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J] PAGE 8 THE BATTALION FRIDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 15, 1944 I ] < j s ] i < The Lowdown On Campus ^Distractions by Robert S. Gold Today and Saturday at Guion Hall is the usual double feature. The first and undoubtedly the best is “Take A Letter, Darling”, with Dial 4-1181 — Opens 1 p.m. LAST DAY “JANE EYRE” SATURDAY ONLY Double Feature TIMBER QUEEN '. A Paramount "Picture starring w v -. i RICHARD MARY BETH l ARLEN • HUGHES '/X v«>*. — and — “BAHAMA PASSAGE” — with — Madaleine CARROLL Stirling HAYDEN SATURDAY PREVUE Starts 9:30 SUNDAY and MONDAY 2Q CENTURY-FOX presents DARRYL F. ZANUCK'S THE WRETE HEART, Directed by LGWIS MllGStOflG — plus — Cartoon and News >*>=$.* ->■><« ■>*>*■<* c< < Rosalind Russell and Fred Mac- Murray. Miss Russell hires Fred as her secretary (she is a big business woman). She has had trouble with her previous hirelings because they insist on falling in love with her. When Fred comes along, * she thinks she has the right thing, but instead, she falls for him. It is all quite amusing to see Fred play hard to get, and Miss Russell going slowly crazy because of him. (It could only happen in- the movies anyway). The second of the two is “Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man”, with Lon Chaney, Bela Lugosi, and liana Massey. Unable to stay dead, Wolf Man Chaney turns into a murderous beast whenever the moon is full. He finds the diary of Dr. Franken stein, who created the monster named after him, and then stum bles onto the entombed Frank who didn’t die, but who was just buried in some ice. After a series pf fan tastic incidents the two engage in a titantic death struggle in which both of them are killed., The Lowdown: These are both too old, but will pass the time away Saturday afternoon. For the preview Saturday night and Sunday, Guion gives us “His Girl Friday”, with Gary Grant and Rosalind Russell. Rosalind and Gary play the parts of two news paper men. (Miss Russell is a newspaper woman). They are covering an electrocution, and the condemned man makes a success ful break. He and Miss Russell get together, purely by accident. She finds that he is not guilty and sets out to prove it. After that, it’s murder. The Lowdown: Quite good, but also quite old. Monday and Tuesday Guion pre sents “The Black Swan.” with Ty rone Power, Maureen O’Hara, and Laird Cregar. This is an excellent book turned into an excellent pic ture. Rafael Sabatini wrote a good one when he turned out “The Black Swan”. The famous pirate, Henry Morgan played by Cregar, is par doned by the king of England and made governor of Jamaica. He promises to sweep the seas of his former buddies and from then on it is mostly colorful sea battles and adventure, mixed with blood affd gore. The Lowdown: As Frank Sinatra would put it, “This is a lovely way to spend the evening.” On the double bill Saturday at the Campus we have “Bahama Passage”, with Madeleine Carroll and Sterling Hayden. The story in a nutshell is that Hayden and his mother are lords of an island in the Carribean Sea. Hayden’s mom brings an overseer to oversee and he, in turn, brings his daughter, played by Miss Carroll. She tries to hook Hayden, but he is married, though separated from his wfie. Her father goes crazy, and is killed by the natives; Hayden’s wife di vorces him, his mother dies (the poor soul), and from then on, use your imagination. The second of the two is “Timber Queen”, with Dick Arlen, Mary Beth Hughes, and Jdne Havoc. The cast is nothing to think twice about, and the plot is weak and somewhat trite. Arlen is given a dis charge from the air corps and returns to civilian life to learn that his pal’s widow has been defrauded of her husband’s logging camp. (A place where trees are cut down before they are made into lum ber). The agreement contains a clause that enables the widow to recover the property if she can produce a certain quantity of lum ber within 60 days. With Aden’s help and a loan from a gambler, they get it back after Arlen al most loses his neck. The heroes always do almost lose their necks. The Lowdown: Just two words that can describe these two, “no good”. The Saturday prevue, Sunday and Monday, the Campus gives us SE «r+: was GUION HALL Phone 4-1168 ADMISSION IS ALWAYS—9c and 20c—Tax Included Box Office Opens at 1:00 P. M.