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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 9, 1949)
IFC Meeting Calls Students From Oregon University students Fred Van Horn and Irving Steinbock will leave this afternoon to attend a Western Regional Interfraternity Conference held from Nov. 9 through 12 at Washington State College in Pullman, Wash. Van Horn is president and Stein bock secretary-treasurer of the University Interfraternity Council. Joint hosts for the conference are the University of Idaho and Wash ington State College. Last year the meeting was held on the University of Oregon campus. Most of the Western states and Canada will be represented by fra ternity men at the conclave. The program planned will consist largely of panel discussions and meetings, in which the Oregon dele gates will participate. Impromptu Talks Booked Thursday Tryouts in extemporaneous speaking will be held Thursday af ternoon from 2 to 4 in Room 201, Villard Hall. Contestants will be given spe cific topics within general fields on which to speak. Winners will compete in the meeting of the Intercollegiate For ensic Association of Oregon, Dec. 2, and in the Stanford Tournament, Nov. 22 and 23. Speeches in each of these contests will be seven min utes long. < Souvenir Programs Offered by Theater Searching through mementoes of past theater seasons, LeJeune Griffith, business manager of the University Theater, discovered large quantities of old programs. In order to clear stock to com plete moving into the business office of the new theater build ing, Mrs. Griffith is giving any one who desires them, programs for nearly all of the plays given at the University for the last six or seven years. Those wishing programs may pick them up in the business of fice in the lobby of the Univer sity Theater. WANTED—Anyone interested in a room in Vet’s Dorm. Contact Dick Swearingen. Ext. 381. 36 FOR SALE—Best quality clarinet in perfect condition with case $110. See at 1543 E. 15th St. T-4S between 6 and 7 p. m. 37 FOR SALE—Two student tickets to the Cal game. Call 4-1431, Bot Bennett. FOR SALE—1947 Ford Convert ible. Will discount for slightlj damaged door. Otherwise in ex cellent condition. Am willing tc barter. Phone 5-9387 or 4-4196. LOST—In 104 Villard Hall, Friday Nov. 4, music books. Call 5-4391 WANTED — Portable Typewriter Call 4-4241, Erwin Peter. FOR SALE!—Revere movie cam era, model 70. Has full magazins load, ten dollar case and two fil ters. In excellent condition foi only $100. Contact Mason Lud wig at Vets ICC33 after six p.m on Monday, Wednesday, or Fri day. NOTICE — Experienced typing term papers and thesis. Call Apt 3, Susan Campbell. Props for 'Winterset' to Stress Poverty-Stricken Atmosphere Framed by the buttress of a great Manhattan bridge, crowded between a rickety tenement and the river, “Winterset,” Maxwell Anderson’s tragedy of love and death, takes place in an atmos phere of poverty and squalor. The set to be used for the Uni versity Theater production of the play will emphasize the “hemmed in” feeling of the drama, according to William E. Schlosser, technical director of the theater, who de signed the scenery for the produc tion. As Schlosser visualizes the set, the scene is framed by a buttress of the bridge, with the roadway arching over the stage and disap pearing into the distance across the river back of the scene; to the rear may be faintly seen the sky line of New York. An aged tenement frames the other side of the scene, while the rocky edge of the river marks the back of the stage acting area. The tenement will be of weather-beaten brick, discolored by the elements until it is nearly neutral in tone. Alternating with this outdoor set will be an interior scene, the basement home of the old rabbi Esdras. With bare, unplastered walls and rough, but sturdy, furni ture, it reflects the poverty of the family and the fear under which they live. In Schlosser’s two sets, Gordon Ericksen and Barbara Pasquan, as the lovers, Mio and Miriamne, and the rest of the large cast will enact their tragic story. Directed by Hor ace W. Robinson, “Winterset” is the first production of the Univer sity Theater. Court Clarifies Traffic Rules Four cases were heard by the student traffic court in its regular session Tuesday night in 6 Friend ly. One violator had already posted bail at the Office of Student Af fairs. Ten notices will be sent to vio lators who have failed to appear two times. After the third warning and non-appearance, the case will be turned over to the Office of Student Affairs for further con sideration, Court Chairman Dick Neely said. Some students have a miscon ception of the court, Steve Church, court member, pointed out. If they have a student parking permit, they may post bail at the Office of Student Affairs after receiving a ticket without appearing at the court. However, after the second notice has been sent, they must appear before the court. A double fine will be imposed on those who do not have student parking stick ers. Branch Co-op Store to Open A branch of the University Co op will sell supplies to students in the School of Art and Architec ture. The store will be open five days a week, from 10 a.m. to 12 noon, and from 1 to 5 p.m. Regular Co-op prices will be charged and the sales receipts will be redeemable on the same basis as receipts from the main Co-op in Chapman Hall. John Ritchey is managing the branch store, which does not sell books. IT Friday Slated As Tun Nile' At Gerlinger Students will square dance, play ping pong, volleyball and badmin ton, and swim at the second Fun Night this term from 8 to 10:30 p.m. Friday. A no-admission, no-date occa sion, the event v/ill be held in the Gerlinger Hall Gym. It is spon sored by the Women’s Athletic Association. Refreshments will be sold. Square dances v/ill be explained to all unfamiliar with them, Janet Frye and Joan Carr, co-chairmen, assured. Swimming suits will be provided for men and women by the Physi cal Education Department. Ping pong will be played in the sun porch, and volleyball and bad minton in the outdoor gym. Foreign Group Slates Retreat University foreign students will attend a retreat at Camp Cleawox Saturday and Sunday sponsored by the Oregon State College Cos mopolitan Club. At present 10 students plan to attend. Foreign students interested may contact James D. Kline, for eign student adviser, in his Emer ald Hall office. The group will drive to the coast after meeting at 11 a.m. Saturday in front of Gerlinger Hall. Price for the weekend, covering meals and lodging, will be $3.50. Students must bring their own bedding. She used to be the Belle of the town but somebody tolled on her. ll SIGNALS ON! For a sensational play use the Emerald Classifieds For Lost, Found, Buy and Sell. I Oregon daily A1E HERALD <n dailu 3 EMERALD YoungRequests Talent Tryouts For Mon. Night Acts and individual talent from a segment of campus living organi zations will be auditioned for fu ture reference Monday evening in Alumni Hall, Gerlinger, by Campus Talent Chairman Fred Young. Names of the organizations will be announced later this week. Fu ture auditions are planned for the other living groups, Young ex plained. The eventual aim is to catalog all available campus tal ent. Cards will be distributed to liv ing organizations this week, to be filled in with information on acts and other talent available, Young said. The cards will be classified after performances of the various acts have been viewed. Acts need not be composed just of representatives from one living group, he added. You’ve read that passage wrong, Miss Adams—It’s "all men are cre ated equal’’—not “all men are made the same way.” Weather . . . Eugene and vicinity can expect cloudy weather with moderate to heavy showers early today. It will continue mostly cloudy with occas ional light showers Thursday, the weatherman said. High today, 52; low, 40. Greetings Ducks! We serve all your needs • Fountain • Magazines • Drug Supplies THE LEMON "O" “Doc” Ireland 13th & Alder Classroom or campus ... a Pendleton shirt is your best companion. Smartly tailored, pleasantly warm, extremely comfortable . .. virgin wool through and through. Pendleton woven in exclusive patterns. Slacks by i Pendleton are of | equal quality a'-- ‘j and distinction. Baxter & Henning