The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, October 17, 1946, Image 3

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, October 17, 1946, Image 3

Newspaper Page TextTHURSDAY AFTERNOONrOCTOBER 17, 1946 THE BATTALION Page 3; Strauss Festival First on Town Hall Program * Tibbett, America’s Favorite Baritone, to Appear Nov. 18 Lawrence Tibbett will appear on th estag-e of Guion Hall as a presentation of Town Hall Mon day, November 18th. This is to be one of the season’s biggest at tractions, as Mr. Tibbett is the world famous baritone of the Metropolitan Opera. Lawrence Tibbett, as a child in Bakersfield, California, lived the kind of life other boys read about. His uncle, Bert Tibbett, was the sheriff; his father, the deputy. When Tibbett was 7, a Western bad man, cornered in a Bakersfield joss house, shot and killed his father, whereupon his uncle, Sheriff Bert Tibbett, drilled “Wild Jim” McKinney, the “bad man”. The rifle with which this patriotic deed was done, long treasured among the sheriff’s mementoes, was pre sented to Lawrence just before his uncle died. Mr. Tibbett was the youngest of four children and his mother had to struggle to support them. “Pov erty struck hard at us,” he remem bers. “My mother, two elder broth ers and a sister worked hard to keep the roof over us and the lard er filled. While I was growing up, I spent every summer on a cattle ranch, working with the cowboys in the roundups. I remember .shoot ing my first deer at ten, with a gun much bigger than myself.” When it became apparent he had a voice, his mother an under standing soul, taught him what she knew of singing; his sister, Betty Lee, helped a bit, too. Meanwhile, Tibbett sold papers and did odd jobs to swell the family income. He had had some small exper ience in public singing by the time he entered the Manual Arts Junior College in Los Angeles. Soon his vocal talent became known and he found himself earning small fees singing at churches and local gath erings. “A man who heard me sing was so impressed that he volunteered to back my training. So I went to New York and continued my stud ies.” The. man who heard him sing was Rupert Hughes, famous novel ist, and the impromptu audition oc curred in Sid Grauman’s Million- Dollar Theatre in Los Angeles. Hughes and his friends financed a trip to New York and instruction in the classes of Frank La Forge. Tibbett’s native good sense and musical ambition enabled him to make the' right decision when the Metropolitan, after his second audi tion, offered him a contract at $60 a week and a Broadway pro ducer came forward at the same time with an infinitely tempting offer of $300 a week for musical comedy. Mr. Tibbett wanted that $300—but he wanted an opera career even more. He accepted the. Metropolitan’s $60-a-week. During his second season at the Metropolitan he was assigned to the role of Ford in Verdi’s “Fal- staff”. The opera had not been sung there in fifteen years, and the revival had Antonio Scotti in the title role, with some of the com pany’s leading lights making- up the rest of the cast. i At the Metropolitan he has not Fish & Game Club Plans Activities Approximately 100 Fish and Game majors and any other in terested persons will be organized as the Fish and Game Club this year at Texas A. & M. Club of ficers, B. G. Welch, president; D. N. Eisenhauer, Jr., vice-president; W. H. Kiel, Jr., secretary-treasur er; and A. K. Sparks, reporter, will be leading the organization. Club programs for the year will include the following movies: “Haunts for the Hunted”, “Fly- ways of Migratory Waterfowl”, “Know the Hawks”, “Beavers at Home”, “Quest of the Alaska Seal skin”, “Mourning Dove in Ala bama”, and “Shell-Fishing”. In the spring, different special ists in the wildlife field will be in vited to lecture on some phase of the work they are doing. The members will sponsor some type of social in the spring. The club is also going to spon sor a contest to select a delegate to the National Wildlife Conven tion. This contest will concern the scholastic record, field knowledge, and all-around ability of the con testant. With this program the Fish and Game Club hopes to help promote and hold the new interest in wild life conservation and manage ment shown by the record enroll ment of new Fish and Game ma jors in U. S. colleges. only been pre-eminent in the great est baritone roles in operatic lit erature, but he has also created the leading roles in such Ameri can operas as “The Emperor Jones,” “Merry Mount,” “The King’s Henchman” and “Peter Ib- betson”. His name has been syn onymous with many notable re vivals — “Simon Boccanegra”, “Gianni Schicchi” and “Otello”, to name only a few. And he has been the start of several motion pic tures, including the very success ful “The Rogue Song”. Lawrence Tibbett has attained just as wide and illustrious a rep utation in the concert field, for his knowledge of the song literature of all nations and periods is tremen dous. Rifle Team Plans are being made for the formation of