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Many Hours of Practice Go Into Thirty Minute Program By BILL BILLINGSLEY To paraphrase Edgar A. Guest’s famous remarks on residences, “It takes a heap of people to make a radio show.” And when the radio show hap pens to be the Vaughn Monroe Camel Caravan, CBS national hook up presentation, the people can really stack up. If you could have looked into Guion Hall around 4:30 Saturday afternoon when the re hearsal for that night’s show was an full swing—with musicians, en gineers, vocalists, timbers, script- girls, arrangers, bus drivers, an nouncers, and untold numbers of other assistants and relatives of the Monroe Troupe jammed on to the stage and spilling over into the auditorium—you might have used the words of one of the Guion ticket takers, “Where are they going to put Monroe?” As it turned out, the usher’s fears were ungrounded since not only Monroe, but his female vo calist Cece Blake, and the Moon Maids as well found their way onto the stage. When we arrived in the company Eyes Examined and Glasses Fitted By DR. JOHN S. CALDWELL —Office— Caldwell’s Jewelry Store Bryan, Texas JOHNSON’S UPHOLSTERY SHOP SEAT COVERS , Plastic — Straw Convertible Tops Back of Eagle Office BRYAN You Can Make A Better Buy In A Diamond FROM SANKEY PARK Your TT mowimo *1 Keepsake Jeweler 111 N. Main Bryan , of the six lovely Vanity Pair win ners and their escorts, the rehear sal was in a glorious confusion. Banked across the back of the stage were some fifty assorted musicians, slumped listlessly be hind their music stands, attired in a loud variety of sportswear and slacks, all toodling, scraping or blowing idly on their instruments. Through the resulting din, the ra dio technicians were lining up their sound equipment on a table across the left side of the stage, paying out wires and tying in microphones. A tall, thing engi neer with a pencil moustache ad ded one more amplifier to the stack and the table sagged danger ously. To the right of the stage sat the four Moon Maids, with their folding chairs drawn huddle-fash ion around an arranger who waved his hands wildly over a score and sang “Meow, Meow, see here my pretty kitten.” At the left voice microphone stood Cece Blakely, nervously removing and replacing her reading glasses as she repeat ed over and over three lines from “Little Bird.” Through it all hulked the great man, pacing back and forth, his left hand filled with score sheets and scripts and his right hand occupied with a ham and egg sandwich one of the assistants had just brought in. From the wings Grady Elms motioned to Monroe to discuss the introduc tion of the beauties. Replacing the papers on a music stand, but holding forcibly to the sandwich, Monroe went off into the wings. Meanwhile the musicians had been brought out of their day dreams by the chief arranger, who was standing in for Monroe at the head of the band. Clamping the earphones on his head and giving the down beat, he guided the Or chestra off into “I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm.” They were scarcely four bars deep into the song when a technician stopped them to move a mike back a few inches. Undaunted, they took the beat again and got almost to the chorus before the arranger held let vis tU &YOVW 6N<i1ME lUfe! TO GIVE YOU MORE $>P£P t* POWER rjmoMy\ $3.75 Charlie Cade, Jr. LINCOLN — MERCURY South Hwy No. 6 Bryan Saddle and Sirloin To Meet Tuesday The Saddle and Sirloin Club will hold its first meeting of the semes ter Tuesday night, in the A&I Lecture Room at 7:30 p. m., Char lie Rankin, secretary of the club said. The club will set up committees for the Cattlemens Ball, lay plans for the Little Southwestern Stock Show for the All-College Day, and discuss the newly formed National Inter-Collegiate Rodeo Associa tion. The meeting is open to all AH majors and minors, Rankin said. What’s Cooking ACS STUDENT AFFILIATES, 7:00 p. m., Tuesday, Room 9, Chemistry Building. CASS COUNTY CLUB, 7:30 p. m., Wednesday, February 16, Room 126, Academic Building. HOUSTON A&M CLUB, 7:15, p. m., Monday, YMCA. Plans for Easter Dance. IAS CLUB, 7:30 p. m., Tuesday, Pet. Lecture Room. LATIN AMERICAN CLUB, 7:30 p. m., Frday, Room 104, Ac ademic Building. SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB 7:30 p. m., Tuesday, A&I Lecture Room. TEXAS AGGIE RODEO ASSO CIATION, 8:00 p. m., Monday, A&I Library. them up to unflatten a sax player. Once more they were away and this time seemed to be just about through it when the timer waved his hands wildly and informed the troupe they were seven seconds off. This apparently innocent news threw the entire script and music staff into a panic and after a hur ried conference around the script for a padding of the previous com mercial they were over the hump and away again. With the preliminary sparring out of the way, they whipped through two more solos and a Moon Maid-Monroe combination of “Powder Your Face with Sun- shfne” before taking a break. Cof fee had arrived