i The Battalion PAGE 2 College Station (Brazos County), Texas Friday, December 20, 1957 Art for Aggies’ Sake By WELTON JONES The annual Christmas program sponsored by the Stu dent Senate in the G. Rollie White! Coliseum last night was a success in a modest fashion, but then it was a modest program, very fitting for the season. Those who attended left with the proper feelings, this column is sure, for the night before Christmas . . . vacation. More important, perhaps, was the demonstration of what results are possible when some of the entertain ment groups on the campus, famous each in their own right, combine their talents. Bill Turner’s 1958 version of the Singing Cadets is the best this column can remember. Col. E. V. Adam’s Band, by sheer force of numbers if nothing else, can produce highly acceptable music other than martial rhy thms. The Aggie Player’s tableau was adequate. All three of these groups will be presented in separate pro grams next semester, and this column awaits the result of each with anticipation. Although it may seem a bit premature to some, the remain ing portion of this column will be devoted to anticipation also; a brief preview of events sche duled on the local entertainment stages and screens during the coming semester, which, after all, will be only four weeks away after the Christmas holidays. Town Hall, a sleeping giant who has lain idle since presenting the Angelaires Harp Quartet in October, will stir itself again in February and burst forth glor iously in March. The San Antonio Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Victor Alessandro, will open the “second season” Feb. 6 with one evening concert. This will be a return performance, the orches tra having last appeared here in 1956. In March, the three final per formances of the year will be “No Time for Sergeants”, the Mac Hyman comedy bf Army Life; The National Ballet of Can ada, and Jose Greco, Spanish dancer supreme. The Aggie Players are current ly in rehearsal preparing one of the most notable entertainments due next year, William Shake- spere’s “Macbeth”. Toby Hughes and Henry Lyle are double-cast as the power-hungry Scottish nobleman whose ambition gets out of control. Scheduled for the Memorial Student Center Ballroom stage Feb. 10 through 14, Macbeth will be presented each evening and for an undisclosed number of matinees. The MSC Recital Series has attracted two shows for the Spring. The first, on Feb. 24, will be the Mitchel-Ruff Duo, a modern jazz pair, and The New Art Wind Quartet, playing wood wind chamber music. In addition to these, MSC will sponsor the annual Intercollegi ate Talent Show March 14, at tracting performers from South western Colleges and Universi ties. The Singing Cadets, referred to above, will present their an nual concert March 18, and on May 9 and 10 another annual event will be staged; the Aggie Follies. While still dwelling on college- sponsored programs, the MSC Film Society has two films in January and a host of others in the Spring. . , James Stewart and Josephine Hull may be seen Jan. 10 as the giant-rabbit-infested family ' of “Harvey” and later Sterling Hay den will scowl and growl his way through “Asphalt Jungle”, the film, by the way, that first ex posed Marilyn Monroe to the pub lic. Next semester’s offerings in clude “The Snows of Kiliman jaro”, “Follow the Sun”, “Julius Ceaser”, “Kind Hearts and Coro nets” (with Alec Guiness) and many others. This group does a real seiwice in presenting these selected movies of the past for a nominal fee. Then too, recently, the movie business has girded itself anew, and, watching television care fully, has produced and is pro ducing some very creditable stuff. The six local theatres usually get around, eventually, to pre senting most of them, although when we see some of them first run here, they are being shown as re-releases by more enterpris ing theatres in other communi ties. At any rate, this being the season of good will, this colump looks with good will and relish at the calender for the coming season. AUeiition Graduating Seniors! hj Big Graduation Sale On Now! Any make, any model, sports cars or family cars. NO DOWN PAYMENT — 36 months to pay Bank rates of interest. New car warranty on new cars. 100% warranty on all used cars. Century Motor Co. ^ 423 S. Main, Bryan TA 3-2524 THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the stu dent writers only. The Battalion is a non-tax-supported, non-profit, self-supporting educational enterprise edited and operated by students as a community newspaper and is gov erned by the student-faculty Student Publications Board at Texas A. & M. College. The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A & M., is published in College Station, Texas, daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and holiday periods, September through May, and once a week during summer school. Faculty members of the Student Publications Board are Dr. Carroll D. Laverty, Chairman; Prof. Donald D. Burchard; Prof. Robert M. Stevenson; and Mr. Bennie Zlnn. Student members a re W. T. Williams, John Avant, and Billy W. Dabby. Ex- officio members'are Mr. Charles A. Roeber; and Ross Strader, Secretary and Direc tor of Student Publications. Mail subscriptions are S3.50 per semester, $6 per school year. 56.50 per full year. Advertising rates furnished on request! Address: The Battalion, Room 4, YMCA, College Station, Texas. . ^;■ *0.