the A. & M. Rifle Team, according to Major J. M. Cook. All R. O. T. C. students who are interested in the Rifle Team are requested to meet Major Cook at Ross Hall on October 17 at 7 p.m. ANNOUNCING 3 NEW BUS SCHEDULES DAILY TO Crockett — Madisonville — Lufkin DIRECT CONNECTIONS TO Palestine — Nacogdoches — Shreveport San Augustine — Henderson — Tyler Depart College Station 8:55 a.m., 1:15 p.m. 5:10 p.m. MACK’S MOTOR COACHES Phone 4-7114 Q. How long is a second? A. Sometimes it’s 3% YEARS One second is not always one-sixtieth of a minute — not in tele phone mathematics. Suppose, for example, you find a new method that clips just one second from the time it takes to process a toll ticket. Then apply that saving throughout the Bell System where some 115,000,000 toll tickets are handled a month. The time saved every thirty days equals 3% years! Important? From seemingly minor changes or savings frequently come the major improvements which mean better working conditions for telephone men and women and better telephone service for everyone. In this industry, even long established methods of operation are never considered beyond improvement. For men with ideas and ability, that viewpoint is a stimulating challenge. THERE'S OPPORTUNITY AND ADVENTURE IN BELL TELEPHONE TELEPHONY SYSTEM Featured artists on the coming Town Hall program are conductor- composers Oscar and Erwin Straus pictured left to right. They main tain that their only relation to the waltz king, Johann Strauss, is their love for the three-fourths time. CLUBS t Agronomy Society The AgTonomy Society met Tuesday, October 8, at 7:30 p.m. in the A. & I. lecture room with 60 men in attendance. The pro gram consisted of a series of slides taken by the four students who were chosen to make the Cot ton Tour this past summer. Ho ward Anderson, chairman of the program committee, and one of the students on the tour took charge of the program for the evening. A revised and amended Consti tution was read by the secretary; at the next meeting it will be discussed and voted upon for ac ceptance. Refreshments were serv ed after the meeting. Pre-Medical Society At the first meeting of the Pre- Medical Society, H. M. Brower, ’41, was elected president for the coming; year. Doyne B. Hamilton, ’48, will serve as vice-president; Don W. Carroll, ’45, secretary- treasurer; and Norman E. Hal- hrooks, ’46, was elected reporter. According to thte lax’ge group of pre-medical and pre-dental students present, keen interest has been aroused in the society. The increased membership and plans now in progress give promise a season unequaled in the club’s history. All pre-medical and pre-dental students who are not acquainted with the society will find a ready welcome at the bi-monthly meet ings on the first and thii'd Tues days of each month. Singing Cadets John A. Smith of Bryan was elected president of the Singing Cadets in a recent election. He has been a member of the group for the past five semesters. Harry Doran of San Saba was chosen vice-president, and Jug Leather- wood of Beaumont, business mana ger. Marvin Brown of Dallas will be accompanist, and Watson Keeney of Weslqco, student di rector. The Singing Cadets have en rolled eighty-six applicants, hav ing auditioned seventy-two of them for the traveling club. This year the A. & M. singers plan to perform in Fort Worth, Dallas, Denton (TSCW), Stephenville (John Tarleton), Huntsville (Sam Houston College), and Waco. An appearance on a Town Hall pro gram has also been arranged for the group. Ag. Engineer Chapter The student chapter of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, Larry Barton presid ing, met in the lecture room of the Agricultural Engineering building for the second meeting of the semester. F. R. Jones, head of the department, spoke and showed a film entitled, “Progress Shown in Farm Life Through Use of Ma chinery on the Farm.” Business portion of the meeting included the adoption of a resolu tion to revive the annual barn dance in the spring session. Meet ings are held the first and third Tuesday of each month and all Agricultural Engineering students are invited to attend. Petroleum Engineers Gene B. Caperton of Shamrock, Texas was elected president of the student chapter of the Petroleum Engineering Society at its initial president for the year will be William G. Gill of Houston; Julio Casas Jr. from Maracaibo, Vene zuela will serve as secretary; and Gene M;. Goodwin from Archer City was named treasurer. Joe Mueller was chosen to rep resent the Petroleum Engineering- Department on the Student En gineers’ Council, and Ed Monteith represented the club at the AIME meeting held in Galveston last week. VETERANS’ WIVES ELECT With about 50 wives in attend ance to elect officers, the monthly business meeting of the A. and M. Veterans’ Wives Club was held Tuesday night, October 1, in Sbisa Lounge. Club officers chosen to serve for the fall semester were: President, Mrs. Nell Creel. Vice-President, Mrs. Jan Ryman. Secretary, Mrs. Betty Duke. Treasurer, Mrs. Ann