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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 27, 1949)
p.: : | •? H* 11 Page 2 ^ The F< j r. .. r.ifd,- r ' m, Well feller centers have • 'The Stude a letter yesti the TSCW aeiju the receilt swim She thanked the arranRements p they were hen*. She didn't offer treatment affon show. In fhctjfrlmi ed that neither | she hb too much for the ree^pjt by some of ojr mones than b , 1 Since we d|dr just now gettinj The fewperce: ■y t : i ■ v / f WEDNESDAY. APRIL 27,1949 : 1 l ; . ; ! \ M Is I"/) ;/■ /: ¥ • : Yr W •\ \ !•( t: // ■ NOW frff flN ONLY HAD TEETH A •; ■ '■ tg&mi U. S. F A I h ;fi /‘A i. . orces a xfi /. 1 I 1 ■■ like* the Fewper Ride Again . . 7’ 1 zjt/i w I V usual lines; w histling ‘to Be” ill.: rhir aft4rr While so job day for our the same boojdi iwi collegians whoj pjid great nrotion bfufurc “I hear tell r 1s| there’s an H.rj| ijsh CumpuM Wedrit sjlay way. ,..„ v . One of tnejnjli in my dorm e>l “What’s thi “It> ‘Ham “It’s all abou; on the if oof abi 8c||4‘ fc ments which, if t ttei or girl friend bring them a , This time up their routih from the audi* fyeels from the arithrappids. B them fell out o n I'We have jivm ij what makes oui lup.i way. When you ttyl* dorm or class, But bring a wbnjikri and thqy revert back several light years in a split second’s time. Maybe they’ve been studying too hard. Or maybe that’s one of the prices We pay for not having enough women down here to remember what they look like from day to day. Whatever causes this frenzy of few- percenter exhibitionism, the effect is well illustrated by this letter. The swimmers are thinking about taking their show to better behaved fields next y^ar. They aren’t the only good show we may loose, or have lost, because of our pne-in-a-hun- dred mental cripples Bpt all this is spilled milk. We wish Alp show, we are »t hadn’t happened, but it did. The thing sad details. to do is prevent its happening again. Friday night is the Cotton Pageant. It is an excellent show, rapidly coming into its own as a spectacle, and should be a fine evening’s entertainment. But it* is filled with beautiful women III j i ■ , -T ileverly mixed in swim suits and sun dresses—just the ily performing percussion cap that sets our fewpercenters iging by their into violent extrovertial explosion, d making like If you should happen to be sitting next nly a couple of to one: of these lads in Kyle Field Friday da- night, and he goes into his routine, don’t ;r)ring to explain say a word. Just snatch up one of the | f rjjnge react that two-by-six seating planks and knock the Wii | them in the devil out of him. ‘fectly normal. Not a jury in the world will convict them in a show you I / •' v i I f -I ■ .. . i' . ■ (■ A ■ ' I *1 i l i office received the director of l i^ which put on i the natatorium. < » office for the loir the girls while y thanks for the lirls during the ctter, .we gather- • the girls cared oh afforded them With more hor- .1 rihjmd their home hjatVe one) would jo the head. M e Only 'Question Mil fht’ b ,, | sbmo The Passing • Aim ■ J,| \{ j The foiled sports .writers lieve that prof th^‘national i lk wellf (quote) ng t; |.‘ “Yeah," m i^d O I can never tojderaNlliA shows. Why d )ii| you can tell vhjt ti “I 'Ciilnt ever? liMMitiMd them either, but this .One’sMripto be good any- . ii*i ¥ * e Cave yester- not TB, that is congestion.’ That liberal ee, we sat in arts character thought that was wonderful bright young but it sounds sorta silly to me. Well, then good tidings of this guy decides he isn’t going to marry his girl-friend and he kills her old man and shej goes nuts. And there’s a ghost in the picture.'Finally there’s a big sword fight, jiist like in the Errol Flynn shows, and everyone gdts killed.” “Is that all there is to it?” inquired of them, “that Starting at the I 1 • ' 1 V t Sir, "You know, those English the other coffee-drinker. t(i§ ypjak American so - Ifiej saying?” "That’s all I could get out of what the liberal arts feller told me. But he Paved and said H whs better than Bob Hope und the Sons of the Pioneers, ho I guess I’ll go see it.” We finished our coffee and left, but wo expected to see our coffee-drinking chums at the theater. We’ll find out to- f?l|er who climbs up gether if it’s really better than Hope and llilrts fellers over pjalrw^t dll to me." ' rif the picture?” ething like that." himself ‘TB or the Pioneers. : / • ; Between Atlantic Pac world that \' i v The Bettali CHty of Collegjj Friday ftFuimiM tAllon li ynar,; Anv il aillnisprint from a ciolUrai^ tvfould have us be- li JOil e$sioi i 1 M ' then Fort Worth sank Oklahofha City deep er into the cellar with a 13-9 triumph. It 1 baseball is not only ' was a ^ c ^ er ’ s parade but the cat chunkers , . . . j lasted longer, (end quote) ve min in es e as Naturally they lasted longer. Being