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VOLUME XLIX NUMBER 139
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE. FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1948
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Curtain Rises Tonight at Eight
For'Male Animal'Production
By HAT KING
Thurbian madness and mild
social protest woven into a skillful
domestic farce will raise the cur
tain tonight at 8 p. m. on James
Thurber’s and Elliott Nugent’s
‘‘The Male Animal,” opening for a
six night run in Guild hall.
Gilbert T Williams, technical,
director, asumes for the first time
the role of director for the Univer
sity Theater. This is Mr. Williams
first year with the drama depart
ment.
The modern comedy is set
against the background of campus
life with English professor Tom
Turner (Bill Tassock) carrying the
Thurber stamp of a worried, hard
pressed, slightly insane individual.
He has all the troubles that Thur
ber thinks the male animal is
born to. Branded a Red for want
ing to read one of Vanzetti’s letters
to his class, Turner also becomes
involved in the eternal triangle
when his wife’s former sweetheart
returns to the campus for the
homecoming game.
The former sweetheart is ex
football star Joe Ferguson (Chuck
Boice) who tries to steal Turner’s
wife Ellen (Pat Laxton). The pro
650 Students
Return Cards
By Thursday afternoon 650 stu
dents had turned in cards for ap
pointment to pick up registration
material during freshman week of
(■ fall term, Registrar Curtis Avery
reported.
Cards are available in the main
corridor of Emerald hall through
noon Saturday and after that date
at the registrar’s office.
‘‘The speeed with which students
are allowed to register fall term,”
Avery said, ‘‘depends on the speed
, with which the cards are filled out
and returned.”
fessor gets hilariously drunk in a
not overly successful attempt to
behave with primitive virility.
Other members of the cast as
Turn Abouf Ball
To Terminate
'Ladies Week'
The smooth music of Freddie
Yawn’s band will be wafted across
colored-lighted McArthur court at
9 p. m. tonight, when the tuxedo
garbed musicians take their places
on the podium to begin the tradi
tional Mortar Board ball.
Tickets wil be on sale at the
Coop from 9 a. m. to 3 p. m.
today, Sally Mueller, ticket
chairman, said yesterday. Tic
kets will also be on sale at the
door, but Miss Mueller advised
the escorts to make their pur
chases in the Co-op if possible.
The admission price is $1.50.
Late permission until 1 a. m. has
been granted all women students
by the dean of women.
Carrying out the “Ladies Night”
theme, the girls will pay and the
men will wear the corsages. For
mal attire has been designated by
the dance committee, with dark
suits acceptable dress for men.
Kay Schneider, dance chairman,
emphasized that those attending
should arive as early as possible as
intermission is set for 10:15 with,
Kwama tapping scheduled for the
30-minute period preceding that
time.
Saul Zaik, ski club president, wiil
introduce Gretchen Fraser, 1948
Olympic ski champion, during in
termision. The 30 new Kwamas
will be presented and Billiejean
Riethmiller, Kwama president,
will present three Kwama seholar
Kap Sneider, dance chairman,
sisting in the fireworks are Caro
lyn Parker as Pat Stanley, Gor
don Ericksen as Ed Keller, Dick
Monnie as Dean Damon, Virginia
Woods as Mrs. Damon, Pat White
as Cleota, Donna Mary Brennan
as Mrs. Keller, and Chris McCar
roll as Nutsy Miller.
A comic, meloncholy slant on life
fills the play with fresh and free
flowing humor that will round out
the University Theater season with
a rewarding dose of genial laugh
ter
A comedy of situations, the
farce is aimed at scenes of campus
life familiar to all students.
Tickets are now on sale at the
box office in Johnson hall from 10
a. m. to noon and from 1 p m. to
curtain time. The play will con
tinue Saturday night and reopen
Wednesday, May 26, for a four day
run.
Large Student Vote
Anticipated Today
Polls Open from Eight to Eight;
Dewey-Stassen Tiff Tops Primary
By MIKE CALLAHAN
More than 2000 University of Oregon voters will go to the
polls from 8 a. m. to 8 p. m. today to cast their ballots in what
may be the important Oregon primary election in many years.
