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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 11, 1949)
lUim: w 1 , R-Ti 7T . . ; World Famous Carle Father-Daughter A ftiMScheduled IrESrSSSS: * Efrem Kurtz, director of the. Houston Symphony Orchestra, 0 noted as one of the outstanding symphony conductors in the natic This will be hift first appearance at A^M* . j| •" . j Abram Scheduled Here For January if By LEWIS BURTON Town Hall’s fourth attraction for the current year will be Jac ques Abram who! >vill make hisl appearance on ^ the Guion Hall stage Jahuary a. I N i . Since his electrifying Carnegie Hall Concert in 1946, Abram has . and 55.50 for reserved seats. Non won an international reputation as student tickets will run $5.50 for one of the big pianists of front general admission and $7.50 for rank stature. He bas been acclaim-Jfcseryed seats. All prices include ed by Life, Liberty, and Harpers tax. Bazaar magazines. After a tour jof Central and Squth America. 11 1945 critics }, spoke of him as “one of jthe ! ; greatest masters of the piano.” Aibram’s first acquaintance with ballad singer, the Robert ■ Shaw the piano began when he wap five. Jrige/I Scheduled For Violin'Concert By LOUISE JONES Joseph Szigeti, named by the 600 leading music ciitics of the United States as one of the top three violin perse nalities of 1948, will appear in March as one of the main attractions on the Town Hall series. Lauded by critics as “one of the great names of music,“ — +he has made two round-the-world Saram YT ll tours and make8 annual coast-to- 49 Town Hall Tickets on Sale At Registration Town Hall season tickets w ll be sold to students at September 17 registration, C. ; G, White, manager of student activities, has announced. They were also sold August 27. j I i He said that non-students may buy tickets on October 12. Season tickets for students will cost $3.50 for general admission coast tours of America. made his American debut in December, 1925, with the Philadelphia Orch estra under Leopold Stolcowski. Szigeti’s art has often been honored. Besides being awarded medals by France, Belgium, Hun gary and Japan his Brahms Violin Concerto wUh the Philadelphia Orchestra, under Eugene Ormandy, was chosen by a nation-jyide poll of leading cvritics as the [best con certo recording of the ypat. il ‘I ' ’ ' I l! Born jin Budapest, Hungary in 1892, “Joska” as he Is called by his friends, performed as a InK idra cMOC SaaMmSF \ mm jm The holder of a Town Hall sea son ticket is entitled to see the six performances in the series this school year. They include Frankie Carle and his orchestra, Burl Ives, PREVUE— , after the i Ball Galnc AlsOr—SUN. & MON. No mon During a visit to Ms grandmother in jl Lufkin,! thp household was awjikened one 1 morning at day break by the; jarring notes of^ Jadques trying to pick otit a tune, Hei was perched * on the piano berijoh in his nightclothes. This be- caiine a ritual elVery morning lat dawn.' ' / ,j J ■ ^t ten, Abram was awarded a scholarship to i the Qurtis Institute. Three years later canie a fjelojw- .shijb from the JUilliard Graduate School in New| York. In 1938i he vyojp first prize in the annual Fed eration of Music Clubs contest ahd thrt Shubert Memorial Award. He made formal debut as sdioiKt with Vlhe Philadelphia Otrehestra under Eugene Orman- di in the PhlJajdetphia Academy of Music And /then In Carnegie Hall. J S Abram’s rfuoeess! was proved when he returned to Carnegie Hall after four years of war service. It!\yas one of the most stiring cojhcerU in New York's crowded mpsic season. The New York Sun placed him “among our fdreniost pianists,’’ while the New York Herald Tri- biine Reviewer called him “a pian ist of firey temperment, driving force, and incandescent spirit." The Houston Post labeled his pofformance "as the sort that tightens the throat and dims the eye." Chorale, Jacques Abram, pianist, Ithe Houston Symphony Orchestra, and iloesph Szigeti, violinsti Individual ticket sales are not anticipated. White noted. He said that last year season tickets com pletely sold out the house and he expects the same thing this year. ute. child prodigy in Hungary, Ger many, and England. When Joska was 12, he was broughlt Before Joachin, greatest violinist of the 19th century, who enthusiastical ly predicted a great future for him. After repeated tours, Szigeti ac cepted the professorship of violin at the Geneva Conservatory, which he held from 1917 to jl924. He came tp the United States the next ye%r. 1 ; ' > The violinist has written This autobiography, “With Strings At tached,” which -has been hailed by the Book-of-the-Month Club as “far ahd away the best! book of memoirs by a musician.” He wrote it in the course of his sold-out American and European concert tours, jotting down notes on what ever scraps of paper that were handy when he had a spare min ! ®::> Jl Burl Ivea, ballad > hired on the Town radio, will be fea- Hall on October 15. m The Town , year when Frankie Carte and his nationally known band a