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MUSICAL MEANDERINGS
By Murray Evans
Not for many moons has Artie
Shaw recorded anything like his
current “Stardust.” It nas every
thing to give it universal appeal,
and it must have been just about
what Hoagy Carmichael had in
mind when he wrote the original
score some years back.
The first chorus is taken by the
first trumpet, and although it is
good, it is still the weakest part
of the record. But Shaw comes to
bat in the second round and you
forget all about mediocre trumpets
and concentrate, all ears, on the
finest clarinet take-off to date on
this old favorite tune.
From there that fine' violin sex
tet of his goes to work and makes
you wonder why anybody ever
started calling them “fiddles” any
how. A good trombone half-chorus
and Shaw again on the latter half
take it out to a smooth ending,
ably assisted by a soft violin back
ground.
A slow, loose rhythm, with a
prominent bass and distinctive
chord progressions throughout,
back up Shaw’s ace soloists to
make this his very best effort
since he organized his new 22-
piece orchestra. Anybody that
•doesn’t go for it is an incurable
jitterbug.
The famous Ink Spots will be in
Houston April 22 for a one-night-
er. It’s a little hard to understand
how these five negro musicians
will play for dancing, for their
type of tunes are more on the
novelty side, and their rhythms
are a bit too slow and soft to pro
vide enough volume or tempo to
keep an ordinary dance going four
hours.
It may be that other musicians
will be added, enough to make a
full-size band, and that the Ink
Spot numbers will be featured by
the quintet at intervals.
At any rate, it will be a good
show, and I understand that White
Ink Spot admirers will be allowed
to attend and that there will be a
section provided for them.
Eleven families cooperating in
1940 with the Extension Service
of Texas A. & M. college as whole
farm or ranch demonstrators re
ported their incomes were between
$231 and $500. The average per
family spent for food was $116.07
and the value of food produced and
used per family was $430.20.
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Cotton Queen and Her Court
The eight girls above are the
beauties selected by a committee
of students from the Agronomy
Society to be the honored maids
in the Tenth Annual Cotton Pag
eant and Ball on May 2.
On the front row from left to
right the girls are Dava Raginson,
Honeygrove; Laura Gainer, Me
nard; Margaret Trulock, Paris;
and Edith Ellison, Denton. In the
back row are Connie Bindley, Fort
Worth; Ruth Tilley, Shamrock;
Sara Gillet, Whitewright; and Bet
ty Bowman, Mineral Wells.
All eight girls were first se
lected from the 100 entries in the
T.S.C.W. Rose Bud Festival. From
these eight Miss Bindley was chos
en as the Queen of the Cotton Ball
and the other girls were designated
as duchesses.
In the lower picture is Miss
Bindley with J. T. Anderson who
was elected as King Cotton by the
Agronomy Society. Anderson is a
senior in K Company Infantry and
is from Garland.
The committee who chose the
queen and the duchesses are J. W.
Pinson, J. H. Robinson, J. H. Spann,
W. M. Rountree, R. B. Hartgraves
and Anderson.
Cotton Ball Plans Advance With
Background Under Construction
By E. M. Rosenthal
The plans for the tenth annual
Cotton Style Show, ’Pageant and
Ball, which will be held May 2,
are more nearly perfected at this
early date than those of any pre
vious Cotton Ball, according to
an announcement from John H.
Robinson, business manager of the
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A. & M. Student Agronomy So
ciety.
Already members of the society
are at work building the back
ground for the forming of King
Cotton’s court. This background
will be a colored scene of the Land
of King Cotton and will be located
in the back of the Memorial Gym
nasium as a setting for the corp-
nation.
Those members of the Agronomy
Society who formed the committee
to select this year’s Queen of The
Cotton Ball and her duchesses
report that this year’s girls are
more beautiful than ever before.
They also say that their task in
the selection was quite a difficult
one since the girls were selected
from the beauties of T. S. C. W.’s
Rose Bud Festival and, according
to one member of the committee,
they had to pick “the beauties of
the beauties.”
Connie Bindley of Fort Worth
was selected as the queen of the
Cotton Ball and Pageant. Her duch
esses will be Laura Gainer of Me
nard, Margaret Trulock of Paris,
Betty Bowman of Mineral Wells,
Ruth Tilley of Shamrock, Sara Gil-
lett of Whitewright, Edith Ellison
of Denton and Dava Rabinson of
Honeygrove.
Sanger Brothers of Dallas is
sponsoring the Cotton Style Show.
Their representatives have been on
the campus several times to look
over the setting and have expressed
themselves as being well pleased
with everything. They plan to bring
ten professional models to display
cotton wearing apparel now being
assembled in New York, Los Ange
les, Dallas and other fashion cen
ters. Mrs. Margaret Wedell, Sang
er’s representative, says that this
year’s Style Show will be present
ed in an entirely different and
novel manner than those of the
past.
“The floor show at the Pageant
will present professional talent
which is sure to please the student
body and their guests,” Robinson
said. “We are sure this year’s show
will go over with a bang. Most of
the boys have worked on the last
two Cotton Style Shows and feel
that they know pretty well what
the public enjoys.
“Everything considered we feel
that we are offering the biggest
and best Cotton Style Show, Pag
eant and Ball that has ever been
given on the A. & M. campus,”
Robinson concluded.
A silage crop can be grown,
harvested and put in the silo for
about $2 a ton.
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Twenty-Two New Books Purchased
With Mother’s Club Contributions
The latest list of books bought
on student request has just been
released by Mrs. W. D. Thomas,
loan librarian. These books are
purchased with funds contributed
by the various A. & M. Mother’s
clubs throughout the state, and are
placed in the Browsing Room up
on their receipt at the library.
The latest additions are:
Arnold, “Hot Irons”; Caldwell,
“God’s Little Acre”; Curran, “Pia
no in the Band”; Eaton,' “Quietly
My Captain Waits”; Glasscock,
“Here’s Death’s Valley”; Goodrich,
“Delilah”; Grambling, “AP: The
Story of News”; Halper, “Sons of
The Fathers”; Hilton, “Random
Harvest”;
Jamieson, “High Frontier”; Mar-
quand, “H. M. Pulham, Esquire”;
Martinez Zuvira, “Black Valley”;
Monks, “Squadrons Up”; Nicker
son, “The Armed Horde, 1793-
1939”; Otto, “Things and Ideals”;
Perry, “Hold Autumn in Your
Hand”; Riesenberg, “The Pacific
Ocean”; Rippy, “The Caribbean
Danger Zone”; Stegner, “On a
Darkling Plain”; Taylor, “Walt
Disney’s Fantasia”; Valtin, “Out
of the Night”; Wylie, “The Army
Way”.
Suman to
Address Petroleum
Engineers Tuesday
John R. Suman, president of
the American Institute of Mining
and Metallurgical Engineers and
vice-president in charge of produc
tion of the Humble Oil and Re
fining Company, will address the
Petroleum Engineers Club at a
banquet today at 12 p. m.
Chester Naramore, executive
secretary of the Petroleum Divi
sion of the American Institute of
Mining Engineers, will accom
pany Suman.
ry
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