Oregon daily emerald., May 12, 1948, Image 1

Oregon
VOLUME XLIX NUMBFR 132
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE.WEDNESDAY, MAY 12. 1948
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All -Student Cast
Performs In Comedy;
Sherwood In Lead
By ANNE GOODMAN
A highwayman with wife trouble will lead to many humor
ous situations at the music school auditorium tonight as “Beg
gar’s Opera,” complete with costumes and orchestra, and star
ring an all-student cast, will begin its three-night run at 8 p. m.
Herman Gelhausen is director.
General admission tickets will be sold in the Co-op for 60
cents. No reserve seats are available. Members of Phi Beta,
music and drama honorary, will sell tickets from 9 a. m. to
4 p. m.
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Police Power
Good or Evil?
YOU Decide
Strong police force will make a
strong United Nations, agree War
ren Miller and Bob Allen, Oregon’s
Pacific Northwest College congress
representatives. A permanent mil
itary force is not a menace, they
said, but the basis of a feeling of
security among nations. Rifts be
tween the East and West could be
avoided.
Resolution number three of the
PNCC ballot to be voted on next
week by University students advo
cates that this power be given to
UN. The resolution provides, “That
an adequate permanent internation
al military force be provided to en
force the decisions of the security
council.”
Shall the police force consist of
equal contingents from each na
tion, or shall the nations provide
men and equipment on a propor
tional basis? This question has not
been answered. Russia desires the
plan of equality for althought she
could provide more men than the
United States, America could fur
nish strong sea power. Having lit
tle naval strength, the Soviet Un
ion does not desire to give this ad
vantage to the United States. Prob
lems such as these must be worked
out when the international police
force is established.
Atomic energy could be a most
effective weapon of the United Na
tions. The plan of this group is to
give each country the secret and
depend upon a mutual respect of
the properties of that weapon to
maintain peace. This, too, must be
smoothed out later.
Denton Rossell. assistant professor
of voice. The props will be changed
in full view of the audience, since
no curtain will be pulled between
acts.
The opera, written by John Gay
in 1728, shows government cor
ruption and hypocrisy of high
society at that time. It is “lively,
melodic, vigorous, lusty, and
fresh,” according to Dr. R. D.
Horn, professor of English, who is
exhibiting twelve 18th century
prints concerning the opera. They
may be seen in the main lobby of
the library this month.
Cast Listed
Mary Margaret Dundore as
“Polly,” Wayne Sherwood as “Mac
Heath” head the student cast.
Other top roles are Claire Lewis as
“Mrs. Peachum,” Virginia Walker,
as “Lucy,” James Kays as “Filch,”
James McMullen as “Peachum,”
William Putnam as “Lockit,” and
Robert Fulton as the “Beggar.”
Three faculty members and ten
students compose the orchestra.
The first production of “Beggar’s
Opera” in England ran 62 days,
setting a new record for that time.
It was last shown on the Oregon
campus in the early '30s, when Dr.
Horn appeared in it.
Property Staff Asks
'Who's Got 'Who'?'
“Who’s got ‘Who’?” is the
question currently being asked
by the property staff of “The
Male Animal,” University thea
ter, three-act comedy now in re
hearsal for presentation on May
21, 22, 26, 27, 28, and 29. The
play’s prop list calls for a re
cording of “Who,” a popular fa
vorite of the pre-swing era. Any
one who can supply the missing
disc should contact tlxe drama
studio.
ISA Petition in Circulation
To Change Date of Elections
Free Smokes, Cases at Co-op
'No Strings' Says Came/s Man
As a part of a nationwide campaign, the R. 3. Reynolds Tobacco
company on Thursday and Friday will give away free to every
student of the University a package Of Camel cigarettes in a plastic
case, it was announced yesterday by Hugh V. Connelly, division man
ager. The plastic case will bear the initials OU for Oregon univer
sity.
Connelly and several assistants will establish headquarters for
two days in the Co-op store. Although the plan has no official con
nection, Connelly said that he would ask students to show their
registration cards to limit each student to one package.
In all, the company expects to give away approximately 5,000 of
the cases and packages of cigarettes. This will cost several thousand
dollars, according to the division manager.
“I want to emphasize that there are no strings attached,” Mr.
Connelly said. “Of course this is a promotion stunt, but we are not
requiring any one to purchase anything or make any other effort
other than to show up at the Co-Op store,” he added.
Murder Mystery
Scheduled Tonight
Tonight’s feature picture will
be “The Thirty-Nine Steps” star
ring Madeleine Carroll and Rob
ert Donat. Directed by Alfred
Hitchcock, it is a murder mys
tery classic.
Accompanying it is a short
movie on formation of glaciers
called “White Flood.” Both pic
tures will be shown in 207 Chap
man with the first showing be
ginning at 7 p.m. They are spon
sored by the educational activi
ties board and shown by the au
dio-visual department.
