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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 14, 1947)
VOLUME XLYIII “ Number 130 _UNIVERSITY OE OREGON, EUGENE. WEDNESDAY, MAY 14. 1947 Jheta Sig Matrix Table Slates Invitations for 300 New Pledges Announced at Annual Dinner Richard L. Neuberger Scheduled to Speak Matrix Table, sponsored by Theta Sigma Phi, national professional women's journalism honorary, is scheduled for 6 p.m. Thursday at the Eugene hotel. Persons receiving invitations are to send their reply by phone or person to the journal ism school immediately. All junior and senior women in journalism are invited to Matrix Table, as well as the outstanding sophomore and freshman women in journalism. These two women will L be announced at Matrix Table by | Theta Sigma Phi President Marilyn I Sage. New Theta Sigma Phi pledges | will be revealed at the annual din ner. The- house presidents of all wom en’s organizations and the outstand ing senior woman from each living group will be invited to the banquet. The promotion committee headed by Joan Hickey will invite the girls during the dinner hour Wednesday. Richard L Neuberger, Oregon's foremost writer and lecturer, will be guest speaker at the Matrix Ta ble. His subject will be “Freedom of the Press.’’ Neuberger, a former University student, edited the Emerald his sophomore year. His appearance at Matrix Table will precede a sched uled visit to Alaska. He has written several articles on the Oregon coun try for the Saturday Evening Post and Colliers. Approximately 300 invitations have been sent throughout Oregon to prominent persons and to all The ta Sigma Phi members by Pat Web l#r and her committee. Matrix Ta ble is a nationally-sponsored for mal affair and is held by all chap ters in the United States. Art Students Plan Frolic For Friday All art school students and fac ulty have been invited to the annual art school picnic scheduled Friday from 2 to 10 p.m. at Swimmers De light. Transportation is being arranged by George Bartholick, C. F. Wether bee, Ken Wellenweber, and William Hixson. The program will include baseball, dancing, refreshments, and boating. Sigma Delta Pi Slates Initiation Sunday at 3 Pledges to Sigma Delta Pi, Span ish honorary, will be initiated at 3:30 p.m. Sunday at the Chi Ome ga house, 2837 Van Buren street, ^gorvallis. Menders planning to attend the annual initiation are asked to con tact Clarence Kraft in 214 Friend ly. MARILYN SAGE . . . President Of Theta Sigma Phi i - 47 Annua! Late For Distribution Distribution of me 1947 Oregana has been postponed to an indefinite , date, probably some time next week, 1 Robbieburr Courtney, business manager, announced Tuesday. The yearbook was scheduled for distri bution today but the number of books in the hands of the educa tional activities office is not enough to warrant their present distribu tion. “The Oregana was too big a book for the jobber to handle in the time we allotted,” Mrs. Courtney said. This year’s Oregana is 60 pages larger than the 1946 Oregana, and each page is 22 inches larger. Roy Paul Nelson, Oregana editor, said that all deadlines were met hjt the staff and workers of the year book, and that all copy was in the hands of the printers by the speci fied time. Distribution of the Oregana to ' students will be made from McAr thur court at a date to be announced in the Emerald. Alumni Banquet Scheduled June 14 Seniors being graduated in June may attend the alumni banquet June 14 in John Straub hall, Les An derson, alumni secretary, an nounced Tuesday. I Tickets for the sale will go on I sale at the alumni office around the | first of June, Les Anderson said. Caps and gowns will not be worn this year as in the past. The alumni banquet, primarily a function of the class reunions meet ing at the University over the week end, will have representatives of the class of '47. Tom Kay, ASUO presi dent, will head the class of ’47 dele I gates. UO Libe Receives Latest Book Of Riasonovsky, Russian Author An autographed copy of Dr. V. A. Riasonovsky's latest book. “His toricaly Survey of Russian Culture, Part I," has recently been received by the University library. Mrs. Riasohovsky, better known as Nina Fedorova, is also a noted authoress, having written the book, “The Family,” which won the At lantic Monthly prize of $10,000 in 1940. The Riasonovskys are now residents of Eugene. The family lived in Harbin. Man ^ churia. until the Japanese invasion, when they moved to Tientsin. In 1938 they were also driven out of Tienstsin, and they came to the U. S. They selected Eugene, Oregon, as their home because of a typically Russian feeling for family. While looking over maps in search of a place to settle, Mrs. Riasonovsky’s eye arrested the name of Eugene, in connection with the name of her sister. Eugenia. Recently their son. Nicholas, was one of two Oregon students chosen to receive a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford. Another son, Alexander, is now in the service. Since their arrival in Eugene, Dr. Riasonovsky has been busy on his book, which has just, recently been published. It is in Russian, and will be put into circulation at the library soon. Contemporary Music Festival Opens Tonight; Prominent Artists to Appear Emerald Readers Discovered, Absent At the University of Oregon, near ly everyone reads the Emerald. This was proved by the social science de partment yesterday, when Victor P. Morris, dean of the school of bus iness administration came to his War and Peace class. The dean, whose proposed trip to St. Louis was printed in the Emer ald, changed his plans and attended class instead, to be greeted by a classroom with many empty seats. The absentees, obvious Emerald readers, had stayed away while the dean attended. Honor Groups To Hear Dean Initiation to Feature Speech by Dean Little Sidney W. Little, dean of the school of architecture and allied arts, will speak May 19 at 8 p. m. on "Humanities and Architecture” in 207 Chapman hall, under the -ctt-sponsorship of the Oregon chapters of Phi Beta Kappa, na tional scholastic honor society, and Sigma Xi, national science honor society. The public address will follow the annual joint initiation dinner of the two chapters to be held