Large Cast Announced
For Shakespeare Play
William Shakespeare's "Henry
IV, Part I,” will open Dee. fj for .six
performances under the direction1
(>f Mrs. Ottilie Seybolt, associate
professor of speech. The story is
based on the rebellion of Hotspur
against King Henry, and ends with
the battle of Shrewsbury at which
time Hotspur is killed.
The play also concerns the rela
tionship of Prince Hal, son of Hen
ry IV, and Falstaff, a "local
'loafer," and the maturing of
Prince Hal (which is continued in
Part 2, and culminated in Shake
speare's "Henry V"J.
Gordon .Howard, winner of last
year's best actor's award will he
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<;on as Falstaff. Prince Hal will
be played by Dennis Vernon, and
Karl Harshbarger, sophomore in
speech, will play Hotspur, the lord
who heads the revolt.
Gerald Smith will play King
Henry IV, who hopes his son,
f’iince Hal, will soon realize the
" sponsibilities of a future king.
Michael Lundy, sophomore in ar
chitecture and allied arts, will play
Poins, h loy Louise Von Groenwald
is cast as Lady Percy, Sue Polsky
as Mistress Quickly, and Shirley
Birge as Lady Mortimer.
This is only a partial list of the
east for the second production of
this season.
Platforms, Stairs, Levels
Extensive Play Staging Planned;
'Henry, IV' Last Fall Attraction
Levels will play a large part in
the University Theatre’s forthcom
ing production of Henry IV, part I.
The set, which has elements of
impressionism although it is more
nearly a forma! setting, is now be
ing constructed by the stagecraft
class under the direction of How
ard Ramey, technical director for
the University Theatre.
The entire left stage will be
made of five different levels, while
center stage will consist of a cur
tained archway with a balcony
above. On right stage a flight of
stairs will descend from the bal
cony to the main stage acting
area.
As the last production of fall
term, Henry IV will employ an act
ing area over the orchestra pit.
Lick Peterson is in charge of con
structing a platform to raise the
orchestra pit level up for acting
purposes. The two front vents are
also to be used.
The vast gathering of props is
under the direction of Betsy Thay
er, property mistress. She will be
assisted by Harold Long, who was
last seen as the Doctor in “The
Happy Time." The property crew
consists of Paula Poppenheimer
and Marilyn Miller.
Paul Maier, sophomore in speech,
Young Republicans
Sponsor Conclave
Approximately 150 delegates are
expected to attend the Oregon
Young Republican convention here
this weekend.
The convention is sponsored here
by the Lane county Young Repub
licans and the UO Young Republi
cans assisted by the Eugene High
school Republican group. Co-chair
men are A. T. Goodwin, Eugene
attorney, and Douglas R. Spencer
of the Bureau of Municipal Re
search both members of the Lane
county group.
Registration will begin Friday in
the Osburn hotel where most ses
sions will be held. Committee meet
ings are scheduled for Saturday
afternoon and Sunday morning
with dinner meetings planned for
Friday and Saturday nights.
Sunday afternoon delegates will
elect a state chairman of the
Young Republican groups. Clay
Myers, Oregon graduate, is the
present chairman.
Invitations have been extended
to all state and local Republican
officers and to the county officers
of the Republican party according
to Spencer.
Literary Magazine
(Continued from page one)
sufficient student interest and tal
ent appear again on the campus,
and that the board should then
urge the administration to provide
whatever financial support may be
needed to enable it to get started
and to continue.”
will be in. charge of lighting for
the second University Theatre pro
duction of this season. Scheduled
to open December 5 for an eight
performance run, Henry IV will
have Eileen Cooley as stage man
ager. Members of the construction
crew include Betty Chatterton,
John Bree, Liz Mcllveen, Gordon
Rennie and Dale Towne.
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Thursday
5 p-m. Sign On
5:02 Piano Moods
5:15 U.N. Story
5:30 News Till Now
5:45 Sport Shots
0:00 Varsity Handstand
0:15 Campus News «
0:30 Radio Workshop Drama
7:00 Progressive Rythmns
7:30 American Folkways
8:00 Campus Classics
0:00 Serenade to the Student
9:30 Anything Goes
10:30 Emerald of the Air
10:35 There’s Music in the Air
10:55 Sign Off
Dance Duo
(Continued from page one)
"Sound Off" number is based on
the United States army song by
W. Lee Duckworth and is sung
without the conductor.
The On sack dancers will be
seen in three numbers entitled
“Caucasian Dance," “Lezginka"
and “Kozatchok.”
Student admission for the con-'
cert is 50 cents, and tickets may
be purchased at the main desk in
the SU or at the door tonight.
Doers will open at 6:40 p.m.; the
concert starts at 8.
..__ __ _ _____ ^aSe Sev-rn
Sorenson To Address Journal Club
i ne .Journal club of the depart
ment of foreign languages will
hoar IJr. L. ft. Sorenson, assistant
professor of history, speak on :
"Life and Suicide of the New His
tory” Friday night.
The meeting, which is scheduled 1
for 8 p.m., will be held at the Fac
ulty club on campus and is open j
to the public.
Jr. Ponhellenic
Officers Chosen
Sharon Schorlie, Alphi Phi, is
the new president of the reorgan
ized Junior Panhellenic council.
Composed of the presidents of all
of the sorority pledge classes, the
council operates in the same man
ner as does Panhellenic.