Oreganas Ready
Tomorrow at Court
Students who ordered 1948 Ore
ganas can pick them up tomorrow
from 9 a.m. to 12 or 1 to 5 p.m. at
McArthur court. Olga Yevtich,
business manager, said receipts
will not be needed to get the year
books.
Freda Mowrey
To Address
Editing Class
Freda Goodrich Mowrey, wom
an’s club editor of the Oregonian,
will address the editing class at 9
a.m. Thursday on the subject of
writing club news. She will speak
to women journalism students at 4
p.m. in 103 McClure.
According to George Turnbull,
dean of the school of journalism,
Mrs. Mowrey, who has had many
years of experience as club editor,
conducts a training school of her
own for Oregonian correspondents
who handle club news.
She is a graduate of Oregon and
a member of Theta Sigma Phi, na
tional journalism honorary for
women. She addressed the annual
press conference here last year on
club news writing.
Mrs. Mowrey will speak Thurs
day noon at a Business and Profes
| sional Woman’s club luncheon in
| Eugene.
Dewey-Stassen Debate Plans in Final Stage
PORTLAND, Ore., May 11
CUP)—Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of
New York and Harold E. Stassen
probably will debate the commun
ism issue on the same platform
here next week in the first direct
meeting of the two candidates in
their Republican presidential cam
paign. But supporters argued to
night over the details.
The Oregon election campaign,
which winds up-May 21 in a selec
tive primary, picked up momentum
with the expected arrival tomorrow
of Stassen for an appearance at
the Portland ice arena.
Stassen’s campaign manager,
Robert Elliott hired the arena af
ter both candidates agreed to the
debate in wires to Reed college
President Dr. Peter Odegard.
Dewey supporters immediately
Y. fumed that there would be no dis
ruption of the New Yorker’s Ore-|
gon schedule and announced he
would appear tomorrow night at
Pendleton, 227 miles to the east in
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the state’s wheat and cattle belt.
John C. Higgins, chairman of the
Oregon Dewey for President com
mittee, said the governor would
make arrangements for the debate
only through the “proper channels”
of the Multnomah county Repub
lican central committee.
Higgins said the rapid action of
Elliott in hiring the arena for the
debate tomorrow night was “nei
ther reasonable nor courteous.”
“Stassen has had two years of
chasing after this office already,”
Higgins said. “Now he wants to
make a circus and a hippodrome of
the race.”
Elliott said that Stassen would
arrive tomorrow, five days in ad
vance of his original schedule, to
begin a last-ditch fight for Dewey
for the state's 12 delegates to the
June GOP convention.
He said Stassen was “pleased to
join Governor Dewey in debate on
the vital issues confronting the
people, and particularly the Repub
lican citizens of Oregon.”
THOMAS DEWEY
Chairman Expects
1,00c Signatures
By Tonight
By ANITA HOLMES
Petitions to change the ASUO
nominating assembly from May 20
to May 19 or 21 are now in circu
lation on the campus and should
have ‘‘more than 1000 signatures
by tonight.”
This was the estimate of Bob Da
vis, chairman of the ISA organi
zational commit'teee, which is han
dling some of the petitions.
One Day
If the request is granted by the
executive council, ASUO election
day will automatically move for
ward or back one day. The ASUO
constitution sets election day as
five days after the nominating as
sembly.
Davis said the petitions were
drawn up to change the assembly
date for the following reasons:
1. To give the Off-campus stu
dents a fairer opportunity to
vote since the original plan
would place election day on Tues
day, when many students do not
come to the campus for classes.
2. To avoid conflict with the
speech of Henry Wallace, presi
dential nominee, scheduled for
May 25 in McArthur court, where
the voting will take place.
McArthur court is available tho
evening of May 19, according to
Davis.
The Independent Student asso
ciation is asking the executive
council to hold a special session for
consideration of the petitions, ac
cording to the chairman.
Interested students are distrib
uting the petitions which contain
the following request:
“We, the following students of
the University of Oregon, hereby
petition our ASUO executive coun
cil to change the day of the ASUO
nominating assembly to May 19 or
21. We feel that this will give tho
off-campus students a fairer op
portunity to vote. Elections are de
signed to follow public opinion,
therefore the largest possible vote
is the most democratic vote.”
Eugene Police Chief
To Address Press
Eugene Police Chief Keith Jonea
will explain the recent Thompson
case at the Press club meeting at
8 p.m. tonight in the Del Ray.
Jones will discuss the incidents
in the case and the treatment it
received from the press and radio.
A discussion period will follow his
talk.
All upper class journalism stu
dents are invited to attend.
Director Slates Talk
Mrs. Golda P. Wickham, asso
ciate director of student affairs,
will travel to Klamath Falls Fri
day, where she will speak to mem
bers of the Klamath Falls Girls’
league on “Mapping Your Educa
tion.”
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