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Orders Taken
For January
Announcements
Seniors will have a chance
to show the world they are
being graduated from A&M.
Orders are now being taken
for graduation announce-
ments for those students graduat
ing in Janury.
Announcement cards will be on
sale at Student Activity office, sec
ond floor Goodwin Hall, until Dec.
10, according to Pete Hardesty,
business manager of Student Ac
tivities.
Southern Engraving Co. of
Houston has promised delivery
on or about Jan. 7, for all cards
ordered before Dec. 10.
As in the past, announcements
will be available in three types,
leather bound, cardboard bound,
and the French Folds, The card
board and leather bound cards con
tain a list of graduates, degrees re
ceived, and name of home town.
French Folds just have the simple
announcement of graduation.
Personalized cards may be order
ed at same time as the announce
ments, Hardesty announced.
Battalion
Editorials
Page 2
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1951
No Other Drink
PJCKS YOU UP Like
A
WORE
TEXANS
THAN EVER PREFER
TEXAS’ OWN SOFT DRiNK
It started in Texas—it’s made in
Texas—it’s growing with Texas!
More than ever, it’s a favorite
Texas custom to enjoy "A
Lift for Life”
with Dr.
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at 10,2,
and 4! i
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DR. PEPPER...A NATIVE OF TEXAS,
RIGHT AT HOME IN YOUR HOME!
Here’s a delicious sparkling drink,
different from any you’ve tasted, that
LIFTS your energy within 2 to 8
minutes... gives you new LIFE fast.
Picks you up when you’re low. Noth
ing like it—everyone loves it. Keep
a carton or a case at hand, for a real
"lift for life.” At soda fountains, too!
Another Great Texas Product
Bonfire or No
W/E HAVE a challenge this weekend. We can either stay on
** the campus or leave. This is the first off weekend of
the season for the team and we are not able to see any Aggie
football game. It will be a chance to go to see that certain
girl.
But more than that we have a job to do. It is the job
on the drill field trying to make this year’s bonfire the best
yet. -Big, not only in the number of logs we lug over to the
centerpole, but big in the pride we take in it.
Men from every class are working on it, doing their best
to make this year’s symbol of our burning desire to see A&M
defeat Texas University, .and at the same time it represents
the undying love of school we Aggies have.
A bonfire is not a new or unique practice among colleges.
Texas, SMU, and many of the others all have one big fire
before their “game of season.” However, we have something
that is different.
Our bonfire is made up with the sweat of the entire
student body. Men from the lowest freshman to the highest
senior all take some part in the building of the mammouth
pile of wood. Aggies cut wood, Aggies drive trucks, Aggies
pile wood, Aggies . . . they do it all by working together.
There on the drill field will be a burning symbol of our
love of the school.
Is this worth staying here for?
Poage Speech
To Highlight
Electric Meet
Congressman W. R. Poage
of Waco will address the fifth
annual Job Training and Safe
ty Conference, which opens
today in the MSC. Poage will
speak at a banquet tonight.
The conference is sponsored by
the Engineering Extension Service,
the State Advisory Committee for
Rural Electric cooperatives, and
the Texas Education Agency. Re
presentatives from each of the 81
rural electric cooperatives in Texas
will attend the conference.
Safety and training talks will
be given by Dr. C. J. Potthoff, na
tional director of the American,
Red Cross, Frank LaMaster, head
of the Job Training and Safety
Division of the Rural Electrifica
tion Administration, and Harry C.
Hutchinson, factory representa
tive of the White Rubber Company.
W .W. Mills, chief of rural elec
tric training for the Engineering
Extension Service, and E. W. Ker-
lick, G. E. Baker, W. G. Wood, and
T. S. Watson, field instructors,
will report on the past year’s job
training and safety activities.
To coincide with the day that
many of the state’s electric line
men will be attending the confer
ence, Gov. Allan Shivers has desig
nated Nov. 23 as Electric Line
men’s Day in Texas.
‘Streetcar Named Desire
Proof of Better Movies
Found in French Quarter
By BERT WELLER
Battalion Staff Writer
“A Streetcar Named Desire”
with Vivian Leigh, Marlon Bran
do, and Kim Hunter. Script by
Tennessee Williams; directed by
Elia Kazan. Starts Sunday at
the Queen for a one week run.
tainly the American people have loyal to the “magic silver screen.”
felt for a long time their most pop- To combat this movement away
ular entertainment has needed im- from the motion picture houses,
provement.
