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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 30, 1948)
WEATHER — Eugene and vicin ity: Cloudy today with rain. Partly cloudy with scattered showers Wednesday. High today 48. VOLUME L Fiftieth Year of Publication and S ervice to the University UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1948 HAL Boyle tells the tale of thfv vanishing American. See story page 1, columns 2, 3, and 4. NUMBER 51 .c Busybody Is Comic Offstage ii anyone else tens me that I'm a natural for the part I’ll hit 'em over the head with my bustle,” Sally Nicol screamed with a charming smile and a twinkle in her blue eyes. Sally, or "Sas” as her friends call her for no logical reason, plays Mrs. Candour in “School for Scandal.” A veteran comic off stage as well as on, Sally has a field day in playing the self-esteem ed, good-hearted busybody who wouldn’t for the world tell you that . . . and on into her bit of gossip. As house president of Susan Campbell hall, Sas got the Cali fornia freshmen off to the right start by answering the question “does it rain in Oregon?” with “honey, there are two seasons in Oregon—the rainy season and August, and you won’t be here in Augi rt.” h Sas is a native Oregonian, com !/ ing from Portland. She’s appeared ■) in other University theater produc tions, including “The Man Who Came to Dinner,” “Adding Ma chine”, and “Midsummer Night’s Dream” of last season. As Mrs. Candour Sas takes com plete charge of the scene from the minute she charges on stage until she makes her exit—and heaven help the person who gets in her v/ay. Mrs. Candour is perhaps the most delightful of Sheridan’s char acters in the restoration comedy, though individual taste will deter mine the favorite for members of the audience. Sas looks forward to the opening Actress SALLY NICOL will play the part of Mrs. Candor in the forthcom ing production, “School for Scan dal.” Friday night with the gusto of a veteran actress, and is even more anxiously awaiting the road tour the School for Scandal company will take during winter term. “What I like about the road is the unexpected, anything - can happen quality,” Sally explain ed. “One night you may play on (Please turn to page two) New Type All-American NORM VAN BROCKLIN, above gets another All-American berth. This time as quarterback on a ten man “Dream Team” selected by Betty Grable. “Hollywood’s “Gal with the legs” disregarded all the fundamentals of football and picked her team solely on good looks. Amazingly enough, Miss Grable overlooked Jackie Jensen of California on her team of the year. Betty Grable Selects Van On 'Dream' Team By Gretchen Grondahl Oregon quarterback Norm Van Brocklin has hit a new kind of All-American listing. This time film star Betty Grable did the picking of an all star squad, and not on the basis of such common considerations as tackling, blocking, or running back punts. Miss Grable chose her dream team for their looks. Commenting on her choice of Van Brocklin, the actress savs “any guy who can complete so many passes in one season is okay with me.” The girl who is famed for her well-molded underpinnings was conscious of gams when she chose her backfield, for she se lected SMU halfback Doak Walker for his “Best-looking legs.” Minnesota’s Billy Bye, who appeals to her maternal instinct, fills the other halfback position. Handsome Fred Nadhenry of Yale completes the backfield at fullback. Captain of the blonde beauty’s All-American is Center Pat O’ Sullivan of Alabama. Barney Poole of Mississippi and Bill Clements, UCLA, were selected for the ends, while Guards Bill Fischer of Notre Dame and Rod Franz of Cal were chosen for their “rugged good looks.” Miss Grable’s selection of a tackle will provoke much heated discus sion—simply because she claims that she could find only one hand some enough to make the team, Phil O'Reilly of Purdue. Glancing over tne list of her ten man All-America, Eetty concludes: “I don't know how good some of them are, but if they can play foot ball as well as they look—oh, broth er!” The story of Miss Grablc’s selec tion came to the Emerald by way of an article clipped from the Los An geles Mirror by former Oregon student Mrs. Dean Post (Barbara Tibbets,) of Seal Beach, California. Ducks Face SMU In Cotton Bowl; Campus Jubilant \\ hat looked like a blue holiday ahead turned into a gala prospect as UO received an eagerly awaited bid to Dallas’ Cot ton Bowl. , Invitation to the New Year’s game was received and accept ed by the l nivcrsitv during the Thanksgiving holidays, ancl ' was later confirmed by Southern Methodist University, which will meet Oregon on the Cotton Bowl grid. Accoiding to a release by Howard Lemons, athletic business manager, LU students will he permitted to purchase two tick ets each for the game. No stud ent rate will he offered; the standing ticket price is $4.80. I he Athletic Department ticket oftice will he open from December 1 to 18 for the sale of tickets to Texas-bound