, Outstanding among the political isues to be settled today will
be the race between Harold E. Stassen and Thomas E. Dewey
for the states 12 votes at the Republican national convention,
the four-sided GOP gubernatorial campaign, and the city’s mill
race proposal.
Both candidates Stassen and Dewey have toured the Oregon
campus in their whirlwind campaigns in this state, campaigns
climaxed in the Portland debate early this week. According to
a recent telephone survey of the Eugene city area, Dewey est
ablished a slight popularity lead over Stassen. The margin
was so narrow that a full-scale turnout of campus voters could
swing the election either way.
Gubernatorial Race Hot
One of the hottest fights of pre-election weeks has shaped
over the gubernatorial race within the Republican party. John
H. Hall, present governor, is seeking renomination over Rep
ublican bidders John Payton, Glenn C. Ackerman, and Douglas
McKay. The telephone poll indicated a margin of six to one
in support of Hall in this area. On the Democratic ballot, Lew
Wallace is seeking nomination unopposed.
The millrace controversy will be settled one way or another
today when students will vote on the Eugene city ballot on the
proposed tax levy. It is estimated that the proposed levy will
raise $20,000, with an equal sum to be contributed by the Eu
gene Millrace association. This sum will cover the estimated.
$40,000 millrace repair bill.
Beside the presidential and gubernatorial nominees, a lesser,
but more lengthy slate of offices—senators, representatives, and
so on down to county supervisor—will also be decided upon.
UO Man Seeks Senate Post
Manley J. Wilson and Louis A. Wood are competing for the
Democratic nomination for Oregon senator, while Guy Cordon,
the present senator, is seeking renomination unopposed on the
Republican ticket.
Present representative Harris Ellsworth is seeking renomina
tion on the Republican ballot for the fourth district, opposed
by reform candidate Robert L. Parsons. On the Democratic
ledger, Elmer B. Sahlstrom is competing with William F. Tan
ton for nomination.
For secretary of state in Oregon, Byron G. Carney is op
posing A. M. Silverman on the Democratic party ballot, while
Earl T. Newbry and George H. Flagg are seeking the Rep
ublican nomination. Incumbent state treasurer Howard C.
Belton, Ormond R. Bean, and Sigfrid B. Unander are listed on
the Republican ticket with Walter Pearson proposed alone on
the Democratic ballot.
Overshadowing the county office nominees is the contro
versial “three purpose” ballot, separate from party nomination
ballots. Briefly, the ballot lists three purposes for consideration
by Lane primary voters.
The roads and bridges proposal would authorize the Lane
county courts to levy a 2y2 mill tax over and above the present
6 per cent limitation to provide the sum of $790,000 for the
“construction, improvement, betterment, and repair of public
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Programming Puzzle Solved
Building a concert program is
the hardest part of a conductor's
job, according to Eugene Orman
dy, conductor of the Philadelphia
Symphony orchestra. Advance no
tices indicate that maestro Or
mandy solved this problem by se
lecting Weber’s “Der Freischutz
Overture” and Brahms’ “Sym
phony No. 3” for his Civic Music
association concert in Eugene on
May 24.
“Program building is the hardest
part of a conductor’s hard job,”
Ormandy said recently, “because
no matter what you play somebody
doesn’t like it.”
Controversies are rorever raging
among symphony audiences, Or
mandy said, between modern and
earlier, and American and foreign
music. To satisfy audiences in the
more than 108 cities in which the
EUGENE ORMANDY
orchestra has appeared since be
ginning its annua] transcontinental
concert tours in 1936, a library of
about 1800 compositions is kept
ready for use during a season. This
library, containing full scores for
the conductor and parts for every
player, is formed around a nucleus
of music donated from European
patrons, music much older than the
orchestra itself.
Much of the Philadelphia Sym- 1
phony's library of music is available
i on records made under the direc
i tion of Eugene Ormandy. Tho
group has the largest recorded rep
ertoire of any existing orchestra,
and the sales of its records
throughout the world (including
the older Victor records) far ex
ceed those of any other orchestras.
In the seven years between 1940
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