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The Battalion
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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.
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'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?
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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
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A. Cecil Wamble, head of the
Cottonseed Products Research
Laboratory of the Texas Engineer
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was appointed assistant-treasurer
of the International Oil Mill Super
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A writing by S. P. Clark, as
sociate research engineer of the
Texas Engineering Experiment
Station, is the lead article in the
December, 1957 issue of their jour
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Clark’s story “Cleaning Cotton
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describes how to obtain effective
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delinting stage of cottonseed pro
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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.)
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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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