Mikulak Resigns
Coaching Post
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VOLUME XLVI
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SATURDAY. APRIL 28, 1945
Marines to Play
For Junior Prom
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NUMBER 112
Miss Overland
Names Odeon
Heads for 1946
Pat Smith, sophomore in art,
and Robert McGill, junior in lib
eral arts, have been named by Peg
gy Overland, retiring chairman of
C^rleon, as co-chairmen of the 1946
Odeon, student creative-art show.
Reversing the usual procedure of
having one chairman appointed
during fall term by W. A. Dahl
berg, faculty adviser, and head of
speech and drama, Miss Overland
has announced that future chair
men will be named during the
regular evening performance of
Odeon by the retiring chairman.
The two new chairmen are to
meet with Miss Overland and with
faculty advisers during spring
term in order to plan next year’s
procedure. This new method has
lafeen initiated, according to Miss
Overland, because in the past the
chairman has had to step into a
position of great responsibility
without adequate preparation and
with little knowledge of past set
ups.
UO to Meet
Met Star
"Rise Stevens
By DOROTHY CONRAD
Rise Stevens, lovely star of
the Metropolitan Opera and
films, who will be presented at
McArthur court Wednesday,
May 2, as the seventh artist of
the concerts sponsored by the
Eugene Civic Music associa
tion, is a talented and distin
guished young woman who at
tributes her success to the con
viction that opportunity knocks
more than once.
Miss Stevens turned down two
of the most coveted plums in the
Aworld of entertainment — a con
tract with the Metropolitan Opera
and an offer from Metro-Goldwyn
Mayer. Instead she went abroad,
toured Europe and South America,
returning two years later with
wide stage experience and critics’
laurels.
Started Career Early
Miss Stevens started her career
at the age of ten. At 17 she was a
leading lady with the Opera Com
ique at the Hescher theater in New
York. She then became a student
of Mme. Anna Schoen-Rene, the
famous discoverer of singers, which
resulted in a three-year scholarship
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Student to Present
Recorded Music Concert
Three well-known recordings will
be presented on the recorded con
cert program Sunday by George
Carey, student in liberal arts, at
4 p.m. in the browsing room of the
library. Included will be Stravin
sky's “Excerpts from Petrouchka”
and “Excerpts from Firebird
Suite,” “Concerto in F” by Gersh
win will complete the concert.
Hostesses are Mrs. A. A. Stew
art, Mu Phi Epsilon patroness;
Mrs. Nell Murphy Dixon, Mu Phi
Epsilon alumnae; Betty Bennett,
Mu Phi Epsilon actives; Mary Lan
dry, house librarians, and Miss
True Morris of the Library staff.
Campus houseboys display their “favorite dish,” Marylin Moore (center) on a platter to admiring; and
happy students. Oregon’s first Butler’s Ball was such a success this year that many people have ex
pressed the desire of making this dance an annual event.
Marine Band Secured
For Mardi Gras Prom
The Klamath Falls marine band which won enthusiastic
campus acclaim at its initial Oregon appearance at the Butler’s
ball last weekend has consented to play at the Mardi Gras
Junior Prom, May 5, Signe Eklund, chairman of the prom,
announced late Friday night. The prom, a formal masked ball
to carry out the traditional Mardi Gras theme, will be the first
formal dance to be held in McArthur court this year. Admission
will be $1.80 per couple.
Mardi Gras Parade
A call for noise and more
noise was issued today by Lois
Evans, chairman of the Junioi
Weekend Mardi Gras parade
Plans are well under way foi
the float procession, but in or
der to insure its success, stu
dents are asked to put portable
phonographs on their floats
and to scrape together some
noise-makers. Miss Evans alsc
asked that everyone cooperate
to make the parade, the first of
its kind on the Oregon campus,
a huge success.
The parade is scheduled to start
at 4 p.m. Saturday, May 5, at the
train depot. It will proceed up to
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Today's World
GERMANY HAS BEEN com
pletely cut in two as American
ami Russian to- u south
of Berlin while the At an 3rd
army invaded Austria in an ef
fort to make a second junction
with the Russian army coming
up the Danube valley.
* * *
SECRETARY OF STATE Ed
ward Stettinius wras named per
manent chairman of the United
Nations conference steering and
executive committees by action
of the delegation of power from
the four sponsoring nations after
Molotov had earlier blocked the
motion.
