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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 25, 1947)
•Veteran Official To Visit Here February 27 Will Help Iron Out Insurance Problems Veterans! If you have been awaiting an an swer to the questions you sent in on your government insurance some months ago, swear no more. If you have been wondering if you should convert that term insurance to something else, stop worrying and .work on your thesis. If your policy has lapsed and you want to rein estate, but don’t know if and how you can, your problems are over. Conferences Planned Raymond J. Goodhart, insurance officer from the Veterans’ Admin istration regional office in Portland, will spend Thursday, February 27, on the campus, participating in a series of conferences designed to assist any veteran with insurance problems. He will be accompanied by an agent cashier qualified to ac cept premiums, to give receipts for payments, and complete other fi nancial settlements on conversions and reinstatements. This announce ment was made Monday by G. F. Sweeney, assistant to the dean of men. Goodhart is scheduled to hold three separate meetings Thursday, in room 3, Fenton hall, to give all veterans a chance to atteend. Ses sions will be at 11 a.m., 2 p.m., and 7 p.m., and will be planned to give information concerning general in surance problems. Insurance Information Veterans who have let their in •fhranee lapse and are now desirous of reinstatement, will be able to avoid the delay that goes with cor respondence by attending one of these meetings. After the discussion they may make a required two months’ back premium payment at the rate effective when the policy was in force. The only other requirement for term insurance is that the veteran be in as good health as he was when the policy lapsed. For other types of insurance, all back premiums now due must be paid before rein statement can be accomplished. Goodhart has had a wide expe rience in the insurance field and is considered an expert. Prior to com ing to Portland to assume his pres ent duties, he was with the insur ance division of the veterans’ ad ministration in Washington, D. C. Deadline Changed For Odeon Entries j r Literary material, both prose and poetry, for the Odeon Fine Arts magazine is due in Dr. R. D. Horn's office in 17 Friendly by March 3, Phyllis Perkins, editor, announced yesterday. The booklet will be dis tributed April 27 at Oregon’s an nual Odeon. This date is two weeks earlier than the previously an nounced time, Miss Perkins pointed out, in order to get the publication to the printer on time. It is requested that all prose work, exclusive of short stories which necessarily must be longer, be 700 words or less in length. Short stories are to be turned in as soon as possible to the Friendly hall of fice. Short stories, poems, essays, plays, or any original written mate rial may be submitted for the mag azine, Miss Perkins added. Thanks! A salutation To administration For simplification Of registration. —T.G.W, Celebrated Russian Pianist to Play Tonight in McArthur Court at 8:15 ALEXANDER BRAILOWSKY UO-OSC Assembly Exchange Slated Oregon State will present their traditional exchange assembly here Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in McArthur court with Kurt Cutsforth set as master of ceremonies for the show, Yell King Tom Hazzard said Mon day. OSC Prexy Don Moyer will be introduced by ASUO President Tom Kay. At the same assembly, Hobby Hobson will present the basketball team which will meet Oregon State this Saturday. Four veteran play ers who will play their last game for the University this Saturday— George Bray, Ken Hays, Roy See borg, and Bob Wren—will be hon orea. Both Oregon’s and Oregon State’s rally squads will be present, al though Oregon’s team will lack Hal Shick, who was injured during a recent game. Oregon’s program, to be present ed in the men’s gymnasium at OSC, will be given Wednesday afternoon. MC Bob Moran is planning the pro gram. Featured will be a quartet of Norm Lamb, Don Edwards, Norm Henwood, and Bob Moran, who will sing and “patter”; magician Bill Bishop; and singer June Johnson. Tom Kay Will also speak. If Only Frank Sinatra Had Gone to Oregon Wanted: By Student Union campaigners—one or two “sugar daddies” like Gonzaga univer sity’s singing alumnus, Bing Crosby. The crooner has just contrib uted a $50,000 check to Gonza ga’s engineering building fund. Earlier he donated $25,000 toward the proposed structure. Contributions nere are accept ed regardless of a donor’s vocal ability. Ducat Swap Required For 'Civil War' Finale AU students are required to ob tain exchange tickets for the Oregbn-Oregon State basketball game Saturday night in McAr thur court, Mrs. Dee Wrenn, ticket manager, has announced. Both the exchange ticket and ASUO card must be presented at the door, Mrs. Wrenn said. Ex change tickets may be obtained upon presentation of ASUO cards at the ticket office in McArthur court this week. Office hours are from 8 a.m. to 12 noon and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. through Friday, and from 8 a.m. to 12 noon Saturday. Alexander Brailowsky Now in 25th Season By LAURA OLSEN Staff Writer, The Emerald Alexander Brailowsky, Rus sian pianist, will appear in Mc Arthur court tonight at 8:15. The current season marks the twenty-first anniversary of the American debut of the pianist. Admission to the concert will be limited to members of the Eugene Civic Music associa tion, sponsors of the concert, and members of the ASUO. Popularity Standing Brailowsky came to America in 1 924 for the first time, and was suc cessful in his first appearance here. Coming