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Complete Town Hall Program for 1950 and 1951 Announced
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cago. The Bowling Committee last
year entered into competetive play
with the University of Texas, Uni
versity of Houston, and other
schools.
Other game subcommittees will
be organized as the students indi
cate interest. Plans are being made
for checkers, chess, dominoes, and
canasta committees. Plans are also
being made to organize a table ten
nis league.
The Music Committee will be a
group of students interested in or
ganizing musical entertainment for
the Student Center. They will pur
chase “high-brow” and “lowbrow”
records for the music room and
the sound system.
The Photography Club will help
instruct those who have common
interests in photography, and will
bring in outstanding exhibits and
photographers.
The Crafts Committee, with Carl
Moller as advisor, will offer stu
dents the opportunity to learn
plastics, leather, pottery, wood
work, and general “tinkering.” The
committee will be offered instruc
tions in hobbies from time to time
and will plan exhibits of its work.
The dance committee will be
open to all members of the Student
Center (which includes all stu
dents). It hopes to offer instruc
tion in ball room and folk dancing
for those who wish to learn.
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Many arts have their prodigies, 60 musical events a year
and the concert orchestra world
has one, too, in the form of Texas’
famed San Antonio Symphony.
The Alamo City’s contribution to
classical music will appear in
Guion Hall March 5, as part of the
season’s Town Hall program.
Musical director Max Reiter,
fresh from summer guest engage
ments, has announced one of the
most outstanding seasons in the
orchestra’s history for its eleventh
year of concerts.
Before coming to A&M, the top
flight musical aggregation will
have played in many of Texas’
major cities, along with appear
ances in the smaller towns.
Reiter Sparks Group
The story of the San Antonio
Symphony Orchestra can be easily
aligned with the arrival in that
city of Reiter, acknowledged as
one of the nation’s leading direc
tors.
Under his guidance, the symph
ony has functioned smoothly—both
in the musical and financial sense
—and now operates under a $300,-
000 budget, presenting more than
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Jean Dickensen, Popular
Star, to Sing Here Nov. 8
“Nightingale of the Airwaves,”
to millions throughout the United
States and Canada, means Jean
Dickenson, soprano star of radio’s
“American Album of Popular Mu
sic.”
Miss Dickensen, who ha« head
ed the program’s array of talent
for six years, will appear on Guion
Hall’s stage Nov. 8. She will be
the second feature on the fall Town
Hall schedule.
Although she entertains radio
listeners each Sunday evening, she
doesn't always confine her activi
ties to the air waves. Miss Dick
ensen is equally known and equal
ly admired in opera houses and on
the concert stage.
In the last two years, she has
had over 100 appearances in reci
tal.
Born in Montreal, her father’s
work as a mining engineer took
her into three continents while still
young. The family settled in Den
ver, Colo., when Miss Dickensen
v was 14.
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After intensive vocal training,
she auditioned for the Columbia
Broadcasting and National Broad
casting Companies, and, to her
amazement, was offered contracts
by both.
She was first featured by NBC
on a weekly coast-to-coast pro
gram from KOA, Denver, called
“Golden Melodies.”
She’s Pretty, Too
The talented young soprano _ is
as pretty as she is talented. With
wavy dark brown hair, hazel eyes,
a camellia skin, and an outstanding
figure and carriage, she uses a soft
speaking voice and friendly smile
to good advantage.
Still in her early twenties (like
most women, she won’t tell her
exact age), Miss Dickenson is one
of the youngest sopranos to reach
such fame today. Part of her pop
ularity can be attributed to her
generous contribution to wartime
entertainment.
Sings for Services
She has sung for all branches of
the Armed Forces, which includes
practically every military hospital
in America and Canada.
Now one of radio’s highest paid
female vocalists, Miss Dickensen
recalls her first singing job, which
netted her a corsage and $1.50 for
taxi fare. For this she sang at a
breakfast club in Denver.
And today the “Nightingale of
the Airways” still receives cor
sages. But her salaries run just a
little higher.
Car-Chasing Cops
Help Deliver Baby
Ashtabula, O.—(A 1 )—With its si
ren wailing, a police patrol car shot
down the street after a speeding
automobile here.