*.-..***,^- li •e • 'College Students Feel Flu Publicity Justified Publicity given the threat of an Asian Flu epidemic this fall by the U. S. Department of Public Health was justified, a majority of college students interviewed in a recent poll agreed. The Associated Collegiate Press conducted an interview of a re presentative group of American college men and women. They asked the students the question: “Do you think the Public Health Department was wise in widely publicizing the possibility of an Asian Flu Epidemic, or do you think it should not have given the issue so much publicity? Why? ofr tH* cun I by -TU’ WAV l PIGUBE, IT*. A SAFETY PRECAUTION TO LEAVE EACLVf IP WE WAITED TILL S ATOP DAY. WE'D BE < bLAU&MTET2ED IU TH' MIAD 120‘bM HOME ! u mhIbhmm SHkmMm NA TO-at-A-Glance By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WINDUP: NATO chiefs final ized military — diplomatic de cisions. President Eisenhower said he believed Paris summit conference has “done something to make the ideal of peace a lit tle closer-certainly the chances of war more remote.” STRATEGY: Communique set forth plans to equip NATO na tions in Europe with U. S. 1,500- mile-range missiles and nuclear warheads, linked with arrange ments to k’dep the door open for fresh talks with Moscow on dis armament and perhaps other is sues. Secretary of State Dulles called this “a strategy of vic tory.” POLITICAL: France, annoyed by shipment of British-American arms to Tunisia last month, won a point in the conference decision: Further improvement in political consultation among the Allies is necessary and will be achieved. SCIENCE: A NATO science committee will be set up to pro mote training of scientists and to study a Franch plan for a re search foundation. And “we seek to increase the effectiveness of national efforts through the pool ing of scieptific facilities and in formation Land the sharing of tasks.” 1 Ectered as second-class matter at the Post Office in College Station. Texas, under the Act of Con gress of March 8, 1870. 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News Photbgrapher In warm and frisndly epprseiatien of your fins favors, ws send you Christmas Greetings THE TEXAN 3204 College Ave. SUMMARY: In the words of Secretary General Paul - Henri Spaak of Belgium: “We have es tablished this policy line: 1. The will to defend ourselves; 2. The will to talk.” The jolly ol’ gentleman paid A&M a visit a couple of nights ago, but he didn’t stay long. The cubby little man with his bowl-of-jclly-typc belly, bopped into Sbisa Hall Wednesday shout ing the traditional “Ho-Ho, Meeery Christmas” bit. Apparently, lots of the short- haired set in the area had sup pressed desires to discuss what they wanted to find in their stock ings 25 December, because a mob of them, rushed to the blob from the North Pole. Now, this Santa must have lead a very sheltered life. Instead of hoisting the fish on his knee, like Santas should, he dashed to his 210 reindeer-powered sleigh-bird and blasted off. A source' which wished to re main anonymous, said that as he turned onto Highway 6, the fat chimney sweep, turned in his sleigh-bird and said, “Aaaaaaah!” (You see, even santa clauses can get heartburn from eating in the messhall.) islutttj tjou of (filmslmas During the past year it has been a sincere pleasure to have the privilege of serving you. May you have a truly wonderful Christmas and may every road you take in the New Year lead to happiness and success. LEON IL WEISS STOKE Next to Campus Theatre North Gate Sixty-six percent of the stu dents thought the publicity pro gram was wise. Thirty percent thought the publicity unwise and four percent were undecided. More men interviewed thought the health department wise in its policy than women but there was no apparent explanation for this difference. Expressing the majority, opin ion, a University of Vermont sophomore felt the publicity had even more far reaching effects and that without it “ . . .many peophe might not have realized the seriousness of possible com plications.” The publicity gave more people a chance to prepare for the epidemic, observed a Bradley Uni versity freshman. Others interviewed believed the publicity unwarranted, a Colorado State College freshman said: “There was so much publicity over this epidemic that the public became overly concerned and wor ried without cause.” A senior from Biola College thought the publicity foolish. “While it alerted the public, it also gave them cause for panic and justifiable psychosomatic dis orders,” he noted. 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