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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1941)
Pag*? 4- THE BATTALION Queen Cotton and Maids of Honor Are Rose Bud “Beauties of the Beauties” -THURSDAY MAY 1, 1941 Court Was Selected From 100-Girl Group In Festival at TSCW The queen of the Cotton Ball and her maids of honor may eas ily be considered the “beauties of the beauties” because only those girls who were participants in the Rose Bud Festival, the festival of beauty and charm, at T. S. C. W. were considered as candidates for the Cotton Ball honors. The 100 girls in the Rose Bud Festival represented the top in T. S. C. W.’s all round students of beauty, scholastic standing and general activity in campus affairs. They were picked by a committee of faculty members and students from the school’s all-girl enroll ment of over 3000. From among the Rose Bud Prin cesses, Mrs. J. S. Mogford and a delegation of Aggies representing the Agronomy Society, sponsor of the Cotton Pageant, Style Show and Ball, selected eight girls who are to be in the limelight in to morrow night’s festivities. Then ac cording to the committee, “The job of selecting Queen Cotton from that group of eight queens was the toughest job we have had during our entire work on the Cotton Ball.” After twelve hours deliberation Miss Connie Bindley, freshman from Fort Worth was selected as queen, and the other seven girls automatically were made maids of honor. The maids of honor are Betty Bowman, freshman from Fort Worth; Ruth Tilley, freshman from Shamrock; Laura Gainer, Menard senior; Edith Ellison, Denton fresh man; Dava Robinson, Honey Grove sophomore; Sarah Gillet, Whitewright junior; and Margrat Trulock, senior from Paris. Other than Pinson the Agron omy Society members who were on the selections committee were J. T. Anderson, J. H. Robinson, J. H. Span, W. M. Rountree and R. B. Hartgraves. An Abraham Lincoln room con taining more than 1,000 items of Lincolniana was recently opened in the William L. Clements library at the University of Michigan. 1300 Feet of Movie Of India to be Shown By Sheatsley Sunday More than 1300 feet of moving pictures of life in India will be shown Sunday night at the As sembly Hall under the sponsorship of the Lutheran church by Dr. C. V. Sheatsley of Columbus, Ohio. Sheatsley is executive secretary for the India section of the foreign mission program of the American Lutheran church. He is familiar with everything- Indian, having spent some months on the field helping to establish and organize the church’s mission activity there. His description of India and her people is presented in the nature of a sight-seeing lecture. The more than 1300 feet of mov ing pictures that he will show in conntction with the lecture have all been filmed in India, Kurt Hart man of the local Lutheran church, asserts. Nothing has been posed or built up. The film shows India just as she lives and works today. For the most part the scenes deal with the missionary enterprise as it moves in and out among the na tives. At the end of the lecture the audience will be allowed to ask any questions they desire concerning the work in India. There will be no admission price but a free-will offering will be taken. Pageant Rehearsal Scheduled Tomorrow From 1:30 to 3:30 Rehearsal for the Cotton Pag eant will be held tomorrow after noon. Mrs. Manning Smith, Pag eant director, has announced that the rehearsal will not be a dress rehearsal but will be held in order that participants will know the order of events and the proper pro cedure. Rehearsal time has been set for 1:30 and it is expected that if events are handled efficiently it should not last more than two hours. Mrs. Smith says that the first couples to arrive will be the first to rehearse as plans are to rehearse in small groups, Officers of the Singing Cadets Aggie Clambake To Be Devoted to Pageant Rehearsal 18**' FOR COOL COMFORT AT THE COTTON BALL WEAR A PALM BEACH There’s no excuse for getting hot under the collar. . . . Come on in today and select a Palm Beach White or a Palm Beach Formal. . . You’ll enjoy the Cotton Ball in cool comfort. Might we remind you Palm Beach is the summer suit you can wash. For that clean fresh feel ing all summer long.—It’s wise to keep one on the hanger—one on your back, and one for “time out” at the laundry. 4 ■w f $17.75 T&ILOPCP BY COOP A U l Ft) a M~T H e CENUIN E CLOTH Palm Beach Evening Formal, $20 PALM BEACH SLACKS $5.50 $32.50 Prize Contest. See us for details. (iTaMropAfi “Two Convenient Stores” COLLEGE STATION - - BRYAN Above are shown the officers of the Singing Cadets who appear tomorrow night in a return command performance on Town Hall. The group presented a similar program last month and was so well re ceived that they have been requested to present another and will so do Thursday night. The pictures above are Charles Zahn (upper left) who is the president of the club for this year, and George A. Adams Jr. (upper right) the club’s vice president. At the lower left is Gilbert Michalk, business manager of the organization, and the lower right picture is of Reynold Smith, the publicity manager. Mrs. "Pageant Director" Smith Is Woman of Ideas and Activities By E. M. Rosenthal When Mrs. Manning Smith ac cepted the position of director of the Cotton Pageant things began to happen and happen fast. At first the other Cotton Ball officials were amazed at the speed and dex terity with which she handled big and little details alike, but soon they took her way of managing things as a matter of course. Mrs. Smith was merely told to direct the Pageant when she was appointed, but almost all of the ideas in reference to it since that time have been hers. The suggest ion for the background, which is an elaborate map of the “Land of King Cotton,” was hers. The change this year to allowing the duch esses’ escort to wear any kind of light colored suit in order to break the monotony of the resentation was her idea. The planning of the varied and quite different program at the "Pageant was also one of her thoughts. These are only a few of the many personal touches that she has given to tomorrow night’s affair. In addition to the work she has done here on the campus in rela tion to the Cotton Pageant, Mrs. Smith has also made several trips to Dallas to make arrangements for the entertainers and for the style show, and has also been to Denton to talk to the queen and the maids of honor. Mrs. Smith, who was Juanita Cowart before her marriage, at tended the University of San An tonio and Texas University and graduated from the later in 1937. While at the school in San Antonio she was chosen as one of the stu dent body’s ten outstanding girls, as yell leader and as the most pop ular girl of her class in 1935. She not only has been in the Cotton (Continued on Page 6) GIVE C4MDV Candy expresses your sweet thoughts. We have a Complete Stock KING'S, PANGBURN'S, WHITMAN'S CHOCOLATES We will mail candy anywhere in the state and PAY THE POSTAGE . . . Will pay i/ 2 postage on out-of-state addresses. • Also Other Appropriate Mother's Day Gifts — Toilet Sets, Jewelry Ladies' Silk Hose, etc. • ’ Special Through Sunday RECORDS With each four records purchased you may buy one saphire point needle for 50^. one saphire point needle for 50^ . . regular $1.50 value. 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This afternoon the Aggie Clam bake, weekly feature program, will be broadcast from the DeWare Field House from 4:30 to 5:30 p. m. while the rehearsal is in pro gress. College radio director, John Rosser, will interview some of the duchesses and other members of the royal court. Also included on the interviews for this program J will be some of the Agronomy so ciety members instrumental in the direction and management of the day’s events. The Aggieland Orchestra, which is to play for all the Cotton fes tivities, will also be at the gym and will dedicate the last fifteen minutes of the clambake to the Cotton Ball. Tomorrow night, WTAW will go on the air from 8 to 12 p. m. and will broadcast all of the Cotton Pageant and Style Show. The mi crophone will also be transplanted to Sbisa hall in order to carry a portion of the ball. V - :W5:|pp tiirti ■ If .•; Their royal majesties the King and Queen Cotton, who reign over the tenth Cotton Pageant and Style Show, J. T. 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