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Show Talk
By HOWARD HUFFHINB8
AT THE PALACE—
Thursday. Friday, and Saturday:
"Th* Barrett* of Wimpolc Street”
Preview Saturday Ditht. Sunday
and Monday: “Kentucky Kamels.”
Tuesday aad Wednesday: “Lady
by Choice.” • ~ .
Saturday uifht 6:80 and 8:80:
“Lonkinr for'Trouble.”
Saturday'40:80: “Murder in the
Private Car."
Wednesday night: “Laiy River.”
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
at the Palace: “The Barretts of
Wimpol* Street" ' . ’
Norma Shearer, still a* beauti
ful a* ever, attempts to break
your heart in the difficult role of
j the invalid sweetheart of the great
English poet, Robert Browning.
She does the best bit of acting of
her career. Frederick March is very
suitably cast as the romantic,
head-strong young poet whose mot
to seems to be to get what he
wants in spite of any obstacle
^ which might arise. In this case he
wants this lovely girl who is hand
icapped by hiving a bestial, lust
ful father who doesn't care to share
‘ the love of his daughter with any
one else. Charles Laughton give*
■ an excellent characterisation of
the half-mad tyrant who hides his
abnormal sensualitiy behind a
mask of righteousness. The three
daughters and six sons live in con
stant dread df the acts committed
by their father. The picture gets
off to a slow start, but the inter
est increases as the picture prog
resses, and ends leaving one feel-
f ing that the tyrannical father
should have met some greatly de
served end.
The cast includes such notables
*, as Norma Shearer, Frederick
March. Charles Laughton, Mau
reen O’Sullivan, Una O’Connor,
altd Katherine Alexander.
Agricultural Experiment Station
Head Proves Importance Of Diet
Of Vitamin A Ration On Eyesight
Preview Saturday night, Sunday
and Monday at tfc* Palace: “Ken
tucky Kernels.” *
Some one unbarred the doors to
the insane asylum and let those
two cracked-brains, Wheeler and
Woolsey, out again. The picture is
supposed to be “different,” but it
looks like the same old gag-pull
ing act. Thai time Wheeler has
: Mary Carlisle to fall in love with
instead of his usual partner, Dor
othy Lee. The trio hive , their
• hands full trying to keep little
“Spanky” McFarland from ful
filling his abnormal desire for
(walking all the glassware in sight.
In the course of the story, our he
roes get mixed up in i Kentucky
feud when they adopt the scion of
^ one of the feudal families. Noah
Beery acts tough as the leader of
the “wrong side” of the feud.
Tuesday and Wednesday at the
Palace: “Lady by Choice.”
Carole Lombard still looks as
blonde and luscious af ever. This
time she is a fan-dancer who tries
to reform, by circumstances forc
ed to return to that profession,
and then finally Reforms entirely
—by marrying the guy. The pic
ture, “Lady for a Day”, produced
soTite time ago, I was such a hit
By R. B. Storms •
Since military men arc required
to have good eyes, disease of the
•yes, ophthalmology, coming from
two Greek words meaning eya and
disease. Is a matter of great con
cern to them. In the physical ax
huh nation* conducted during the
World War preparations, a large
percentage of those men in the
United States declared unfit was
because of poor eyesight In stud
ies conducted among 100,000 New
York school children it was dis
covered that of the ones failing,
over half had eye trouble. When
something begins to have a bear
ing upon oar work, then it becomes
useful to possess a knowledge of It
As s result of past experiments
medical science knows that diet
plays a tremendous part in pre
venting disease of the eyas; for
instance, while diet has helped to
maintain many peoples’ eye* in a
sound condition, H has also cor*
rocted eye trouble in many new
born babies. Now, a theory 'statas
that by proper diet eye troubles
may be prevented before birth. The
idea move! around the feet that
what the mother eats during preg
nancy has a vital effect upon the
embryo. Since in some eases after
a person is bom with defective
fyes, it is too late to use proper
diet as an aid, this theory may
have much possibility.
A large amount of proof to sub
stantiate this theory of healthy
embryonic development from prop
er diet is being collected by Fred
Hale, Chief of the Swine Division.
