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THE BATTALION
Friday, March 21, 1952
Vivian Leigh, Bogart
Receive Top Oscars
Hollywood, March 21 — (IP) —
Humphrey Bogart, Vivien Leigh
and “An American in Paris” won
the principal Oscars last night in
Hollywood’s annual Academy
Awards festival.
Bogart was an obvious senti
mental selection for best actor
award as the gin-loving skipper in
“The African Queen.” Miss Leigh
was a pre-award favorite for the
best actress Oscar for her por
trayal of a faded beauty in “Street
car Named Desire.”
But the upset mood of the night
in the Pantages theater prevailed
in the best picture award—“An
American in Paris” was the first
musical to win this honor and most
of the pre-award polls figured
“Streetcar'” as a runaway choice.
Sentimental Year
It was a sentimental year and
Bogie summed it up best himself:
“I have been around a long time.
Maybe the people like me.”
Bogie’s performance as the un
shaven boatskipper in “The Afri
can Queen” was the popular choice.
It brought down the house—a fan
cy ermined and white tied house
ful of the movieland elite.
Karl Malden, the disillusioned
lover of “Streetcar,” won the
award for the best supporting ac
tor and Kim Hunter, the wife in
“Streetcar,” won the best support
ing actress plum. They were fa
vorites.
The biggest upset of the night,
if not in years, was the victory for
“American in Paris.” It was the
first out and out musical ever to
win the grand prize. Most experts
figui'ed it last in their selections.
A good musical, it was not classed
in the same breath with “Street
car” and “A Place in The Sun.”
But it‘won, nevertheless, to open-
mouthed applause.
Other Oscars
The musical also won Oscars in
these categories:
Costume design, art direction,
set decoration, cinematography (all
these in color films), musical scor
ing, story-and-screenplay
In addition to these, Gene Kelly,
Miller Judges
Florida Exhibit
Dr. J. C. Miller, head of the ani
mal husbandry department, is
judging the Imperial National
Brahman Show and Sale in Bar
tow, Florida. The show is spon
sored by the American Brahman
Breeders Association.
Competing for national honors
will be herds from the south and
southwest and cattlemen from all
over the world will attend.
Dr. Miller also attended the
meeting of the Texas and South
western Cattle Raisers Associa
tion in Fort Worth Tuesday and.
Wednesday.
Geology Students
Visit Hearne Field
T. R. Goedicke, assistant profes
sor in the geology department,
and his students in geology 436
(Interpretation of Geophysical
Data) visited the field office in
Hearne of the National Geophysi
cal Company. W. Hoagland, party
chief, invited the group. The trip
was made March 12.
After a demonstration of seis
mic records the computers answer
ed questions and discussed various
methods of interpretation of the
results, a* well as different types
of subsurface structures.
the picture’s star, won an honorary
award for his “brilliant achieve
ments in the art of choreography
on film ”
The Irving Thalberg Memorial
Award went to Producer Arthur
Freed. Producer Darryl Zanuck
said in presenting it that two of
Freed’s pictures “Showboat” an d
“An American in Paris,” are “per
fect examples of creative art.”
Bogart’s win was partly due to
sentiment and partly due to old
fashioned campaigning. While fa
vored Marlon Brando cavorted
around Europe, Bogie put on a
whirlwind campaign. He hired a
personal press agent and sold the
1700 Academy members on Bogart.
He kidded one columnist who had
even failed to pick him among
prospective nominees:
Engineer’s Day
Will Be Held
Here May 3
The School of Engineering
will celebrate Engineers Day
May 3, according to a plan en
dorsed by the heads of the de
partments in the School of En
gineering and the Student En
gineers Council. The program will
be featured by an engineering
convocation at 11 a. m., a faculty
luncheon at noon, and an engineer
ing dance Saturday night in the
MSC.
Dr. J. D. Lindsay, head of the
department of chemical engineer
ing, is chairman of the committee
in charge of the convocation pro
gram. The principal feature of
this event will be the presenta
tion and recognition of awai-ds won
by undergraduate students in the
School of Engineering for the pre
sent school year. The speaker for
the occasion has not yet been se
lected.
The engineers dance will be held
at the MSC and be open to faculty,
students, and their guests. Tick
ets are now being prepared and
will be available soon in each de
partmental office in the School of
Engineering.
