Published Weekly by the Students’ Association of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas.
VOL. XXII. BRYAN, TEXAS, APRIL 1, 1924. NUMBER 25.
BIG TIME
VAUDEVILLE
NINE HITS
Great Aggregation of Variety Enter
tainers Are to Appear Here on
April 19.
On Saturday night, April 19, the
greatest aggregation of variety enter
tainers that has ever been assembled
in Aggieland will give a benefit per
formance in the new Assembly Hall.
The proceeds from the entertainment
will be used by the Dairy Husbandry
Department to pay for the trip made
by the Dairy Judging Team to New
York last fall. It was in the contest
there that the team won every cup of
fered except one and F. H. Downs, a
member of the team, won a $400
scholarship for next year.
Advance agents for the troupe am-
nounce that there will be nine acts of
“big time” vaudeville and that all of
the performers come from A. and M.
The performance will begin promptly
at seven-thirty and will be over before
the corps dance in the Mess Hall
starts.
Prof. W. H. Newell, renowned, ac
robat, will furnish the thrills for the
evening with the flying leaps and mid
air gymnastics for which he is fam
ous. The apparatus for this act alone
cost one hundred and twenty-five dol
lars and the professor has been in
preparation for four months.
Bartlett and Fairleigh, with their
troup of musical sheiks will present a
unique program of semi-classical and
jazz numbers.
“Mugs” McG'ee and his famous
black face comedians, according to re
ports, offer one of the smartest acts
of the season.
Orme and Ashford, caricaturists de
luxe, will include in their repertoire,
efforts of imitation of the best known
campus heroes.
The artistic feature of the program
will be the dance act offered by the
nationally famous trio, Eschenberg,
Strange and Hancock. An Apache
dance will feature their act.
These numbers are the headliners
of the bill; there are four other acts
EXTRA LONGHORNS
TO BE PLACED
ON SALE SOON
Extensive Sales -Campaign To Be
Launched the Latter Part of
This Week.
If you meet J. F. Baker this week,
he will ask “Have you bought a Long
horn today?” An extensive sales cam
paign is to be launched the latter part
of the week.
Editor Bob Sherman admits that the
1923-24 Longhorn is to be the best
that has ever been published. The
annuals will arrive here on May 20,
and will be distributed May 22. There
are many new distinguishing features
in the annual. The book will embody
all the latest art and literary achieve
ments. Picture a large book, seven
and one-half inches wide and ten and
one-half inches long, containing four
hundred and fifty pages of the highest
quality ivory-tinted • paper bound in
beautiful silver gray Moorish grain
leather and you have seen the 1924-24
Longhorn.
But wait, these qualities shrink into
nothing when the book is opened. The
art work has a medieval background.
Zay Smith and his art associates have
given each page some original art
border, making the book the most
colorful annual in print. The College
Life Section is excellent, due to
“Monty” Montgomery. Although there
will be few bathing beauties the stags
will fall upon many an unwary neck.
The Building Section printed in an
extremely new shade of double tone
ink, 4s the latest work in College an
nual production. Take our word and
buy several extra Longhorns so “there
shall be no regrets.
that are yet to be announced. From
all indications the entertainment
promises to be as good an hour and a
half vaudeville as was ever presented
upon the Majestic circuit. The admis
sion will be fifty cents—all over the
house. The entire production is under
the control of Profs. Grout, Clutter,
and Darnell of the Dairy Husbandry
Department.
MR. FRILEY TELLS
EXPERIENCES OF
OCEAN VOYAGE
Letter Written at Sea March 18 Gives
Adventures to That Date; Prexy
is Becoming Fond of Tea.
At Sea, Tuesday, March 18, 1924.
Mr. T. A. McCarter, Editor Battalion,
A. and M. College of Texas,
College Station, Texas.
Dear McCarter:—
While Prexy is out on deck drinking
tea I decided to slip away and write
you this little note, regarding our ed-
ventures to date.
We left New York at noon on the
twelfth, following in the wake of the
worst storm that has hit the Atlantic
seaboard in the past 30 years. For
tunately it passed around us and we
escaped with only a fairly rough sea
and a brisk wind.
This ship was formerly the German
liner “Amerika,” and was recondition
ed at the Navy Yards in June 1923,
being made over into a cabin boat. It
is 700 feet long, with a tonnage of
23,000 and is rightly considered one of
the steadiest ships on the Atlantic.
We can surely recommend it to the
inexperienced ocean voyager. On the
morning of the second day out we
both awoke with a rather peculiar
feeling that all was not well with us,
speaking anatomically. So we dress
ed and took several turns around the
deck, then went into the dining room
for a light—very light—breakfast. We
continued fighting that peculiar sen
sation for the rest of the morning
and by noon had driven it away. Since
then we have never felt better in our
lives. Beyond the experience of that
one morning we haven’t had the
slightest trace of seasickness. To all
of which we are ready to take solemn
oath, in spite of the incredible and ri
bald laughter in which some of our
hard-boiled friends are likely to in
dulge.
We have already covered over two-
thirds of the journey across and the
experience so far has been intensely
interesting, particularly in view of the
fact that everything is new to us.
There has been just enough of wind
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FINAL ARRANGE
MENTS MADE FOR
R. V. FESTIVITIES
Holiday Program as Announced As
sures Great Week of Merriment
For Aggieland.
The dates having been made (with
the calendar and with the belles of
Texas) and definite plans having been
formulated, the curtain which veils the
most exquisite terpsichorean stage in
the Southwest is ready and anxious to
be drawn. The annual spring festiv
ities at which the Ross Volunteers are
hosts will take place April 17, 18, and
19, scantly more than two weeks
hence. The holidays will be featured
by three dances, the Queen’s Ball, the
Ross Volunteer Hop and the R. V.
Corps Dance, on the nights of Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday, respec
tively, of the third week in April. The
R. V. banquet, baseball games, a ben
efit di’amatic presentation, and exhi
bition fancy drill by the Ross Volun
teers Company will be additional at
tractions to the local and visiting
merrymakers.
Beginning about noon on Wednes
day preceding the festive celebrations
the most attractive attractions will
begin to arrive in Aggieland, poten
tially no woman’s land. These arrivals
will be frequent until shortly before
the prelude to the first of the three
dances, the Queen’s Ball; this pre
lude will be the coronation of the king
and queen. When the herald avokes
this royal pair, the throne will short
ly become graced with the presence of
one S .C. Bartlett and Miss Katherine
Beard, alias the king and queen. This
couple will be attended by a court of
their selection which will add much to
the regal splendor of the ball. F. S.
McGee, J. V. Drisdale, J. V. Myers,
W. D. Johnson, F. H. Downs, and V.
G. LeLaurin with their ladies will
compose the court at the coronation.
The dance will begin with this august
event and will continue until two-
thirty Friday morning. What will add
more to the grandeur of the dance is
the fact that the music will be fur
nished by none other than the one
celebrated Jimmie’s Joys orchestra;
the renditions of this jazz octette will
SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — SATURDAY