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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 13, 1961)
- Merry-Go-Round - By CARLA 1'OKTKKFIKLB Assistant Woman’s F.ditor Charas-Wickstrom l.aliy pink l>ahy roses adorned a pale pink candle passed Liz \\ ickstroin, sophomore liberal arts major from Os ' < go, at tlic /.eta Tau Alpha house February 27 to announce lu r pinning to Allen (‘haras, sophomore secondary educa tion major from Klamath Falls, Ore. Charas is affiliated with J’i Kappa I ’hi fraternity, Logan-T obey A pink candle decorated with roses and violets was passed during dinner at the Sigma Kappa house Wednesday, Feb. b\ Saralee | obey, sophomore history major from Kugene, to announce her pinning to Dave Logan, sophomore pre-law major from Springfield. Logan is affiliated with Alpha Tau (hnega fraternity. Miller-Blakely 1 hyllis Blakely, freshman speech major from Kugene, re tently announced her engagement to Robin Miller, sopho more physics major from Kugene, by passing a blue candle decorated with white carnations and yellow roses at a din ner April d at the I ri Delta house. Xo wedding date has been set. Paine-Schmeer A champagne gown of peau fie soie with matching tailored cap with illusion veil was recently worn bv Stephanie Schmeer, junior English major, at her marriage to Bob I’aine, senior history major. The bride carried a bourjuet of white stephanotis and white baby roses. Nancv Weaver dres m-«1 in a baby blue wait/, length gown, was the maid of honor. * rent Smith was best man. 1 he new Mrs. I’aine is a mem ber of Alpha Omicron I’i sorority and her husband is a mem ber of the Delta 1 an Delta fraternity. Both are continuing their education at Oregon. Sparks-Smoke I’atti Smoke, junior art education major, was married April 1 at a small family ceremony held in the bride’s home in Sandy, Oregon, to Loy Sparks, senior architecture major. J he new Mrs. Sparks is affiliated with Alpha Xi Delta sor ority and her husband with Delta Tau Delta fraternity. The couple is continuing school at the University. Wills-Garrette A white candle trimmed with spiraling scarlet baby rose buds and green streamers was passed recently at the Zeta 'i an Alpha house by Linda Oarrette, sophomore education major from \\ oodland, California, to announce her pinning to < arv \\ ills, senior speech major from Eugene. Wills is affil iated with Kappa Sigma fraternity. Campus Briefs • Scholarship blanks are now available f*<r i hr AV\ S scholarship. Pick thrm up in Mrs Kopp's office in hmrrald Hall. They are due April 14 at 5 p.m. • AWS is calling for petition* for chair man ol the Honors .«s*>rmhl>. This i» open * t*» a no muni of any class. Petition* ate due April 14 at 5 p.m. • University Religious Council will meet at i»:.’0 at Westminster Foundation for tl»c annual election of officer*. • Kwama petitions are due Friday at 5 l m. Snapshot* required with the petition will lie teturned. • Bicyclists interested In touring the Dexter atra on Saturday. April 15, should meet at the hack of the Student I’nion building. Hr ready to leave at 10 o’clock that morning. Bring a lunch, am! we will cat at one of the parks on the lake. The rule taken ai*mt i to 2'i hour* each way and in relatively traffic free, level, and paved all the way. • All those interested in working on a committee for Sophomore Weekend are urged to get their petition* in hy Friday. April 14. Chairmanship of the cleanup com mittee may he petitioned for a* well a- po •itkiiw on committees Mich a-* entertain ment, food, dance, picnic, decorations, cleanup, and games. • Help needed at Information Booth for Ml X for all day Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. If you can help, please call Sue Weeks, Ext. 274. • Kwama meeting today noon at the Side. • Chevaliers are invited to be guests of Eugene L«x!gc No. 11 A. F. & A.M. for dinner on April 19 at 6:15 p.m. at 992 Olive St The program will l*r For You. Call Mr. Murray Adams at !