FIRST FIFTY YEARS
Modern Art Exhibition Opens Mar.
An exhibition of original art by
painters and sculptors in the mod
em epoch will open March 1 in
the Gallery of the school of arch
itecture and allied arts.
The show of 30 paintings and
eight sculpture pieces will be a
feature of the University’s Fes
tival of Contemporary Arts pro
gram.
The show was obtained in col
laboration with the Portland Art
Museum.' Entries were selected by
Thomas Colt, director of the mu
seum, and were selected to repre
sent not only the board experi
mentation which exemplifies con
temporary art, but its internation
al character as well.
First Fifty
Spanning the first fifty years
of the twentieth century, the ex
hibition begins with a canvass by
Paul Cezanne, French post impres
sionist. Works of artists from nine
countries will be shown. The Ce
zanne painting is loaned by the
Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Matisse's “Joie do Vivre,” on
loan from the collection of Walter
Chrysler, will represent the style
of painting known as fauvism.
Cubist painters, Pablo Picasso,
Georges Braque and Juan Gris,
have paintings showing the devel
opment of their art from 1901
to 1937.
Dali, Klee, Kandinsky and Mon
drian will represent surrealism,
Dada, nonobjectivism; Noe, plasti
cism and other works.
The sculpture pieces range from
the Frenchman Rodin to the
American designer Calder.
The art works are on loan from
a number of museums, galleries
and private collections through
out the United States. Among
those sending works to the show
are New York's Museum of Mod
ern Art, Museum of Non Objec
tive Art, Whitney Museum of Art,
San Francisco’s Palace of Legion
of Honor and the Portland Art
Museum.
Concert Tonight
Features Singer
Spanish soprano Victoria do los
Angeles, Metropolitan opera and
concert star, will appear in McAr
thur court tonight under the aus
pices of the Eugene civic music
association.
Her program, beginning at 8
p.m., will Include selections by
Monteverdi, Scarlatti, Handel and
Schumann.
University students will be ad
mitted to the concert on their stu
dent body curds.
Artist to Present Music Lecture
Armed with many recordings of
liis own composition, Wallingford
Riegger, American composer, will
“spin ’dem black saucers” at his
8:30 browsing room lecture Thurs
day night.
Riegger’s music will include a
Art, Ethics, Topic
Of Adler Address
Mortimer J. Adler, professor of
the philosophy of law at the Uni
versity of Chicago, will speak at
an assembly Tuesday at 1 p.m. He
will address his audience on “Art
and Ethics” as a part of the pro
gram of the Festival of Contem
porary Arts, currently being held
on campus.
Adler has been identified 'with
the Great Books, a 54 volume set
-of 443 books, a project conceived
by him in collaboration with Chi
cago university president Robert
Hutchins. i
1 symphony, string quartet, piano
quintet, and brass choir works. “I
will also play my other works for
various instrumental combina
tions,” he said.
Riegger remarked that he will
attempt to show that the idiom in
which he is writing is linked with
the past. Although he does not con
sider his compositions particularly
dissonant, ‘‘they may come some
what as a shock” to the audience,
he stated.
In May of 1948, Riegger became
president of the United States sec
tion of the International Society
for Contemporary Music.
The title of his Thursday night
lecture is “Music as Contemporary
Art.” Arnold Elston, associate pro
fessor of music, will be discussion
leader for the session.
IDC Ponders Counseling Change;
Dorms Would Elect Own Advisers
A plan to have elected dormitory
counsilors in John Straub and Su
san Campbell halls wag discussed
Tuesday by the Inter-Dormitory
Council.
‘‘Under the plan, hall counselors
would be elected by hall members
during spring term, from a list of
men who would be returning fall
term, and who had been approved
by the administration,” Tom Shep
P. E. Educator Is Guest Lecturer at UO
Miss Betty Meredith-Jones, edu
cator in the field of physical cul
ture and expressive dancing, is to
be at the University this week as a
guest lecture for the school of
health and physical education.
Miss Meredith-Jones graduated
from English college of physical
education and received the Laban
diploma of educational dance in
1945.
Among her activities in the field
have been giving training courses
for teachers, lecturing and doing
choreography for the Salisbury Art
Theatre.
During her present visit to the
United States, Miss Meredith
Jones is teaching at the University
of California and visiting other
universities for short periods of
time.
Hew Cadet Staff
Shift Announced
A complete list of the shifts
made Jan. 15 in the cadet staff of
the ROTC has been released by
CMaj. Eugene W. Palm. The rear
rangement was made for training
purposes only and placed Cadet
Col. Richard Jones in the office of
regimental commander replacing
Cadet Capt. William A. Tuck who
was made F company commander.
Alan Kershaw and Bill Wright
were both promoted to the rank of
Cadet Lt. Col., and Clyde Fahl
man nwas made Cadet Maj. The*
new Cadet Captains are Clyde H.