Music will be furnished by the
Prairie View Collegians.
Philosophy Course
Claims 39 Students
Thirty-nine students are enroll
ed in Administration 403, History
of Philosophy, a course which re
lates the thinking of great phil
osophers to problems existing to
day.
The aim of the course is to in
still into students the ability to
project problems of the past into
our time and consider how philoso
phy has influenced history, Di\
Josef Stadelman, the instructor,
said.
Seniors May Compete
In Speech Contest
All senior students are eligible
to participate in the Mother’s Day
Speech Contest sponsored by the
Bryan Chapter, ofthe Texas Bar
Association, the English Depart
ment announced.
Students wishing to compete for
prizes should contact Dr. Jack P.
Clark, English department, as soon
as possible.
“I guess I’m one dark horse who
came up fast in the stretch.”
The 51-year-old Bogart once
called Academy Awards “silly” but
not this one. He said he was go
ing to take it home and “put it on
a table ” However, he added, “I
still hold to my original thinking’—
that it’s not a matter of the best
actor, it’s who gets the best parts.
Bogart had been up twice be
fore—in 1936 for “The Petrified
Forest” and in 1943 for “Casablan
ca.”
Bogie said he fell easily into the
comic role of the gin loving vaga
bond in “African Queen.”
Miss Leigh, appearing on Broad
way with her husband, Sir Laur
ence Oliver, was not present. Greer
Garson accepted in her behalf. An
other absentee was Miss Hunter.
Betty Davis accepted her statuette.
Best Director
The one sure bet of the evening
who came through was George
Stevens who took the best direc
tion award for his “A Place In the
Sun.”
“In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the
Evening,” also a favorite, won the
best song award for composers
Johnny Mercer and Hoagy Carmi
chael
By a twist of fate “African
Queen” just barely made this year’s
entry list. Producer S. P. Eagle
made a hectic trans-Atlantic flight
with the only print available in or
der to get in the Academy race.
Shown in this country a few
days before Christmas, it made the
deadline with only hours to spare.
Atom Chicks
Plan First
BirthdaySoon
A&M’s atomic chickens will cele
brate their first birthday soon.
“Tests to determine the effects
*>f atomic radiation on fertility and
hatchability of chickens will be
completed in the near future,” Dr.
J. H. Quisenberry, professor of
poultry husbandry, said.
Over 200 cockerels and roosters
have been subjected to atomic rad
iation. Each of these males is
then mated with five normal hens.
The fertilized eggs from these
matings are trapnested and in
cubated.
After the eggs are hatched, the
results of fertility and hatchabil
ity are tabulated and compared
with results from ordinary chick
ens.
These experiments have been
carried out with the aid and super
vision of the Atomic Energy Com
mission.
Fred Hale Consults
With Parke-Davis
Fred Hale, Professor of Animal
Husbandry, has just returned from
a trip to Detroit, Mich., where he
met with officials of the Parke-
Davis Co. at their request to dis
cuss doing some work regarding
the use of Chloromycetin mycelial
meal in rations and swine.
Included in the group conferred
with was Dr. H. O. Von Rosen
berg who has been with Parke-
Davis Company for 23 years and
who graduated at A&M in the
School of Veterinary Medicine in
1920.
It is largely through the ef
forts of Dr. Von Rosenberg that
this conference was held. A grant
of money to carry on this work is
anticipated in the near future.
Short Course Set
By BA Department
A real estate short course spon
sored by the department of busi
ness administration and the Texas
Real Estate Association is sche
duled here March 27 and 28.
Dr. L. E. Davids Sr., associate
professor of business, will . be
chairman.
Registration will be at 10 a. m.
March 27 in the MSC lobby. Reg
istration of 250 is expected.
All meetings will be conducted
in the ballroom and assembly
room.
Thei’e will be a banquet March
27 at 7 p. m. in the ballroom and
a luncheon March 28.
Local Residents Become
Parents ol Boy, Girl
^lr. and Mrs. Edgar Morris,
1206 Foster, are the parents of 7
pound 11 ounce girl born March
17.
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Sutphen are
the parents of a son bom Maxxh
19. He weighed 7 pounds 872 oun
ces.
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