Turns * Agricultural Experiment
Station. In 1932 a registered Do-
roc-Jersey gilt received a ration
deficient in Vitamin A farrowed a
litter of eleven pigs without ey*
balls Although only on* was dead
that the company decided to pro
duce a similar one. “Lady by
choice” is the result. As Alabama
Lee. the fan-dancer. Carole Lom
bard* really holds the spot-light
May Robson gives 4 good perfor
mance as Patsy, the genial old
soak whom Alabama adopts as a
mother. Our hero is Roger Pryor,
who doesn’t quit* seem to be the
right guy for our hot heroine.
Saturday night at the Assembly
Hall: "Looking for Trouble”
Another of those fast moving
pictures which we all'enjoy. Spen
cer Tracy Und Jack Oskie bounce
around playing the hero roles for
their gals, Constance Cummings
and Arline Judge, whose thief oc
cupation as telephone operators
seem to be listening in on private
conversations. Oakie and Tracy
are telephone linesmen whose lives
are just one big adventure right
after the other. What, with all the
repairs to be made during earth
quakes surrounded by broken high-
tension wires, cracks, and the such;
bank robbers to be foiled; murd
ers to be solved; and girls to be
Ipved, the boys are kept busy all
the time.
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A large variety af styles
to select from.
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Saturday, 10:80, at the Assembly
Hall: “Murder in the Private Car."
A case of “the button, the but
ton, who’s got the button?" with
the “button” in this ease being
the mystery of the identity of the
evil mind behind the attempts to
bump off all of our heroes and
heroines. Lots of fun watching
Charlie Ruggles in action as the
eccentric de-fleetor of crime who
heroically brings the fiendish mur
derer to justice. Una Merkel and
Mary Carlisle run around pulling
the screen act and getting their
necks twisted for your amusement.
There is sure to be plenty of ex
citement when such things as stray
gorillas, mysterious warning voic
es, and mysterious murders all get
together on the same train:
Wednesday night at the Assei
bly Hall: “Laxy River."
Robert Young as the ex-convict
who plans to “shake-down” a sup
posedly rich old lady. Jean Parker
looks and acts as sweet as the in
tended victim’s daughter who wins
our beros’s affections. Ted Hsaly
accompanied by Nat Pendleton go-
e* rowdy as the ex-eon pals of
Young. There is the comely cook
that the two fall for and scrap
over during the entire picture. The
plot is so old it stinks, but is en
tertaining, nevertheless. It is th*
old story of th* ex-convict who
plans pril. reforms, lovuo the girl,
defeats the villain, defies bis ex-
wife, and ends up by living happily
ever after.
The cast includes Robert Young.
Jean Parker, Ted Healy, Not Pen
dleton, and C. Henry Gordon.
at birth, th* rest of the pigs fail
ed to live.
Since a slight mathematical pos
sibility existed that th* lack of
eye balls could be attributed tp
heredity, Mr. Hale determined to
try to duplicate‘his first ays lass
litter in an effort to show that
lack of Vitamin A was the cause.
Accordingly, twa five-months-old
gilts of no relation to the first
sow ware fad 176 days upon a ra
tion of Vitamin A deficiency. At
th* end of that time one giH could
not walk, and the other did so only
with a wobbly gait. After the
weaker giH was dosed with two
ounces of cod Ihrar oil to keep her
alive, both gilts were bred four
teen days later to a boar different
from the on* used on th* first sow.
After the breading, the Vitamin A
deficiency was continued for thirty
more days, the period during which
eye balls develop in the pig em
bryo. From that time on the gilts
had the best ration available in
order to allow the pig embryos
every opportunity to develop.
On June 8, 1984 both gilts far
rowed. The gilt that had received
no cod livar oil produced a litter
of ten eyeless pigs, while the one
that had received it farrowed a Ut
ter of fourteen pigs with various
combination of ayes, some with
one eye, some with one normal eye
and one large or small eya, but all
were blind. An autopsy revealed
i of the pigs had only one
kidney, white others had none at
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fjL B. Conner, Director of the
Experiment Station, atates that
this work may furnish the expla
nation of many weak and defective
found in human beings at
birth, and may tend to an expla
nation of defective organs in the
body. Since the functional eye is
in fact a nerve, it is entirely pos
sible that the lack of Vitamin A
before and during pregnancy may
affect the nervous system of the
developing embryo. This discovery
in fact may be of profound import
ance to the future welfare of the
human race.
