quality, each 20 per cent; balance of parts, over all appearance, attention of chorus, and type of song, 10 per cent each, D. Lu Simonsen is general chair man of the event; and her assist ant is Eileen Brenneman. Today’s World A MASSIVE RUSSIAN drive against Berlin has plunged to Hangelsberg, seven miles east of the capital, while the Rus sian forces to the south were hammering for a juncture with the Americans in the Dresden area. * * * THE AMERICAN 7th army Raptured the ruined nazi shrine city of Nuernberg and struck south for Munich to open the battle for Hitler’s last retreat in the Bavarian Alps. THREE AMERICAN infantry divisions driving into deep Jap anese defenses on Okinawa ad vanced slowly in the heaviest all-out offensive of the Pacific war. SB SB » SENATOR CONNAUUY told the senate there is “harmony and unity” among the American delegates to the San Francisco United Nations conference.