- 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
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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. "And what is more,
the forest, because it does bind
into beautiful forms the pres
ence of unremembered spirits,
really is an en< hanted place.”
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