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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1949)
t VOLUME LI Fifty-First Year of Public at icn and Service to the University UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31,1949 NUMBER 22 Sophomore Whiskerino Theme Set “Stubble Stumble” will be the theme of the Sophomore Whisker ino, Dick McLaughlin, general chairman announced Wednesday, Tickets are being sold in all mens’ living organizations and will go on sale Monday in the Co-op Price is $2.40 including tax. A lim ited number will be available, de clared Lillian Schott, ticket and program chairman. On the ticket committee are i | Shirley Hillard, Janeth Youngs, Pat Rice, Shirley Ildstad, Marjory Fulton, Margaret Powne, Joan Skordahl, Marilyn Thompson, Donna Buse, Joy Trieman, Joan Cavey, Jessie Bennett, Sue Bach elder, Herb Lombard, Tom Jacobs, Dave Eisenburg, Marian- Smith, Don Za-vin,' Renee Johns, Louise Carsillo, and Betsy Erb. The program committee includes Marianne Weiby, Virginia Kellogg, Nancy Wright, and Elizabeth Waddell. Stan Turnbull Homecoming Hostess Head Chairman of the Homecoming Hostess selection wjll be Stan Turnbull, junior in journalism, Willie Dodds, general chairman, announced Wednesday. Committee members selected by Turnbull from petitions are Betty Wright, junior in architecture and allied arts; Janice Hughes, junior in liberal arts; and Pat Mullin, sophomore in liberal arts. Women chosen by the living or will be contacted sometime today concerning the selection of candi dates, Turnbull stated. Candidates names must be submitted by 1 p.m. Tuesday to Miss Wright at the Delta Gamma house or to other members of the committee. Candidates are to be selected on the basis of poise, charm, appear ance, and ability to talk easily with people. Women chosen by the living or ganizations must have either soph omore, junior, or senior standing in the University. In addition, candidates must have been on campus previous to this year. Gamma Phi Betas 'Adopt' Second Dutch War Child wmma rm r>eta sorority Has recently adopted a 6-year-old Dutch child, Nellie Bierkems, through the Foster Parents Plan for War Children, Inc., of New York. This is the second Dutch child to be adopted by the Gamma Phis. They also contribute to the sup port of another 6-year-old, Egbert Vangener, and plan to adopt another child in the *ear future. The sorority corresponds with the children. It receives letters from them via the Foster Parents office which translates them into English. Neither of the children’s fathers is living. Egbert’s father died in a German concentration camp dur ing the war. The sorority began the project upon recommendation of its na tional office two years ago. Many other chapters of Gamma Phi throughout the cpuntry have also adopted the plan. Each member of th house con tributes money which is sent monthly to the Foster Parents organization. They in turn send food and clothing to the children. Script Writers Wanted Students interested in writing radio scripts for presentation at the Homecoming game are asked to submit petitions to Ann Caro son at the Gamma Phi Beta house. Further information may be ob tained from Jack Dugan, McChes ney Hall. Foreign Movie Club Organized Thursday Night The showing of two series of six foreign films each is planned under the sponsorship of the Foreign Movies club, organized at a meet ing of the University students, faculty members, and twonspeople last night. The movies, which will be shown at the Mayflower Theater, will be spaced as evenly as possible throughout the school year, and will be fitted in with the Univer sity program, said Jack Baldock, manager of the Mayflower. . Members of the Foreign Movies Club will be admitted to the pic tures at a cut rate, with their sea son tickets. Tickets for the series of six may be purchased for $3.00, including tax, making a cost of 50 cents a picture. Those who join the club will hold a membership card which will be punched, in stead of having separate tickets for each film. Students who pur chase the $3.00 season ticket will receive a pledge card which will not be transferable. Membership cards of the townspeople will be transferable. The general public will be ad mitted to the foreign movies for 70 cents, or 80 cents for loge seats. Season tickets will be available beginning Monday afternoon in the office of Rene L. Picard, assistant professor of romance languages. Mail orders will also' be received (Please turn to page eight) Homecoming Dance Heads Called For Petitions for Homecoming Dance committe chairmanships are now being accepted by Jerry Smith, dance chairman. Chairmen are needed for the fol lowing committees: Decoration; patrons, and pro grams; tickets; clean-up and pro motion. Petitions must be turned in to Smith at the Phi Gamma Delta house by 5 p.m. Wednesday. Press Conference To Start Saturday One of the largest high school press conferences will start Satin day \\ hen more than 400 high school delegates and advisers register at the School of Journalism. 'Plus 23rd annual convention is predicted to be one of the most comprehensive in history, according to Laurence R. Camp bell, journalism professor and executive secretary of the group. 'Phe delegates represent 00 high schools throughout the state. 