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Grand Opera’s Exhibit r A’ In Good Looks,
Gladys Swarthout, Appears Here February 23
Grand opera’s exhibit A in good-f
locks, pep and personality, Gladys
Swarthout, who will give a concert
at Guion Hall of Texas A. & M.
Friday evening, February 23rd,
brings with her a message for
young songbirds. “If you have an
urge to sing,” says Miss Swarth
out, “SING. Don’t be self-conscious
about your voice. Don’t wait until
a more convenient time to culti
vate it. Make your sacrifices now
if they are necessary. Get started
on your singing career. It’s a long,
long trial. The sooner you start the
soonee'r you will arrive.”
Miss Swarthout started her ca
reer in a Methodist Church Choir
in Kansas City at the ripe age of
13.
“The choir master thought I
was 19,” she says with a reminis
cent chuckle. “I just let him go
on thinking while I went on sing
ing. As a matter of fact, I can’t
remember when I started in song
-it must have been cradle-time.”
The Metropolitan Opera—that
impressive buff brick building in
New York’s forties which is the
castle of dreams come true for
ambitious singers—has heard
some of Miss Swarthout’s most bril
liant musical triumphs. Time and
again, she has defrosted the fabu
lous “Golden Horseshoe” in the
Met, the charmed half-circle where
the socially sacrosanct come to
see, to be seen, and take their
opera in such doses as pleases their
fancy.
Like the “Gerry (Farrar) Fans”,
the “Gladys (Swarthout) Fans”
acclaim their heroine from the
“Golden Horseshoe” as well as
from away up there under the roof.
They come early and stay late. They
swarm the wings backstage after
the final curtain, clamoring for a
smile, a wave of the hand, a
glimpse, even of their favorite.
Mass Swarthout never lets them
down. Her friendliness, her warm
heartedness is traditional in the
temple of Orphueus where tem
perament is thicker than a pea-
soup fog in a London byway.
As far as her favorite roles are
concerned, Miss Swarthout claims
that right now it is “Mignon”,
and adds “but the choice is transi-
'
.
Gladys Swarthout, grand opera star, who will appear on the
A. & M. Town Hall program at Guion Hall on Friday, February 23.
Hunt County Wins
A. & M. Experiment
Station Contest
Hunt County communities re
cently walked off with first honors
in the single-variety cotton con
test sponsored by the East Texas
Chamber of Commerce in co-oper
ation with the A. & M. College ex
periment Station and Extension
Service of the United States Bu
reau of Plant Industry, it was an
nounced by Eugene Butler of Dal
las, chairman of the contest judg
ing committee.
Kinder community with a score
of 94.17 was first and Greenville
community with 89.56, second to
give Hunt County a clean sweep.
Communities having once won
the contest are not eligible for
further prizes, but despite this
fact, Rugby community in Red
River County entered the contest
and fulfilled all requirements. The
committee placed Rugby on the
honor roll and will award a plaque
with appropriate inscription. Rug
by tied with Enloe in Delta Coun
ty for third place in 1937 and won
first place in 1938.
The Onalaska community in Polk
County was given honorable men
tion for outstanding yield yer
acre. It was second in the 1937
contest.
Coupland community in William
son County, which placed first in
1937 and second in 1938, did not
entered the 1939 contest.
The judging committee was com
posed of the following in addition
to Chairman Elmore Torn of the
Etex chamber, and Butler;
E. A. Miller, extension agron
omist, College Station; T.
B. Kennard, cotton producer,
Longview; F. E. Lichte, ex
tension ginning specialist, College
Station; C. L. Walker Jr., Temple
Chamber of Commerce agriculture
committee chairman; M. C. Jaynes,
extension cotton specialist, College
Station; Frank Wilcox, cotton
producer of Granger; D. T. Kil-
lough, experiment station agrono
mist, College Station; and Roy
Sanders, United States Bureau of
Plant Industry, Greenville.
The staple length of the contest
ing communities’ cotton production
averaged 31-32ds of an inch for
1939, Torn announced.
