Radio Station Offers
Organized Confusion
By MARTY WEITZNER
If you’ve got some spare time take a hike up to the third
floor of Vi Hard Hall. The climb isn’t pleasant, but you'll be able
to see what one year’s work has meant toward the advancement
of the University radio program.
What once was a one and two room affair, has now become
a studio covering the full third floor of Villard. There are two
larce studios and one small one designed for round table pro
grams. There are offices for a
station staff, and script and rec
ord libraries.
POINT FOR FUTURE
You might be tempted to say
“why they could put a whole radio
station in here,’’ and you wouldn’t
be far from right. That is just
what they intend to do in the near
future.
The soundproof studios have a
central control room, which can
keep operations of the three rooms
in hand. While asking the cast of
one show to speed up their pro
gram, they can be warning a group
in another studio that air time is
approaching.
Offices for the station staff
members adjoin the studio.
ISLANDS vs. ‘MULE TRAIN’
If someone calls the station dur
ing a broadcast and reports that
what is supposed to be a talk on
the islands of Micronesia is coming
out Frank Laine’s version of “Mule
Train,” the situation can be cor
rected without someone having to
walk through the studio to inter
rupt the speaker.
Besides the studios and offices,
the third floor of Villard has two
classrooms designed for radio
classes. These have a central con
trol room from which simulated
programs can be directed in both
classrooms at the same time. This
Library Gives
Vacation Hours
Library hoars during the
Thanksgiving vacation will be
as follows:
Wednesday.8 a.m.-6 p.m.
Thursday.closed all day
Friday .51 a.m.-5 p.m.
Saturday . 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Sunday.closed all day
Monday regular hours will be
resumed.
Commerce Pictured
On Railroad Menu
Now featured by Union Pacific
Railroad on their dining car menu
covers is a full-colored photograph
of Commerce Hall with Chapman
Hall in the background.
Showing the west entrance to
the School of Commerce, the menu
includes a brief history of the
University, its campus, and organi
zation on the back.
Program Postponed
The Wednesday evening Brows
ing Room program will not be
given tonight because of Thanks
giving vacation.
The program for next week has
been changed from Wednesday to
Tuesday from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.
At that time the philosophy de
partment will present a program
about “William of Occam."
TODAY S STAFF
Assistant managing editor: Tom
King.
Desk editor: Gretchen Grondahl.
Copy desk: Donna Pastrovich,
Stan Turnbull, Glen Gillespie.
NIGHT STAFF
Night Editor: John Epley.
Night Staff: Mary Yost, Barbara
Persons.
provides great training in organ
ized confusion — something quite
prevalent around many radio sta
tions.
Across the hall from the studios
are offices of other station func
tionaries including the publicity
staff.
The record and script libraries
contain material used for dramatic
and musical programs.
What makes a trip to Villard so
attractive is the fact that a tour
through the place will only take a
couple of minutes. Besides, you can
see the new new plant the drama
department will work in, and you
can view one of the oldest build
ings on campus done up in modern
style.
Jantzen Beach
Bills Fio Rito
Ted Fio Rito and his orchestra
will appear at Portland’s Jantzen
Beach ballroom on Saturday.
Fio Rito, a long-time favorite,
makes his first appearance in the
Pacific Northwest in more than
two years.
He has established himself as an
outstanding pianist and composer,
as well as conductor. Fio Rito has
written over 200 popular tunes, in
cluding “Toot, Toot, Tootsie, Good
bye,” “Laugh Clown Laugh,” “Lit
tle Grass Shack,” “Charlie My
Boy,” and “Sometime.”
Fio Rito and his orchestra have
been heard on' many radio pro
grams, including Jack Haley’s Var
iety Show, the Lucky Strike Hour,
Coca Cola Spotlight program, and
Dick Powell’s Hollywood Hotel
show.
They’ve also worked with every
major motion picture studio in
Hollywood, “Jolson Sings Again,”
plus a number of musical shorts.
The orchestra is coming to Jant
zen Beach direct from an engage
ment at the Shamrock Hotel in
Houston, Tex.
New Curtains Will Rise
On 'Winferset' Production
Two curtains are being installed
in the new University Theater in
preparation for the Dec. 2 open
ing of “Winterset.”
With a front curtain of royal
blue velvet to match the auditor
ium hangings and black secondary
curtain, the theater is gradually
acquiring a completed look.
The big front curtain is of a
special adjustable variety, offer
ing three different ways of raising
the curtain.
VERSATILE SYSTEM
The curtains can part in the
traditional manner, or may be
raised to the ceiling. The special
feature is that the curtain may be
opened in the usual fashion at
the same time that it is being
raised ceilingward.
In addition to the array of pro
scenium curtains, there will be a
muslin-stretched cyclorama. Used
to give the effect of the sky and
wide-open spaces, the cyclorama
measures about 40 feet by 100 feet.
The cloth for it was woven in Eng
land on special 24-foot looms, in
order to have as few seams as
possible in the finished product.
ELABORATE SWITCHBOARD
Another of the labor-saving de
vices in the new theater is the
switchboard, housing the dimmer
controls. With 36 dimmer units
connected with 68 stage circuits,
any intensity of light may be ob
tained for the desired effect.
The actual dimmer units are
housed under the stage, but con
trol switches are located in the
projection room at the rear of
the auditorium. This allows the
operator to see what he is doing.
When “Winterset” opens next
week as the first production in the
University Theater, it will have
what Director Horace W. Robin
son calls “the finest academic
theater in the United States” in
which to play.
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