—Closes at 7:45 FRIDAY & SATURDAY Double Feature SUSSIl ' ttorrlmg ILONA MASSEY PATRIC KNOWLES BELA LUGOSI LIONEL ATWIll MARIA OUSPENSKAYA LON CHANEY PREVUE 9:45 SATURDAY and SUNDAY ‘HIS GIRL FRIDAY’ — with — Cary GRANT Rosalind RUSSELL 9k COMING MONDAY and TUESDAY Tyrone Maureen POWER-O’HARA in Rafael Sabatini’s the Poromount prtMnH , ROSAtIND RUSSELL FRIO MacMURRAY in CtiituETf p\zru*l I TECHNI HMV >^K a good one. This one was released in March of this year, wonder of all wonders. “The Purple Heart”, with Dana Andrews, Richard Con te, and Sam Levene. From the title one might think this it just another war story, but it goes much farther beyond that. The story is of the eight bomber crew men of one of the planes that bombed Tokyo in April of ’42. They are betrayed by* a puppet Chinese governor and put on trial for their lives. Each is given a different type of torture. Given the choice of breaking silence or being put to death, they choose the death penalty. The closing scene in which they march down the corridors to their doom is a heart-stirring cli max. Dana Andrews and Sam Le vene give wonderful performances. The Lowdown. This one you can not afford to miss. It should have been named the “Medal of Honor”. A. & M. Pledges Soil and Water Erosion Research Close cooperation between agencies working with agriculture to expedite soil building and soil and water conservation in Texas was crystallized at a meeting Tuesday at A. and M. of repre sentatives of several state and fed eral agencies and heads of de partments of the college. Upon suggestion by Acting Di rector James D. Prewit of the Ex tension Service, Dean E. J. Kyle, of the School of Agriculture, pre siding, appointed a committee com prising Prewit, Director A. B. Con ner, of the Texas Experiment Sta tion; V. C. Marshall of Austin, ad ministrative officer soil conserva* tion service; Paul Walser of Tem ple, soil sonservation service; T. J. Harrell of Fort Worth, chairman of the agricultural committee cot tonseed crushers association; W. B. Cook of Houston, agricultural director for the Missouri Pacific Lines; Jack Shelton of Houston, general manager Farm Credit Ad ministration; and Dr. Ide P. Trot ter and E. R. Alexander of A. and M. College, to plan cooperative ac tion in getting the job done. It was indicated that the state bank ers association and the Agricul tural Agency also would have rep resentatives on the committee. The meeting was called by Act ing Director Prewit to consider united action on problems affecting erosion and measures to restore fer tility to depleted soils. Represen tatives from the Soil Conservation Service, Agricultural Adjustment Agency, Farm Credit Administra tion, Cottonseed Crushers Asso ciation, cotton oil mills, cotton buy ers and of various divisions of A. and M. College attended. President Gibb Gilchrist of the college, the first speaker at the morning session, pledged the full cooperation of A. and M. College in soil improvement work. At the afternoon session, Paul Walser of jhe Soil Conservation Service said that he believed too much hope had been ^placed in terracing. He outlined a seven point program which h© characterized as a “new conception of conservation.” Items in this program were: 1. Proper land use. 2. Soil improvement by vegeta tion and fertilizing. 3. Erosion control by vegetation and mechanization. 4. Publication information. % 5. Research. 6. Technical assistance. 7. Farmer leadership. Jack Shelton of the Farm Credit Administration said that the Fed eral Land Bank became interested in soil conservation when it was found that “collateral was getting away.” He said that the major portion of foreclosures were in counties where erosion was most prevalent. During the past 28 years, three quarters of the bank’s losses of more than $4,000,000 had been in the eroded section of the black land belt, he s aid. Acting Director Prewit said that there was more interest in soil building and soil and water con servation now than at any time heretofore. Soil building had in creased about 50 per cent in the past two years. The practice of ter racing was well established but planting of legumes for winter cov er crops—basic to soil building— was not so for along. 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