1 1 1UXN Delegates and advisers arriv ing today will register between 1 and 10 p.m. Registration will resume Saturday morning- be tween $ and 10. Scheduled to address the con ference is Charles A. Sprague, ex Oregon governor and editor-pub lisher of the Salem Statesman. His topic, “Journalism as a Career,” will be at 9 Saturday morning. NAGY TO SPEAK The closing speech, “World Af fairs in the Newspaper,” will be presented by Ivan G. Nagy, assist ant professor of political science. Nagy formerly served as the first secretary of the Hungarian legation in Washington. Nine student-conducted panels, directed and participated in by the delegates will cO\fer discussions of newspapers and yearbooks. ‘More attention is being given this year to the smaller mimeographed papers. NEW FORUM For the first time a yearbook for um will be held, thus widening the field covered by the conference. Once a year the conference brings together the Oregon Scholastic Press and Oregon Association of Journalism Advisers. Each school may send four official student dele gates with the journalism adviser. There is no limit on the number of unofficial delegates that may at tend. ROTC Cadets Starve Advanced ROTC students must wait longer for their monthly pay check, the Military Science De partment said this week. Eugene Shivers On Coldest Day Eugene had its coldest October day on record Thursday. Temperature Thursday morning' descended to 24 and only slightly higher thermometer readings were predicted for this morning. Official Weather Bureau records, started in 1890, show only two days approach yesterday’s low. They wore last Wednesday and Oct. 28, 1917. On both these days the temperature was 25. Eugene's cold wave is caused by a northeast wind bringing cold air down from Northern Canada. Slogan Chosen For Homecoming “Oregon—Then, Now and To morrow” was selected Thursday as this year’s Homecoming slo gan, stated Willie Dodds, general chairman. Jim Wallace, senior in journ alism, submitted the winning suggestion. As a prize he will re ceive free admission for one couple to the Homecoming dance on Nov. 19. All Homecoming events, in cluding the float parade, sign contest, and dance, will be based on this central theme. Homecoming weekend will be Nov. 18 and 19. Controversial Singer to Appear Here . Wagnerian soprano Kirsten Flagstad, who will appear at Mc Arthur Court Wednesday night, is now continuing her second post war North American tour in spite of criticisms of her allegedly pro Axis sympathies. Both of Madame Flagstad’s tours have stirred up controversies about her activities during the war. When the United States entered the war with Gemany, she left New York’s Metropolitan Opera to return to her husband in Norway. Although the singer is a Nor wegian citizen and was not compel led to remain in the United States* during the war, many persons felt that her actions indicated sympa thy for the Nazi side. Her husband was outspoken in his support of the Axis. CHARGES DROPPED Madame Flagstad abandoned her career during the war. She satis fied Norwegian authorities to the * extent that they cleared her of charges of being a Nazi sympa thizer at the end of the war. Her husband is now dead. Flagstad’s first post-war tour of the United States took place in 1949, and consisted of ten appear ances in Eastern cities. Nation wide attention was drawn by the protest of Philadelphians to her apperance in their city. The re mainder of the 1947 tour, however, attracted little adverse attention. TOURED ENGLAND The Metropolitan Opera did not contract her again for its Wagner ian Cycle; however, she made ex tensive tours of England, the Con tinent, and South America. In 1947 the singer made a charity appear ance at Albert Hall, London, under the sponsorship and at the request of Queen Elizabeth. Madame Flagstad’s second Am erican tour also has drawn contro | versy. The directors of San Fran cisco's War Memorial Opera house (where the soprano recently ap peared as a featured artist in the opera season) opposed her appear ance on grounds that her war record was dubious. Because the Opera House pro vides the only adequate opera fa cilities in San Francisco, the opera company contested the decision to ban her. Eventually a reversed de cision was drawn from the board. Flagstad sang in the opera house for one matinee and one evening performance. CRITICISM Among her opponents in San Francisco were veterans’ groups, including members of the War Memorial board, which veterans elect. Bitter criticism came from board members; their original neg ative decision was reversed by only one vote. The opera season would have been cancelled had not the board per-| mitted Flagstad to appear. The Eugene appearance of the soprano has drawn only one com plaint, also based on Madame Flag stad’s war record. Since her origi nal clearance by the Norwegian Minister of Justice, she has receiv ed two additional clearances from the government of her country. LOCAL SPONSORS Local sponsors of the concert are members of the Eugene and University Civic Music Associa tion. The Wednesday-night pro gram will include selections from Wagner, Schubert, Brahms, Strauss, and others. During U.S. tours, Madame Flag stad has received uniformly fav orable comments from music crit ics. One of the latter, Virgil Thom son, declared that ‘‘Flagstad's voice is the dream voice of all time, and never has it seemed so lovely (as during her post-war appearances).” To this the National Concert and Artists Corporation, which acts as Madame Flagstad’s booking agent, added the following: "American critics have, of course, been speaking thus of Flag stad ever since the historic night of her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1935. In Europe the Great Nor wegian is even more wildly idolized. Following her first post-war series of concerts here she left again for Europe, where she appeared in opera and concert in Zurich, Swit zerland, and gave the charity con cert at Albert Hall. “Repeating her initial post-war triumph (the 1947 tour) she re turned to the United States in the winter of 1948 to demonstrate that she is ‘incomparably the most dis tinguished of living singers’ (from, the New York Herald Tribune), then left again for the aforemen tioned fabulous European and South American tours, from which she returned in the Fall of 1940.'*