in the Osburn hotel. New Members Initiated Sixteen new Sigma Xi members will be initiated with the 20 new initiates announced last week by Phi Beta Kappa. Two faculty members and one graduate student have been elected to active mem bership and 13 students have been named as associate members. Ac tive members are elected on the basis of completed research of sci entific importance while associate members are students who show promise in scientific research. New active members are: Paul Delahay, visiting research asso ciate in chemistry; Hans Hey mann. assistant professor of chem istry, and Howard K. Zimmerman, American Chemical society fellow in chemistry. Associate Members Elected Elected to associate membership were: Earl K. Yost and Eloise Mc Cord, graduate assistants in math ematics, Helen C. Clucas, graduate in mathematics; Carl Pride, assis tant in mathematics; Walter M. Gilbert, senior in mathematics; Dorian K. Gillispie, graduate assis tant in biology; Ruby F. Ramey, graduate student in biology; Don ald M. O'Connell, senior in biology; Frank M. Jacobson and Berian Lemon, graduate assistants in psy chology; Roger D. Whealy, grad uate assistant in chemistry; Della M. Martin, senior in chemistry; Carl L. Huffaker, graduate stu oent in anthropology. "O" Men Elect Officers; New officers ol the Order o 1 the “O” for the 1947-48 year were elected Tuesday at a luncheon meet ing at the Sigma Nu house. They are Ed Dick, president; Marvin Rasmussen, vice-president; and Walt Kirsch, secretary-treas urer. Music School Organizations Sponsor Event; Tea, Concert, Lectures Planned for Weekend Opening of the Oregon Festival of Contemporary music is scheduled for 8 p. m. this evening at the School of Music audi torium. The festival is sponsored by the School of i^usic, educa tional activities board, lectures committee, Phi Beta, Mu Phi Epsilon and Phi Mu Alpha. Theodore Kratt, dean of the school 01 music, will preside at tne open----_ ing program. Among the outstanding guests of the affair are Roger Sessions, professor of music at the Univer sity of California; Edmund Cykler, associate professor of music at Occidental college, Los Angeles; and Robert U. Nelson, assistant professor of music at the Univer sity of California in Los Angeles. The tea in honor of the visit ing music celebrities, originally planned for May 16 at 4 p.m., in Gerlinger hall, will he postponed until immediately after the Fri day evening concert. Dr. H. K. Newburn, president of the University, will open tonight's program with his welcome ad dress, followed by Roger Session's lecture on “Trends in Contempo rary Music in the United States.” Musical selections include “Par tita for Viola and Organ” by Wal ter Piston, with George Broughton at the violin, Eric Cooper at the viola and Donald W. Allton at the organ; “Piano Sonata” by Aaron Copland, with G^>rge Hdpkins as pianist; and George Broughton at the violin, Milton Dietrich at the violin-cello and Saga Collin Broughton at the piano will play Halsey Stevens’ “Trio No. 3.” The three-day festival, which will close Friday evening, is the first affair of its kind on the Ore gon campus. Educational Movie Cancelled This Week There will be no free movie this week sponsored by the educational activities board, according to Dick Williams, educational activities manager. Kappa Retains Red Cross Cup Campbell Club, DU Tie for Second Place Kappa Kappa Gamma, contrib uting $3.2S per gill to the campus grand total of $3064.83 in the 1947 Red Cross annual drive, are the proud possessors of the Red Cross cup, having won it for the third time. In the men's division, the Camp bell club won a hotly staged contest from Delta Upsilon. Final tabula tion gave the Campbell club men a $.597 donation each as compared to $.596 for the DU group. Runner up in the women's division was Gamma Phi Beta. Geneva Davis, chairman of the Red Cross unit on the campus, ex pressed her appreciation for the support the campus has given the Red Cross and stated that all who had contributed should be com mended for making the Red Cross service activities here and abroad possible. Barbara Johns and Dave Dimm, cochairmen of this drive, were equally enthusiastic about the re sponse to the call for help. They remarked that contributions such as these were the type that aided the people of Texas City in their recent disaster. Mary Hoch Plays Bergman Role In University 'Joan of Lorraine' “Joan of Lorraine,” next Univer sity theater production which will open at Guild hall May 23, features the drama in which Ingrid Berg man is now playing on Broadway as Joan. On the campus, Mary Hoch, sophomore in music, will play Joan, and Bill Countryman, sophomore in liberal arts, will co-star in the role of Jimmy Masters. Seven years ago Ingrid Bergman made her first appearance on the New York stage. She had recently arrived from Sweden and had one American film, Inteynezzo,” on her record. Some six years after her opening in "Liliom," Ingrid Bergman re turned to Broadway with the most brilliant of film records. She had selected Maxwell Anderson’s “Joan of Lorraine” for the vehicle of her belated Broadway comeback. The production was declared an imme diate success after its opening on November 18, 1946, and the critics predicted interest as long as Berg man played Joan. Actress’s Own Selection Although the play is the actress's own selection, it is not adequate to employ her limitless talents. The dual role of Mary Grey, a well known but not celebrated Broadway actress, and Joan of Lorraine, a mis understood French peasant girl who has declared herself a savior of her nation and faith, does not in clude the emotional characteristics and versatile qualities in which Bergman excels and holds her claim to fame. Mary Grey herself is the saint's counterpart. She feels that the playwright has made Joan too weak and too willing to compromise with the evil of her time. The actress threatens to leave the cast unless Director Masters (played by Sam Wanamaker in the Broadw'ay pro duction) allows her to interpret Joan as she wishes. Nevertheless, the critics declared “Joan of Lorraine,” now in its sev enth month of production, a success, describing Bergman’s performance “radiant,” “inspiring,” and “won derful.”