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Pre-Showing of 'Marco Millions'... Public Schools See University Play A special pre-showing of “Marco Millions,” the University Theater’s 1948-49 spectacle production, will he presented to an audience of pub lic school students in McArthur court on Friday, April 29, accord ing to LeJeune Griffith, business manager. Scheduled because of the particu lar interest the play holds for stu dents, this performance of Eugene O’Neill’s colorful oriental extrava ganza about the life of Marco Polo will be open to public school stu dents only. Tickets will be sold to groups, and may be ordered now by calling extension 403, or may be purchased at the box office the night of the performance. The price of admis sion is $.40, and no seats are reserv ed. On Saturday, April 30, the play will be presented to University students and the public, who will remember the spectacle production as being one of the traditional events of spring term at Oregon. “This is the last year that the spectacle will be staged in Mac court,” Mrs. Griffith pointed out. “The new stage in Villard will be large enough to take care of all our future productions.” Special sound equipment will be installed for the performance to in sure audibility. The University symphony orchestra will be featur ed in the production, and elaborate costumes and spectacular staging will typify “Marco Millions.” Including eleven scenes and a Let's Sing America Grade Students Mass For Choral Celebration ' More than 3,000 grade school children will gather in McArthur court today for the sixth annual "Let’s Sing America” closing. Ap praising together for the first time since last year, the students will sing American folk songs that they have learned through the year from their weekly “Let’s Sing” programs. The program, which marks the seasonal closing of the series, will bring together children from many schools within the range of KOAC. Today, the 1st to 8th graders will come to Mac court at 12, eat their lunches in the bleachers, and begin the program at 1:15. They will come in delegations of many sizes, ranging from the contingent of 400 from Springfield, to small groups from the 1 and 2 room schools. Prominently seated in the bleach ers will be 18 members of the Sa lem school for the blind, who like the rest, will wave their school banner and join in the 27 song pro grams. Songs by Stephen Foster, folk songs like “Blue Tailed Fly” and “Shortnin’ Bread,” patriotic, and state songs, will fill most of the 45 minutes of song. The Springfield high school band will accompany many of the songs, and the Spring field Pep club will entertain after the show. Two solos will be a feature of the presentation. One, “Beautiful Dreamer,” will be a request sub mitted by a majority of the more than 25,000 listeners into whose classrooms the program comes each week. It will be sung by tenor James Kays, who has announced and sung with the “Let’s Sing” show for three years. The other solo, “Merry Life,” will be sung by 8th grader Patricia Ann Turrit of McKenzie River school. Patricia was selected from over 100 pros pective soloists who appeared at the University radio studios last week. A choir composed of these children will appear on the pro gram. At the same time as Patricia was selected for the solo effort, prologue, the play takes place all over the world of the 13th century —in Persia, Venice, Syria, India, Mongolia, and Cathay. Pigger's Guide Petitions Due Friday is the deadline for Pig ger’s Guide petitions. Any student who feels himself qualified can petition for the edi tor’s and business manager’s jobs of the 1949-50 University directory. According to the Educational Activ ties office, the editor will receive 100 dollars and the business mana ger receives about 120 dollars for their work during the first part of the school year. “It is a big personal satisfaction also to see thousands of tokens of your work rolling off the presses. Besides the satisfaction and money, the jobs offer valuable experience in the business, journalism, and printing fields,” commented Doro thy Orr, this year’s editor. The new executives will be named Wednesday. two other 8th grade students were chosen to direct the huge chorus in two patriotic airs. Jean Voss of the Mount View school near Springfield and Florence Jones, Willagillespie school near Eugene, will lead the singing of “America,” and “America the Beautiful.” The job of wielding this large group into a capable organization, will fall to Maude Garnett, asso ciate professor of public school mu sic. Assisting her will be 14 juniors in music, who will sing along with Schick, Alberta Paden, Lucretia Prentiss, Lois Beanguard, Cora Jane Skillern, Ethel Anderson, Syl via Williams, Treva Rice, Gertrude Rutherford, John Lusk, Charles Phillips, Jack Craven, Mary Ellen Everton and Velma Snellstrom. “Let’s Sing America” will re sume in September. Deaf Mute Held for Questioning POLICE INSPECTOR Tom Cahill (left) hands a pencil to Neal O. (Nancy) Hammock, 26 (right) a deaf mute so she can reply to a question he has \v ritten on a pad of paper concerning the bludgeoning of her aunt, Mrs. Effie Payne, 62, whose condition i s critical. The girl is being held for questioning and came to visit her aunt in San Francisco several months ago. She is from Los Angeles. (AP W'irephoto) Look, There Goes Pop TEN-YEAR-OLD Dickie Riedel points with pride out the window of his home at Midway City, Calif., when his father Dick Riedel flies over in the small plane in which he and Bill Harris have already set a new endurance mark. Dickie is confined to his bed with arthritis, but because of a $5000 check given by a petroleum company, he can now get proper medical caree. (AP YVirephoto) Methodists Plan Spring Retreat The annual spring retreat of the Oregon Methodist Student Move ment will be held April 22-24 at Camp Magruder. Delegates will be present from all of the Oregon colleges. Dr. Harvey Seifert, assistant pro fessor of Christian Ethics at the University of Southern California, will be the guest speaker for the re treat. The retreat will begin Friday ev ening with a supper and will end with dinner at noon on Sunday. Communists Shell (Continued from page one) the same area where Communist shore guns on the river’s north bank pounded the Consort and the Ame thyst. Nine crewmen of the British de stroyer Consort were killed as the ship went to aid the Amethyst, aground on Rose Island, 60 miles downstream from Nanking. Three aboard the Consort were wounded seriously, the spokesman said. The carrier carried on a run ning duel with the shore-based guns along a 50-mile stretch of the river. It is possible the Red runners may have mistaken the British warships for Chinese na tionalist gunboats. A report received from the Ame thyst early this morning said she was refloated last night by her own efforts. Berg's College Board Miss Doris Wills, representing Charles F. Berg of Portland, will be in Eugene Friday to interview junior women applicants for the summer college board. Application blanks may be ob tained from Beth Basler at the Delta Delta Delta house or Nancy Peterson at Alpha Phi. Interview appointments will be scheduled for Friday from 12 to 2 p.m. in alumnae hall. ( K Sigma Kappa Girls Will Attend Confab - Members of Sigma Kappa soror ity will travel to Oregon State col- ' lege Saturday to attend a province coriference with delegates from the f University of Washington, Wash ington State College, University of Montana and Oregon State chap- - ters. Dorothy Sutton and Lois Him- ^ melsbach will be the official rep resentatives from the Oregon : chapter. " LOST—AJ house pin. Initials RSW, • Phone 4922R. Hildegard Wagner. TAILORING and ALTERATIONS Work done promptly. Mrs. Trout (with Erna) Applewhite, reweav er. 1060 High. 116 FOR SALE—1940 Chev. club coupe R&H excellent condition. Orig. owner. $800. 2676 University. Ph. 4697-R after 5:00. 118 FOR SALE — Black Buick road master convertible. Excellent condition. Call 3332-R. 118 ' FOR RENT—Room for 2—Kitchen privileges. 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