' Brecon W Emerald The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of tne University of Oregon, Published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, and final examination periods. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Ore. Member of the Associated Collegiate Press BOB FRAZIER, Editor_ BOB CHAPMAN, Business Manager BILL YATES Managing Editor JUNE GOETZE, BOBOLEE BROPHY Co-News Editors walt McKinney, jeanne simmonds, maryann thielen Associates to Editor __ WALLY HUNTER Sports Editor ______ PHYLLIS KOIILMEIER BARBARA TWIFORD HELEN SHERMAN Advertising Manager Assistant Managing Editors____ National ' Advertising Manager.....BiiTi"' J^aT'&fethmMer Circulation Manager .Bllh Jean Kietomiiier Editorial Board: Harry Glicknian, Johnny Kahananui, Bert Moore, Ted Goodwin, Bill Stratton, Jack Billings. ___ ___ We're All American There is a feeling of pride around the Emerald s Quonset hut this week. The Shackrats know they are working on an “All American” paper and they are justifiably proud. Those who toiled last year to get a paper out five days a week feel a particular sense of accomplishment. Yet that feeling is mixed with a feeling of gentle amusement, perhaps smugness. They remember, those Emerald veterans of last year, how rough it was to produce this organ, how they seemed always at odds with the campus, how their paper was sometimes standing alone on issues most of the campus thought unimportant. They feel particularly smug when they leaf through the criticism of the Associated Collegiate Press, whose judges said the editorial page was the strongest spot in the paper. They re member it was this page that took the worst beating. Yes, we’re All American. Now we have our eye on the coveted “Pacemaker” award, which the Emerald won twice in the thir ties. We are painfully aware of our own shortcomings. Each morning we go over our work and find weaknesses that are not apparent to the ■casual reader. We want to get better. We see some rough going ahead, and we expect criticism (not all of it constructive) from our readers. It will be welcome if it helps us see where we are going. Glammer? D-u-u-u-h. . . The University of Washington lias added a touch of realism to its college roster. A bona fide representative of the institu tion, whose official title is “director of the office of high school relations and orientation," will tour state high schools soon with a goal, if we can believe what we read on the AP wire, of “de bunking the tendency of over-glamorizing college life.” Other points of college interest will be offered in his conferences, but here’s a point that strikes home. True, when we were toddlers listening to the “big boys” com ment on life at the U, the era of the raccoon coat and the rest of the Boola Boola seemed pretty glamourous. But that is an era long gone. I hat “glamor aspect of today’s college fascinates, yes intri gues us. Maybe the typical Washingtononian has something on his campus that Oregon is without. Does the gentle vet, arising from five hours uninterrupted sleep which was all he was able to get because of the demands of his wife, baby and Principles of Insurance Computation, find the campus glamorus in the bleak reality of day? Does the young coed, sprinting unhappily from her 8 o’clock trying to dodge large wet particles of atmosphere, find any thing particu larly glamor-inspiring about the area? Does that same coed resemble the personification of glamor as her hair, carefully “put up” the night before in a tedious and never-ending process, “comes down" with discouraging rapidity? What, we plead, could be construed as glamorous about a term in the libe when we'd much rather be sentenced to a cuppa 10 cent cawfee at the Side. \\ ho in the history of higher education, ever appeared glam orus while writing a request for cash to the home town folks, or what hints of glamor can lie seen in the enforced placing of vol leyball or shuffleboard or ROTC which are certainly integral parts of the tour college years? 1 o de-glamorize college life sounds like a noble goal, but frankly, we’ll do without it. No Doz and rain, examinations and 8 o’clocks, librarv restric tions and trailer life. . .Washington, we invite von to our favorite campus—well-loved in the eyes of its 5800 students, but no con testant for the Glammer Center of the West. ? J.B.S. Kenton’s Flack Says Band Great; New Sideman Added Since Armory Job By TED HADDOCK Had a long talk Saturday last with Chuck Newton, new advance flack for Newcomb Kenton. Chas. stays at least a week ahead of Stan’s gang, buttering various small radio stations. Newton replaced ex-Kentonite Gene Howard, who was the band’s press-man last March when the 10”, or gigantic, egg was laid in the armory. Friday night’s biz is no concert, which fact many will rue, others applaud. Band won’t quite be the same as regards sidemen, but Newton says (and who wouldn't for a similar weekly stipend) that the band’s still great. Kai Winding and Skippy Layton will be among those missing in the brass section. Lay ton’s taken his trombone to the Les Paul trio for no apparent reason. Winding’s wife ob jects to the road. Replacement Eddie Berg plays “Machito,” says Newton, but doesn't quite reach Layton’s stature on “Collabora tion” (the Wetzel-Layton duo which -ends the record). Bart Varsalona and Milt Bernhardt alternate on lead trombone. Musso’s Missing “Porky” Porcina enters the Kenton trumpet section. Childers and Wetzel still share lead. Vido Musso cut-out six days before the road tour began, en route to Chicago to build an other (probably as ill-fated) big band. Boots Mussulli’s wife had a nervous break-down, which eliminated be-bopster Mussulli. Bob Cooper (June Christy’s husband) is playing go tenor, with someone named George Weidler on second tenor. Safranski, Manne, and Kenton are three of five rhythm. Brazilian guitarist Laurindo Al meida is number four, and bongoist Joe Con stanza fills it up. Christy and Ray Wetzel share vocals. No more Pastels. So . . . that’s what you’ll see and hear come Friday. I won der who’ll win, Traubel or Kenton. James Don’t Jam In the words of Juan Tizol (a Cuban), “Hairy Jeems is wan beeg money maker.” Harry James, in the words of Ted Hallock (hack writer) leads 25 odd technically-perfect, emotionless tools, who would do well to cop a lesson from Betty Grable in the activated fanny department. Only stellar attraction: the four-man, four-part, written gimmicks which had star altoist Willie Smith scanning the spots, and taxed even saccharine-Harry’s trum pet ingenuity. Unknown: trombone and clari net, but both wonderful. Woody Herman hits Portland next month with a band which boasts as its sole ex-Her der drummer Don Lamond. Ear-witnesses la bel Buddy Rich’s new band as be-bopistic to the extent of introducing boredom. Metro name mag labels it “new,” “exciting. Have you heard Nat Cole and J. Mercer sing Har mony”? On Capitol and great. Heider Hassles Hupmobile Ex-campus musiker Wally Heider now teaches neophite drivers in S.F. at $3.00 per hour. Joe Ingram and six men take over Cas cade Gardens Friday and Saturday nights as of October 24. Band includes Gene Zarones, tenor; Bob Hays, alto and trombone; Hal Har din, bass; Arnold Martin, piano, and leader Ickman, cornet. Almost forgot: Kenton makes two air per formances Friday. He’s on with KASH car nuaba-crackler Don Porter at 2 p.m., and with KUGN’S Freddy Yahn at 4:30 p.m. Kenton s feeling better. His doctor still forbids sched uled personal appearances. “peg's” Peak Pop New mag, “The Cash Box,” which is not sold commercially, being distributed gratis to juke box operators, comes up with some stimu a - ing statistics this week. Seems ops voted Eddy Howard the finest band of 1947, and “Peg o’ My Heart” (by the Haromicats) the fav rec ord of the year. Disc selection is understand able. “Peg” is on vinylite; meaning at least 5000 more nickels per use. I offer no explana tion for Howard. Fill in your own. Notable events: F. Martin is still alive. Tex Beneke is appearing in shorts (which carve the new long trou) at Springfield’s Varsity theater. Nellie Lutcher’s Capitol “Take It on Down to My House Honey” is most certainly not as vulgar as Party records being demand ed by capusites from local music shops. By comparison it sounds like a diluted double-en tendre (untranslated) from the pen of Ken neth Patchen. Rose City Jumps Portland’s first jazz concert (at McElroy’s) did not fall quite on its head as expected. Able musicians, and long-time jazz collectors, Monte Ballou, Axel Tyle, Willie Pavia et al did a better-than-average job of imitating Portland’s conception of what Lu Watters might sound like with only one cornet. Local musicians, should they possess the anatomy of a brass monkey, should attempt emulation. See you all for coffee and donuts at the Kenton conclave. I assure you I’ll be torn with indecision as to whether long-hairism should out Friday night . . . torn for at least 12 sec onds. Fenton Movies - Free and Good; By BERT MOORE Larry Lau, please note: Tonight’s educational activities board movie, “The Count of Monte Cristo,” is free to anyone whc cares to drop around to room 3, Fenton hall at 7:30. Latecomers can attend the second showing, approximately 85 to 90 minutes later. The campus man with the pinched pocketbook is doubly blessed this week. Thursday night at 8 something called “Adventures of Chi co,” a Spanish-language flim, will be shown in the same auditorium, along with “People of Mexico,” a documentary. Aside from the economy angle, these pictures stand head and shoul ders above the programs now being shown on Eugene screens. I know that I don’t have any real authority to say this, because I’ve never seen “Adventures of Chico” nor “Framed,” but I’nt taking a chance on two advertisements with which I’ve come in contact. The “ad” on “Chico” was vocal, from a friend, and went something like this, “It’s a pretty fair picture ... all about a little boy who doesn't have any friends and so he makes friends with some animals . . . pretty good . . .” The ad for “Framed” featured these words, “The same Glen Ford that tamed Gilda. . . .” Well, you can make up your mind. . . In case none of the old folks are at home to give you the scoop, “Monte Cristo” stars Robert Donat, who never gave a bad performance in his life, and, all in all, is an excellent picture. A movie like this, ap proximately 14 years old, is doubly interesting from a technical stand point. When you get through seeing it, ask yourself whether the movie makers are doing better or worse as the flickering years roll along. Don Hunter, head of the audio-visual department on the campus, has made up some fine programs for the weeks to come. Some of them are more interesting to special groups, like art, language, or music students, but all of them have cinematic merit. And this is a good time to make special note of the October 29 pro gram. which will feature comedies starring Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd. Kiddies who think Bob Hope and Red Skelton are great will do well to drop around for a glimpse of the masters in their natural habi tat. A recent item in the Register-Guard saying that all the buildings on the “Rachel" sets have been given to the property owners will set a lot of minds at ease. The loungers who daily fan the breeze at Seventh and ; Willamette have been wondering what was going to happen after the shooting was over to the $1000 comfort station that was built for the use of Miss Loretta Young. Finished in knotty pine and featuring a fur-topped bench and. rack to | hold scripts while the occupant was changing her makeup and stuff, ; the little building has been the cause of the gleam in more than one 1 farmer's eye. Jletiebl LIKES POWDER BURNS To the Editor: It was a wonderful sight indeed to turn to the editorial page and find POWDER BURNS there. I for one have missed Rex Gunn’s regu lar articles during the past year. Mr. Gunn shows great sight and forethought in his rambling stories about our world today. Sure, they are more on the serious side all right—but it’s high time we all do some serious thinking about the recent past and the immediate fu ture. D. L. Persinger EGE CORDS Hickock Belts K Winthrope Shoes j^\x •*'•■ Campus Report meat Srors