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BATTALION. AMUSEMENTS
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Musical Meanderings
: By Murray Evans
nen in the service who
md inclined to think of
s as Saturday’s children
:k to the jolly times be-
iy all around Dallas’ U.
ndamentally a glorified
eau, this organization
lances and social get-to-
i Dallas for the soldiers
coming more popular by
Orchestras are brought
New
LUMBIA AND
EH RECORDS
JUST OUT
3 Wouldn’t Love
u” —Kay Kyser
t Angelos
ngs Again”
—Mitchell Ayres
i Will Always
imember”
—Dinah Shore
iver Me To
mnessee”
—Sonny Dunham
fhtin’ Doug
'acArthur”
—Tony Pastor
ngerine”
—Vaughn Monroe
rsey Bounce”
—Shep Fields
ijook At Heaven”
—Dinah Shore
ASWELL’S
in from camps all over Texas, and
there is a rumor being bandied
about that these bands sport much
better talent than the so-called big
name bands currently holding
forth in the city. As a matter of
fact, Dallas hasn’t had a name
band in many’s the moon now.
It’s becoming more and more dif
ficult to entice them down Texas
way, a fact which coast artillery
uncovered of late.
Before Pearl Harbor plenty of
good musicians drafted into the
army were leading the life of Keil
ly, playing officers’ dances, pid
dling around on clerical jobs and
doing little else. But now all of
them are having to “soldier”; the
kibosh has been put on all such
goldbricking, and plenty of here
tofore coddled musicians are be
ing reduced to small potatoes, to
ordinary Joe Private status. All
of which is well and good.
Writers of World War II songs
will do well to shy clear of hymns
of hate. Such tunes have always
had a low batting average with
public approval. Pathos, patriotism,
and affection still ring the popu
larity gong as the best themes.
Some of the best to date are:
“We’ll Meet Again,” “White Cliffs
of Dover,” “Apple Blossom Time,”
and “Any Bonds Today.” The
standout numbers from the last
war was “My Buddy.”
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TODAY ONLY
“RULERS OF THE
SEA”
with
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JR.
MARGARET LOCKWOOD
Also
Comedy and Two Selected Shorts
All-Day Benefit Show
Architect Society
FRIDAY - SATURDAY
“ALL-AMERICAN
CO-ED”
with
FRANCES LANGFORD
JOHNNY DOWNS
MARJORIE WOODWORTH
Also
3 Stooges — News
Ted Fiorita and Orchestra
Community Sing
‘atronize Our Agent In Your Outfit.
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CASH & CARRY NORTH GATE
D. M. DANSBY, ’37
Presents “Skylined Music
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Covering Campus Distractions
Adventure and Sea Drama Featured
On Ag Show Row; Architects to Benefit >
Ted Fio Rito
Fio Rito Gains Fame While
In California’s Film Colony
MOVIE
GUION HALL
Thursday and Friday
3:30 and 6:45
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WARNER BROS. HIT LEE PATRICK • MORONI OLSON • ESTHER DALE • Directed by ROBERT FLOREY
Orioinol Mojr by Marlon Panonoat • A Wamar Brot.-Rrst National Pictur*
COMEDY NEWS
Coming Saturday
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BOOM TOWS
Ted Fio Rito, who brings his
“Skyline Music” here for the Com
posite Ball tomorrow night, is gen
erally associated with California,
where he first won fame with the
film colony.
But he was bora in the East, in
Newark, New Jersey, where he at-
$300,000 “FINGER”
INSURANCE
Ted Fio Rito, who is as fa
mous as a composer as he
is as a bandleader, is taking
no chances. He has insured
his precious fingers for $300,-
000, or $30,000 a finger, claim
ing that he could probably not
compose any more hit tunes if
he lost the use of the afore
mentioned digits. Since he has
already written over 150 tunes,
85 of which rank as hits, this
insurance is not so fantastic
as it seems. Ted’s loss might
be that great if he were de
prived of his hit-creating pow
ers.
Among the tunes which have
earned him so much are “Now
I Lay Me Down To Dream,”
“King For A Day,” “Laugh
Clown Laugh,” and “Charley
My Boy”—to give a widely
separted selection from his
long and prolific career.
Ted is seldom without a new
tune buzzing in his head and
often, if challenged, will play
three or more numbers which
he has not yet set down.
tended elementary and high school
His musical career started in high
school, when the principal called
his father to school to discuss the
Backwoods Guide
Establishes Fund
LAKE PLACID, N. Y.—(AGP)
The earnings of a backwoods guide
will finance Paul Smith’s College
of Art and Science when it opens
in the heart of the Adirondack
wilderness next fall.