Other officers elected were vice
president, Sally Phillips, Delta
Gamma; secretary-treasurer, Gail
West, Alpha Delta Pi; and histor
ian, Ann Erickson, Kappa Kappa
Gamma.
Sorority plege representatives
arc Robin Kumery, Alpha Chi
Omega; Darlene Hammer, Alpha
Gamma Delta; Sue Galbreath, Al
pha Chi Pi: Evelyn Whitman, Al
pha Xi Delta; Marilyn Call, Chi
Omega; Kathy Riley, Delta Delta
Delta; Dee Parrish, Delta Zeta:
Marcia Webb, Gamma Phi Eeta:
Anne Newman, Kappa Alpha
Theta: Jackie Robertson. Pi Beta
Phi, and Louella Wright, Zeta
Tau Alpha.
'A FASCINATING DOCUMENT'
Former UO Student Tells
Of Brain Operation Recovery
A former student of the Univer
sity of Oregon school of journal
ism, Col. Lawrence Z. Bixby, has a
seven and one-half page article ap
pearing in this month's Harper's
Magazine.
Kntitled "Comeback From a
Brain Operation," the article was
written by Bixby as a class project
during fall term. 1951, for a maga
zine article writing class being
taught by Paul Deutschmann, as
sistant professor of journalism.
The article is a description of the
colonel's recovery from a long and
delicate brain operation which re
moved a capsulated abscess from
his brain.
Col. Bixby was on the island of
Eta Jima in Japan in Jan., 1949,
when he suffered a series of severe
headaches, chills, fever and spells
of dizziness which caused him to be
evacuated to Walter Reed hospital
in Washington, D.C.
Abscess Punctured
The colonel’s recovery was com
plicated when the abscess was ac
cidentally punctured by a drill
while doctors at the hospital were
conducting X-ray studies of the
infected area. Barely conscious, the
army intelligence man was in such
bad condition that an accurate di
agnosis of his condition was im
possible. So dim was the outlook
for Bixby that a chaplain stopped
by to tell him to “be brave in meet
ing his Maker.’’ Then the operation
began.
The first thing Bixby remembers
after the operation is saying “Hi,
Toots,” when his wife leaned over
his bed just as he was regaining
consciousness. At that time, he did
not know that the doctors were
standing behind a screen near his
bed listening to see if he could
speak at all.
During his recovery, Bixby’s
greatest confusion came from his
vision. The doctors told him that
his right vision would not return,
but he could see with his right eye.
The trouble was that when he
would look at a person’s face with
his right eye, he would see only
half of the face, the other half was
not there. It took the colonel sev
eral weeks to discover that “right
vision’’ means the right field of
view of both eyes. In the colonel's
own words. “That being blank, I
saw only the left half of whatever
my* eyes focused upon. To under
stand the difficulty was of great
help later on, but in the meantime
many problems in daily living had
to be solved."
Concentration Needed
Since his right hand had been
paralyzed before the operation,
eating required the greatest of
concentration from Bixby. To use
his right hand he had to turn his
head, adjust his field of view to in
clude both hands and use his eyes
to co-ordinate the action of both
hands. "When I didn't keep my
right hand in view it would knock
over a glass of milk or come to
rest in a bowl of hot soup when I
was eating.”
"Although I had used my right
hand habitually, I was somewhat
ambidextrous. Whith hand would
I use? With my light hand weak
and my right vision blank, perhaps
it would be easier to use the left
hand; but on the other hand, if I
forced the use of my right hand,
maybe it would strengthen my
ability to do so. I decided the
harder way would produce the best
results in the long run. I used the
right hand. That first decision
started a chain of events that led
to my recovery . . .”
Fascinating Document
What Harper’s calls Bixby’s
“own old-fashioned and rare intel
ligence, along with the medical
skill and new techniques of a great
hospital staff." brought him back
into active service.
The editors of the magazine
went on to call the story "a fas
cinating document and one which
has already served to assist in the
recovery of other patients. The
original 24,000 word manuscript
(more than four times as long as
the article appearing in Harper’s)
has been used in mimeographed
form by students in the Vale Medi
cal school and by relatives of pa
tients and patients themselves at
Walter Reed General hospital.”
The colonel states that “My ex
perience in the hospital taught me
many lessons that I wanted to pass
along for the benefit of future pa
tients. for the effect of a brain op
eration is not all in your head, it
involves the total personality in a
bewildering complex of wishes and
motives, conflicts and frustrations.
But the recovery of mental powers,
physical co-ordination and se-if
confider.ce is possible, if one will
work for it.”
Many Problems
During the course of his recov
ery the colonel faced many such
problems as he had to relearn the
processes of reading, writing,
working arithmetical problems,
using a typewriter and eo-ordinat- i
ing using a knife and fork.
Bixby retired from the service in
191S and now spends most of his
time freelance writing. He has sold
some of his stories to such maga
zines as The Reader's Digest and
Harper's.
Many people in the Eugene area
know the colonel for his lectures on
the Orient. However calls from too
many organizations for his lecture
talent caused Bixby to turn "pro
fessional” and charge for his serv
ices.
Bixby, who lives in Eugene, is
on the second chapter of a book
which he is writing. He recently
sold a story, soon to be published,
entitled “The Problems of Retired
Colonels.”
The Journal club was stalled
five years ago in the department
of foreign languages to provide a.
forum for discussion of literacy
topics, new trends in criticism, sig
nificant books and articles and for
presentation of research work tid
ing done by members of that de
partment and other departments n
the university.
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