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Is Oregon Afraid of Jazz?
Music—new, different and provocative—will be heard on
campus tonight at the Dave Brubeck concert and only a hand
ful of students appear enthused.
The mere mention of “jazz” seems to instill a fear as great
as the phrase “classical and operatic selections” in the musical
soul of a conservative student. If it hasn't been heard or danced
to before, then it isn’t worth listening to, seems to be the general
opinion.
Perhaps the fault is with the proponents of modern jazz them
selves, who have left the northwest relatively uneducated in this
new chamber form of jazz. Pictures of frantic drummers, dis
chordant pianos and shrieking brasses haven’t been erased from
‘the minds of Oregon students. Jazz concert and an evening of
uncomfortable squirming seem to go hand in hand and no one
seems particularly eager to pay eighty-five cents to prove this
comfortable comparison wrong.
We feel sorry for the students who are afraid to expose them
selves to something more rhythmic than the sweet strains of
Guy Lombardo. They’re missing a lot by not letting their cur
iosity loose for once and investigating the original improvising
of Brubeck and his able associates.
Jazz has many sides and Brubeck’s interpretation of contem
porary music into sophisticated jazz has made him a recognized
leader in this field.
Whatever the combo does tonight it will be listenable, witty
and fresh—never boring.—(P.G.)
-The Looking-Glass
Art of Conversation Faces
Bitter Battle With Television
By Toby McCarroll
Emerald Critic
The life of conversation has
been long and turbulent. It had a
slow development, and didn’t
reach maturity until the time of
Castiglione and the Rennais
sance. From
this time it ap
pears to have
lead a very
sporadic life.
All through its
life conversa
tion has been
bothered with
the disease of
the cliche and
th{s disease
has been con
stantly spread
ing.
The home has been one of the
best places for conversation to
flourish, but some years ago
people began to fepend as much
time away from the home and
private gatherings, as possible,
and go out to pay to listen to
some one else’s conversation or
seek other entertainment. Then
it was observed that more, and
more people were spending more
and more time in the home and
things looked better for conver
sation.
But raise your eyes 'to the
roof and behold—the television
antenna. And now, even to Eu
gene comes the conversation
murderer, it is enough to drive
one to drink, but the bars have
r~ the biggest (and loudest) sets.
O temporal O Mores!
Mary Chase, who wrote “Mrs.
McThing” and “Harvey,” came
forward with a new play last
season. Bernardine (Oxford) has
been released for sale recently.
. This is Mrs. Chase’s attempt to
. capture the world of the high
. school senior. Bernardine is the
imaginary idol of a gang of or
dinary (perhaps) boys, her vo
cabulary is limited to one word—
viz, “yes.” This play consists al
most exclusively of showing how
this group of boys react to var
ious situations. There are occa
sional snatches of humor.
Those of us who like Stein
beck are given a nice boon
with the recent publication of
“The Short Novels of John
Steinbeck” (Viking). This con
tains some of the best works
of an excellent author.
The Heilig Theater has been
showing From Here to Eternity
and it will go over to the May
flower Sunday. There are dis
crepancies between the movie
and the book, but that has noth
ing to do with the quality of the
movie. The movie presents the
story of a young soldier in pre
war Honolulu. His fight with
himself, his girl and his environ
ment, to be more specific would
spoil the enjoyment of seeing it.
The cast is very good and makes
one forget many of the script’s
shortcomings.
Now showing at the May
flower is Charlie Chaplin’s
Limelight. This is the story of
an old Clown who drank too
much and was too corny to be
much good, but had the usual
heart of gold and philosophical
mind. He saves a girl from
suicide and sees her rise (in
six months) to be a prima bal
lerina. She wants to marry
him, but he knows this would
not be good for 'her.
Conveniently there is a hand
some young man in the picture
to whom she used to give music
sheets. The acting is reminiscent
of the early days of the movies
and emotions are aided by the
playing of a theme which is the
oretically a tear-jerker. It is in
teresting to see Chaplin do some
acts in his famous way.