for a limited tour of sjx weeks, he remained for four months. Since then he has appeared here continuously for the past 21 years. Thirty-six years ago in Russia., Serge Rachmaninoff, then govern ment inspector of music schools, visited the Conservatory of Music in Kiev. While reviewing the large piano class, he noticed a young boy, and singling him out, said, “You have the hands of a great pianist, let me heaj .you play..” When the boy had finished, Rach maninoff said, “You are destined, I am sure, to be a great pianist.” The boy was Alexander Brailowsky, who has fulfilled that prediction. Romantics Preferred Brailowsky prefers the music of the romantic composers; Chopin, Schumann and Liszt. He has played every note that Chopin wrote for the piano. Robert Hichens, famous novelist, has this to say about Brailowsky’s J interpretation of music: He can be [ absolutely robust in Chopin’s music and yet give *11 its enticing ro mance. Some pianists make Cho pin seem effeminiate. Brailowsky never does this. Spider Webs, Wheelbarrows Cause Theater Nightmares By LeJEUNE GRIFFITH . . Staff Writer, The Emerald Spider webs, fly-flickers, spider wands, philosopher's staff_ —these are the properties which members of the theater work shop class arc working on for the Chinese costume play, “The ^ ellow Jacket, Edwin E. Clark, theater workshop instructor, announced Thursday. spicier web tor every per Carroll to Meet Vets To assist any veterans who may wish to consult him, Edward Carroll, national secretary of the student YMCA, will be at the campus YMCA today from 9 to 11 :30 a.m. Dave Mortimer, pres ident of the campus YMCA, stat ed yesterday that Carroll is con sidered an authority on prob lems Confronting the American veteran. Movies Canceled Educational Activities Manag er Dick Williams said Monday that there will be no movies in 207 Chapman Wednesday be cause of the crowded University social calendar. formance has to he made, be cause the play calls for a charac ter to jump through the web on the way to heaven. As though this one property were not enough to cause consternation in even the stoutest heart, a Chinese feather (luster is needed, spears with fancy points are in construction, with beheading swords and head baskets on the waiting list. A head bag, used to signify that a person is dead, is made with a sand filling and is substituted for the actor’s body when he dies. A heaven ladder is another necessary property, not to mention a Chi nese wheelbarrow, which is caus ing much trouble because of its difficult construction. Highly colored tables which double for (Please turn to page three) New System Of Registering Gains Approval Some Students Fail To Pick Up Materials Advance registration, bringing ir: a new system that is to the old what a dream is to a nightmare, got under way Morning morning at Johnson hall. The only drawback, according to C. E. Avery, Univer sity registrar, seemed to be that some of the Monday students who were to pick up registration mate rial, evidently let the weekend get the best of them and forgot to show up. Or it could have been that things were moving so quietly no one could believe it was registration and just walked by. No Lines mere were no lines in evidence; waiting time was limited, in most cases, to one minute. No groping for material was needed and instruc tions for registration procedure were clearly printed on the envel opes which held correctly appor tioned equipment. The staid, heavy atmosphere of Johnson hall was scarcely rippled by the added ac tivity. Avery said that those students who did not appear at the scheduled time would be able to pick up their envelopes at any time until 5:00 p.m., Wednesday. If registration is not started by then, however, it will be necessary for the student to wait until the beginning of spring term. This may mean, he said, that some students will not get into the de sired sections or classes. Follow Instructions The registrar also repeated his request that students do not take class cards to the department offic es until called for. It is expected that most departments will ask that cards be turned in before examina tion week. If the cards are still in the hands of the students on Mai eh 31, they are to be taken to the de partment offices without the neces sity of a request. A deviation in the registration, program was announced by Dr. P. W. Souers, head of the English de partment. He said that registrat on for section 216, a special section for students who have received A oi B English grades and wish to write on special subjects, must be made through the English composition department instead of through .in dividual teachers. Applications may be obtained March 3 and 4 at room 12, Friendly. Emeraldifes Begin Cover Girl Quest Applications are now being ac cepted in all departments of the Emerald for the 1947 Cover Girl, to appear in the final winter term issue of the Emerald March 7. Each department of the Emerald will sponsor one or more candidates, and elimination will begin Thurs day when the semi-finals will cut the field to five beauties, one from each department. Final Selection A board of non-partisan experts, whose names have not been e vealed, will pick the 1947 winner between halves at the Oregon-O e gon State basketball ^ame in Mc Arthur court Saturday night. Representatives from all depart ments of the Emerald have an nounced that they have several car pus beauties in mind, but the field is still wide open. Campaign Heads Anyone wishing to vie for this year’s full page cover spot is re quested to appear personally or send an agent with pictures (pref erably full length) to the depert (Please turn to page three)