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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
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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
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Music for the Cotton Pageant
and for the Cotton Ball to follow
will be furnished by Ed Minnock
(above) and his Aggieland Or
chestra. He has said that his suc
cessor for next year will be an
nounced during the Cotton festiv
ities tomorrow night.
Pageant Director
Mrs. Manning Smith
NOTICE
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announces that all GORN
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organization designs will
be handled exclusively
by the
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King and Queen for a Night
Program to Include
15 Minute Session by
Aggieland Orchestra
A major portion of today’s
broadcasting from the local radio
station WTAW will be presented
in connection the tenth annual Cot
ton Style Show, Pageant and Ball.
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.
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Their royal majesties the King and Queen Cotton, who reign
over the tenth Cotton Pageant and Style Show, J. T. Anderson of
Garland and Connie Bindley of Ft. Worth are shown together
above.
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