cats they were able to scratch better. IHr 'y doctrine and the The old laVof supply and demand has iifti’t much left of the been replaced with one in which the de- jpledged to protect, mand is from the supplier. srt? e Battalion ^Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman" Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions publia of tho Agricultural fiva timcM HWtlMl M tha A # l t. f C< offat Onll. n i>( . H«Wi CO . Qoodwin Halt. Office, Boom | KENNETH 53 autlaceity Cl^rfc ua Mechanical College of Texaa and the eek and circulated every Monday through nd exHminatioh period*. During the aummer The Rat- edneaday and Friday.. Subscription rata 9^80 par achool eat. l||antitied exclusively to the u*e for rapuhlication of all newa dispatches ' ‘ a credited ini the paper und local newa of apontanaoua origin puhliah. atlon of all other matter herein are alio reeorvod. R*pr«Mnto«l nadnntllr Hsllonsl AA> vorthrini IsrvlM Iks., at N*w York Ollr, Chtwfo. Los Aaiolos, sad Man rranoisoo. Member of The Associated PfCM made by say ‘ S.WI hone (4-6444) or at the editorial office, Room 801, by telephone (4MUM) or at the Student Activities tin »»«••*»•••••«••••»«•••* Co-Edltora Wlr# JCdltbr h. Msasctae Editor* Editorial AmUUoU Koature Editor Da** Coahrtt, Fiimk Coriilnc, Ororv* Charlton, Baddy Lue*. Churk MbImI. M. C. I. ««••<«.4. •«•««»< Bill Potto ; Mlthalak. Ptotor* Writ*** . Bport* Editor* ®ipEfP tiff From Hot C • / j By FRED HAMPSEON // The Incident was the : / .-L _ ' ling n foreign official SHANGHAI, April* 27 —(AS— shore gone damaged The U. S. Navy putted itAj heavy warahipa\on the Yan ships out of Shanghai yesterday to Shanghai And Nanking avoid involvement in Chinas Civil The Shanghai garrison War. Communist armies alowly bfcnned publication of all dosed in on this great city and, ikpept what It put out. spurred their Offensive southward. W as impossible to get \ The British followed the Ameri- from headquarters, the win lead and withdrew warships of tually no news^ln Shai their Shanghai force. Movement of papera. \l*ie ships into the Yangtse Estuary Operations fi wrlll put them out of artilleir range The central news when the Redg] arrive ■*'» fourth ‘ largest dty. ing a garrison comn ^ come no one knew. But Shanghai kened during the past sared ready to receive them ”• ” tions in the Nai -Shanghai triangle the Communists would !/ no one appeared rest without resistance. Most lof the Communists have enog Military men did not BUju the Reds to' ^alk In and^take over I'n'stMngth tows ■ city's 6,000,000 InhabitAnts axpect across thej Yam / / 1 / Sneak Preview L - Hollywood Put to Shame By Laurence Olivier’s 4 Hamlet’ By HERMAli C. GOLLOB Hamlet starring Laurence Oli vier, Jean Simmons, and Felix Aylmeri (J. Arthur Rank—Uni versal International) r Campus. No one but Shakespeare, parag on of playwrighte And sharp 6b*- server of human nature, could have written the dramatic and poetic “Hamlet,” and no one but Sir Lau rence Olivier, one of the greatest theatrical geniuses in the • world today, could have transferred it to the screen with so sweeping an im pact, such clarity of meaning. The splendid eloquence of Oli vier’s production is such as to make Hollywood’s movie moguls, basking in the glory of their lavish musicals, lurid crime sagas, and technicolored wetetems, hang their heads in shame. The technical a'd- vantaifcrcs which th^ screen holds over the stoge and which have, on the whole, been handled in such a prodigal fashion by film companies are put to incomparable use by Sir Laurence. '‘Hamlet’’ is anything but ‘‘(’a- vler to the general,” Along with Shakespeare's compelling and eloquent prose, laden with eter nal verities, ,'•Hamlet’’ also hlen,|* together three element* which make! any movie one to keep an audience enthralled— mystery 1 , lovia, and comedy. OHvlor huij, with Mi'Utc, pnlns- taking (llwctljMi, cllnilnatml all tru ces of overaptliuri the ivstilt of which Is u realistic "Hamlet" whleh will actually Appeal to ol’ .Joe Moviegoer, who heretofore has b«*en generally apathetic towards the celebrated Bard, considering him a curse levied on the heads of high- achool and college students by pc- Official Notice All cadet* on the:main eamptig will be excused from classes from *:l>0 Until 10 a.m nnd from 3 Until 5 p.m Thurs day. April 2S, for the. purpose of taking part In the Federal It.O.T.C. Inspection, rrdetr at thc,A.&M. Annex will be ex cised front all classes from 8 until 12 i..m Friday, April 2$, Tno*c ; cadets taking part in the In- spt'rtlbn' at other tltpcs will be given ainthorlzatlon slips by their Military Sci ence Instructors to be taken to the Instruc tor of the class dr classes missed. M. T. Rarrlngton Actihg l)ean of the College Students who will be classified juniors or above at the close of the current se- ' mestcr and who pxpect to register in the School of Engineering for the SUMMER or FALL semester will be required to have in their possession at registration their degree plan card. This degree plan card must be initialed by the department head or some repre sentative of the department. No assign ment card will be approved without this degree plan. It is necessary' that this information reach *11 second term sophomores. H. W. Barlow. 