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College Station, Texas
Wednesday, July 25, 1973
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Nostalgic Movie On Wartime A&M Tops At Groveof
A reminder of the days when a
trip from A&M to Bryan was a
trip exists at the University.
It happens every evening when
when Rich McHenry unlocks the
gates at the Grove.
As the stars come out, movies
flash onto the Grove screen like
they formerly did at Guion Hall.
McHenry, a 23-year-old ac
counting major, has managed the
Grove four years. Except for
weather variations, he says, the
“movies under the stars” are as
popular as they ever were.
The movies are free to ID-car-
rying students. Others are ad
mitted at very moderate cost for
the second-run films.
Quite a few people missed
them the first time around, ac
cording to Grove attendance.
“For the last three years we
averaged 230 a night,” comment
ed McHenry. “This year it’s
about 180, mainly because of the
weather. About 75 per cent are
from on-campus.”
The Grove movie was rained
out only once this summer. The
threat of rain held crowds down
other nights. McHenry still ex
pects 16,000, for 78,000 in four
years.
What brings them out ? Pic
tures like “Bonnie and Clyde,”
“Green Berets,” “Kelly’s Heroes”
OP AS Ticket
Deadline Nears
Wednesday, Aug. 1, is the dead
line for buying option season
tickets to the Opera and Per
forming Arts Society’s debut
season.
OPAS will present Opera Star
Norman Treigle in “The Mar
riage of Figaro,” Pianist Van
Cliburn, The National Ballet of
Washington and Violinist Itzhak
Perlman, among other nationally
prominent artists.
“Option tickets are selling ex
ceptionally well,” noted OPAS
executive director Wayne Stark.
Option season tickets are avail
able to OPAS members at the
Student Program Office in the
Memorial Student Center. For
information, call 845-4671.
OPAS membership can still be
obtained before the option ticket
deadline, which assures choice
seats in the new 2,500-seat audi
torium in A&M’s University
Center.
Memberships will still be avail
able after Aug. 1, but season
tickets go on sale to the general
public the next day.
OPAS opens Dec. 5 with the
Perlman concert.
Dollar Named
Committee Head
Fred Dollar, food services di
rector at A&M, has been elected
to the Texas Restaurant Associ
ation’s executive committee.
Dollar also was named chair
man of the legislative committee
at the July meeting of TRA’s
Officers and Advisory Council at
Austin.
He currently chairs the legal
and legislative committee of the
National Association of College
and Universtiy Food Service.
A&M’s Food Services Depart
ment encompasses the three main
campus dining halls and snack
bars at the golf shop, in the
Memorial Student Center addi
tion and Krueger-Dunn Hall. The
University Tower restaurant,
cafeteria at the Research Annex
and other facilities are under
Food Services Department super
vision.
Bulletin Board
WEDNESDAY
Young Republicans will meet
at 7 p.m. in Room 104-C of the
Zachry Engineering Center to
discuss plans to go to Austin to
participate in Maurice Angly’s
State Senate campaign. Mem
bers are reminded that a letter
to the President will be drafted,
voter registration for the fall
will be discussed and the Nixon
stickers are in.
THURSDAY
Radio Committee will meet at
7:30 in Room 202 of the Physics
Building.
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and “Fail Safe,” according to
Rich, a senior from Vienna, Va.
“The best attendance is for
‘tiger flicks,’ you know, war
movies,” the student manager
said. “Where Eagles Dare,”
“Guns of Navarone” and “Kelly’s
Heroes” were cited as examples.
The record of 1,500 was for
“We’ve Never Been Licked” in a
summer showing three years ago.
A movie made at A&M about
A&M, it regularly draws better
than average crowds.
“We’ve Never Been Licked”
shows again Aug. 1, in a double
feature with “The Wolfman.”
McHenry believes the day will
come when “We’ve Never Been
Licked” will no longer show.
“We’re super careful with the
two copies Mr. (Hal) Gaines
keeps in the vault, but they can’t
last forever,” he explained. The
two prints were made 10 years
ago from a negative held by a
Houston firm. Shortly afterward
a fire in their vaults destroyed
the negative.
“There may be other nega
tives,” McHenry said, “but we
don’t know where.”
Projector gates scratch the
film, preventing making good
copies from those now owned by
the Association of Former Stu
dents.
McHenry runs the Grove with
the help of a five-person crew.
There are three projectionists,
including Rich, to look after the
vintage 16mm projectors. They
are war surplus and kept running
by careful attentions of A1 Thiele-
man, MSC maintenance special
ist in electronics, and McHenry.
Grove concessions are the re
sponsibility of the other three
crewmen.
Rich also works lights on the
Town Hall crew, in the Rotary
Series stage crew and is a mem
ber of the Travel Committee. It
shows “We’ve Never Been
Licked” during the regular school
year to assist its Overseas Trav
el Loan Fund.
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