BEACON
VOL. L
UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND. PORTLAND, OREGON, MARCH 6, 1953
NO. 10
"Moor of Venice” to Open Friday;
Page, Simons Head Stellar Cast
With one of the largest casts
ever used in a University Theatre
production, Othello will open for a
three-day run on the University of
Portland campus, March 13. Cur¬
tain time for the evening perform¬
ances of this story of the Moor of
Venice will be at 8:30. A matinee
is scheduled for 2:15 Saturday
afternoon, March 14. The play is
under the direction of Paul E.
Ouellette.
Featured in the title role is
Robert Page junior drama major
at the University of Portland. This
will mark his 17th performance in
major productions on the campus.
Playing the "divine” Desdemona to
Page’s Othello will be Joan DuGay,
also a junior drama major.
Simons to Play la go
Bob Simons will take the part of
the super-subtle semi-devil Iago,
the role made famous on Broadway
Concert Program
Readied by Trio
Pianist Aurora Underwood, Cel¬
list Julianne, and Violinist Rex
John Underwood will be presented
on the University of Portland cul¬
tural series, Wednesday, March 25,
Rev. George L. Dum, C.S.C. an¬
nounced last week. The program
will begin at 8:30 in the Commons.
The trio will be heard first in
Haydn’s Trio No. 1 in
В
major, to
be followed by Brahms’ Trio, Opus
8, and Mendelssohn’s Trio, Opus
49. Julianne Underwood will play
Sammartini’s Sonata in G major
for the concluding number of the
first portion of the program.
After the intermission, Rex John
Underwood, who graduated from
Stanford University, where he was
concert master, will play the Tar-
tini-Kreisler Fugue in A major, and
Sararate’s Zapateado.
Aurora Underwood will follow
these selections with Chopin's Noc¬
ture, Opus 27, and the Pchuz-Evler
Concert Arabesques on Motifs from
the Blue Danube.
The trio will conclude with
Dvorak’s Dumky Trio, Opus 90.
ten years ago by Jose Ferrer. His
wife, Emilia, will be played by Jean
Grosvenor, sophomore, featured re¬
cently as Mrs. Zero in The Adding
Machine.
Other prominent members of the
Mothers Plan
Style Exhibit
Professional models will parade
before the footlights on the cam¬
pus St. Patrick's day, March 17,
when the Mothers’ club presents a
combination luncheon and style
show in the Commons. This an¬
nouncement was made last week
by Mrs. Ray Daugherity, president
of the parent group.
Scheduled to begin at 12 noon,
the luncheon will be served smor¬
gasbord style, with the price of ad¬
mission 75 cents. The fashion show
will begin at 12:45, featuring the
Patricia Lee Models from down¬
town Portland.
The performance will be a bene¬
fit, to raise money for the Mothers’
project of the year, the redecora¬
tion of the Girls’ lounge.
Mrs. Walter Cebula is the over¬
all chairman for the social, Mrs.
Leif Underdahl the ticket chairman.
Mrs. Fred Van Hoomissen, Mrs.
Edward Sinclair and Mrs.
С.
E.
Flanagan will be in charge of food,
while Mrs. Joe Grabovac and Mrs.
George Masec will supervise the
prizes.
In charge of the music will be
Mrs. George Moshofsky, while Mrs.
Howard Wills will make all the ar¬
rangements for the style show.
Deceptive Clues
Confuse Sleuths
Sleuths among the local aspirants
for leadership in the FBI were hav¬
ing a field day last -week tracing
the ownership of a mysterious auto¬
mobile left standing in front of
West hall. The obvious case of theft
and forced abandonment called for
the ministration of first-class de¬
tective minds, as well as for the
apprehension of the villain and the
“wreaking” of justice.
A check with the license bureau
in Salem first of all disclosed that
the plates had been taken from an
Oldsmobile in McMinnville. Car
ownership papers showed that the
machine, which was a ’42 Plymouth,
belonged in Clark county, Wash¬
ington.
The plot was gradually thicken¬
ing, and the atmosphere getting
blue with Sherlock-Holmes meers¬
chaum tobacco smoke, when the
neighborhood owner of the car sud¬
denly came in and towed away the
vehicle.
