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
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, 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
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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.
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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
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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
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1949
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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
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