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
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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.
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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.
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