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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 24, 1950)
Second Duo Of Hopefuls Introduced Today the Emerald wishes to in troduce to the student body two more candidates for Homecoming Hostess. Jessie Bennett, Gamma Phi Beta, and Martha Stapleton, Car son Hall, are the third and fourth candidates to be presented to stu dents in interviews. JESSIE BENNETT Jessie Bennett, a speech and political science major is a twenty one year old senior at the Univer sity. Future plans after gradua tion are concerned mainly with the teaching profession. Miss Bennett i& a radiant brun ette with brown eyes. She reveal ed that she is five feet five inches tall, weighs 120 lbs., and is from Coos Bay, Oregon. This brown-eyed miss is inter ested in horseback riding as an outside activity. Her father owns a string of American saddle horses and she has won honors at the State Fair in showing horses. Most of the activities Miss Ben nett is concerned with evolve from her house. At present she is Vice President and House Social Chairman. MARTHA STAPLETON Having her own radio program is one of the distinctions Martha Stapleton, the fourth candidate for Hostess, can claim. Miss Stapleton, who is very in terested in dramatics and radio, gained this honor during the sum mer when she headed a program over KERG. Being a member of Kappa Rho Omicron, radio honor Mortar Board Set To Honor Official Mortar Board, senior women’s honorary, will honor Mrs. Robert Sisceloff, at a dinner Tuesday night. Mrs. Sisceloff is Expansion Di rector of the National Mortar Board council. She will conclude the activities during her visit by attending the di Stefano concert Tuesday night in McArthur Court. After her stop here, Mrs. Sisceloff will visit Oregon State College. Stockholders Elect SALEM— (A*) —Stockholders in the plan to buy the Salem Western International baseball club held a meeting last night to elect a board of directors. The directors will then complete the deal to buy the team for $50,000 from the Portland Bea vers of the coast league. As of last weekend public sale of stock of the team had reached $46, 575. The sale price for the club is $50,000, but only $25,000 is needed for the down payment. ary, she has had previous exper ience in this type of work. This Hostess candidate is from The Dalles, Oregon. She is twenty years old, stands five feet six inches tall, and weighs 120 pounds. Miss Stapleton plans a future in teaching. She would like to teach high school dramatics and speech and her background is ex cellent for this type of profession. One of her other accomplish ments is being president of the fifth floor of Carson Hall. She is a Junior who loves to dance, swim, and play golf. She finds little chance to do some of these during fall and winter terms but it helps her to look forward to spring term and sunshine. TWO CO-OP SPECIALS • • • On the Textbook Balcony Some last years' Xmac Cards To move — 5c cards at Ol.c ea. 10c to 25c cards at .05c ea. 25c and 50c cards at 10c ea. • • • CREW HATS A new shipment of Crew Rain Hats in a wide selection of colors and sizes — ✓ ONLY 1.00 U of O CO-OP STORE Czech Student To Talk Today “My Escape from Communism” will be the subject of a talk .by Leopold Pospisil, foreign student from Czechoslovakia, at the inter national student luncheon at noon today in the Student Union. Pospisil, a graduate student in law from Charles University in Prague, escaped from the Russian zone to the United States zone of Germany Mar. 13, 1948. For three weeks he was forced to hide from the Communists be cause of his adverse views as sec retary of the Bennsh political party and the Union of Friends of the USA. He will tell of his experiences in today’s talk. The luncheon is open to inter ested students and faculty mem bers. Reservations may be made by phoning Wah Chun at the YMCA before 11 a.m. The speech will begin at 12:15 p.m. From 12:45-1:30 there will be a discussion period. Opera Star (Continued from page one) ing a rather unsuccessful sales man, di Stefano’s luck turned in a cgrd game. Not only did he win but he celebrated the win by break ing into song. His friend realized that he had a voice and urged him to study. Later the fortunate young sing er met Luigi Montesanto, the leading baritone at La Scala, an important opera in Italy, and, through sheer bravado, persuaded him to be his teacher. Voice Aids Escape During the war, his voice help ed him to escape, because by sim ply vocalizing, he convinced a Ger man corporal that he was an im portant singer in Berlin so that the man helped him get away. In Switzerland he was interned for a while, but soon did more con cert and radio work than staying in camp. He thinks that his prime experience iff that country, how ever, was being soloist at a re quiem mass for the last President Roosevelt, at the express wish of the United States Minister there. Ten months after the war di Stefano was ready for his debut at a provincial opera house, Reg gio Emilia. After rapid advances through Venice, Romagna, Barce lona, Rome, and La Scala he made the Metropolitan Opera. The young singer is happy that he left the seminary, because, as he said, “It is good I leave the seminary. It is easier to be a good tenor and