But the automobile continued
ahead and did not stop until it
reached general hospital. When
Patrolman Norman Hummer and
Robert Dieffenbacker pulled along
side, they got out just in time to
help deliver a baby to Mrs. Esther
Brenneman, 21.
“We just didn’t have time to
stop until we got here,” her hus
band, Roger, explained.
Eighty strong, members of the
symphony are mostly Texas-bred,
while conductor Reiter was born
in Italy. Judging from the suc
cess of the orchestra, the differ
ence in nationalities has had no ill
effects.
Both Linked Closely
In fact, few are the instances
where an organization and its men
tor are so closely linked in the
public mind as are the symphony
and Reiter.
Born in Trieste in 1905, Reiter
began his musical studies in his
native city, completing them in
Munich in 1927. He has held pos
itions at the Berlin Opera House,
in Trieste and Milan, and has been
guest conductor for many of the
symphonic and operatic performan
ces over Europe.
Arriving in the United States
and taking the advice of friends,
Reiter went to Texas.
Since that time, the name has
been synonymous with excellent
music in the Lone Star state.
Oscar Levant
Oscar Levant Appears Feb 1
Oscar Levant, star of concerts,
motion pictures and radio, who will
be Town Hall’s third outstanding
artist of the 1950-51 season, should
provide A&M’s audience with a
rare taste of piano skill, next Feb.
1.
The star concert artist usually
brings with him to the stage an
air of informality, to which those
who have seen Levant in action
will testify.
Not only does he entertain with
music—although that is his chief
claim to fame—but he keeps the
evening lively with his verbal
adroitness.
Keeps Musical Balance
Few musicians in our time have
been able to bridge the gap be
tween popular and classical music
as well as Levant. His program,
while he is never exactly sure
what he will play, will always be
varied.
The mood of the audience is
taken into account by the famed
pianist when he begins a program.
For the remainder of the evening,
he plays selections which he feels
will suit that mood.
Born in Pittsburgh, a city he
“asides” to concert audiences, Le
vant has been interested in music
from his earliest childhood. When
he began piano lessons, there were
never any problems about practice.
Up the Hard Way
After years of study in music
schools and under masters of the
piano, Levant worked his way up
through the vaudeville - musical
comedy route to the pentacle of
success that he holds today.
Since his rise to fame, Holly
wood has not neglected exploiting
his talents on celluloid. Movie
goers have seen and heard Levant
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in “Rhapsody in Blue,” “Barkleys
of Broadway,” “Humoresque,” and
will soon see him in the new MGM
musical, “An American in Paris.”
Friend of Gershwin
An old friend of the imertal
George Gershwin, Levant usually
plays some of his compositions in
his concerts. His interpretation of
“Rhapsody in Blue” has become
one of the nation’s favorites.
Movies, stage, radio and televis
ion may have aided Levant’s pop
ularity, but in the eyes of those
who know him best, his adeptness
at the piano still makes Levant
“Levant.”
Indonesia Tries
Neutralization
Jakarta, Indonesia —(AP)
—The world’s youngest re
public—the United States of
Indonesia—is trying for a
second distinction. She would
like to be the world’s most neutral
nation. According to the stands
they have taken on the Korean
war, all other Asian countries can
be sorted roughly as either Rus
sian or American sympathizers.
Indonesia has carefully avoided
lining up on either side. Govern
ment officials sighed with relief
that the six-month-old republic
never became a. member of the
United Nations. If we had joined
the U. N., they reasoned, we
might have been forced to take
sides on Korea.
Indonesia was led into her neu
tral position by Indian Prime Min
ister Jawaharlal Nehru. On a state
visit here in June, he pleaded in a
dozen speeches for a “third neu
tral force” as a balancing power in
the growing struggle between Com
munists and non-Communists. ,
London—(A 1 )—Britain’s Socialis
tic Larbor Party appears to be
throwing the word “nationaliza
tion” out of its propaganda vocab
ulary.
A new party pamphlet on policy
hardly uses the word at all. In
stead it clings closely to a new
phase—“public ownership.”
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