KARL LTLRICH SCHNABEL performed before a large audience
Tuesday evening in McArthur Court. The internationally-known
pianist offered selections from both contemporary and romantic
composers. (Photo by Jerry Livingston).
Cancer grant given researchers
Three University researchers
have been awarded $6,850 of a
$20,000 gTant given to the Uni
versity of Oregon Medical School
by the American Cancer Society.
P. I. R1SLEY, professor of bi- i
ology; L. H. Klemm, associate
professor of chemistry; and
Jacob Strauss, assistant profes
sor of biology received these
grants to continue their work in
fields related to the cancer prob
lem. The original $20,000 grant
will be parceled out by the Medi
cal School to cancer researchers
among all state colleges.
Klemm, who received the major
grant ($4,850), is investigating
'Supreme Court'
topic of today's
SU coffee hour
Scott Nobles’ award-winning
squad will present a roundtable
discussion on the topic, “Re>
solve: That Congress Should Be
Given the Power to Reverse the
Decisions of the Supreme Court,”
at the SU coffee hour today at
4 p.m.
The affirmative team will con
sist of Jeanne Guske and Judy
Hawley and the negative team
■will include Carolin Smith and
Tim Keating.
new ways to synthesize tumor in
hibitors. Many of the drugs have
been prepared from trees of this
region, he said.
The first significant research
in this field was done when it was
found that a drug prepared from
the root of the May Apple shrub
would destroy cancer cells. This
drug proved to be too toxic, how
ever.
KLEMM HOPES to synthesize
an artificial drug similar to the
natural ones which have already
been discovered. This drug, he
hopes, will retain the tumor in
hibiting qualities but lose the
dangerous toxic effect.
Strauss, who received $1,000,
is continuing with a problem he
studied as an American Cancer
Society Research Fellow at Har
vard.
A botanist, he found two dif
ferent types of com tissue. The
first is pigmented and has a low
grovdh rate. The second is un
pigmented and has a much higher
growth rate.
Although plants do not have
cancer, he said that this condition
might be analagous to cancer in
animals. The grant will help him
study the chemical difference be
tween the two tissues in order
to explain how this change in
growth rate was produced.
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The Oregon Deity
EMERALD
Play founder notes interest lack
August L. Bowtner, director
and founder of the Oregon Shake
spearean Festival, said in an in
terview that he was somewhat
disappointed that no University
of Oregon actors had been inter
viewed for positions in the Fes
tival acting company.
Despite this, he said that hei
had talked to several people in
terested in technical and public
relations work.
THE LACK of actor interest
was attributed to the fact that i
most people planning to work in
summer theater are still unde- i
cided this early in the year. He j
1 said that most actors would make
up their minds by the middle of
April.
Bowmer is making a two
month, 28-state tour of the na
tion's theater centers to inter
view college actors. "To assist
future planning at Southern Ore
gon College I will also be com
piling a study of theater courses,
methods, and stage facilities on
each campus,” he said.
BOWMER HAS always been in
terested in developing the theater
in Ashland. At one time he di
! rected the “Vining Theater,” a
winter theater using professional
actors. He said that he had even
discussed the possibilities of
granting University credit for
: work at the Festival with Horace
Robinson, University Theater di- \
: rector, but that such a program
was still in the brain storming
stage.
Bowmer explained that the
Festival, which normally produces
four Shakespearean plays in ro
tation each night throughout the
latter part of July, August and
the first part of September, origi
nally started in 1935 as a three
day July 4 event. Last year, due
to Bowmer’s Ford Foundation
grant, the festival was able to
hire some professional actors in
addition to the college group.
BOWMER SAID that he. was
making this trip in an effort to
improve the high acting standard
that was set last year. This year, j
he said, the Festival will not haVe
the grant and will therefore de
pend entirely upon college/ per
sonnel.
He explained that his method
of selecting actors is somewhat
unusual. Many of the actors are
unknown to him. Some even come
from foreign countries. To over-1
come this difficulty, Bowmer has j
developed a system of question
naires, cross-references, and staff '
recommendations.
Even after a candidate has
survived this screening and has
been accepted as a member of
the Festival company, he does not
know what type of part he will
have. The Festival does not use
the “star system" common to j
the movies, in which one star’s
personality dominates the film.
BOWMER FEELS that the ac
tors should work together in u
company much the same us they
did in Shakespeare's own duy.
As a result, the actor candi
date finds himself facing com
pany auditions on about June 12.
If he is successful he may find
himself Petruchio, Julius Caesar,
or Richard III.
'King and /' tryouts set
Tryout* for tiioso liitcrcutcil
In dancing in the UT’s produc
tion “The King and I" will be
hold today at 7:X0 p.m. In the
laboratory Theatre of Vlllurd
Hull. Heading tryout* will fol
low. T ryouto for children’*
part* will ho hold Thursday at
4 p.m.
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