5 Dean of Engineering j dantic professors. Minus all the frenzied gesticulation and wild ranting common to past interpre ters of Hamlet classical-featured Dlivier imparts to the role of the prize procrastinator and model of indecision a welcome restraint. This ts especially tru6 in the soli loquies, which he delivers with very little change in pitch. Throughout the entire film Olivier has preserved the somber mood of sustained tragedy. The musical'score, grave and melan choly for the most part and reaching climactic heights in such scenes as the “play within the play” and the duel between Hamlet and Laertes, is the brain child of William' Walton. Conducted by Muir Mathieson and John Holingsworth, it lends much to atmosphere creation. An other mood-maker is the vivid pho tography of Desmond Dickinson, which sweeps from bleak castle rooms to bare turrets engulfed in fog. It is difficult to term the mem bers of Olivier’s cast as "support ing” members, Each performance in itaelf is- a masterful screen dharacterieation, incapable of be ing subordinated. Felix Aylmer ns Polonius. BaNil Sydney us Claudius, Eileen Herlitt ns Gertrude ami Jean Simmons ns Opholin meet tho challenge presented tliem by their role*, tmwsforrlng them to tho screen with foice nnd dexterity, “HAmlet" emonrt'N xs tho pern- mount achievement of the screen Industry since Its ineeptlon some 50 odd years ago, *» they did the nationaliat capital targets Of Shanghai a at Nanking. chow. But they may *Urt Whereabout* Doubtful and ( when, they do they. No one seemed to know how far will conic fast. _ away the Communists were. Neith- Reports that the Reds or did anyone appear to know the ting doae were none whereabouts of nationalist forces It was still anjfl that had retreated south from whether the Commun Nanking and the others that were strike first to aeal off tr to defend Shanghai. olist escape route by takii Communist soldiers in Nanking chow, 100 miles Sou boldly burst into the home of Shanghai, or hit for SI American Ambassador J. Stuart self and close the ^ye| Leighton, 72. He was unharmed as largest potential eyacUEtii was his staff. A strong state de« It was possible they wouli partment protest to the Communists do both, over the incident was forthcoming, , ^ g 4 p #rce8 Moroi< The Flagship' Eldorado Adm. Oscar Badger, c< U S. Naval Forces hi Pacific, moved from the jj Letters WON’T SIGN PLEDGE that we ftrT not Communi'ts” ^ b y the «„„n.hip Chilton Do you know anyone in Aggie- 0116 battalion of Marihi land who will sign that!pledge? The British heavy t I know several thousand Who are don, shelled by Cohimunisi willing to give their lives to pre- guns on the Yangtze above serve the Atnferican way of life, hai last week, atso moved | but I’m not sure there will be any did the Destroyei Constant who will be forced to sign this Withdrawal of the Aner: pledge. I predict that for every British Naval craft came 1 thousand teasippers who sign the 24 hours/After the C pledge, there will be one student dio demanded that the fag; from AAM. military forces” of tire to Our great lawmakers underesti- periAlist” nations get out mate the “Spirit of Aggieland.” The American move was| We have no convertibles and co-eds /ted to avoid any possibilif here, but we have quite a few men cidents such as befell lou who will take suggestion* but not ships on the Yangtze. ultimAtums from Austin. We sent Amethyst . was hit by those lawmakers down there to between Shanghai and Ni represent us, not to dictate to us. is still marooned in the We shall see who gpyems Agf. The London, destroyer C< jf.v • ’11 .V ’ irpial llolin OAbot, t|. B. consul a ShaUarhai mlr* singtw. t msed lit fr"! ' j-’ i acuity, or just plain Aggies. Be- the pledge I’ll go back ■ 'l- i /Jl|f ieland—the state leghdAture, the Sloop Black Swan were 'fbre J H ■ to falsing corn, oAta, wheat, Cattle. '{Tlvinir DhkiS Affail sheep, and gi«*«ti grass. But even if 1 have to lea^e achool, I'll alwayi SAN DIEGO, Califi Ar be a Texas .Aggie and an American ^ with a capital A. Will you? T / '/ T - Lsndon L. Gault -The diaca are Twelve person* reportm them aouth of here yester ■ H ROSARY AND BENEDICTION St. Mary’s Chapel TONIGHT ~ WEDNESDAY 7i80 P.M. PALACE Brunn 2‘$$79 TODAY thmSATURDAY ! 1. i “ENCHANTMENfl f FRIDAY PREVIBW—U P.M.' I “SOUra of ST. LOUIS’’ LAST DAY SATURDAY PREVIEW—11 P.M. “SO DEAR TO MY HEART! 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