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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1940- THE BATTALION -PAGE 9 * T * I I U. S. Marine Band Is First Town Hall Program Jean Dickenson FT ^ , "IT Mi’r' HP Jean Dickenson and Littlefield Ballet Included on 1940-41 Series Beginning with the United States Marine Band October 3, the 1940-41 Texas A. & M. Town Hall Series will include the Fisk Jubilee Singers November 4; the famed American soprano, Jean Dick enson, December 4; the Littlefield Ballet February 12; the Houston Symphony Orchestra sometime in March; A. & M.’s Singing Cadets and a nationally prominent swing orchestra at unannounced dates in the spring. This year’s series will- also include a distinguished news commentator who will be announc ed later in the year. A student season ticket for the series is $2. Season tickets to all persons other than students, which are reserved seats, are priced at $4. Single admission prices to the various programs will range from $1.50 to $3. Paul Haines, student manager, will be in the Administra tion Building throughout registra tion to supervise ticket sales. The U. S. Marine Band, also known as the “President’s Own”, is coming to A. & M. for the first time this year. One of the finest organizations of its kind in the world, it was organized in 1798 and is now under the direction of Captain W. F. Santelmann. Acclaimed by musicians as the finest vocal ensemble of the Negro race, the Jubilee Singers of Fisk University are now recognized throughout the world as one of the finest of choral groups. Star of the metropolitan opera, the radio, and the concert stage, the lovely Jean Dickenson has a reputation for being as gracious as she is beautiful. Commenting on her debut with the Metropolitan U. S. Marine Band Opera, the New York Times said, “She acted with spontaneous viva city that quickly made friends for her in a large, responsive audi ence.” The Littlefield Ballet: This is the first Ballet to be composed of and directed by Americans exclu sively; the rise of this ballet has been sensational. Comprising a company of 65 and a full symphony orchestra, beautiful girls, gorgeous costumes, and gay dancing mark this wonderful organization. It is indeed refreshing to witness this beautiful, glamorous, thor oughly American Organization. Its success is a result of obtaining perfection in the rich traditions of the classics, plus the unique con tribution of sense of time and spac ing, vigor and vitality. Arnold Haskell, (premost world authority) says, “There is nothing more significant that the ballet today.” After 30 curtain calls, “Not since P*avlowa has a ballet been so fell received or so well deserved”— such is the glowing tribute to America’s superb achievement, the Littlefield Ballet. Truly a show for the Aggies, it depicts the finest in modern Amer ican dancing, with gracefulness and loveliness, typical of such an or ganization. Houston Symphony Orchestra: In the Southwest, it is definitely the Houston Symphony Orchestra. For a decade it has been the outstand ing musical organization in this section. Comprising between 60 and 70 performers, many of whom have been members of famous or chestras elsewhere, its artistic po sition remains unchallenged in the southern and southwestern terri tory. Ernest Hoffman, who conducts the orchestra, is one of those ex traordinary young Americans who has achieved fame at home and abroad. Born in New England and trained to the demands of the Bos ton Symphony of which he was a member. Houston Symphony Orchestra Brain Twisters By W. S. McCulley On a train between Chicago and Detroit, it happens that one of the passengers makes a hobby of con ceiving puzzles to occupy his idle time. Through some circumstance with which we are not concerned, he learns that three of the pas sengers have the same set of nam es as the engineer, fireman, and brakeman, whose names are Rob inson, Jones, and Smith, though not necessarily in the order designat ed. Knowledge of this coincidence caused our inquiring passenger to seek further for more information, the result of which research was the following set of additional facts, which, taken all together, enable the passenger to determine the name of the engineer: 1. Mr. Robinson lives in Detroit. 2. The brakeman lives exactly AGGIELAND STUDIO Official Photographer for the A. & M. College Longhorn EASTMAN KODAKS - FILMS Kodak Finishings Daily Big Stock of Beautiful Picture Frames Joe Sosolik, Prop. half-way between Chicago and De troit. 3. Mr. Jones earns exactly two thousand dollars a year. 4. Smith beat the fireman at bil liards. 5. The brakeman’s nearest neigh- born, one of the passengers, earns exactly three times as much as the brakeman. 6. The passenger whose name is the same as the brakeman lives in Chicago. N. B. If it will help you any, notice that the passengers are de signated by Mr., while the hired hands‘have no such designation. CAN YOU DISCOVER WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE ENGI NEER? (Answer on page 12) Who said it couldn’t happen here? Propaganda leaflets” will fall^fBattalion falling closest to thcfOccasionally one book will be se en A. & M. this year, but not of the kind that incite the reader with the desire to go to war. Rather these pamphlets will be published by the Library and entitled “Good Books To Read”. Mimeographed each month in the lobrary, these pamphlets will be distributed with the issue of The first of the month. Extra copies will of course be available at the loan desk in the library at all times. The object of this publication is to help the Aggies select the best books in tthe Library for their voluntary reading. Each issue will include four books on a selected “special” topic and six or eight other books on assorted topics. lected for a slightly longer review, but as a rule the reviews will be confined to two or three lines. The “special topic” for this month is “Broadway at Home”. Criticisms and suggestions will be welcomed from all subscribers— which means all Aggies! It is re quested, however, that the criti cisms be signed. SAVE DOLLARS AT PENNEY'S BUY YOUR UNIFORM AT “THE AGGIE ECONOMY CENTER” AT BRYAN, TEXAS ... only five miles from campus ... YOUR BUS FARE DEDUCTED... ... From Your Uniform Purchase HERE IS WHERE YOU FIND THE FAMOUS AGGIE REGULATION SHIRT PATCHES SEWED ON FREE WE CASH YOUR CHECKS UPPER CLASSMEN TO ASSIST YOU Take a bus RIGHT NOW to Bryan and shop at a FIRST CLASS uniform store with guaranteed regulation uniforms at LOWER prices. JC.PENNEYCO “Aggies Economy Center” Bryan, Texas Battalion staff meeting, Thurs. night, 7:30, room 122, Adm. Bldg. North Gate The first woman patent examiner was appointed in 1873; in 1897 a woman was first registered to prac tice as an attorney before the pat ent office, says Elizabeth Hunter of New York in a paper prepared for the American Chemical So ciety. But, she points out, less than 100 women have been active in patent work since the creation of the system, and less than 35 wom en in the United States today are engaged in patent work. Of these, nine are examiners in the patent office, and the others are patent solicitors. Five of the total are chemists. 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