The movie reviewers have filled
their columns with criticisms of
the latest Hollywood releases.
Many theaters are forced to make
Movies are better than ever, at ends meet on the popcorn profits
least the ads read that way. Cer- of the patrons who have remained
Cagney Is Alcoholic
In Cop-Robber Movie
By JERRY BENNETT
Battalion Staff Writer
In the last 20 years the name
James Cagney has become synony
mous with Hollywood’s conception
of the ideal All-American Hood.
During his long career as a
and his eventual cure, is , well
worth the price of the movie.
It will remind some movie fans
of the Academy Award winning
picture, “The Lost Weekend.”
The rest of the film falls short . , . ,
of attaining any individuality of ed entertainment of the highest
type; yet each was written and
produced for adult audiences in
film companies have embarked on
an ambitious program involving
the release of a new type of mo
tion picture. This trend in movie
making is called a “movement to
wards maturity.”
Taking their lead from the
British, French, and Italian mov
ie makers, Americans began to
make movies specifically design
ed for the adult audience. Just
how successful these films are—
only time and the box office re
ceipts will prove.
Local movie houses in the Bryan-
College Station area are present
ing good examples of this new
type of motion picture production.
Those who saw “A Place In the
Sun,” “Cyrano de Bergerac” and
“People Will Talk” will agree
Hollywood is on the right track.
Each of these pictures provid-
, , ,, , its own and becomes nothing more
celluloid bad man, he has rubbed a s j ow p acec [ “cops and rob-
out countless numbers of police- bers „ pro(luc t ion S pi ce d with just stead 1] for the overgrown jm
men and rival mobsters, occasion
ally taking time out to slap down a
leading lady.
In “Come Fill the Cup”, the
current attraction at the Cam
pus Theatre, Cagney shows he
can kill a fifth as easily as a
cop.
Cagney plays a crack newspap
er man who can’t hold a job be
cause of his craving for bever
ages labeled “100 proof.” He fin-
the right amount of corn.
Actors Cagney and Young give
two first - rate performances.
Both make good use of the
script’s fast, sharp dialogue. Al
though Cagney gives in excellent
performance as an alcoholic, he
seems more at home with a re
volver roughing up the opposi
tion.
venile Hollywood formerly believ
ed made up the, majority of their
patrons.
“A Streetcar Named Desire”
has every quality needed to make
it an outstandingly successful
picture in light of the new idea.
The script was done by Ten
nessee Williams, author of the
original Broadway play. The
screenplay is a faithful adap
tion of the work which won Wil
liams the New York Drama Crit
ics Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
.. The actors recreate on the
His continual desire for “just
ally develops into an alcoholic and one more drink,” with the know-
loses the job. Fiance Phyllis Thax- ledge that it will rain him, sup-
ter quits the ex-journalist as Cag- plies the film with its greatest
ney begins to go on binges, some suspense. Best scene: The agon- screen the same roles they played
of which last for weeks. On one izing convulsions of an alcoholic so well upon the stage. Marlon
of the all-night sprees he col- as he tries to go for one night Brando and Kim Hunter appeared
lapses in the middle of the street without taking a drink. in the New York production and
and is almost run over by a truck. Seeing “Come Fill the Cup” will Vivian Leigh in the London ver-
result in either a case of bloodshot sion. Their wealth of experience in
eyes or a terrific hangover. (See STREETCAR, Page 4)
After spending a night in the
alcoholic ward of the local hos
pital the former scribe decides
to go on the wagon or not show
up for the last reel. The hero
swears off without ever losing
and desire for drink in order to
get the newspaper job back.
The reporter’s boss decides that
an ex-alcoholic is the man to help
cure a nephew (Gig Young) who
“makes the average alcoholic look
like a piker.”
The Battalion
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
''Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman”
The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of
Texes, is published by students five times a week during the regular school year.
During the summer terms, The Battalion is published four times a week, and during
Cagney decides to help the boy examination and vacation periods, twice a week. Days of publication are Monday
but discovers his assistance has
gotten him in trouble with some
of the local mobsters. His actions
arouse the animosity of the local
gang chief who has the do good re
porter brought in at gun point.
The first portion of “Come Fill
the Cup” keeps the picture from
being classified a grade B melo
drama. This part, which shows
Cagney’s life as an alcoholic bum
through Friday for the regular school year, Tuesday through Friday during the summer
terms, and Tuesday and Thursday during vacation and examination periods. Subscrip
tion rates $6.00 per year or $.60 per month. Advertising rates furnished on request
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