good husband than to be a good priest.” Popular With Audiences Di Stefano also sang at the Na tional Opera in Mexico City and the Teatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro where audiences forced the management to break their "no encore” rules for him, especially in the opera “Rigoletto” and the song “Lo Donna e Mobile.” Two Sundays ago he sang over the Standard Hour in San Francisco, where he is now making his debut. Some of his roles have included des Grieux in "Manon Lescaut” and the Duke of Mantua in “Rig oletto,” plus roles in “Mignon,” “Traviata,” “L’Elixir d’Amore,” "Gianni Schicci,” “Falstaff,” "Bo heme,” “Der Rosenkavalier” and "Faust.” Last summer di Stefano return ed to Italy for the first time since his American debut. His appear ances in Rome, Naples and Sicily turned into a triumphal march. He is now on his third national concert tour of the U. S. In the good old days mom used to hide change in the coffee pot— now with the price where it is, she 1 hides coffee. Faber DeChaine Plays Lead in 'Born Yesterday' By Don Smith “I guess I’m just a natural born heel,” Faber DeChaine comment ed in discussing his role in “Born Yesterday,” which opens this Fri day evening in the University Theater. DeChaine plays the lead role of Brock in the three-act comedy. During summer session he play ed Lt. O’Leary in “John Loves Mary.” Both characters are heels. “But different types,” DeChaine, a junior in speech, added hastily. “O’Leary was a small time crumb, and Brock is a big time operator.” Brock is the first lead role that the Sigma Nu member has play-, ed. He had a walk-on last year in “The Girl I Left "Behind Me,” and Duck-Gael Show Set Tonight in SU Movies of the Oregon-St. Mary’s game will be shown tonight at 6:30 in the ballroom of the SU. Jim Aiken, Oregon football coach, will narrate the movie. Carol Udy, SU board member, will introduce Leo Harris, athle tic director and John McKay, as sistant coach, who will give a scouting report on the Southern California-Navy game. All University students and faculty members are invited to at tend the football movies. In the past the attendance has been prin cipally male, but the girls are al so urged to attend. Executive Council (Continued from page one) council that petitioners had not been given adequate notice of the interview. The move to enlarge the court was made in anticipation of the new constitution which will go into ef fect after the spring term general election. (Under the provisions of the new constitution, the Student Court is to be enlarged to a five member panel.) I. F. C. President Harber present ed a problem by letter that fraterni ties are generally disturbed about how they will exist in the future when deferred living keeps incom ing men from their organizations until spring term and the draft will remove a large portion of the pres ent students, during the summer when they are not deferred. A committee was appointed to investigate and report its findings at the council’s next meeting. The new dessert procedure as presently formulated will be pre scented to the social chairman of the living organizations by Dana Lind, campus social chairman and Eve Overback, Executive Council representative. The meeting will be held at 4 p.m. to day in the Student Union. WAA Plays (Continued frotn baae tour) to lead the Alpha Phi team. Zeta Tau Alpha forfeited their game to Gamma Phi Beta, giving them a win of 1 to 0. Todays Schedule Teams playing today are Rebec House vs. Susan Campbell Hall and Kappa Kappa Gamma vs. Delta Gamma, both in the main gym; and Ann Judson House vs. Alpha Delta Pi in the outdoor gym. Games cannot be scheduled ahead of time as the day’s winners are what determine it. America may spend more money on chewing gum than on books, but judging from some of the best sellers that doesn’t necessarily mean we have bad judgement. played Dr. Kurtz, a featured role, in last season’s “Thunder Rock,” besides performing- in the sum mer play. He has done other stage work with the El Paso players and at Balboa Beach. Character Role “Born Yesterday” is Brock’s show, according to the man who plays the role, yet it is not like most leads—Brock is a character role, not a romantic lead. “It’s difficult to carry a char acter for three acts,” the thes pian explained, “particularly when you have to develop a different speech pattern.” The characters in the Garson Kanin comedy are the uneducated, uncouth, hard type, and DeChaine says their speech is “generally un familiar to Western listeners.” Three Fight Scenes A bit sadistic, the “guy who started with one junk yard and ran it into 50 million bucks,” has a walloping time during the pl^ —he has three fight scenes, he “slugs one guy in the kisser,” DeChaine explained, slipping into his play speech pattern, “slaps Billie in the mug, and practically strangles Paul. “But Brock gets it in the end when the dame he thought was dumb fouls up the works for him,” DeChaine explained. “The play is a satire on his attempt to bribe the senate, and his scheme is ex posed when the mistress he had educated gets too smart for him.” DeChaine hopes to go into the professional theater after gradua tion, preferably the technical as pect of the stage. 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