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SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 30, 1943-
-THE BATTALION-
-Page 3
Town Hall Highlights Amusements On Campus
Apollo Boys Choir Will
Make Debut on Town Hall
Jessica Dragonette, Houston Symphony,
TSCW Choir, Swing Band Are Scheduled
Organized and managed entirely by students of A. &
M., Texas A. & M. Town Hall is in its fifth year of bring
ing outstanding artists and personalities in the different fields
of entertainment to the campus. The purpose of Town Hall
is to bring to its patrons the best entertainment, and through
out the history of Town Hall this purpose has certainly been
achieved.
Hoping to carry out this purpose in this, as in other
years, Town Hall brings to you a program this season com
posed mostly of musician sand their-f
music that draws house capacity
crowds.
Prices for the student tickets
are $1.00; this ticket is good for
the five programs for the Spring
semester. Needless to say, any
one of the programs that will ap
pear here is well worth this fee.
Holders of reserved seat tickets
who are not students may use the
same ticket purchased early in
September, as this is a full season
ticket, and is good until the last
of May.
John Lindsey, manager of Town
Hall for the 1943 Spring and
Summer school year, will be in
charge of selling tickets to stu
dents who register today and to
morrow in the Administration
building.
First to appear on the Town
Hall program this semester is the
Apollo Boys Choir, which is sched
uled for Tuesday, February 9. This
will be the first appearance on
Town Hall of this young boys
choir. The Apollo Choir is well
known throughout the central and
eastern part of the United States, I
and has recently signed a contract
for the appearance of the choir for
a concert on the evening of Easter
Sunday at the National Art Gal-
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Shown above is the Apollo Boys Choir of St. Louis, Missouri. The Apollo Choir will be on Town Hall
Tuesday, February 9, and is later scheduled to give an appearance in the National Art Gallery on
the evening of Easter Sunday. This group of boys is widely known throughout the United States.
lery. This art gallery houses the
famous Mellon art collections, a
valuable collection of paintings
that once belonged to the late An
drew J. Mellon. Arrangements
have been made for a nation-wide
broadcast of the Apollo Boys Choir
on that day.
The Town Hall program for
March 2 brings one of America’s
outstanding singing stars, Jessica
Dragonette, a beloved soprano of
radio, screen, theatre, and personal
appearances throughout the na
tion. Miss Dragonette will bring
to the stage of Town Hall one of
the finest of coloratura soprano
voices. Voted as radio’s Star of
Stars, this diminutive artist has
continued to add to her list of
admirers.
Television and theater appear-
africes have also revealed her ex-
troardinary versatility, popularity,
and skill. Incidentally, Paramount
Pictures chose Miss Dragonette for
the voice of the Princess in the
recent technicolor picture, Gulli
ver’s Travels.
Miss Dragonette has appeared
before record breaking audiences
with many renowned leading or
chestras, and has literally “grov/n
up with radio”. The soprano has,
by doing this, established the long
est commercial record of broad
casting for any singer in the
world. Miss Dragonette has ac
quired one of the widest reper
tories, and is noted for her tire
less generosity.
Scheduled to appear on Town
Hall March 15 are the Singing
Cadets, under the direction of
Richard Jenkins. This attraction
has proved very popular in the
past, collecting many new admirers
at each appearance, and will un
doubtedly be a high point in this
Town Hall season.
This all Aggie group is recog
nized as one of the finest male
glee clubs in the country; they re
cently toured the Houston area,
giving a performance at Camp
Wallace, and many in the large
city itself. The Singing Cadets
appeared on Town Hall, and proved
to be quite an attraction, gather
ing over a Guion Hall capacity
crowd.
Arrangements are under way for
a repeat performance of the Mod
ern Choir of TSCW, under the di
rection of Dr. William Jones, on
Town Hall this season. With trans
portation facilities as their only
hinderance for an appearance, the
Modern Choir will return to Town
Hall for an engagement the same
date as the 'Singing Cadets on
March 15.
The TSCW Modern Choir made
an appearance on Town Hall dur
ing the 1941-42 session of school,
and were well received by the
Aggies and people of College Sta
tion. Their appearance on Town
Hall will undoubtedly draw a full
house, as this girl choir is one of
the best in the south.
As a result of unanimous corps
demand, the Houston Symphony
Orchestra will make an appear
ance on Town Hall Tuesday April
6. This is the fifth appearance on
Town Hall of the Houston Sym
phony Orchestra, which proves the
general enjoyment of good music
among the Aggies.