from some myster ious outer source and they went for it like sharks after fresh meat. During the ensuing confusion, Mon roe located another sandwich and Operations Ham and Egg took up again. Meanwhile the arrangers and vocalists, aided by the time keepers, seized the moments sil ence to compare notes and revamp schedules and scores. The babble of voices had just settled down into a steady hum when it was erupted into a chorus of shouted greetings by the entrance of two men in busi ness suits, carrying bags. ..T h e taller of the two was greeted like a combination of a long lost fraternity brother and a hero returned from the war. He turn ed out to be Hugh Connover, an nouncer for Monroe’s CBS show and a master of ceremonies and “bon vivant” of unlimited ability Warmly embracing half of the girls seated near the stage, taking a few playful kicks at the music ians ,and greeting Monroe with a “Hiya Dad,” he went into a nar rative of his long and dangerous trek across the Texas wastelands from Dallas. The cast as a group sent up hoots of protest and dis belief of these wild stories and a slip-horn player in a turtle neck sweater said he just didn’t feel that Connover was telling it exact ly the way it happened. Monroe cut in to say that since there was now an announcer on the premises they could get into the rehearsal. Then came the reve lation that all the practice that had preceeded was just to smooth out the rough spots and that the Volleyball League Begins Operation After Bad Weather The College Station Volleyball League resumed operations Mon day night at the A&M-Consolidat- ed Gymnasium after a two-weeks layoff due to bad weather. Sixteen teams totaling over 200 facult yand businessmen will en gage in round-robin play the next 7 weeks, with C. G. (Spike) White directing this activity for the Col lege Station Recreation Council. The two top teams will meet at the end of the season to decide the 1949 championship. Volleyball teams and coaches are: Agricultural Experiment Sta tion, C. W. Manning; Goodwin Hall Allen Madeley; Physical Education W. M. Dowell; Science, George Potter, Genetics and Animal Hus bandry, C. B. Godbey; Military A, B & C, Lt. Col. Frank Swoeger; Administration Bldg., Ray Perry man; Sway Frames, Tommy Ter rell; Electrical Engineers, Andy Salis; Independents, Jimmy Fow ler; Architects and Aero, Bill Cau dle; Mechanical Engineers, Lloyd Berryman; Graduate Students, Mose McCook, and B&A, Ag. Eco. W. S. Manning. THIS WEEKS SPECIAL SOFA BED Wide Selection of Covers $59-50 THE NEW R. T. Dennis and Co. Inc Corner 26th & Bryan Phone 2-8849 full length rehearsal was yet to come. So with a fanfare from the brass section and a fade-up from the rest of the band, Connover rose on his toes and purred into the mike that this was the Camel Caravan, starring Vaughn Monroe. Slouch ing before the microphone with his hands in his pockets, chin tucked back against his chest, his lips hardly moving, the deep Monroe voice intoned “I’ve Got My Love to Keep me warm—.” Forty five minutes later Con nover finished the concluding commercial and gagged it up by coughing and clutching his throat. The timer gave the cut signal. The Moon Maids and the male chorus gave the Coke Cases they had been standing on a re sounding kick and Cece Blakely folded her glasses and replaced them in the case. Back in their covers went the instruments and the timers took their stop watches over the script table for one last check. The li- bi*arian gathered up his scripts from the stands and the arranger followed him, making marks with a pencil and trailing the wire from his earphone along behind him. There was a general movement to ward the exits and the engineer clicked off his toggle switches, watched the meters fall back to zero, and picked up a “Please Do Not Disturb” sign from the Tampa Terrace Hotel that had been hang ing from his amplifier. “Let’s snatch 20 winks” he said. At 6:15 that night the troupe was faultlessly costumed and mov ed snappily through their numbers. Connover was exuberant in voice and the whole show went off like clock work. As the audience filed out after the performance, we heard two roommates talking. “Those people are really good. They went through that thirty minutes smooth as silk. I wonder if they practice very much?” Brother, if you only knew. Movies Scheduled To Be Shown To 305th Composite Three movies will be shown at the meeting of the 305th Com posite Squadron meeting at 7:00 p.m. February 14, Room 301 Good win Hall. Discussion's will be centered up on the possible formation of an Air National Guard squadron on the campus. Single-engine fighter pilots, air craft maintenance officers, weath er forecasters, adjutants, opera tions officers, and other officers with associated specialties will be needed for such a squadron. Enlisted reserve airmen may fl’U ABNER (Tfie Batferefl Bride TI i w w t m w ww ^ ww* r fSy 31 Capp - RELIGION - (Continued from Page 1) leges Public Relations