concert in Guion Hall October 21. Carle will feature 1 band’s star vocalist, Ball programs will_get off toj a famous start Marjorie ] on the program. espearean y Set For r 15 ! Shakespeare's hil- idy, “The Taming ? v, will be presen ted |at Guion Hall December National Classic mt r * cov ' 15 TheA >y the ire of New York. Hughes, hip daughter And ~ arjorie has re- from • serious !which forced her to leave the band several months ago. The band lefcfier has worked with Mai Halleitfand played with *uch outstanding orchestras' M those of Gene Krupa, Jack Tea garden, Jack .Jenny, and Tootp ondello in hisjUPars on the road. Learned From Uncle Critics agree that- the natural style of playing Shakespeare de veloped under the direction of Clara Tree Major, founder of the Classic Theatre, will bring its; listeners exciting stage entertain- tMU \ | •‘Few stage plays have ever equaled this Shakesuearan master piece for sustained; hilarity,” C, G, White, manager of student act ivities, commented. From the first scene where Petruccio undertakes to wpo and wed the shaiqi-tongued Virago, Katherine, one riotous sit uation follows syriftly .upon the heels of another, y Carle: learned, to play the piano under the instruction of his uncls, Nicholas ColangelO. A vai ' trouper at the 4re of 16, he piano for visiting acts at a in his hometown of Pro Rhode Island. . raallo«d ,.><» he lly’a band, then played theatre Providence, Three yean later he at vai Ined I (e; ;0f t New England. A: decision to jfortn his own band that vaudeville i was dead, so he jojqed Ed McEnelly’s band, then one jof the mos} popular bands in spar : \ j When Frankie Carle makes his appearance at A&M on October 21 he will parade Miss Marjorie Hughes up to the microphone to handle the vocal numbers. Marjorie is the bandmaster’s daughter but, un fortunately, ia married to a member ojf the band. Aggies Know ; Where to Go I ! ti LOW PRICES 1 : / ’j j {■ . And Get More For i Their Dough NEW & USED BOOKS • l • LOUPOT’S j j; ;. Trading Post ve SSVs to 50% On >ks - Instruments Ahd All Supplies egme an no iA>rprisc to Carte’* friends in show business. His five years with Horgce Heidt's orches tra, and a serjes of solo album* made for Columbia had created a following of fajjs for his newi van- tUr«.*"| 1-1' Marjorie Makes Debut Marjorie Hughes became her father's vocalinj after he had re fused to Jet hei sing professional ly. She simply made a recording which was placed-at an audition hfld by Carle. Carle, not recognis ing her voice, erdered his manag ers to hire the singer and the next night Marjorie joined the band. Later she married the band’* piano player, Hughey Hughes. Carle has a hew radio show en titled, “Carle Comes Calling." Some of Marjorie’s Columbia record* in- ' , What It dude “Oh Be” “Rumors Are Seamed Be," “Roses Ih The Rain," and Flying.” By LOUISE JONES Burl Ives, famous ballad singer, will star In a Town Hall concert on October 27. Known for popular izing such songs as “The Blue Tail «w> Bee,” Ives has been called “Amer ica’s MighUest Ballad Slrig— ’’ Carl Sandburg. minstrel, + The towering minstrel, who stands 6 feet 2 inches and weighs 1 Student Magazines Readied For Year Wooly Boogie 240 pounds, has appeared in four Broadway stage productions. He clinched his reputation with his popular radio show, “The Way4 farih’ Stranger," and with his per formance in the Theatre Guild’s production of “Sing Out, Sweet Lan .Tift I With a football laden Commen-1 Statibn, will preside over the Agri- tator hitting the newstands on Re- f culturalist. Wallace of the Veterln- gistration Day, the four magazines of Student Publications win open another year of feverish but pro ductive activity. The Commentatcjr la the first magazine on the stands because editors Welch and Nolen, aided and abetted by a mammoth staff consisting of W. K. Colville spent much of the time since summer school getting the football edition ready for the presses. The other three magazines, which are born end raised in Goodwin Hall, will make their' ap pearance later in the year. The Engineer, edited by C-i C. Schwab, senior ME major from Beaver, Pennsylvania, will reach the public in October with the first of eight issues. The Southwest Veterinarian, under the guiding hand of Hugh Wallace will hit the newsstand!! In November at the same time as the Agricultbrilri!. James E. Park, senior dairy management student from College ariaq is a senior veterinajry medi cine fnajor from Oklahoma City. Present plans call for publish ing the Southwestern Veterinar ian four times during the year, in November, January, March and May. [ Staff positions for interested students are open on all the maga zine^ the editors have announced. Any person who wishes to help in the writing or production process of thfe magazines may contact the editors on the second floor of Goodwin Hkll. *; j.r/[[►T]’ Subscription to aU of these pub lications can be made at, the- thne of registration or by ma 1 to the Office of Student Pub Ications, Goodwin Hall, the editors :le Ivanhoe om in 1909 a family of ned Burl Icle the singer was bom ois. The son of era, river gamblers, old-time faonoro, j wanted to be an evangelist his great-uncle. He gave u; when he was! in college out to tour thje country old banjo on which waa idea set an and Burl like the and with in scribed, “The Vagabond Lover.” r.U'if i ] | " j! ' j.; During his cross country tour Ives enlarged his repertoir of fojk songs to such an extent ~ it he can sing far several days. ithout repeating a that he can «ln| and nighte wit Burl has received national ac claim on the concert stage! on radjo, in night club*, in films, and as a recording artist. His ijecords are the largest selling folk song records on the market. Today Burl Ive* has wjn dis- Unction in his seventh field of ehrj inch bro deavor with "Wayfaring S biography. publication 1 of hit auto* baton twirleri wta for prises on Kyle Artists Series Program. Is Set The 1949-50 Bryan Artists Series will open on October 31 with “The Hasty Heart," i be presented by the a play to be p New York Theatre Guild. Other artists in the Bryan ser ies will include Elsa Maxwell on November 10, Dallas Symphony, directed by Walter Hehdl; Robert Rounseville, a New^rTork City Center Opera Company tenor who will|appear February 4; and Apple- ton and Fields, duo-pianists who are scheduled February 24. The performances will be given ih *the high school auditorium which seats around 1000 persons. Tickets may be bought at Haa- well’s atorej In Bryjon.. • Arlington New Name of NTAC r f Arlington State College is now the name of what was previously known as North Texas Agricult ural College. The reason for the name change, according to R. H. Shuffler, di rector of information and publi cations, was that the former name was not truly descriptive of the educational nature of the college. Arlington is and has been, since it was founded, a two-year junior college. It has not been strictly an agricultural college, but has out standing departments in engine ering and commercial art Until jthe change from Texas A&M College and branches to the Texas A&M College System, Ald ington was operated as a branch of A&M. With the change, Arl ington became part of the System. Arlington places great emphasis on courses of a terminal nature- courses designed to turn out skill ed workers and give vocational training. Special courses are- of fered for coeds in trailing for as sistants to dentists and doctors, CL.. J J Houston Symphony Signed For February -oncer!Here il i Tike Houston Symphonj ra under tl w I , >y Orches tral under the direction of Efrem Kurtz ha* signed a contract for an j appearance on the 1648-50 To*nl4 program. |” the ccoic either in F 1950 HI ert will be presented February or March of L ; ’ j.’ P rector of the Ballet Russe d Monte Carlo. • j ' I j ides conducting guest per* formances with the New ionic in 1939 and 1940,! , Kurtz Was appointed conductor of the Stuttgart (Oennany). Phi harmonic Orchestra in 1924, a pos ition which he held for 9 years. has conducted symphony rsW in South America, Hol- lelefum. Poland. II ’ '* > He orchestr land, Belgium, Poland, Italy, Ah*- tralia and the United States. In 1932 he was appointed musical di recording* with the New York: ilharmonlc rank among the best flSlasslcal records. ■ Andor Toth lq the newly ap pointed assistant conductor of the Houston Symphony. He wa# : formerly conductor of the Cleve land little Symphony and asst*- f, tant concertmasier of the Cleve- I Symphony Orchestra. Toth served as 0| member of the and New York PhUhar- Orchestras under Tosoan- , j -il j;: Ini, Stoko j others. •• j ) New playerf occup, itlons in the ! orchestr » Rose, HUm B e formerly Symphony Mltropolous and Hayed Armando GjiitaHtt, a me the Bell Telephone Hour tra, has signpd as first first violin section lof tha Mud ,Symphony., OrchaatrdL been engaged as principal of second violin section for the com- j kets may be boughi store in Bryfcui.. • I ^ tha ma/Mnf !al,an»a in ac- J ] 11 [' Dr. Hilton A. Smith was named head of the Department of Path ology in the School of Veterinary Medicine during the summer, Dr. I. B. Boughton, dean, announced. Dr. Smith received his DVM de gree from Colorado State College in 1928 and his MS in pathology in 1936 from the medical school, University of Michigan, and his PhD from the University of Mtchi- gon Medical School in 1949. Is The name change was cordance with the policy of tha names when nature of the t _.juffler said, pointing to the recent change of JTAC to Tarleton State College. Other name changes that have been made during the years, Shuf fler added, were the changing of State A&M College-to the A&M College of Texas and Pratirie View, ich started with the name of jftew Normal College, wa* I to Prairie View AJniver- ttill later was changed to name of Prairie View College of Ti*o*. ‘.ii; -I t[ TT.nT! [[Hl'ifi ' "r!' ’ i ; I F ' f • f f : i- ' , y : .AM I- ( • .. : . .. ■■ l .! it ■»:.[ :: J' I ■ i/ .^i J ; under (he direction TW ■Ml tut 8, K i \ ,l im W ■ ; I
