FRIDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 8, 1944
THE BATTALION
PAGE 3
At Guion Hall today and Satur
day is the usual double feature.
The first of these is “Five Graves
to Cairo”, with Eris Von Stron-
heim, Anne Baxter, and Franchot
Tone. This picture can be consid
ered among* the “A” group. A good
cast and a good plot help it. It
concerns Rommel’s (played by
Von Stroneheim) advance and re
treat across North Africa. Tone
plays the part of a British soldier
who is left behind by his unit in
the first part of the campaign.
He learns the Nazi plans, and finds
out where their supplies come
from. It is here that the five
graves worm their way into the
plot, and very cleverly, too. Tone
is convincing as a spy, and Miss
Baxter lends her beauty to the
story. “So This is Washington”,
with Lum and Abner, of radio
fame, is the second part of the
bill. Seems that one of the boys
discovers, by mistake, a new syn
thetic rubber and they go to the
capitol to offer it to the gov
ernment. Abner, the discoverer,
goes on a jitterbugging spree and
forgets the formula. From then on
it is anybody’s show.
The Lowdown: Action in the
first, and laughter in the last.
The kind of show that is always
appreciated.
At the Saturday prevue and
Sunday, Guion presents “Lucky
Partners”, with Ginger Rogers,
Ronald Colman, and Jack Carson.
This is an old one, 'out with Gin
ger in the cast, it has to be good.
Colman takes Ginger on a trip of
the country just before she is to
marry Carson, so that he can
study her mental reactions. You
see he in some kind of a doctor.
On the trip, Ginger and Colman
naturally fall for each other, and
Carson’s reactions to this situa
tion is amusing.
The Lowdown: Although the
dresses are too long, the hats fun
ny looking, and the “hair-dos” out
of fashion long ago, Ginger was
pretty even then.
Monday and Tuesday Guion real
ly whips out and presents a
show released this year. “A Guy
Named Joe”, with Spencer Tracy,
Irene Dunn, and Lionel Barrymore,
is the show and it is a very good
one. With a cast like that, what
show wouldn’t be good. The plot
is a good one, and the film is
superb. Tracy is excellent as a
Devil-may-care bomber pilot, who
is killed on a mission, but returns
in spirit to his former haunts. The
dream sequence which covers half
of the show is done with sparkling
wit. Miss Dunn is very good as
Tracy’s sweetheart. Van Johnson,
the up and coming young actor,
also turns in a good performance.
The Lowdown: Let’s give this
one four twinkling stars. Put it
on your must list.
The Campus brings us two fairly
old and fairly good shows for its
double bill Saturday. “Despera
does”, with Randolph Scott and
Claire Trevor, is a better than
average horse opera. Some of the
scenes are beautiful, and the whole
show is filmed in technicolor.
“Canal Zone” is the second pic,
with Chester Morris and Harriett
Hilliard. For airplane enthusiasts
this is just the thing and they will
undoubtedly enjoy it. For the rest,
it is ordinary fare. Too much foot
age is given to stunt shots and very
little attention is given to the
romantic angle. The air shots are
good, but the plot is weak.
The Lowdown: Fair entertain
ment, but the shows are too dusty
with the sand of time. Better study
for those “C” squizzes.
For the Saturday night prevue,
Sunday and Monday, the Campus
lets us have a good one for a
change. “Round the World”, with
Kay Kyser and his band, Georgia
Carlol, Mischa Auer, Joan Davis,
and Marcy McGuire.
Although the plot isn’t too
good, the music, and the beautiful
women, (Georgia), make up for it
easily. It concerns the Kyser band
as it tours the world entertaining
the soldiers overseas. The band is
solid and in the groove; Georgia
Carrol is exquisite, Mischa Auer
will tickle you, and Marcy Mc
Guire swings out on a reet num
ber.
The Lowdown: The best musical
seen around here in a long time,
and fellows, Georgia is gorgeous.
Tuesday and Wednesday at the
Campus is “In Old Chicago”, with
Tyrone Power, Anne Baxter, and
Don Ameche. Another of the oldies,
but nevertheless, good. Mrs.