Co-operative Groups
Fete Many at Picnic
Student Co-operative groups
gave a picnic and hart seas at
Scoetes Lake teat Wednesday, at
which naarly 200 boys were pres
ent with th* deans and other mem
bers of the faculty aa guests.
Baseball, horse shoe pitching and
other games provided entertain
ment for all. . !
Dante! Russell, head of the ru
ral sociology department stated
that there are 22 co-operative
group* attending A and M this
year. These groups comprise 238
students. Many of these students
have been able to cut their expen
•** to a minimum as in some eas
es the expense rateited does not
exceed five dollars a month.
The barbecue was tejKfd s
huge success which
by th* fact that nearly 360 pounds
of meat were consumed.
Mt Wilson Scientist
Discover/s Speed
Of New Nebula Body
San Antonio Club Makes
Arrangements for Donee
Final arrangements for the
Christmas dance were discussed by
the San Antonio Club Monday
night at a meeting called by the
president, K. A. J. Monier, senior
mechanical engineering student.
The dance Is to be given at th* St
Anthony Hotel on Christmas night
and will test until 4 A. M. on the
morning of December 26.
The matter of chartering a bus
for the Thanksgiving holidays was
brought up but nothing was defi
nitely decided.
Records in th* sacretery’s office
show that 82,738.28 have been paid
to students in the F E R A oh this
campus and that the sum is for
the 196 CHICKS issued for the
fort two months work—News lead
in “The East Texas”
Pt. Arthur Club Discusses
Plans for Christmas Dance
Plans for a dance to be given
during the Christmas holidays
were discussed by th* Port Arthur
Club at a meeting Monday night
in Mitchell Hall.
The Club has made much pro
gress this year and has a member
ship of over twenty, J. W. McCord,
president of the chib, stated.
Pasadena. Calif.—Milton L.
Hamuson, astronomer at the Mount
Wilsoh observatory reported the
discovery of a nebula traveling
through space at one-eighth the
speed of light, or 24,000 mitee per
second.
Scientists have estimated that
th* nebula is 200,000,000 light
years away from the earth, or aa
actual distance of 12,000,000,000,-
000.000,000,00(1 miles away. This
means that the stars in the cluster
in which the nebula was discover
ed, are now seen in the position in
which they were 200.000,000 years
ago.
Dr. Hunas+n’s measurements are
said to give support to the expand
ing universe 1 theories of such men
dfc Eins|ein and Le Maitr*.
The theory, .not. conclusively
proved, 6s yet, is that the velocity
of nebulae increases is direct pro-
protion to their distance.
Edward Camplin, who was the
largest donator to the fund that
brought the University of Misaou- j
ri to Columbia, could neither read
r write. He signed his check
with s symbol of his own inven
tion. Well, you don’t have to be
smart to give money sway.
Geology-Pe troleu m
Club Names Langham
N. T. Langham, Mission, was sl
eeted president of th* Petroleum
Engineering-Geology Club at a
meeting, held November 6 in the
lecture room df th* Petroleum En
gineering and Geology Building.
The dub also slocted J. M. Wil
son,. Lulibg,. vice president; and M.
C. . DQltnghatn. Fort Worth, soc-
rvtery-trqasurar*
The aim of the organisation this
year, as 4i*cu-‘«‘d by th* member*
after the election of officers, is to
have one meeting each month for
the purpose of hearing speeches
which will be made by men prom
inent in th* petroleum engineer
ing-geology field.
Thanksgiving Meals
Again Given Cadets
Members of the Second Battal
ion, Infantry, assert to th# man
that the promise of mess hall of
ficials to serve a “Thanksgiving
dinner that wfll'Mmind the cadet
ef real home cocking" was well
fulfilled following th# first of the
banquet sen*-* held is the banquet
room Monday.
Prior to last year the entire
Corps was given the Thanksgiving
dinner at one time, bst th# growth
of the sUidedt body to its present,
size caused so much delay and con
fusion that the change to the sys
tem of serving on* battalion at a
time war adopted. The change
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