Beaux-Arts, Annual Dance
Set February 16 in Gerlinger
By Bernice Chambers
- The University’s gay and unique
dance innovation, the Beaux-Arts
ball, established in 1922 and still
popular, will be presented Febru
ary 16 in the outdoor gym of Ger
linger, it was announced recently.
George Barthwick, sophomore in
architecture and allied arts, will
chairman the dance, and advises
that all budding Salvador Dali’s in
the community who are members
of the art school, and their guests,
should dress the part and attend.
“Suppressed Desires,” the theme
of the dance, will be carried out
in the murals and decorations
painted by members of an art
party. Tickets will go on sale Feb
ruary 4. Herb Widmer and his
newly-organized combo, will play
for the dance.
A Masquerade
The Ball, Oregon’s annual Al
lied Arts league masquerade, has
evolved by leaps and bounces since
.the first art student “ball” on the
Oregon campus in 1922.
Tracing back the family tree, we
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| find that the whole idea stems back
to the laughing, dancing merry
j making of the Quatz Arts Bal, the
annual bacchic revel of the stu
dents of the Ecole in the Paris of
pre-war vintage.
University art students’ first at
tempt to mimic the Parisian fes
tival resulted in a Bohemian affair j
followed up in 1923 by primly
smock - bedecked, apple - dunking
students putting their Quatz Arts
Bal to bed as a Halloween fete.
Only A 3-Piece Band!
The next three years saw the
addition of music—in 1925, the
year the Allied Arts league was
formed, ,a little 3-piece campus
orchestra was brought in, quan
tities of food took on hearty pro
portions, and, in 1926, the title
Beaux Arts ball was first applied
to the dance. It was this year that
the ball became a date affair. The
orchestra had grown to 5-pieces
and the costumes were quite elab
orate.
A temporary cessation of activi
ties dropped the masquerade out
of sight until 1929 when once again,
heralded by a leap year motive
and followed by an airplane drop
ping tickets between Gerlinger and
Johnson hall, students realized that
Beaux Arts time, like spring, was
inevitable and had become rejuve
nated.
Another year, 1930, and the
mural-threshers went exclusively
aristocratic as they gave up such
former sites as the men’s gym and
the Anchorage to hold their ball
at the Osburn hotel.
“Night Life of Gay Paree” acted
as incentive for 1931 merrymaking
while the 1933 masque and cos
tume-wearers derived their “East
Indian Mardi Gras’’ theme from
more hybrid origins.
It was back to Gerlinger hall
for 1935-36-37 beaux artists. Tim
bers of the Anchorage rocked and
heaved to and fro once more as
the group invaded as “Artists and
Models’’ with music a la Benny
Goodman via juke box.
More canned music and decora
tions and costumes following out
“A Night in the Louvre’’ made
1940’s Beaux Arts ball a great
success.
Dean Turnbull to Return
From Ohio Trip Today
George S. Turnbull, acting dean
of the school of journalism, is ex
pected back in Eugene today from*
Columbus, Ohio, where he attend
ed a meeting of the American As
sociation of Schools and Depart
ments of Journalism.
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