Californians Clamor for Milder
Weather; Fog, Smog Preferred
By BILL FRYE
“Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does
anything about it.” This little adage was adequately coined about
100 years ago by a newspaperman who probably thought the
public should take it upon themselves to teach Dame Nature
better manners rather than hold a grudge against his paper for
forecasting her brutal ways.
What would you do about th<
That was the question I presented
to a few Webfoots as I caught
them thawing out in the library
vestibule, stocking up on Vick’s
in the Co-op, or plodding about the
campus wearing red noses.
Californians, I have concluded,
deserve the sympathy of those who
aren’t feeling sorry for themselves.
Regardless of fog or smog, most
iWebfoots who call the Golden
State home, find weather “up
north” difficult to get acclimated
to. (Of course, I found most Ore
gonians saying the same thing.)
“Cold at Night”
When I asked a girl from Bur
lingame the subject question, she
said: “I'd have it warm during the
day and cool at night.” That was
a good answer, and I told her she
should be satisfied half the time
anyway because it is cool at night
here.
I observed one shivering fellow
on campus all decked out in ear
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: weather if you could change it?
muffs, fur-lined gloves, and Arctic
coat. Realizing how my question
might affect one in his condition,
I approached cautiously and asked
for a light. We huddled there but
he was holding the match and I
didn’t get much of the heat.
Then I asked for his comment.
“Sunshine and nothing more,” he
said, “just like we have it in Pasa
dena.”
“But,” I replied, “if we just had
sunshine we wouldn’t have all
these fir trees you see around.”
Too Much Wind
“Could be,” he retorted, “but
you won’t have them anyway if
the wind blows much more like it
has been.”
That was food for thought, so
I started thinking about what an
Oregonian would do if he could
control the weather. Through the
swirling snow I saw a bare-headed
youth with big feet and wearing
an Oregon jacket. Surely this was
James Kay, Tenor,
First U. O. Student
To Enter Contest
James Kays, senior in business
administration, is the first entrant
from the University in the At
water Kent Auditions. Kays is a
tenor.
Preliminary auditions for this
contest will be held soon in Los
Angeles, Hollywood, San Francis
co, and Santa Barbara. Non-pro
fessional singers between 18 and
28 are eligible to compete for the
ten cash prizes totaling $15,000.
There are no entry fees. Appli
cation blanks may be obtained at
the Atwater Kent Foundation, P.
O. Box 1511, Hollywood 28, Calif.
a genuine Webfoot!
Presenting my question to him
I got an answer I knew could only
come from such a typical student
as he:
“If I had my way, it would snow
four feet and then I wouldn’t have
to go to my accounting test.”
With such a cross-section of
examinees and answers I knew my
survey was a success. With that I
mushed back to the Emerald
shack, typed up my report, and
called the weather bureau to find
out who’s suggestion they were
using for Saturday night.
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Seminar Room
Current Project
For Art Group
Furnishing a seminar room for
its members in the School of Arts
and Architecture is a current pro
ject of the Associated Students of
Architecture and Allied Arts.
Organized last term as a suc
cessor to the Allied Arts League,
the ASAAA functions as a coordi
nator of social and educational ac
tivities within the school. Member
ship on the numerous committees,
which make up the nucleus of the
organization, is by invitation only.
According to Warren Carkin,
president of the ASAAA, invita
tions are extended on the basis of
how much effort a prospective
member is willing to put into his
committee work.
Said Carkin, “We are an active
group, and we need active partici
pants who are ready to work hard
to make our social functions and
educational projects successful.”
However, any student in the Arts
and Architecture School may be
long to the ASAAA.
A year’s activities include the
frosh party fall term, Beaux Arts
Ball in spring, sponsoring noted
speakers, and procuring exhibits
and movies. The group meets every
third week in the school.
Other officers include Jeff Case,
vice president; Javier Moreno,
treasurer ; and Ardetta Barnes, sec
retary.
Legal Group Hears
National Secretary
Phi Alpha Delta, legal honor
fraternity, was visited by Mathew
S. Rae, national traveling secre
tary, Tuesday.
Rae spoke to the fraternity on
the benefits of a law fraternity to
a law school. He gave examples of
fraternities benefiting law schools
through placement service origi
nated and carried out by alumni.
Kunz Plans Friday Talk
Dr. A. H. Kunz, head of the
chemistry department, will give
an illustrated talk on “Meteors
and Meteorites” for the Natural
History Society of Eugene at 8
p.m. Friday.
His speech will be in 207 Chap
man. The public may Attend.
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Revival From the Dead
Is Grace Hoffman's Role:
Melanie in 'Thunder Rock'
By NORMAN ANDERSON
Of all the people Charleston conjures up out of the past and
re-creates according to his own desires, in “Thunder Rock’', the
only one who comes close to being as he conceived her is Me
lanie.
And that’s the part Grace Hoffman, veteran University The
ater performer, will play when the show opens Friday night,
Feb. 3.
Melanie is one of the dead people Charleston brings back to
lire m his own mind to keep him
company during his lonely vigil as
a lighthouse keeper. But the re
created people are not returned to
life as they really were before they
died in a shipwreck but are
brought back according to the way
Charleston would like them to be.
“Rebellious, Eager”
And Grace says about her role:
“I come the closest to being
what he imagines me to be. I’m
rebellious, eager, willing to face
life optimistically. Charleston
doesn't give me too many charac
teristics I don’t really have. He
does make me get hungry when
I get angry and swear a lot more
than I really do.”
She says that she hasn’t had tpo
much difficulty interpreting the
role. Melanie is Viennese and so
dark-haired, blue-eyed Grace has
adopted an Austrian accent. Other
than the normal difficulty of try
ing to portray a dead person who
is very much alive, Grace says
she’s found the part very easy to
play.
A senior in speech, Grace is ap
pearing in her fourth role. Former
ly she played in “I Remember
Mama,” “Dover Road,” and "Mid
summer Night’s Dream.” She was
also assistant director of “Winter
set.”
With Portland Theater
Grace has had theatrical ambi
tions since she was in high school
and was connected with the Port
land Civic Theater. But the ambi
tion of an eventual Broadway
career hasn’t as yet taken hold.
Right now Grace wants to go
into teaching drama and speech.
“I think there’s a great need for
it. There’s an opportunity for help
ing young people to gain poise and
sureness and confidence through
the theater,” she says.
“And the theater isn’t just th,e
acting end. It’s a lot of other
things. In my four years here I’ve
tried to get as much experience
in as many phases of the theater
as I could.”
Speaking from past experience,
Grace says that one of her big
gest pleasures in "Thunder Rock”
has been working in the new Uni
versity Theater.
“It’s a lot different," she says,
"from working in the old Guild
Theater.”
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