>l 4-6261 for further information and reservations. Infirmary Faking in the infirmary Wednesday were Jean Waldron, Paige Paulson, Elaine Weise, Katherine Mack, Suzanne Mulli gan, Sara Anderson, Donna Rea. Patricia WahUtrom. Phyllis Banker, Linda Rit*era. Luella Markwell. Ennis Wuite, Charles Wonacott, and William Ran. Giraudoux Used Purity As Theme in ’Enchanted' By FRED CRAFTS Emerald Contributor One of the keys to understand ing "The Enchanted,” like go | many of Jean Glraudotix’s dram as, is the derivation of its theme j of purity, and this problem, ac cording to Director Preston Tut tle, "is not so much to under stand Giraudoux's intellectual background as to understand that aspect of French national charac ter which he feels compelled to illuminate.” "To Giraudoux,” Tuttle went on, "the external world has no real autonomy but depends upon individual man for its definition and meaning. Every man becomes the inventor of his own universe. That which is not the self is a product of the imagination, so that the world is like a great poem which each man is contin ually creating.” "The Enchanted” treats pur | ity as something more potential ; than innocence. “It is a magical | naivete similar to a very early stage of childhood, when the self was virtually centerless, when every impression seemed to come at random without meaningful repetition, and when the distinc tions between the self and the not self were still delightfully vague," explained Tuttle. "This was the time, I feel, when there was very where the aura of magic; there was pure delight." THE answer to why Giraudoux chose for his play this theme of early childhood purity is not hard to find. Mr. Tuttle has suggest ed that "there is at the heart of the official French personality a betrayal of childhood, a kind of passionate dread of the messi ness of children, as though adult-: i hood is the proper time to discov- i ! er those delights which were de-1 nied in childhood and which may now be pursued fastidiously and ; enthusiastically." This explains | why adult characters (like the I Inspector l in French literature seem so "glacial, hostile, rejec- i live, why they are so comically gastric or a little cranky, and why their character opposites j are typically so ehildhlike.” The official French child, as1 Tuttle put it, "is not allowed to - be a child. He is not allowed to \ fight, to talk back to his elders, j or to spend his energies in the riot and filth of disorderly activ ity. He is made a 'little adult.’ and as such he must postpone his childhood pleasures until he can engage in them significantly and j properly.” IT IS Ql’ITE possibly to this feeling, Tuttle believes, that Gi raudoux addresses himself: "Childhood is the original real ity, the original purity; adult hood is an arrogant presumption and a venal sham. We must re member, however, that Giraudoux probably had little realization of this situation when he wrote the drama.” The incorporation of this con ception of French socializing pro cesses into the UT production can ANNUAL MEETING OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON CO OPERATIVE STORE THURSDAY, APRIL 20th JB ROOM 138 COMMONWEALTH 4 p.lTI. One Sophomore to serve 1 Year Two Juniors to serve 2 Years ALL CO-OP MEMBERS INVITED TO ATTEND UNIVERSITY OF OREGON CO-OP STORE 1000 E. 13th Eugene, Oregon be most quickly seen in the set ting. “IN CONC’EIVIVG the setting for this play," Tuttle said, "we were influenced by Giraudoux’s vast disdain for the fakery of re alistic illusion. Our aim was to create an environment for the action which would express pre cisely his idea of the relation ship between internal and exter nal reality." The sets were begun “with the metaphor of the hermit crab: the spirit and the shell." Girau doux might well have felt that i the object was a collection of ar-; tifacts of the spirit, in a like manner as the hermit crab's shell. "To the crab the shell is a conventionalizing husk, but it also offers protection and iden- i tity, and weight and substance. The crab trades freedom for dur ability, effortless motility for a j clattering secretiveness, a mem ory of freedom for the passion ate conflicts of the material world." Therefore, the object world is I a collection of the spirit’s arti facts. "These objects, when they are uninhabited and discarded, t are gorgeously abandoned junk. But every dishpan is an invest ment of cleanliness: every auto body an investiture of locomo- i tor happiness. As objects they were makeshift, repetitive, and frankly functional, but at one time they allowed some spirit to proclaim its actuality.” “OI’R METHOD has been to fabricate a stage-world from | just such artifacts," Tuttle point ed out. “Our intention was to ere- i ate a portion of a forest which might truly represent enchant ment." “The Enchantcd’s" forest set ting was conceived in a way to allow "the spiritual and the mate rial their unity, in quite the same way that Giraudoux proposes," Tuttle feels. 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