TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 25, 1944
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The Lowdown On
Qattipus ‘Distractions
By Alfred Jefferson
way between mediocre and good.
You won’t mind seeing it at all.
Friday and Saturday’s double
feature will consist of two pic
tures you will like pretty well.
The first is “Murder In the Big
House,” with Van Johnson. The
story concerns, as you have no
doubt guessed, a murder in the
state penitentiary. This has lots
of suspense and plenty of sleuth
ing. Van Johnson has come into
stardom since, but his acting was
just about as good then as now.
You’ll like him. The other film,
“Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout,” has
plenty of laughs. Jimmy Lydon, as
Henry, does a much better job than
he has before.
The Lowdown: These are two
good pictures and you will enjoy
them. They are not really great
pictures, but they’re all right for
an afternoon’s relaxation.
The Campus is presenting “My
Favorite Blonde,” a Bob Hope mas
terpiece, today and Wednesday.
This is a show you have probably
heard about, if you haven’t seen
it. There haven’t been many better
comedies here. Madeleine Carroll
is really good, and you won’t see
many better looking actresses.
The Lowdown: A “must.”
Thursday and Friday at the
Campus will be “Our Wife,” with
Ruth Hussey and Melvyn Douglas,
another comedy. It’s got a story
that can’t be beat, and the acting
is very good.
The Lowdown: There must be an
epidemic of good funny ones. Don’t
miss it for anything less than a
date with your best girl. Take her
if she’s around here.
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An apology is due—In my last
column I made the horrible mis
take of saying that Abbot and
Costello are in “Dancing Masters.”
To you seventy-five guys who
called my attention to this, I wish
to say that it won’t happen again.
My apologies are also extended to
Messrs. Laurel and Hardy, whom I
slighted, and to the management
of the Campus Theater, whose bus
iness this mistake may have af
fected, according to Alexander
Pope, “To err is human, to forgive
divine.”
Now that I have done my best
to make amends for that, I can go
on to the usual dry reviews. Guion
Hall’s offering for Wednesday and
Thursday is a pretty good musical,
“Always In My Heart.” Not much
can be said for Gloria Warren, the
star, but the picture itself is o.k.
There is some very good singing,
and no one can deny that Miss
Warren is talented, but after all,
there are better looking women
who can sing better, too. The story
is fair, and on the whole, the show
is worth seeing.
The Lowdown: Just about half-
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The variety of television pro
grams presented by WRGB, the
General Electric station in Schen
ectady, N. Y., seems to indicate
that there are few limitations to
the possibilities of material suit
able for programs in this medium.
During its several years of opera
tion, the station’s programs have
run the gamut from trained dog
acts to Shakespearean drama, from
cowboy quartets to Russian opera,
and from children’s variety shows
to productions by college dramatic
groups. In August of 1943 the
American Television Society
awarded the station a plaque “in
recognition of its accomplishments
in making the outstanding contri
butions to television programming
of the year.” Robert B. Stone, the
station’s program manager, says,
“Practically anything done on the
stage or in radio can be done by
television as well as many new and
yet untried forms of education and
entertainment.”
WRGB’s wrestling and boxing
matches have proved to be among
the most popular programs and
might indicate that in the not too
distant future the man in his own
home before his own television set
will have no cause to envy the
man in the ringside seat.
Elaborate full-length dramatic
pieces have been produced by the
station. The Mountebanks, dramat
ic organization of Union College
in Schenectady, produced in full
Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night”
with costumes and scenery. The
Operatic Society of New York
State College for Teachers pre
sented Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Pi
rates of Penzance” and “Gondol
iers” in full for television.
For the housewife’s benefit Con-
suelo Kelly, food expert, conduct
ed a series of televised cooking
lessons enabling the housewife to
follow instructions at her own kit
chen table. A similar seires on
dressmaking was conducted by
Miss Edith Balfour Dunn of the
McCall’s Sewing Service, showing
how to fit and cut patterns, put
together the pieces and finish
dresses with a professional touch.
Miss Mary Webber, of Cleveland,
Ohio, lighting expert, demonstrat
ed ho wto get the most from your
lamps, the proper care of lamp
bulbs, shades and fixtures.
Back in December of 1939, the
station telecast the speakers table
during a three-city Rotary Club
dinner. Rotarians of Albany, Troy
and Schenectady, holding dinners
in their respective cities were able
to see the same program and sing
with the same song leader through
a television receiver set placed in
the dining rooms.
A recent program involving com
mercial by Goodrich Rubbef, Vimms
and Hamilton Watches utilized the
war-time facilities of the station
to the utmost. Ten different sets
were employed in the studio to
present Goodrich’s demonstration
of synthetic rubber manufacture
and application of Koroseal, a
dramatic skit with changing scenes
for Vimms, and Hamilton’s time
breaks with slides. Royal Crown
Cola also used the facilities of
WRGB for commercial purposes
when they tied in with a barn
dance and Hoe-Down program.
WRGB is the most powerful
television station in the country
and not only originates programs
two afternoons and evenings a
week from the studio but also picks
up selected programs talecast by
NBC in New York City and re
lays them to receiver sets in the
Troy-Albany-Schenestady upstate
area.
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Monday evening at six approxi
mately 30 cadet officers were
guests of M. L. Cashion and the
YMCA Cabinet at Cashion Cabin
for a beef barbecue supper.
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a time of good fellowship, stated
Cashion. Cashion and Gordon Gay
also invited any students who are
interested to join either the senior
or freshman “Y” cabinets.
Also discussed at the meeting
were matters relating to the recre
ational facilities of the YMCA
consisting of billiard tables and
bowling alleys. The *“Y” on the
campus is supported by various de
vices among which are the recrea
tional halls located in the base
ment of the “Y” and in the New
“Y” in the Duncan area. Cashion
submitted a plan to the cadet offi
cers present but they withheld a
decision until the matter could be
brought before a meeting of all
cadet officers.
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