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Musical Meanderings
By Murray Ehrana
tere are tho&c wlio think of | Remember a musician is old at 35,
musician’s life as one big
d of wine, women, and song—
n existence filled with perpet-
merriment and devoid of ob-
es encountered in the life of
layman. Not so. Actually it
[Is wearisome cross-country
ts, strenuous one-night stands,
ppointments in the way of
g intake, high overhead ex
es that go with traveling and
ilmost near necessity of stay-
in single harness. (For what
an wants to go tagging after
husband all over the country,
g out of suit cases, enduring
strain of a consistent night-
)
it usually, once a musician
in the game, all his friends
acquaintances place that tag
im, and it’s difficult for him
let out of the business. The
g man who comes home off a
, sick of the high road, desir-
femployment in his home town,
lly meets such queries as this:
y, I thought you were a mu
ll! You wouldn’t like working
ne.” (As if he were one of the
iited.) And so, disillusioned
his home-town attitude, but
amentally hungry for another
jam session with his kind, he
•ns to the fold.
,e thud of the rhythm, the lift
le brass, the sweetness of the
3 makes him feel at home
a, and all seems right with the
d—until he falls to thinking
a about the future, and then
icy cake of common sense (to
e Mr. 0. Henry) floats down
;ide of his intoxication, and he
zes the futility of his exist-
comes down to this in the
analysis: Be a musician while
re young and care-free, but
enough shekels to start a
;1 business of your own when
begin to feel your birthdays.
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and if he persists in hanging on,
it will not be long before the
youngsters with fresher ideas and
originality in phrasing will re
place him altogether.
• • •
The general opinion in the music
business is that girl band-leaders
don’t succeed. It is thought that
girls fronting bands just can’t
stand the gaff, that they substi
tute sex for music appeal, that
they don’t know music, that about
all they are good for is to look
pretty and indulge in suggestive
poses and movements.
But Dolly Dawn is one leader
who refutes any such idea. It came
as a surprise to everyone in July,
1941, when George Hall stepped
down off his podium, took over
the job of managing while Dolly
picked up his baton and started
fronting the band regularly. Since
then she has succeeded on her own
merits. There is no phony sex-
appeal involved. Rarely does she
even wear an evening dress; it’s
usually a trim, tailored suit. She
knows her music and how to
thoroughly sell a tune. Her band
boasts some of the very best tal
ent available.
In six months Dolly’s band has
played only six one-nighters. At
the Stanly Hotel her record was
surpassed only by the great Glenn
Miller, and she did a 25 percent
better business at the Chanticleer
than Frankie Masters, who fol
lowed her.
She knows tempos, how to use
her hands, how to handle a baton.
Thoroughly capable, she needs no
stooging from the band members.
One of the finest ballads out now
is “I Don’t Want To Walk With
out You.” Its melodic appeal is
extremely fetching, and as done
by beauteous Dinah Shore, it
leaves nothing to be desired for
top honors among current sweet
numbers.
The crabmeat canning industry,
which now has a foothold in Maine,
is expected to be expanded to the
South Atlantic and Gulf coasts.
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Hollywood Pleases
Majority; Speaks
Lingo of 90 Million
STATE COLLEGE, Pa.—(AGP)
•—Most of Hollywood’s movie stars
speak their lines in “General Amer
ican English”—so named because
it is the natural speech of 90,000,-
000 Americans living outside New
York City, New England and the
south. That is the observation of
Mildred Hall, who has just com
pleted a study of actors’ speech un
der direction of Joseph F. O’Brien,
associate professor of public speak
ing at Pennsylvania State college.
“More than 52 per cent of 273
film actors who were observed in
the study use the “General Amer
ican” speech, Miss Hall found. This
form of speech is characterized by
retention of the letter “r” and
use of a short “a.”
Forty-four per cent, however,
use the “eastern American” speech,
which is characterized by dropping
of the “r” and broadening of the
“a,” the study revealed. This dia-.
lect is spoken by 11,000,000 per
sons living in New York ,City and
New England. “Southern British”
is also included under this desig
nation.