He had had a flat outside the
university gate and decided to
abandon the car temporarily. The
license bureau had merely made a
mistake.
cast are Lee Paves as Cassio, Ger¬
ald Rodgers as Roderlgo, Norma
Leistlko as Bianca, Glen Ellwood
as Lodovico, and David Case ae
Brafcantio.
Multiple-Player Production
Completing the large cast axe
James Haevner, Ron Willson, Ken¬
neth Seal, Vincent Teresi, Frank
Vecchio, Verne Carlson, Mike Hay¬
den, Marlee Gattuccio, Bernard
Fritz, and Nanette Tritz.
Settings have been designed by
Pete Howard, University Theatre
technical director. Costumes are
under the supervision of Marie
Ouellette, while the music for the
production is being adapted and
arranged by Philippe DeLaMare,
associate professor of music, and
William Wenker, music senior. Di¬
rectorial assistants are Lyn Tyrrell
and Rosamond Kelty.
Admission is 60 cents for stu¬
dents and $1.00 for other adults.
Nurses Sponsor
Shamrock Revel
Hibernian lassies of St. Vincent’s
hospital will be “wearin’ the green”
and playing hosts at some Tipperary
revelry in the School of Nursing,
March 17, when the seniors present
a St. Patrick’s Day dance and so¬
cial.
The sports affair, which will be
open to all will be from 9 p. m.
until 12. Aileen Campbell is the gen¬
eral chairman for the shamrock
ramble.
Decorations planned for the dance
include a reconstruction of the
Blarney Stone ,and other furnish¬
ings reminiscent of Old Erin. Re¬
freshments will be served.
Dorothy Christensen is in charge
of the decoration committee,
Patricia Byrne of publicity, and
Jean McIntyre of entertainment.
the diabolical Iago
New York Times
Publishes Article
On Fr. Delaunay
News accounts of the death of
Rev. John B. Delaunay, C.S.C., ap¬
peared in several eastern papers last
week, including the New York
Times and the New York Xpurnal-
American.
According to the latter Father
Delaunay was the first priest to
preach at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in
New York on the Catholic attitude
toward labor unions.
The New York Times also re¬
ferred to a summer series of ser¬
mons which Father Delaunay gave
in St. Patrick’s in 1939.
On the campus, letters and cards
of condolences were received from
many distant parts of the United
States. Among those in high eccles¬
iastical position to send letters were
Cardinal Edward A. Mooney of De¬
troit, Cardinal Francis J. Spellman
of New York, and Cardinal James
Francis A. McIntyre of Los An¬
geles.
Archbishop John H. O’Hara of
Philadelphia, Archbishop Richard J.
Cushing of Boston, and Archbishop
Thomas E. Molloy of Brooklyn,
New York, also sent condolences.
Bob Page, left, as Othello, confronts Bob Simons
in the play that begins next Friday.
Varied Events Slated
For Monogram Fiesta
Howard hall will become a mecca for all campus fisticuff fans next
Friday, when the Monogram club will present its seventh annual smoker,
starting at 8 p. m. Traditionally, the outstanding show of the slack mid-
Lenten entertainment season at the university, the spectacle this year
will feature ten bouts by the best local puglist talent, as well as a wrest¬
ling match and an exhibition in -
Unive Reveals
Conva Schedule
acrobatics.
Scheduled to lend prestige to the
bouts will be several prominent of¬
ficials, including judges Joltin' Joe
Kahut, Tommy Moyer of AAU box¬
ing fame and Larry Manion. The
referee will be Ed Wallo, while the
timer will be Col. Raleigh D. Smith.
Metcalf, Organizer
For the contests, which will con¬
sist of three two-minute bouts for
each pair of boxers, chief organizer
Chuck Metcalf had 20 fighters
signed as of last Monday.
The opening of the evening fes¬
tivities will see Timmy Dinneen
matched with Willie Preston in the
120-pound division, Joe Nemb'a with
Henry Roberta in the 138-pound
class, Don Lulich with Mike Jacques
at 140 pounds, and Dave Winker
from Central Catholic with Hector
Hunt at 150 pounds.