Association. Dr. L. B. Reavis, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Paris, Texas has been scheduled as the special speaker for the First Bap tist Church of College Station. Rev. J. B. Gleissner, pastor of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Bryan will give the Religious Em phasis week talks at the local Catholic Church. Dr. Carter Boren, chairman of the departments of Philosophy and Religion at the University of Hou ston has been selected to speak on Monday and Friday nights at the A&M Christian Church. Dr. W. W. Wasson, associate professor in the same department as Dr. Boren will speak to students Tuesday and Thursday evenings. The regular pastor of the A&M Christian Church, Rev. James M. Moudy, will speak Wednesday eve ning. These services will be con ducted in the chapel of the YMCA because of the construction at the site of the new Christian chapel. The Jewish services will also be held in the YMCA in the cabinet room. The pastor of the First Baptist Church in Houston Dr. Boyd W. Hunt, will conduct a special Re ligious Emphasis Week revival at the First Baptist Church in Bry an. Rev. Eric N. Hawkins, the pas tor of the Ascension Lutheran Church of San Antonio will speak to students of the Lutheran Church throughout the week. Rev. Hawk ins is also director of Home Mis sions for the Lutheran Augustant Synod, Regional Advisor of the Gulf Region Lutheran Student As sociation, and is a member of both the Board of Regents of the Texas Lutheran College at Seguin, and the Board of Trustees of the Lu theran Welfare Society of Texas. Floral School Will Begin February 21 Up-to-date and specific infor mation on florists’ crops and a review of supporting research work will be given at the Texas Flor ist’s short course to be held here February 21-22, A. F. DeWerth chairman of the course, said. The personnel of the short course includes nationally known author ities in the field of floriculture, in cluding A. F. DeWerth, C. G. Milne H. D. Thiers, L. J. Tolle and An drew C. Yezak, all of A&M. The floriculture section of the Landscape Art Department is find excellent opportunities for: sponsoring the course service in the Air National Guard. Reserve officers who are inter-1 ATHENS, Feb. 14 —(£>)— The ested in a return to extended ac- Greek army today reported a tive duty or those who wish to strong, new attack by Communist qualify for additional MOS’s may guerrillas against the town of obtain information at the meeting Phlorina in Western Macedonia Monday night. • close to the Yugoslav border. The Battalion CLASSIFIED ADS Page 4 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1949 SEI*L WITH A BATTALION CLASSI- FOR SALE—One pair senior boots, size FIED AD. Rates . . . a word per insertion with a 25(f minimum. Space rates in Classified Section . . . BOtf per column inch. Send all classifieds with remittance to the Student Activities Office. All ads should be turned in by 10:00 a.m. of the day before publication. BUSINESS SERVICES HAVE your themes, thesis, typed by ex perts. Phone 2-0705. THE SCRIBE SHOP. 1007 E. 23rd. LOST AND FOUND LOST — Solid black Dachshund wearing collar and tag. Answers to name Rob. Children’s pet. Reward. Phone 4-8269. Herman Joseph Blumbaugh free show at Campus. LOST—One Roman head; cuff link. Please return to Tommy O’Dwyer at Box 1210 or Hart H-8. Reward. WANTED HELP WANTED — The Department of Veterinary Pathology & Bacteriology has a position open for an experienced medical laboratory technician to work in the Pathology Laboratory. Graduate preferred. Permanent position. Contact Dr. V. B. Robinson, Veterinary Hospi tal. Phone 4-1239. WANT TO HIRE—Man or woman as press feeder in printing shop. Must be expe rienced, full time or part time. Located 211 So. Main, Bryan, Texas. Dillard Printing Co. Charles Edward Frances free pass to Campus. WANTED—Two live-wire appliance sales men with automobiles. Full or part- time. Apply Better Homes, Bryan. Ph. 2-1042. FOR SALE FOR SALE—1936 Ford, Fordor with ’39 motor. Write T. S. McMurry, Box 2823, College, for information. Price $400.00. FOR SALE—Officer’s shortcoat, size 40. Hart Schaffner Marx blouse, size 40, Sam Brown belt, size 32. 4-8071. Schumann Elected To Head Newmans William L. Schumann was elec ted president of the Newman Club for the spring semester at a club election held last Monday night. Schumann is a junior AH student from Sugarland. Other officers elected at this meeting were as follows: vice- president Charles Drapela; cor responding secretary, Walter Bar- rey; social secretary, Don Stigall; treasurer, Dennis Hranitzky, and historian, Dave Blakelock. AIR SEARCH FAILS LIMA, Peru, Feb. 14 —(A 1 )—A two-day air search has failed to uncover any traces of a DC-3 air liner missing on a flight from Tingo Maria to Huanuco, Peru, with 16 persons aboard. 7% C. Dorm 1—217 or Box 4051. FOR SALE—1947 Bulck sedanette, fully equipped, low mileage. Price only $1,800.00. B-8-Z, College View. CHIROPRACTOR Geo. W. Buchanan, D.C. 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