FRIDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 1, 1944
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The Lowdown On
Qampus ’Distractions
By Alfred Jefferson
Guion’s offering for Sunday
will be “Hers To Hold”, starring
Deanna Durbin and Joseph Got
ten. This is one of Deanna’s first
pictures in which she plays a
grown girl, and not an angelic lit
tle child prodigy. In this, she plays
an unhappy rich girl who falls for
a dashing aviator, and goes to
work in a defense plant to land
him. She still has a wonderful
voice, and gets a chance to use it
plenty. Charles Winninger adds to
the large amount of good comedy
considerably.
The Lowdown: One of Deanna’s
best.
Monday and Tuesday you will see
another good one at Guion. It will
be “The Heavenly Body” with
Hedy Lamarr, 'William Powell, and
James Craig. Powell, here Hedy’s
?bsent-minded, but loving, husband,
plays an astronomer who predicts
the collision of a comet with the
moon. When Hedy begins seeing an
astrologer to have her future told,
Powell begins to have troubles.
She refuses to let him kiss hef
on Tuesdays, and finally decides
that he is not her true love. The
astrologer tells her that she will
meet her true love on a certain
day, and she meets James Craig,
the air-raid warden. You’ll laugh
yourself sick when you see the
things Powell does to get her
back.
The Lowdown: A very good com
edy.
Saturday’s double feature at the
Campus will be made up of an old
good picture, and a new sad ef
fort. The one you’ll want to see
again is “Springtime in the Rock
ies” with Betty Grabble, John
Payne, Carmen Miranda, and
Harry James and his Music Mak
ers. Need I say more ? There are
a number of good songs, and the
love story is pretty good, too. The
other feature is “The Ghost That
Walked Alone”, a screwy comedy
about a couple on a honey moon.
The couple are played by Arthur
Lake (of the “Blondie” series) and
Lynn Roberts. As usual, there is
the “other woman”, played here
by Janis Carter. It’s just another
filler.
The Lowdown: You’ll like Gra-
ble, and you’ll be able to sit
through the other one, so why not
go?
Sunday and Monday the Campus
is presenting “The Sullivans,” a
dramatic story of the five brothers
who lost their lives on the same
ship. Anne Baxter plays the ‘wife
of the youngest, who. was the only
boy to be married. Thomas Mitchell
does a wonderful job as their fath
er. The picture covers their whole
life, and the scenes are very good.
The Lowdown: This is a good
piece of acting, but the story is
terribly sad. Most people will like
it, but they’ll come out feeling.aw
fully sorry for the wife, mother,
and father who gave their loved
ones.
—BACKWASH—
(Continued from Page 2)
ject of weather will be closed with
the question regarding whether
you do or whether you don’t like
dill pickles with mince pie.
Thoughtful Thoughts
To cure yourself of the tobacco
habit, marry a girl who objects to
smoking—provided you can find
one ... As ye sew, so shall ye
rip. ... It used to be that when
a man made $50 a week, his wife
also made $50. The same fifty!
Now the wife’s out making another
$50 at a defense plant. . . . The
violinist is always up to his chin
in music. . . . The College Station
resident is always up to his neck
in water. . . . Few people can en
joy the scenery along a detour. .
. . There are few Aggies that do
not enjoy the scenery along a de
tour. . . . The Aggies know all
the detours. . . . Don’t run into
debt with your boot maker or you
can’t call your sole your own. . . .
How can love be blind when people
in love see more in each other
than other people do. . . Why do
lovers always close their eyes when
they kiss ?
That’s The Spirit?
How many Aggies have classes
from five to six? How many Ag
gies study from five to six? How
many Aggies loaf from five to
s : \? How many Aggies are at
football practice from five to six?
How many students at A. & M.
are Aggies?
Seldom, if ever, have there been
more than 100 boys out to watch
the football team practice. How
does the arithmetic stack up?
There are about 1500 men in
school. That adds up to about 1/15
of the corps watching grid prac
tice. Are we so good that we can
get by on 1/15? Wake up Army!
What’ll They Do?
A professor once addressed a
teachers conference and made a
few remarks on the subject of in
toxicants which nearly lost him
his job. Maybe there was wisdom
in the substance of his speech.
He expressed a few personal opin
ions upon the college student prob
lem and for this reason must re
main anonomous.
The core of his idea was that
he wanted to know the reaction of
his son to alcohol before the boy
left home for college. Heck, he
says. I want to know if my boy
is the type that when he takes a
drink wants to cry, or to climb
a brick wall, or to scrap for a
scrap, or if he gets the giggles, or
if he is the kind that wants to
pinch a pretty girl.
That brings the main topic to
the front. Girls. One can’t speak
of girls without thinking of wolves,
then he immediately remembers
that the governmem is releasing
I amunition for hunters this fall,
j Includes shot gun shells and rifle
: bullets. Looks like the hunting will
be good this fall. Duck season isn’t
too far off.
Rationing Passion
The movie at the Campus Thea
tre Tuesday and Wednesday which
for some unknown reason they
called “You Can’t Ration Love”
recalls an old Aggie problem in
reverse. Now if we could only find
this Adams College. (Editor’s note
—TSCW is like that only worse.
Any Aggie that values his—well,
that doesn’t want to be mobbed
had better stay away from Tessie-
land, especially if he wears sen
ior boots. Those TSCW women are
either wolverines, wolverettes or
just plain man crazy.) (Editor’s
note—What are we waiting for
Army? Let’s go to TSCW.)
Problematically it isn’t so much
of a question of shortages as it
is one of distribution. Shoot the
distribute to me, John Paul.
HELP BRING VICTORY
BUY WAR BONDS
—TOWN HALL—
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then returned to the United States
and won the unanimous praise of
the most critical audience in the
world—a Metropolitan Opera au
dience—when she appeared in her
American debut title role of “Mig-
non.” English audiences heard Rise
Stevens for the first time when
she sang before Queen Mary at
the music festival at Glyndbourne
that same year.
One of Miss Stevens’ latest tri
umphs was in the picture “Going
My Way.” This was her first movie
and in it she was co-starred with
Bing Crosby. It has become one
of the greatest hits of the thea
trical world, breaking box office
records everywhere it has played,
and it is still doing a large business.
Most recent among her many
experiences in singing is that of
making a recording of a service
man’s favorite song for every pur
chaser of the prescribed number
of bonds named at many bond
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