Croke. Club Reporter, Mrs. Mike Hall. Historian, Mi's. Betty Back. Parliamentarian, Mrs. Naiomi Simmons. The fall entertainment program for the club was announced and Mrs. Mary Joan Strange was ap pointed publicity chairman for all club activities. Industrial Education The Industrial Education Club held its second meeting of the se mester with 36 members present. New policies and aims for better ing the club were discussed. Al bert Moorhead, vice-president, dis cussed plans for entertainment at future meetings. Guest speakers will be the highlig-ht of each forthcoming meeting. W. R. Horsley of the A. M. Placement Bureau will be the speaker for the meeting to be held on October 22. FOR YOUR HOME i ■ FURNITURE OF UTILITY AND TASTE DA VINO . . . , In 1 or 2 pieces, Converts into a bed. DINETTE SUITS . . . 23 Different Types including Chrome with Porcelain Top. RADIOS — Grosley . . . Table Models and Combinations. DESKS and DESK LAMPS . . . m L J r urniture jCompariLi A Ferrer i •n</ J.E.Cfaqton Viennese Waltzes from Pen of Johann Strauss Will Be Heard A capacity crowd will welcome Oscar Straus and his Concert Or chestra on the stage of Guion Hall at 3 p.m., Sunday Afternoon, Octo ber 20. At the “Strauss Festival”, compositions to be played will range from Johann Strauss, Sr., to Oscar Straus’ son, Erwin, who doubles as assistant conductor. Maestro Straus composed Amer ica’s most popular operetta, “The Chocolate Soldier”, his major job has been to gxplain that he is not related to Johann Strauss. In fact his only tie-in with the great Johann came along ago in Vienna when the older composer advised the younger to give up more ser ious music and compose light operas and waltzes. Oscar followed the advice and his success has been distinguished on both continents. Father and son will conduct a program consisting entirely of Strauss numbers—their own and those of the other Strauss family —Johann Strauss Sr., Johann Jr., and Joseph. “We all specialized in Viennese waltzes, and perhaps that is an even closer relationship than one of blood—who knows?” Oscar Straus revealed. Ezra Rachlin, one of America’s most gifted conductors, has been chosen by Oscar Straus as asso ciate conductor for the Strauss Festival. He went to Berlin in 1925 to study music, then begin ning a concert tour of Europe. Rachlin finally was brought back to America and a spectacular debut at Carnegie Hall. After touring the key cities of the United States and Europe, M]r. Rachlin decided to devote his musical talents to con ducting. Later he joined the Phil adelphia Opera Company as asso ciate conductor. In 1945, he was engaged as musical director of the Memphis Open Air Theatre where he received critical acclaim. Four brilliapt soloists will ap pear on the Strauss Festival on Sunday afternoon. Evelyn Case, singing soloist with the troupe, was in London during the Blitz and sang day after day at Army camps. After graduating from the Junior College of the Ogontz School in Philadelphia, the so prano was sent to the Cincinnati Conservatory where she studied cello and voice. Her singing ca reer began when she was 17 with a series of concert engagements for the Music Clubs of Texas. Miss Case is a descendant of a Royal Governor of the Spanish colonial period and the first American mayor of her hometown, San An tonio. Barbara Moser, another soprano solist on the program, began her musical career as a piano soloist, after which she studied voice at the Chicago Conservatory. She was engaged by MGM to sing in “The Portrait of Dorian Gray”, later appearing in the Hollywood Bowl. She came east to continue her studies and was engaged to appear in the Broadway produc tion of “Oklahoma”. This 21-year old star adds the lovely lilt of hex- voice and the spax-kle of her smile to the gay melodies of the “Strauss Festival”. A charter member of the Phil adelphia Opera Company was Mr. Van Den Burg, baritone soloist. He has played many major roles in such operas as “Faust” and “Seville”. When he was discharged from the Ax'my Air Forces, Mr. Van Den Bux-g- went to New Or leans to sing with Lucille Mannex-s in “Manon”. Fi-om there he went on a nation-wide tour. Van Den Burg began taking voice lessons at the suggestion of Lawi'ence Tib bett. Although Erwin Strauss is as sistant conductor to his father, he will also appear on Guion Hall as a featured piano soloist. Born (See STRAUSS, Page 4) Service by BERNATH means BETTER CAR PERFORMANCE BERNATH MOTOR COMPANY Chrysler — Plymouth College Ave. and 33rd Dial 2-2345 AGGIES... THE BIG WEEK-END IS HERE THE /^.GGIE CCLEC NIGHTS OF OCT. 18 and 19 8 p.m. FRIDAY — 7 p.m. SATURDAY CASH FOR THE WINNERS PRIZES BOOTS, HATS, and SHIRTS Sadde Bronce - Bare Back Bronc Riding Bull Riding - Wild Mule Race , Calf Roping j THIS WEEK IS GO WESTERN WEEK | TCU GAME OVER AT 5:00 AGGIE RODEO AT 7:00 WESTERN DANCE AT 9:00 SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB, SPONSORS Morty Mertz, Pres. j Prince Woods, Rodeo Mgr. |

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