Communities reported gains
ranging from $5,000 to $10,000 in
farm income because of following
the standardized cotton production
program.
tory. ‘Carmen’ is coming up strong
and may nose ‘Mignon’ out at any
moment. I’ve done ‘Carmen’ once,
in November, with the Chicago
Opera Company, and hope to have
the thrill of singing it opposite
my husband, Frank Chapman, my
favoi’ite baritone.”
Miss Swarthout confesses that
mutual interest, mutual endeavor
makes for even greater harmony
between husband and wife. “My
husband and I speak the same
language. Our very life is in music
and we live it together. Imagine
trying to talk Wagner to a tired
businessman just home from a
long day’s grind at the office! Mar
ried couples headed for a mutual
goal' are fortunate.”
A timely comment on world
conditions today is Miss Swarth
out’s comment that the present
war has as yet produced no new
war songs. “I’ve been listening
for a new war song, but so far
we’ve had only the old ones. I
suppose that is because the World
War is still so close to us. War
always brings out stirring music.
Frightened, confused people with
the threat of war hanging over
them or with the blot of war on
them turn to music for escape. I
hear they are singing “Tipperary”
and “Over There” on the Western
Front. The one who writes a nat
ion’s war songs does his country
as great a service as the general
in command of all the armies.”
Miss Swarthout is a nut-bi’own
maid, deep, lively brown eyes, a
light brown long bob, suntan. When
she is not singing or working at
songs, she is out in the open, en
gaged in some form of athletics—
to keep in form. “A hike a day
keeps the doctor away,” is her
health formula.
Tickets on sale at Y. M. C. A.
beginning Monday, Febniary 19.
Reserve seats, $2.00; student gen
eral admission, $1.00.
The Appalachian State Teachers
College wrestling team has won
54 straight matches.
Princeton University has a copy
of the “Rubaiyat” of Omar Khay
yam printed in 1463.
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North Gate
WARS CREATING
MORE SERIOUS
READING TRENDS
War abroad and domestic econo
mic problems give American col
legians of today a more serious
slant to their reading than in pre
vious years, a survey by the Ameri
can Library Association among col
lege librarians indicates.
Released by Donald Coney, vice-
president of the national associa
tion, the report showed that col
lege students from coast to coast
have indicated an unprecedented
interest in non-fiction. This, the
report points out, was reflected
in the demand for such works as
“Not Peace But a Sword”, “In
side Asia”, “Survey After Mu
nich”, and other non-fiction books.
The report showed further that
Federal Government
Must Aid Idle Youth,
Declares Commission
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Because
idle youth will strengthen any
movement to embroil this nation
in the present European war, the
federal government must provide
employment for the young who
cannot find work in private in
dustry.
That is the assertion of the
American Youth Commission, a di
vision of the American Council on
Education, in its new “program of
action for American youth.”
The commission recommends a
widely expanded federal work pro
gram of “producing the goods and
services which are needed by the
young people themselves and by
others who are unemployed and
in need.”,
“In the present critical situa
tion,” the report continued, “it is
imperative that none of the human
resources of the nation be wasted
the college reader’s taste is tend
ing toward discussions of inter
national affairs, broad-minded
books on marriage relationships,
government, popular psychology,
etc.
More library conscious than a
decade ago, students are making
up their own minds about what
they will read, depending less on
the best-seller lists. Requests for
books on etiquette and travel con
tinue steady, but there is an up
swing in demand for clothing and
fashion writings.
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through haphazard and inefficient
methods of vocational selection,
preparation and employment.
“Society in each generation has
an obligation to provide for youth
full opportunities for vocational
exploration, training and public
service. The existence of a world
crisis, by making clear to the na
tion the need for internal as well
as external strength, serves only
to emphasize the present obliga
tion.
‘Much time has been lost and too
many young people already have a
history of frustration and wasted
years. There is all the more rea
son for strengthening this weak
point in the national fabric as
soon as possible, now that its dan
gerous nature is evident.”
The plan of the commission calls
for training youth in public em
ployment that will give them ex
perience for jobs in private in
dustry. The work would be direct
ed by those who could instil in
the youth good work habits as
well as specific skills. Cost of
the program was estimated at $400
per worker per year.
Twelve tons of rubbish were re
moved from the Rose Bowl stadium
after the Tennessee-Southern Cali
fornia gridiron battle.
Dr. Grady Harrison
DENTIST
North Gate
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