In another study it was found
that the Eastern American and
Southern British dialects predom
inate on the legitimate stage. Sev
enty-two per cent of the stage stars
were said to drop their “r’s” and
broaden their “a’s” as opposed to
24 per cent who psoke general
American.
A palatability test on safflower
meal is being conducted at the
Spur substation of the Texas Ag
ricultural Experiment Station. The
three steers used in the test gained
2.14 pounds per head daily during
the second 28-day period.
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Covering Campus Distractions:
Tarzan Thrills, Water Spills and
Blood Chills Down Ag Show Row
Tarzan
yn
Johnny Weissmuller, the famed
ape-man of the jungles, ap
pears again in a filmed ver
sion of one of Edgar Rice Bur-
rough’s novels “T#rzan’s Se
cret Treasure,” at Guion Hall
today and tomorrow.
Recall not so many years ago-
that nine chances out of ten that
your favorites in the motion pic
ture world were Tarzan and Tom
Mix or Ken Maynard. And if you
liked the scrapes that the ape-man
of the jungles of the Dark Conti
nent could get himself in and out
of with little or no difficulty, you
might like “TARZAN’S SECRET
TREASURE” at Guion Hall today
and tomorrow.
This is the twenty-fifth anniver
sary of the filming of the first
Edgar Rice Bur-
rough’s novel
Over 25 million
books about the
legendary charac
ter have been
printed and trans
lated into 56 lan
guages. Johnny- ^
was chosen to be L
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Tarzan in 1932 1§
after appearing
in a Grantland Rice sport short.
He had accumulated 40 swimming
records in addition to Olympic
Games championships throughout
his sports career.
The story for the film is in the
usual vein. The natives are un
friendly to him, the whites try to
take advantage of him, and the
animals would be most happy to
devour him to satisfy their appe
tites. Overcoming all the obstacles
one by one, Tarzan is reunited with
his mate, Maureen O’Sullivan, and
their adopted son, John Sheffield,
and everyone is happy.
With technicolor, a tropical set
ting, and the feminine star Dorothy
Lamour, a picture is all set up to
Psychologists Recognize Swing;
Applaud It as a “Great Art”
Swing is art and it is recently
becoming great art. “The differ
ence between Beethoven’s Fifth
symphony and Benny Goodman’s
‘Opus V2 ” concludes Dr. J. F.
Brown, psychology professor at the
University of Kansas, “is one of
degree, and not one of kind.”
Art, he explains in a new text
book, “The Psychodynamics of Ab
normal Behavior,” is the expres
sion in more or less disguise of
conflicts or problems that are a
part of life.
Songs are popular when the
problems which are their content
are easily recognized—when the
disguise is thin. Usually the lyrics
of swing music speak of unre
quited love, a problem of deep con
cern to boys and girls of college
and high school age. And they
speak pretty frankly.
As art disguises its content, uses
technically difficult and distorted
expression forms, and requires
more competence of the perform
ers, it becomes “great” art.
If you want to satisfy yourself
that popular music is becoming
“greater” art, just listen to records
made in the early twenties and
compare these with the latest re
cordings of the same songs. From
the old records you will hear a
thinly orchestrated and purely mel
odic recording of the verse fol
lowed by as many identical repe
titions of the Chorus as space would
allow. The monotony is tiring to
the early.
Some of Benny Goodman’s and
Bob Crosby’s and Count Basie’s
widely swung choruses represent
variations as complex, Dr. Brown
insists, as some of Brahms’. You
can even listen to modern swing
in a concert or “jam session.” As
swing gets farther away from the
simple love-making of the dance,
fewer individuals will be able to
follow it, it will become esoteric
and no longer popular, he predicts.
Swing, according to Dr. Brown’s
analysis, is not only art, it is good
psychology — or psychoanalysis.