O’Leary’s cow kicks over a kero
sene lamp and the result is a huge
conflagration. You will remember
it as the Chicago fire. The fire is
the main incident in the plot, and
the scenes of Chicago burning are
some of the best ever filmed. Of
course the eternal triangle is func
tioning in the plot, with Miss Bax
ter as the most interesting apex.
LOUPOT’S
Trade With Lou —
He’s Right With You!
WILL PAY HIGHEST PRICES
I. E. S. Lamps — Slide Rules
Books — Drawing Sets — T-Squares
Drawing Boards
COLLEGE BOOK STORE
At North Gate
Life in those days was rough and
ready and so is the picture.
The Lowdown: Nothing to cut a
class about, but if you have some
hours to kill, this is as good a way
to murder them as can be found.
—Attend San Antonio Aggie Dance—
—BACKWASH—
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does have beautiful women and
what’s more, lots of them have con
vertibles. Army, you can’t go
wrong, with the Longhorn women.
And they don’t have long horns.
Signs of the Times
Eager Beaver season will be
open in a couple of weeks and they
will fall like sitting ducks when the
big guns of the Aggies start boom
ing out on Kyle Field Saturday 23.
Congratulations to Dorm 11 and
their spirited sign. Once again the
campus is beginning to show tan
gible evidence of the Spirit of Ag-
gieland. The signs are good. We
like them. But keep the signs show
ing the football spirit and not any
other.
Meaningful Meanings
Some people don’t know what
they want and won’t rest until they
get it. . . Wall street men should
make good farmers. They know
ho wto water the stock and shear
the sheep. . . . Aggies should make
good fishermen. They know how
to shoot the line and catch- the
fish. . . One’s estimation of a living
wage depends on whether he is
getting or giving it. . . . One thing
that is accepted at it’s face value
is the smile. ... A girl is some
times accepted at her face value
but it is better if she has some
figures to prove it. . . . The saxa-
phone player makes less, playing
for harmony, than he would for
hush money. . . . Some people
walk to reduce. Others are reduced
to walking. . . TSCW girls walk
to stimulate an appetite. . . TSCW
lassies walk with an Aggie to re
duce . . .the Aggies pocketbook .
. . To determine the real value of
money, just try to borrow some.
. . . An umbrella 'is the only thing
some people put away for a rainy
day. . . . Itn’t it a pity that when
people lose their temper they have
to find it again.
—Attend San Antonio Aggie Dance—
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weeks and then will be dismissed
at 2:45 P. M. The bus for the prim
ary children will be run in the af
ternoon the same as last year.
Opening Wednesday September
13, the cafeteria will serve those
who desire to eat at the school. A
well balanced plate lunch with a
one-half pint bottle of milk will be
served at a cost of 15 cents per
meal. Those eating in the cafeteria
will be required to buy a meal
ticket of either 10 or 20 meals.
This meal ticket may be used when
ever the student desires and the
student does not have to eat in the
cafeteria everyday. Those students
who are going to make use of the
cafeteria should buy their meal
ticket by tho first period Wednes
day morning.
It costs from $100,000 to $150,-
000 extra to make a full-length mo
tion picture in technicolor.
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ADMISSION IS ALWAYS—9c and 20c—Tax Included
Box Office Opens at 1:00 P. M.—Closes at 7:45
FRIDAY and SATURDAY
Double Feature
w
A Paramount
Picturt
starriai
FRANCHOT
TONE
ANNE BAXTER
with Akim Tamiroff
and ERICH von STROHEIM
as Rommel
and
THE PINE RIDGI RIOTS/
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SATURDAY 9:45 PREVUE
also SUNDAY
“LUCKY
PARTENERS”
— with —
. Ringer Rogers
Ronald Colman
Jack Carson
COMING
MONDAY and TUESDAY
Spencer Tracy
Irene Dunne
— in —
“A GUY NAMED
JOE”
with Van Johnson
Ward Bond
Darwin is supposed to have told
about man’s descent from the
monkey, and some of us wonder
when it is going to begin.
—Attend San Antonio Aggie Dance—
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LAST DAY
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MYSTERY”
SATURDAY ONLY
Double Feature
1st Attraction
“DESTROYER”
— starring —
Edward G. Robinson
Glenn Ford
2nd Attraction
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SATURDAY PREVUE
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SUNDAY and MONDAY
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