Ernst Hoffman, in his seventh
year as conductor, has made the
Houston Symphony an orchestra
that not only wins the acclaim
of critics and the respect of
Aggies See Full Show
In Spite Of Early CQ
By Tom Journeay
From the news on the front
page, it seems that Aggie enter
tainment will be just about taken
care of this next semester, what
with juniiors-senior CQ and all
that supervised study. However,
onn of the main factors of this
new program, the hour of intra
mural sports that will be partici
pated in by the entire student body
makes one of the finest forms of
entertainment for a large body of
men.
We are assured that the intra
mural program, being worked out
by W. L. Penberthy of the physi
cal education department, will be
mighty agreeable to the entire
corps and will offer a chance for
gome hot competition between all
the different outfits in school.
As soon as the details get com
pletely worked out about when the
Aggies will be free, for example
the 8:30 p.m. call to quarters on
Wednesday night that is proposed,
definite schedules for Guion Hall
will be worked out by Student Ac
tivities.
The basis of these new 7
changes will be to plan the pro
jection schedule so that Aggies
may see a complete show—at least
a complete feature in the amount
of time the college schedule of
classes provides at the student’s
own use for entertainment.
As far as afternoon shows are
concerned, they will be planned to
end about ten minutes prior to first
call, giving the Aggies time to
get back to their dorms and make
meal formation. Also the evening
schedule on Wednesday, will be so
arranged so a complete show may
be seen before 8:20 again giving
time for the Aggies to reach their
dorms before call to quarters
sounds.
“We have arranged for a num
ber of select features to be shown
both at the Campus and at Guion
Hall during the next few months,”
Tigner said, “and the most choice
ones will be scheduled at the times
the corps is free from other duties.”
“We are going to cooperate to
the greatest extent to provide the
corps entertainment they like,
musicians and guest artists, but
one that has wide audience appeal
as well. Under Hoffman’s lead
ership the orchestra has given not
only entertainment, but something
more lasting, a better understand
ing and appreciation of musical
masterpieces.
Hoffman has consistantly led
these fine artists in rendering a
generous and praiseworthy pro-
gram.
The fifth and last Town Hall
program for the Spring semester
will be some outstanding and
swing bands of the nation, which
will be a big name band that will
give renditions of the latest swing
and popular songs. Transporta
tion difficulties and future engage
ments already signed up for many
months may hinder this appear
ance, but in all probabilities, it
will be possible to have the big
name swing orchestra on Town
Hall program this season.
when they like it,” the theatre
manager concluded.
At the present WTAW is on the
air from 11:25 a.m. until 12:00
noon every weekday and from
8:30 until 9:30 Sunday morning on
its own transmitter located on the
campus, with a power of 1000 watts
on 1150 kilocycles.
In addition to the regular morn
ing broadcasts of the station,
every Friday afternoon “The Ag
gie Clambake” is presented. That
program is the one program fmt
on mainly for the Aggies and by
the Aggies, featuring Aggie talent.
The first half of the clambake,
from 4:30 until 5:00 p.m. usually
consists of popular music played
either by some orchestra or by
records, while the last half of the
hour-long broadcast consists of
(See AGGIES SEE, page 6)
Junior Prom Big Success; Brauchle
Plans Full Social Season for Spring
Plans for a social season are
taking definite shape, and a full
schedule of dances, for the com
ing semester is being made out,
according to Rodney Brauchle,
social secretary of the senior class.
Although there will probably be
fewer corps dances with orchestras,
and possibly fewer minor club
dances, and otherwise complete
round of corps dances, both in
Sbisa Hall and The Grove, regi
mental and class balls are planned.
Brauchle said that orchestras
would be extremely hard to secure,
but that every effort will be made
to present the best possible in
the way of entertainers and music.
No definite date has been set
for the first of the corps dances,
but will be decided soon. Until
warmer weather permits moving
onto the concrete slab of The
Grove, all dances will be held in
Sbisa Hall.
In all probability Juke Box
Proms, which became so popular
on the campus last summer, will
again be the most frequent type
of dance, as war transportation
difficulties make it very hard to
secure bands.
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At the Campus
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Sisters with Barbara Stan
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Midnight Saturday, Sun
day and Monday, Between
Us Girls with Diana Barry
more, Robert Cummings and
Kay Francis.
At Guion Hall
Friday, Desperate Journey
witih Errol Flynn, Ronald
Reagan, Nancy Coleman
and Raymond Massey.
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