GENOA, ITALY, has fallen
to the U. S. 5th army as other
American forces push to within
less than 35 miles of Milan. U. S.
headquarters in that area re
ports that on the whole resist
ance has been slight.
DANCE POSTPONED
The Tennis Ball which was
originally scheduled for Friday
night, was postponed until to
night, when social chairmen and
the rally squad will sponsor the
affair at the tennis courts be
hind commerce hall. Dancing will
take from 8:30 to 11:30 p.m.
Seniors, Attention
Seniors must order their com
mencement announcements at
the Co-op before May 1, 1945.
A scene from “Liliom,” continuing production tonight, May 1 and 3
on Guild hall stage. Left to right: Barbara Bentley, Mrs. MusUat; Jean
McClanathan, Marie; Henry Korn, Ficsur; Lewis Vogler, Liliom; and
Phyllis Kiste, Julie.
’Liliom’ Transcends From
World Gaiety to Heaven;
Love Drama Reviewed
By JEAN LAWRENCE
Gay in its candy-striped tent
and tinkling carrousel music, “Lil
iom” opens in a prologue of world
ly holiday festivity and transcends
to a migstrate's court—in heaven.
“For rich people,” croaks old
Ficsur, “the heavenly court; for
us poor people, only justice. And
where there's justice there’s po
lice.” Ferenc Molnar, Hungarian
author of “Liliom” has left much
of the interpretation of his play to
his audience. When Lilliom, the
ne’er do well, the tough, returns to
earth after sixteen years in the
purifying fire he brings with him
a stolen star to give to his child,
and strikes her hand instead. And
Molnar never says which door
opens to Liliom.
The only answer comes in Julie’s
lines to her daughter, “Yes, my
child, a person can beat you, and
beat you, and it will never hurt,
at all.”
Love Story
“Liliom” is a love story, a story
of a girl who said she knew if 3he
ever loved a man she would die
for him, and of a man who asked,
“You could love men, when you
know what I am, a no-good, a
braggart, a thief, Aren’t you afraid
of me?”
Lewis Vogler as Liliom is a man
who swaggers about, beats his
wife, sponges upon her relatives;
and will not admit he loves her;
he is a man whose soul sings with
the carrousel music, who watches
the train go out of sight down the
tracks, whose pride in his kin, that
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Expert Clarifies
UO Veterans’
Subsistence
To clarify the question of
eligibility for veterans’ subsis
tence allowances under Public
Law 346, Raymond S. Sifdol,
training officer of the campus
veterans administration guid
ance center, has referred stu
dents to title II of that law
which determines eligibility for
education and training. This
question has been puzzling
many of the veterans on the
campus.
Public Law 346 states that a per
son gainfully employed in full-time
employment, except when it is re
lated to his course of education or
training, will thereby lose the au
thorized subsistence allowance. If
a person engages in incidental em
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Dr. Popenoe
Gives Advice
On Marriage
“It is not as important to find
the right partner as to be the right
partner,” stated Dr. Paul Popenoe,
director of the American Institute
of Family Relations, in his talk on
engagement and marriage in war
time at Thursday’s assembly in
McArthur court.
Citing an alarming divorce rate.
40 per cent more divorces than
marriages in Multnomah county,
Dr. Popenoe explained that mar
riages often fail because one or
the other of the partners does not
give the necessary effort to make
the marriage a success. In his
opinion, the necessary preparations
for marriage are: the right atti
tudes, a wise choice of mate, and
sufficient technical information,
the resultant of these three will
make for a happy and successful
marriage, he said.
Too many hasty marriages are
entered into without sufficient
thought, he warned, and are often
motivated by nothing stronger
than mob psychology, romanticism,
or irresponsibility. Marriages
should be built on something more
substantial, and the most success
ful marriages are those in which
the partners have known each oth
er for two or three years before
becoming engaged, and went
through a formal betrothal period
of at least six months.
Advice to Wives
For those who are married to
men overseas, Dr. Popenoe recom
mended that they keep busy, work
ing or going to school. He advised
those in school to take subjects
which will help them to understand
their husbands better, and to help
them make a better home when he
returns. Such subjects as mental
hygiene, social psychology, and
homemaking are .valuable aids in
becoming a good wife, Dr. Popenoe
remarked.
Motion pictures and radio are
largely responsible for the over
romantic notion of marriage which
many people have, he explained.
They preach that marriage is a
destination, when in reality it is
only the beginning of a journey
which, if an effort is made to make
it a success, can give the greatest
happiness human nature will ever
know, he concluded.