Webfoot. One of the largest banquets ever held in the state of Oregon will honor Head Coach Jim Ai ken, Assistants Dick Miller and Frank Zazula, and the Oregon football team. The banquet is set for 6 p.m. Tuesday, December 7, at Mac court. ] Master of ceremonies will be famed radio comedian Phil Harris, who sends word that he will “honor the Pacific Coast champions." All Oregon alumni will receive applications for tickets to the Cotton bowl game. They are be ing sent this week through the alumni office and athletic depart ! ment, and must be returned by i December 15, said Les Anderson, alumni director. Paid members of the association will receive first preference, but otherwise the applications received earliest will be considered first. Banquet tickets are now on sale at the ticket office or at the Eu gene hotel. Students, alums, and Oregon rooters from all over the Northwest are expected to be in attendance. In order to accept the Cotton Bowl bid, the University had to gain the approval of a majority of the members of the Pacific Coast conference. Members of the football team itself were also polled as to their wishes. Today's Vanishing American Old-Fashioned Indian Nickel By Hal Boyle NEW YORK—(APJ—The van ishing American today is the In dian on the old-fashioned nickel. He is losing face faster than Chiang Kai Shek. No wonder he is looking west toward the sunset He has had his day. He and the buffalo are going down together. For the nickel is about as useful to the average man now as a golf ball is to a hen. Time was when ] the Nickel delighted the childish | heart. Give one to a kid today, and the little innocent is likely to in quJr s\ “What’s it for?” And it is a hard question to an swer. The nickel, like the old grey mare, ain't what she used to be. The coin originally was strictly in inflation product. Now it’s a victim of inflation. It was first minted in 1866 in the ugh price times following the civil var. Before that the people had nade small change with half cents, arge cents, Pennies, bronze two 3ents, nickel three cents, and sil ver three-cent and half-dime pieces. The new five-cent nickel, which vas actually only 25 per cent nickel ind 75 per cent copper, quickly ri valed even the Indian head penny in popularity. It had a mighty reign. For two generations of Americans it was a basic coin, although by statute it was legal tender only in the pay ment of debts of twenty-five cents or less. It helped build fortunes for the Wool worths, the Dukes and many another clan. What couldn’t a man do with a nickel in the good old days? He could buy his wife a pair of ear muffs or a hair ribbon. He could belly up to a bar and get a stiff shot of stomach warmer or a tall glass of beer. It would finance him to a plug of chawin’ terbaccy, a small pack of coffin nails, or two of the darkest,^, strongest cigars this side of Cuba. It would take him to the movies in the era of silent flickers, when strong men fainted at the sight of ! pretty Pearl White, tied by villainy to the railroad tracks in the path of the speeding express train, 15 minutes out of Hoboken. They thought so much of this I dear old coin that the worst thing (Please turn to payc citjht) 'Messiah' Concert Sunday One of the major musical productions of the University’s history will he offered to Eu gene audiences on the evening of December 5, when Choral Union and the University sym phony orchestra will combine in Handel’s “Messiah.” Under the direction of Dean Theo dore Kratt of the music school, the production is sponsored toy the Uni versity religious council and the School of Music. The various parts of the oratorio have been in rehearsal since the be ginning of fall term; the Sunday night performance is expected to reach a new high in the spectacular on the UO music scene. UO religious council has stated that “the public is invited"’—mean ing that no admission will be charg ed. McArthur court will have seat ing for a large audience, which in, all probability will be one of the greatest ever to attend such an event at the University. Onyx Street Area Opened To Parking In order to ease the parking1 situation for art and architec ture. students University offi cials have opened the area in front of the architecture annex on Onyx street to students hav ing classes in that building. The area was formerly restricted for physical plant personnel. This change does not affect the restrictions on parking in driveways or on the lot still re served for the physical plant, near the University press, paint shop, or extension building. 'School for Scandal' Box Office Opens Starting today the general public may buy tickets for “School for Scandal,” which opens Friday for a sixperform ance run — Friday, Saturday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. The box office in Johnson hall is open from 10 to 12, and 1 to 5 until Friday. Days of perform ances the box office remains open until curtain time. Tickets may be purchased at $1 per seat, or one season ticket stub per ticket.