The endowment of approximate
ly $2,000,000 comes from the es
tate of the late Paul Smith, who
amassed a fortune as host to city
hunters and vacationers.
The institution will be developed
under leadership of Earl C. Mac-
Arthur, president, who left the
faculty of exclusive Peddie school
in New Jersey to organize the col
lege in the mountains where he
was born.
Founding of the college was
directed by the deceased Phelps
Smith, who wished to prepetuate
the memory of his father and car
ry out a promise that he would
help educate young people in near
by mountain communities.
The institution will be housed
in Paul Smith’s hotel buildings at
the little community of Paul Smith,
about 25 miles from the winter
sports center of Lake Placid. Be
spectacled President MacArthur
is well fitted to the task of setting
up a center of learning in a sec
tion where the sparse roads run
through dense evergreen forests
for 10 and 20 miles without a sign
of human life.
The son of a lumberman-farmer,
MacArthur was graduated by Yale
and then went on to teach English
and coach football at Peddie. His
first plans call for admission of
30 students, who will be given
ample financial help.
matter of the double lunch peri
ods Ted was taking in order to
entertain his friends at the piano
in the school auditorium.
To keep his fingers busy, Ted
got a job as piano-pounder in a
nickleodeon. His second profession
al job was with a three-piece com
bination in a dancing school. On
several occasions the chief in
structor sent him home to change
into long pants before he would let
him work.
Then, after a period on the staff
of the music publishing house of
Shapiro, Bernstein, & Co., Ted
started to work his way West.
His first stop was Chicago, where
although he had already written
several hit tunes, he enrolled in
the Chicago Conservatory of Mu
sic. But on the side he opened up
his own music school owned and
operated in conjunction with radio
station WIBO. Finally he decided
that a bandleader’s life was the
one for him and sold his school
and interest in the radio station
which he had acquired by this
time. He organized his first band
and made his debut at the Oriole
Terrace in Detroit, which promptly
burned down. But an engagement
at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in
Chicago promptly followed, and
one of the most distinguished ca
reers in modern music was well
under way.
The story is perhaps a trifle
used, but nevertheless it is still
as interesting as ever. It has been
dressed up with recent names and
occurrences and given the title of
“DANGEROUSLY THEY LIVE”.
John Garfield and Nancy Coleman
are starred in the picture that will
be shown at Guion Hall today and
tomorrow.
Espionage is the keynote of the
plot. Nazi agents are endeavoring
to learn about the time and routes
of the sailing American convoys to
Britain with war materials. Nancy
Coleman was given the verbal mes
sage concerning the matter. She
falls into the hands of the spies
and pretends amnesia in order to
keep from telling her secret. The
climax of the picture comes when
a submarine flotilla is literally
blasted right out of the water.
Although the story provides no
thing new in the way of entertain
ment, it is as interesting as ever
and quite exciting.
Released by the producer for
everyone’s entertainment, “RUL
ERS OF THE SEA,” starring
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Mar
garet Lockwood. The film is spon
sored by the Architecture Society
and is at the Campus today.
Not outstanding is an abbrevi
ated production by Hal Roach,
“ALL-AMERICAN COED”, with
Frances Langford, Johnny Downs
and Marjorie Woodworth.
Johnny Downs, an undergrad
uate of Quinceton University, dons
feminine attire to get even with
the girl students of Mar Brynn
when their feud becomes rather
WHAT’S SHOWING
AT THE CAMPUS
Thursday—“Rulers of the
Sea,” with Douglas Fair
banks and Margaret Lock-
wood. Benefit Architecture
Society.
Friday, Saturday — “All-
American Coed,” featuring
Frances Langford and John
ny Downs.
AT GUION HALL
Thursday, Friday—Dang
erously JThey Live,” starring
John Garfield and Nancy
Coleman.
Texas university pharmacists
are studying methods of growing,
harvesting and curing Castilian
Malva, a new medicine that is ex
pected to revolutionize treatment
of wounds in wartime.
strong. His masquerade as a blond
glamour girl goes along fine un
til he falls in love with Frances.
The story will probably prove
rather stuffy and boring, but
Frances’ singing may serve to al
leviate the situation somewhat. As
a whole, the picture won’t be too
interesting.
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