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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 28, 1950)
■ Opening Night of 'Warrior's Husband' To Reveal Colorful Sets, Costumes By NORMAN ANDERSON “The Warrior’s Husband,” open ing Friday night, will be nothing if not colorful. That goes for every thing, from costumes, to sets, as well as dialogue. About 136 yards of material have been used to make 32 different cos tumes. Under the general super vision of Joan Landman, the cos tumes have been in the making since the latter part of February. Most of the material was ordered in January. Although Miss Landman and two assistants, Ellen Stephens, and Harriet Oliver, have done most of the steady work, each woman in the play has made most of her own costumes. The costume crew, however, has made all of the male outfits. Each woman’s costume will be a different color, though some will be the same in design. Older wo men in the play will wear long, flowing gowns with capes. The Greek warriors will be attired in brown skirts with armor and leg gings. The Diana archers have perhaps the most beautiful capes —deep green, and white, speckled with gold trimming. Cast Suggests Designs Costume designing was done by Miss Landman and Director Hor ace W. Robinson with suggestions by the cast. LeJeune Griffith, theater busi ness manager, designed and made the garments for Antiope and Hip polyta. Helmets for the play were designed, and in great measure, constructed by Robinson. Most of the material for the cos tumes came from Eugene concerns. But were ordered from a Los An geles costume firm. Forty yards will be used in capes in different colors, 36 yards of brown material for the warrior’s costumes, 26 yards of varied-colored cloth for the older women’s costumes, 21 yards for the Greek soldiers, and 15 yards of copper, gold and sil ver leatherette. “And millions of pins” said Miss Landman, ruefully surveying the cluttered costume room backstage. In addition, costumers have ac quired about ten yards of buckram silver and gold trim and 30 pairs of insoles for the warrior’s leg gings. Lead Costumes Elaborate The two leads, Antiope and Hip polyta have probably the most beautiful and elaborate costumes. Antiope’s is made out of cerise taffeta with white fur trim, and deep turquoise jewel cloth. Her cape, made in a complete semi-cir cle, is fuschia velvet, lined with white turquoise taffeta. The belt and cape are trimmed with silver braid and fuschia sequins. In ad dition, Antiope will sport a helmet, silver armor, and jeweled gaunt lets. Hippolyta, the Queen, is charac terized by royal purple. An over skirt of gold jev/el cloth will be trimmed with metal studs and edg ed with gold and purple braid. The girdle is gold Jewel cloth trimmed with purple sequins, and metal studs. Completing the outfit will be a full-length cape made out of royal purple velvet with gold fac ings, and lined with gold taffeta. Fortunately, the four girls who play the leading roles can each wear the same costume. Colorful Sets Planned Over in the scene shop, the at mosphere .is about the same. The sets, though less colorful will be as spectacular as the costumes. The setting for the first act will depict the courtyard of Hippolyta’s castle. On it will be a wall 26 feet high and four feet wide. In addi tion, Hippolyta will be provided with a throne. The other two sets will feature tents. One will be a scene of Hip polyta’s headquarters with several tents, 12—14 feet high. The other will be inside Theasus tent, which will take up most of the stage. Lighting for the production is under the direction of Larry Bars ness who explains that it will carry out the same general theme of “lots of color.” Louis Vogeler is recording the sound effects. All told, about two dozen people are at work most of the day and a good part of the night readying the Amazon comedy for the open ing performance Friday night, al though much of the set and most of the costumes were ready for the first dress rehearsal Monday night. Summer European Study Tours Offered to University Students Study tours into 11 European countries this summer will be pro vided by the World Student Service Fund to students who want to combine travel with learning some thing about the cultural, political, and economic life of other coun tries. Convinced that “ignorance of others’ ways and lives has been a common cause of suspicion and mistrust between peoples of the world,’’ WSSF attempts to make a contribution to the development of international understanding through the promotion of these tours. Passages on the S. S. Volendam, leaving Quebec, Canada, June 26, must be booked by Mar. 15. In terested students should apply im