Warner, Robert C. Stageberg and
■Ronald D. White.
Four men were promoted to
First Lieutenant, and 13 were pro
moted to Second Lieutenant. There
were sixty men promoted in the
•grades of Sergeant.
Maj. Palm announced that junior
students are holding cadet staff
offices this term because all senior
students are taking the course
“Geographical Foundations of
American Power.”
Two Freshman Women
Pledge AOPi Sorority
Alpha Omicron Pi pledged two
women this week during open rush.
Women pledged were Mary Ivie,
freshman in liberal arts, and Rita
Kenyon, freshman in English.
Ski Club Prexy
To Speak on Safety
A ski safety program will be
held on campus Thursday in Chap
man 207, at 8 p.m.
W. Dolph Janes, president of the
Tri-Pass ski club, will be present
to discuss ski conditions. Mary Jo
Brown, freshman in liberal arts,
will demonstrate ski safety tech
niques. A movie will also be shown.
Local CAP Calls
Air-minded Students
Maj. Grant R. Smith, Air Force
liaison officer to the local Civil
Air Patrol unit, has announced
that all air-minded students who
wish to attend the CAP meeting
once a week are cordially invited.
The two squadrons in the Eu
gene-Springfield area under the
command of CAP Lt. Dick Jensen
meet in the Eugene armory every
Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
herd, IDC president, said. The plan
would not apply to freshmen :
dorms.
Well Received
A. L. Ellingson, advisor to IDC
and counselor for men, said that
the plan, on the whole, had been i
well received by the administra- I
tion, but that much investigation ;
would have to be made by the dor- 1
mitory and University affairs com
mittee before the plan could be put
into effect.
Oregon State college has elect
ed counselors in the men's dormi
tories. The plan has been in effect
there since World War II.
Visit OSC
John Feliz, freshman in liberal
arts, proposed that a committee
from IDC investigate the counselor
system at OSC and report at the
next meeting. Members of the com
mittee which will visit OSC are
Lee Trippett, Hale Kane social j
chairman; Feliz, IDC secretary- j
treasurer; Mark Newman, secre- !
tary of Susan Campbell; and Shep- j
herd, vice president of Gamma hall.
The council also decided that i
“Lamplight Lit” will be the theme
of the Inter-Dorm council sponsor
ed dance March 7.- Newman and !
Feliz are co-chairmen for the I
event.
Chairmen Named
For 'Mystie' Sale
Doreen Gienger, freshman in
English, and Marilyn Parrish,
freshman in liberal arts, were
chosen as general chairmen for the
Phi Theta Upsilon "mistie’’ sale
to be held Feb. 19 and 20.
Committee heads include fresh
men Betty Fackler, liberal arts,
and Carol Huggins, biology, deco
rations; Sally Plummer and Ann
Erickson, liberal arts, distribution;
Paula Curry, English, and Joanne
Zehnder, liberal arts, booth sales;
Jo Kopp, liberal arts, and Anne
Hill, journalism, house sales; Dor
othy Iler, journalism, publicity;
Gwen Zinniger, business, and Rob
in Rumery, liberal arts, promo
tion.
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.TODAN
“DU1 she make a good speech Professor?—I was so busy checking
‘gesture’, 1 didn’t stop to think.”
South Africa's
Problems Topic
At IRC Meeting
"South Africa, Its Economic and
Racial Problems" was the topic
of the International Relations club !
meeting Wednesday night. Chair- I
man Bob Maffin, senior in political
science, introduced the three
speakers.
Opening the forum, R. W. Smith, 1
assistant professor of history, dis
cussed the British influence in the
area and emphasized that the con
troversies are not recent. He added
that all of the native problems arc
principally economic.
Vishnu Wassiamay, freshman in
economics, who is from the Gold
Coast of Africa, presented the
point of view of one familiar with
th existing problems.
A partial solution to the situa
tion was suggested by J. D. Bar
nett, professor emeritus of politi
cal science, who was the final
speaker. He told of an experi
mental plan now being conducted
by the United States in the South
Pacific area, in which trained an
thropologists are sent as interme
diaries between the controlling
government and the people.
Friday Tryouts Called
For Sandra Price Play
All interested students may try
out for an original drama, written
by Sandra Price, Friday from 3 to
5 p.m. in the KWAX studios.
The play, the story of a singer,
offers three parts for women and
four for men. This will be produced
on Thursday, Feb. 12.
Seminar Planned
By MacNaughton
E. B. MacNaughton, special lec
turer from the school of business
administration, will conduct n sem
inar on "The Problems of Small
Business” Thursday at 4 p.m. in
Commonwealth 371A and will |
speak to business administration
classes this week.
MacNaughton, who has returned
from a conference of Japanese and
American businessmen in Hono
lulu, is chairman of the board of
both the Portland branch of the ‘
First National Bank and the Ore
gonian Publishing company.
Classifieds
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