Music, Maestro!
“They say he can hold a note longer than anyone in th’ whole hand."
Faculty Members Entertained
By Air ROTC at Coffee Hour
Faculty members from 11 dif
ferent departments were the
guests Thursday afternoon of the
Air Force ROTC department at a
coffee hour session. The purpose
of the meeting was an explana
tion of the objectives and program
CAMPUS BRIEFS
0 Petitions for the promotion
sub-committee of the Homecom
ing luncheon are due by 5 p.m.
Thursday. Petitions may be turn
ed in to Shirley Soble, 210 D Car
son hall.
0 Newly elected officers of the
Women’s Recreation., association
include Doris Liljeberg, secretary;
Nikki Trump, treasurer; Sally
Stadelman, publicity chairman;
Aileen Kronquist, volleyball chair
man and Darlene Hammer, Am
phibian representative.
• There will be a meeting of
the Student Union dance commit
tee today at 3 p.m. in SU 327, ac
cording to Phyllis Pearson, chair
man.
0 Petitions are being called
for talent and committees for the
Homecoming Variety show. They
should be turned in at the Home
coming office on the third floor of
the Student Union by Friday at
5 p.m., according to Judy Morse,
co-chairman of the show.
0 Phi Theta Upsilon, junior
women's honorary, will meet at
6:30 p.m. Thursday in the Stu
dent Union.
0 Wesley Matzekeit from the
Student Volunteer Movement will
speak to the YWCA upperclasa
cabinet at noon today at Gerling
er hall. Metzekeit’s special field is
work camps in Mexico, and the
meeting is open to the public.
0 University of Oregon house
librarians will meet in the Brows
ing room of the Student Union
today at 4 p.m., according to Peg
gy Miller, president of the organ
ization.
0 Campus Merry-Go-Round
news should be turned in by 5
p.m. today to the Emerald news
office in the quonset next to
Deady hall.
0 Druids, junior men’s honor
ary, will meet tonight at 6:15 in
Student Union 307, according to
president Pete Williams.
' 0 The promotion sub-commit
tee of the Homecoming dance
committee will meet today at 3 p.
m. on the third floor of the Stu
dent Union, according to sub-com
mittee chairman Don Bonime.
of Air ROTC by various members
of the military department staff.
The discussion was started by
Air Force Col. E. B. Daily, mili
tary department head, who ex
plained the overall purpose of
ROTC training. "Our duty is to
make students better able to com
prehend air power in relation to
this age, while maintaining as an
integral part of the program the
academic standards and obliga
tions of the university," Col.
Daily stated.
The main topic of discussion was
the newly revised general curric
ulum studies instituted by the Air
Force this year. Four members of
the department's faculty, Lt. Col.
S. E. Sheffield, and Majors N. N.
Mihailov, C. J. Purcell, and G. R.
Smith, presented various phases
of the new program. Each of
these instructors had previously
attended summer sessions at var
ious Western universities in prep
aration for teaching the revised
courses.
The main ideas brought forth
in the session were those which
showed the link between the mili
tary to the other department and
ROTC’s part in developing the
student in a well-rounded program
of studies.
Campus Calendar
Soon Phi Delta Phi TTFSTT
French Table 111 SU
Little Meet 112 8U
White Capa 113 SU
4:00 AWS Auction tryouts
333 SU
SU Board 337 SU
6:00 Frosh Elec 315SU
Frosh Dessert 213 SU
6:15 Druids 307SU"
6:30 Eta Mu Pi 110 SU
7:00 Judge Hmcg Queen 333 SU
7:30 Newcomer Bridge 111SU
Alpha Delta Sigma 112 SU
8:00 Brubeck Concert
Ballroom
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HEILIG.
"From
Here
To
Eternity"
Kraft to Speak
Theodore Kratt, dean of the*
school of music, will be the iea.‘
tured speaker at the year’s first
meeting of the Portland Music r<j. '
ueatlon club Monday In Portland,
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