Freud himself would have ap
proved a title like “You Remind
Me of My Mother” or the use in
love songs of “Mama” and “Dad
dy.”
The song writer, like the psycho
analyst, recognizes the significance
of dreams—“You Can’t Stop Me
from Dreaming,” “I’ll See You In
My Dreams,” or “I Wake Up
Smiling.”
“Fall in love, fall in love, says
my heart . . . but each time that
I’m almost in your arms, this old
school teacher brain of mine starts
ringing false alarms.” These words
from a recent popular song might
be translated into technical lan
guage and find their place in a
psychology textbook.
Hate, Dr. Brown says, is seldom
expressed in popular songs except
Germination tests of old garden
seeds may be made by planting
several kinds in boxes of moist
dirt kept in a sunny place.
in war time. For hostility, go to
the comic strip or the animated
cartoon.
.do business in a handsome way.
The title is “TYPHOON,” and Rob
ert Preston is the inebriated beach
comber that Dottie reforms with
the aid of her pet chimp, Koko.
The Math Club is sponsoring the
show at the Campus today and to
morrow.
Vereen Bell’s picturesque novel,
“SWAMP WATER,” has been
made into a picture picture after
it appeared in the Saturday Eve
ning Post and later was a best
seller in the current fiction field.
It is the story of the people of
Georgia who live around the Oke-
fenokee swamp, 700 square miles
of utter desolation and wilderness,
inhabited only by alligators, birds,
panthers and bears.
Dana Andrews as young Ben
Ragan, dares to enter the swamp
in search of his lost hunting dog.
He discovers Walter Brennan, an
escaped murderer who has been
living in the swamp for some time.
The pair forms a trapping partner
ship and Andrews later finds the
man who committed the crime that
WHAT’S SHOWING
AT THE CAMPUS
Thursday — “TYPHOON,”
featuring Dorothy Lamour
and Robert Preston. Benefit
Math Club.
Friday and Saturday —
“SWAMP WATER” with
Walter Brennan, Walter Hus
ton, and Anne Baxter.
AT GUION HALL
Thursday, Friday—“TAR
ZAN’S SECRET TREAS
URE,” starring Johnny
Weissmuller and Maureen
O’Sullivan.
RADIO REPAIRS
THE!
STUDENT CO-OP
FOR MOTHER’S DAY
The only gift that only you can give—your photo
graph. And how that picture will cheer the days when
she is alone with her thoughts!
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Brennan was accused of. Anne
Baxter is very good as Brennan’s
daughter also.
The story is liable to prove a
trifle slow and heavy to the aver
age theater attendant, however.
Art Pays Way
For 29 Members
Of T U Musical Unit
AUSTIN, (AGP)—Art is paying
its way—for 29 members of the
University of Texas radio musical
unit.
These students are holding
“work fellowships” to compensate
them for the ten hours weekly
that they must rehearse and ap
pear on the air to furnish musical
accompaniment and background
for university-sponsored radio pro
grams.
A $5,000 fund for this purpose
was recently given to the univer
sity’s Radio House, campus studio,
by Karl Hoblitzelle of Dallas.
The followship fund, available
for the current year through July
15, permits paying 12 chorus mem
bers and 16 orchestra members and
a music copyist $15.60 a month
each.
In coming months, ranchmen in
the extreme west part of Texas
may be asked to grow pilot plant
ings of guayule, the plant from
which rubber may be extracted.
Areas in California, New Mexico,
and Arizon also are said to be suit
ed to the desert plant.
FOR A REAL
NIGHT OF FUN
AND DELIGHT
DINE AND
DANCE
AT
NAVIES
North of Bryan on
Waco Highway
Action in Okefenokee Swamp
“Swamp Water,” the strange and unusual story of the Okefenokee
Swamp, is the stirring picture which opens at the Campus tomor
row. Strife and conflict highlight the action of the film which
features Walter Brennan, Walter Huston, Anne Baxter and Dana
Andrews.
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