mediately to Muriel Jacobson, World Student Service Fund, 20 W. 40th street, New York, N. Y. Accommodations on other ships may open up, but none will be so reasonable as the $290 passage on the S. S. Volendam. Daily costs for all tours, cover ing total expenses while on tour, vary from $3 to $6, depending on the standard of living in each coun try. Study tour themes will be ar ranged so that students may com bine for example, a tour in Ger many on a study of the Federal Republic with a tour extension in France or Austria on art or music. A Many-Nation tour, July 10 to August 10, will be conducted for those wishing to travel more ex tensively with less intensive study of any one country. Theme will be European economic and polit ical uir'ty. Nations included in tour itiner aries are Denmark, Sweden, Nor way, Finland, Great Britain, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, and Switzerland. History Society Picks Schroeder Philip Schroeder, graduate stu dent in history, was elected presi dent of the newly-organized Uni versity of Oregon Historical So ciety at a meeting Fridajr. Other officers installed are: Guy Delamarter, vice-president; Albert Pike, secretary; Robert Croft, treasurer; and Carl Wermine, pub lic relations officer. The general aim of the society, said Mr. Schroeder, will be to pro mote and maintain a vital interest in history on the campus. Its ac tivities will include talks, forums, panel discussions, and addresses on ideas and interpretations of his tory. The Society will hold its next meeting Mar. 31. The place of meeting will be announced later. After a person has done only as he pleased he isn’t always pleased with what he is done. (J. O. Symposium To Make Tour Four students from th speech department leave Mar. 2 for Sandy and Gresham as members of the University Symposium Team. They will speak to Sandy high school students at 3 p. m. and the Gresham Professional Women’s Club that evening. Topic for dis cussion is “To what extent should basic industries of the United States be nationalized.” The team includes Joe Cosenen berg, and Bob Carey, seniors in speech, and Richard Bent^, and Ernestine Schulenberg, freshmen in liberal arts. 1VCF to Hear Atwell Rev. Robert Atwell, of the Or thodox Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, will ad dress the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship meeting tonight at 7 p. in. in John Straub cafeteria. Bob England to Speak To Traffic Fraternity Delta Nu Alpha, national traffic fraternity will meet tonight at 7 in Gerlinger Lounge. Annual elections for all officers will take place. Bob England of West Coast Air Lines will be guest speaker of the evening. Wengert to Talk On School's Job In Our Society E. S. Wengert, political science department head, will Lecture Thursday night at 8 p. m. in 207 Chapman on “The University in the State, Ivory Tower or Watchtow er.” Wengert's speech is the fourth presentation of the current Uni versity Lecture Series. ‘I suppose the main point in my lecture is ‘what is the job of the university in our society,’ ” Wen gert said when interviewed. He plans to show how a university may act as a watchtower to withstand the threats of the cold war. Wengert expressed the belief that, in view of the present cold war, it is the function of the uni versity to help people face the threat intelligently. He will ex plain how this may be done. Two common roles the university plays in society will be discussed. Wengert proposes to compare the dangers of the “ivory tower’’ or remote and withdrawn role, to the consequent advantages of having a university actively interested in state affairs, or playing a “watchtower” role. Wengert will devote time to many currently controversial is sues, such as the employment of communists in state schools. A question period will follow the lecture. Is Red Cross overhead too high ? Red Cross overhead costs are low. The Red Cross can accomplish what it does ONLY because it has the help of 100 trained volunteers for every paid staff member. Norman Thomas (Continued from page one) out the United States. On his various radio forum ap pearance in the past, Thomas has been violently anti-Comunist, and forthright in the presentation of his political and economic views. He debated recently with Raymond Moley, Raymond Swing, and Wil liam Chamberlin on “Town Hall of the Air.” Thomas will speak in Portland tonight, and in Corvallis Wednes day afternoon before his appear ance in Eugene. A faculty recep tion will follow the address. You can do your part in making Red Cross help instantly available to victims of disaster by supporting the 1950 fund campaign. 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