TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1940-
THE BATTALION
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U. S. Marine Band Is First Town Hall Program
Jean Dickenson
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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
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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.
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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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