Kawashima Back
For the main event, Gaylen
Kawashima, winner of the out¬
standing fighter award last year,
will encounter Tooty Tyrell if pres¬
ent plans work out.
Other contests call for Phil
Moyer to meet Carlton Lincoln, Jim
Felix to meet John Oxley, Buddy
Valera to box Manual Valera, and
Jerry Kadilac to take on Jim Rax-
Link Trainer Installed by R0TC
Proves Popular With Air Cadets
Highlights of the student con¬
vocation as scheduled for March 11,
according to Tony Unive, convo di¬
rector, will be a series of acrobatic
perf ormances by the Johnnie John¬
son’s Body Building studios.
This exhibition will include a
“Muscles in Rhythm” act put on
by Johnnie Johnson and Mel
Strand. Following this will be
Strand and his daughter, Donnell,
in a variety act. A talk on the de¬
velopment of strength will accom¬
pany the performance.
The following Wednesday, March
18, will see the
С.
E. Ceavey and
Bell Telephone exhibition on the
campus. This program will feature
a demonstration of the facts of
electronics in television.
Last Wednesday, Bill Bishop, pro¬
fessional magician, baffled the
convo audience with his mastery of
illusion on the March of Dimes
Benefit in Howard hall.
The Star Lighters, a guitar and
accordion organization from Ben¬
son high school, thrilled the aud¬
ience with their rendition of sev¬
eral popular numbers.
Mr. Marc Vincent, national rep¬
resentative of the American Guild
of Variety Artists, authorized the
benefit performance of the profes¬
sional entertainers.
Carlson Captures
First in Speech Meet
Verne Carlson, junior in engin¬
eering, won first place as the best
moderator at the fifth annual
Northwest Intercollegiate Town
Meeting contest held at Portland
State, February 24 and 25.
Pacifio Lutheran won the speak¬
ers' contest by sweeping the first
three individual places, which auto¬
matically gave them the sweep-
stakes honors.
Twenty colleges of the Northwest
participated in the meet, which dis¬
cussed the topic, “What should be
the bounds of the federal govern¬
ment?”
By WALTER SCHULSTAD
Walter Schulstad was assigned by
the editors last week to get an
Interview with Colonel Smith con¬
cerning the Link Trainer now in¬
stalled in the Engineering building
for the purpose of giving future
aviators valuable experience in
piloting planes. This is his story.)
What started out to be a routine
interview with Lt. Col. Raleigh D.
Smith, commandant of the Uni¬
versity’s AFROTC turned out to be
one of the most interesting after¬
noons this reporter has had in a
long time. The purpose of the inter¬
view was to discover some factual
data concerning the link trainer,
located in the Engineering building,
a machine which has proved to be
very popular with the cadets here
at school.
Not only did I learn about the
school’s “Link” but I was taken on
a whirlwind tour of the Portland
Air Base. There I took a literal
“spin” in the Ah- Force’s latest
model, the C-8, which is the exact
duplicate of the controls of the
C-46 transport type aircraft.
Machine, a Marvel
The link trainer itself is a mar¬
velous technological achievement.
It has all the controls of the con¬
ventional type aircraft from rudder
to “stick,” from altimeter to com¬
munications equipment. Some mod¬
els turn, bank, dive and do every¬
thing but loop the loop. Even skilled
pilots are required to devote a cer¬
tain number of hours each month
to this type of instrument training.
Link Training Valuable
As Colonel Smith and I were dis¬
cussing the merits of the link over
a cup of coffee in the Pilot House,
I was forcefully reminded of my
own experiences as a radio and
direction-finding operator. I re-
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Foreign Students
To Talk on Panel
Manfred Bauer from Germany,
Jose Vasquez of Equador and Tran
Long from Vietnam will form a
Foreign Students’ panel to speak
in Vancouver at the public high
school next Tuesday. March 10.
Two days later another panel
composed of Ephriam Layode from
Nigeria, Chu Kai of China, John
Zervas of Greece and Manfred
Bauer will tell the Creston school’s
PTA about the “Schools In My
Country.”
In addition to delivering several
addresses during the last month,
Ephraim Layode has also made two
speeches this month. One talk was
given in the Roseway Presbyterian
church, and the other in the Monta-
villa Methodist church.
