Busy University Actress Unlike
Character She Portrays in Play
By PAT KING
LeJune Griffith is one of the
few women capable of successfully
combining a husband, a thesis on
communism, a part time job, and
active participation in the Univer
sity Theatre Guild.
“I’m not much of an organizer,
but I find the more I have to do,
the nv/re I can accomplish,” de
cided Mrs. Griffith, flashing a
pixie-like smile.
Loves Mr. Zero
Taking precedence over her
other activities for Feb. 6, 7, 9, -10,
It, 12, 13. and 14 is her role as
Daisy Diane Dorthea DeVore, the
awkward frustrated woman who is
secretly in love with Mr. Zero in
Elmer Rice’s “The Adding Ma
chine.” She pronounced the play
“one of the most interesting we’ve
seen on this campus in a long
time.”
A quick glance into the past re
veals that success in all her un
u< [-takings is not new to her. When
her fiance, Carl Griffith was sent
overseas two and a half years ago,
she enlisted immediately as a
WAC private. She was sent to of
ficer's candidate school and other
schools to receive training in pei'
sonnel work.
Climbing to the rank of captain,
Vets Insurance
Shows Increase
More veteians reinstated lapsed
National Service life insurance
during December than in any
month since last August, the vet
erans administration announced.
VA said 103,668 veterans in De
cember reinstated lapsed insurance
with a total value of $671,518,000.
During the last eleven months of
1047, a total of 1,106,919 veterans
r enewed lapsed policies worth near
ly $6,790,000,000.
VA last month extended to July
31, 1948, the period during which
veterans with lapsed insurance may
apply for reinstatement of their
term policies by merely filling out
a simple form and paying two
monthly premiums. Ordinarily, no
[uiyseial examination is required if
the veteran certifies that his
health is as good as it was when
the policy lapsed.
Group to Feature
"Jerabe Tapatio'
Spanish club members will be
given an opportunity to learn the
Mexican hat dance, called “jarabe
tapatio’' when they meet tonight
at 7 on Gerlmger sun porch.
A synopsis of the Spanish movie,
“Pepita Jimenez" will be presented.
she was detailed to the air force,
where she traveled with the Amer
ican air force personnel district
command, which had its own pri
vate plane to tour the United
States and inspect bases.
Always on the (Jo
“Wo were on the move every
seven days and I estimate that 1
covered 30,000 air miles not to
mention about 10,000 railroad
miles.’’ she said.
In August 1945, her fiance re
turned and they were married in
her home town Salt Lake City
before coming to his home in Ore
gon. He is now a law student.
Mrs. Griffith is a senior in jour
nalism.
She immediately established her
self as an actress on campus by
winning the ‘coveted award of out
standing actress of the University
Theatre for the season 1946-47
due to her performance as Mama
in “I Remember Mama.” She is
also active in Theta Sigma Phi,
women’s journalism honorary;
Phi Beta, women's music and dra
matic honorary; and is senior rep
resentative on the University
Theatre’s Advisory board.
Large Cast
Appearing v. itli LeJune will be
Paul Bender and Geraldine Het
tinger as Mr. and Mrs. Zero, Dick
Rayburn as The Boss, Louise
Clouston as Judy O'Grady, Stan
Smith as Young Man, Alan Button
as Shi dlu, and Norman Weekly' as
St. Charles. Appearing as the
couples No. 1. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 will be
Don Smith and Donna Brennan,
Dick Monnie and Sally Nicol, Dick
Nelson and Ruth Foreman, Elton
'Allen and Mary Ellen McKay,
Bob Cockburn and Donna O'Brien,
and Paul Wexler and Anita Jack
son respectively.
Tickets are now on sale at the
box office in Johnson hall.
Before the
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Fifty Hear Talk
By C. Moore
More than 50 persons attended
the first lecture of the book and
author discussion group under the
sponsorship of Miss Bernice Rise,
reading consultant of the library,
held Tuesday evening in the li
brary browsing room.
The meeting opened with Presi
dent Charles Hansard’s announce
ment of future programs. He in
troduced Dr. Carlisle Moore, as
sociate professor of English, as
speaker on Thomas Wolfe.
After tracing the development
of his “qualified enthusiasm” for
Wolfe and stating Wolfe’s contro
versial status, Dr. Moore enumer
ated Wolfe’s faults of “tremendous
excess” growing out of his “in
sane hunger for life,” his lack of
form, and his intemperately Ro
mantic stlye.
His virtues stem from his un
questioned genious in making the
reader live with the characters, the
English professor told the group.
Wolfe’s short life included a
journey, shortly before his death
ten years ago, through Eugene on
the way to Crater Lake. Wolfe
said of the lake that, "Nothing
can describe the color of the water
here.”
Wolfe authored four novels. The
first, “Look Homeward, Angel,"
should be the introduction to
Wolfe, Dr. Moore advised. He read
excepts from scenes which stress
Wolfe’s themes of the passage of
time, death, 'onlines and symbol
ism.
In conclusion, Dr. Moore as
serted that dual pleasures of recog
nition and discovery await the
reader of Wolfe.
Next Tuesday, February^ 10, at 7
in the browsing room, Mr. Rudolf
Ernst, associate professor of Eng
Brand to Address
Faculty Club Dinner
The annual dinner meeting of
the Faculty club will be held
Saturday evening at the clubhouse.
Judge James T. Brand of the
Oregon Supreme Court will be'
guest speaker. Judge Brand has
just returned from Germany where
he served as a judge in war-crime
trials.
All Faculty club members who
have paid their 1948 dues are eli
gible to attend and partake of the
free dinner. Those faculty members
who have not joined the club can
send a $5 check for annual dues
to University Business Manager
J. O. Lindstrom, club treasurer.
Copy Desk:
Jeannine Macaulay, desk editor
Betty Lagomarsino
Dick Monnie
Bill Howlett ~ T
lish, will address the group on
George Bernard Shaw. The meet
ing is open to everyone.
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Microscopy Talk Topic
Dr. F. W. Paul, associate profes
:or of physics, will speak on “Phase
Microscopy’’ at the biology semin
ar, Friday at 4 p.m. in 105 Deady
hall.
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president to invoke the pocket veto, '
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