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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 6, 1947)
MusicalVCast NoWtCompletef Completion of the cast for the “Beggar’s Opera,” to be presented in its entirety with an orchestra .7 next May, has been announced by director Herman Gelhausen, asso ciate professor in the school of music. Members of the cast are Sally Peabody as Polly Peachum, Claire Lewis as Mrs. Peachum, Virginia Walker as Lucy Lockit, Wayne Sherwood as Captain MacHeath, James McMullen as Peachum, Wil liam Putnam as Lockit, and James Kays as Filch. * Roles of eight ladies of the town will be sung by Treva Rice, Bar bara Detrich, Marjorie Graham, Janet Nielsen, Jean Lichty, Shir ley Anderson, Mary Margaret Dun dore, and Joyce Davis. Lowell Chase, Clell Conrad, Elend Pentilla, Loren Bush, Wil liam O’Leary, Phillip Green, Deraid Parks, and Earl Anderson will act as the eight men in Mac Heath’s gang. Rehearsals for this production, sponsored by the music school, are scheduled to begin next week. Director Gelhausen sung with the original English “Beggar’s Opera” company, which made a two-year tour of the United States in the 1920's. The opera was written in 1728 by John Gay. Pi Kappa Phi Installation Set Pi Kappa Phi, a new social fra ternity at the University of Ore gon, will be granted a charter and installed on the Oregon campus December 6. The University chap ter of the fraternity will be known as Alpha Omega. Installation will be held in the Osburn hotel at 5:30 p.m. December 6, followed by a banquet. Dr. George Odgers, president of Gray’s Harbor college at Aber deen, Washington, and past district Archon of Pi Kappa Phi, will be the principal speaker. J. A1 Head, national secretary of the fraternity will give the welcoming address and act as installing officer, and Vergil Fogdall, assistant dean of men, will welcome the chapter to the University of Oregon campus. Marion Sigovich, district Archon, will also speak. The fraternity, originally found ed in 1904 at the University of South Carolina, was formed last spring at the University of Oregon. The new chapter is now housed in Hunter hall. Charter members of the Univer sity chapter of the fraternity are v Robert Chapman, John Jackson, Alfred Ruedy, Lynn Bucklin, Don Yuletide Concert Slated .. . . . .. s \ •• (Jo-cnairmen or rue mu rm iupsilon-j iu mu /vipna sinionia Christmas concert to be given in the music school auditorium at 4 p.m. Sunday are Beverly Howard and Wayne Sherwood. General co-chairmen for tomor row’s combined Phi Mu Alpha Sin fonia and Mu Phi Epsilon Christ mas concert are Wayne Sherwood and Beverly Howard, seniors from the University school of music. The concert will be presented tomorrow in the school of music auditorium, at 4 p.m. Sherwood, a voice student, en tered the University from Portland, where he had appeared on a week ly quarter-hour radio show. Last month he won the statewide vocal ist division of the Portland Sym phony orchestra Young Artists' contest, and he will appear with that orchestra as a featured solo ist in a 1948 concert. Beverly Howard, a piano student, also entered the University from Portland. She has had an original work presented in the 1947 Odeon, and is scheduled to appear in a senior recital next year. Arabian Oil Firm Offers Varied Jobs The Arabian-American Oil com pany now has openings for service in Saudi Arabia for accountants and stenographers, as well as en gineers, geologists and geophysic ists, according to word received recently at the office of Karl On thank, dean of personnel adminis tration. Those interested in this type of work, as well as those interested in placement of any kind, should see Dean Onthank as quickly as possi ble. Everyone Invited To Benefit Tea Final arrangements have been made for the AWS sponsored bene fit tea to be given this afternoon from two to four. Special invita tions have been extended to 'the w'ves of faculty members, Dames, and campus life groups. All of the campus is urged to atteend. aid Clark, Paul Lansdowne, Ken Dohwty, Victor Doherty, Gordon Schneider, Howard Dempsey, Charles Crone, Eldon Deihm, Ed ward r arris, and Jack Reeves. .—. ■ -t FOR A TREAT IN MEAT] Shop the Eugene Packing Co. S. & H. Green Stamps 675 Willamette Phone 38 or 39 At the tea, boxes tilled for the needy of Eugene will be exhibited. Further contributions will be ac cepted at the door. In a divorce hearing a Wiscon sin man charged that his wife de manded 75 cents an hour for house work. At that rate she probabij figured she’d clean up. Journalists Discuss Newspapers, Radio (Continued from page one) comparatively new fields that Thompson believes will employ a great many journalists in the future. Thompson stressed the importance of local news coverage by radio stations if they are to retain their audience and ad vertisers. This will require, according to Thompson, the hiring of journalists to cover, report, and write for radio the “home town” news. Sigma Delta Chi held its traditional fall initiation at the banquet. Initiates were Merle Pugh, Djm Sellard, Tom Swint, Roy \\ illiams, Larry Lau, Wally Hunter, Warren Mack, and Rex Gunn. The conference continues today with the final address bv Floyd W. Lansdon, head of the Portland AT* bureau, at 11 a m. in room 207 Chapman hall. Emerald Classifieds II All classified is payable in advance at the rate of four cents a word the first insertion, two cents a word thereafter at the Emerald Business Office. Classified deadline is 4:00 p.m. the day >rior to publication. FOR SALE: 1937 Plymouth 2-door sedan. 1543 E 15th. No. 42. (57) WANTED: Girl to do housework and child care for board and room. Laurelwood • Golf Club district. 10 minutes by Fair mount bus. Tel. 3731-W. ■ FOR SALE: “Family Pet”. This “Dodge” is old, but in excellent condition all around. 20 mi. to gal. Makes bed. $210. Ph. 4488M. Kerns. (57) LOST: Rhinestone bracelet in or near McArthur court, Thursday, phone 1276. (57) WANTED: Ride to Chicago for vacation. Share expenses. Lois Larson, Zeta hall. (57) I I , ..TV "Can We Believe in a God of Love?" at 11 a.m. Broadcast over HASH 7:30 p.m. "WHAT ABOUT THE DIVISION OF PALESTINE?" What is it’s significance to Future Events? Bible School at 9:45 .. Youth Vesper - 6:15 p.m. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Broadway and High Dr. Vance W. Webster, Pastor (flmsftnas <^|§ otnecomuuj; A heartwarming tradition of our American way of life-home for Christmas! Young and old alike thrill with the excitement of Christmas and the joyous reunion of family and friends. Wise travelers choose Union Pacific. NO MATTER WHAT THE WEATHER ... Union Pacific will take you safely speedily—comfortably. At holiday time... or any time... go Union Pacific! Daily Union Pacific Passenger Train Schedules to the East Streamliner "City of Portland" "Portland Rose" "Idahoan" Lv. Portland 5:30 p.m. 9:10 p.m. 8:10 a.m. * * * For complete travel information, consult GENERAL PASSENGER DEPARTMENT Room 751 Pittock Block Portlond 5, Oregon UNION PACIFIC railroad ^ood oj Me Z><idef S&teo**Ui*ex4 ____