Page 12 THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1979
Not boring, but bed
may put you to sleep
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WASHINGTON — In the wake
of the water bed, which flooded the
market a few years ago, the United
States Patent Office has issued Pa
tent 4,055,866 on a new kind of bed
for insomniacs.
Frank Evans, a psychiatrist
trained at Yale and Harvard and
with research experience at the Na
tional Institute of Health, has in
vented what he calls a “bedder” to
help many of his patients get a good
night’s rest, according to Intellec
tual Property Owners, Inc., a non
profit group dedicated to preserving
the U.S. patent system.
Evans’ creation consists of two-
by-two-foot stretch nylon bags filled
with about 25 pounds of tiny plastic
beads.
Compared with the water bed,
Evans says, his bedder weighs less
and doesn’t “ripple” or continue to
shift once the user has settled in.
Play filled with society hypocrasies
‘Threepenny Opera’ fun, not slapstici
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By PEGGY C. McCULLEN
Battalion Reporter
If for no other reason than to see a realistic hooker on stage, spend
an evening with the Aggie Players in Rudder Theater viewing
“Threepenny Opera. ”
It is amusing, but not slapstick comedy. For the more questioning
mind, social messages can be detected in the antics.
More than a chuckle will be found in the pursuit of a super-thief by
a king of the pauper society. The only problem is, the king’s daughter
is in love with the bigamous criminal.
The musical is full of opera-range lyrics, sung by a number of
vibrant voices. Mrs. Peachum held on to a high B flat that would
shatter Ella Fitzgerald’s crystal. Even Mackie the Knife, who was still
singing when he was jailed by his best friend, the commissioner,
could be clearly heard without the help of a microphine.
And those hookers. Naughty, naughty, naughty. From the gutter
to the sophisticated call girl, the second oldest profession in the world
was well shown by these ladies. The streetsinger (Coaxer) aroused
more than understanding from her audience.
The crooked businessmen, who wear purity but exhibit the eyes of
the devil, draw strong parallels to society which utilites the face of
poverty for monetary gain.
The beggars, who look so pathetic, will siphon a tear from the
coldest of hearts.
Participants pity poor but pretty Polly Peachum when her new
found lover (who marries a different woman every time he changes
outfits) goes away and she laments his arrival in prison, only to meet
face to face with one of his women and sing a battling duet with claws
exposed.
The musicians, playing actual manuscript music used in the off-
Broadway production of “Threepenny Opera,” thoroughly cover their
parts under the direction of Anna Marie Guffy.
Overall the play is full of laughter and songs with underlying
themes which expose hypocrisies of any society that defines the good
guy and the bad guy.
But in this play, it’s hard to tell which one is which.
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for students and $3 for non-students. Ticketi
may be bought at the MSC box office or at the
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ATTENTION
BOSTON TICKET HOLDERS
Variety show forms due Friday
Refunds for the Boston concert
scheduled on February 11
begin Monday, February
beginning at 9:00 a.m. at
MSC Box Office.
By TRACY WILLIAMS
Battalion Reporter
Get out the top hat, cane and
dance shoes. The variety show is
back at Texas A&M University after
a 10-year absence.
Applications for auditions must be
turned into the Student Programs
Office (216 MSC) by 5 p.m. Friday.
A non-refundable $5 fee is also re
quired for auditions, which are set
for March 2-4.
The variety show is scheduled for
March 23.
“The show will act as a forum in
which talented students, faculty and
staff of A&M can perform,” said
Dorothy DuBois, chairman of the
MSC All University Variety Show
Committee. "And it will provide an
evening of entertainment for the
Refunds will be given until
March 9. Although the MSC
Town Hall Committee had no
control over the cancellation,
we wish to extend our apologies
for your inconvenience.
Gambling, racing, cancan girls
all found on MSC Casino night
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By SALLY DREYFUS
Battalion Reporter
Where at Texas A&M University
can crap tables, blackjack, horse rac
ing and casino girls be found?
At Casino 79 in the Memorial
Student Center.
Anyone interested in being a
casino girl, one who assists dealers
at their assigned tables, should go
by room 216 of the MSC (Student
Programs Office) and fill out an ap
plication.
Deadline for application is Fri
day.
Mill
The Las Vegas style event will be
April 20, and tickets will cost $2.50.
A ticket entitles the bearer to
$3,000 worth of “Aggie money.”
“Money” won from gambling can
be used to purchase prizes at a 10:30
p.m. auction.
Prizes are donated by local area
merchants and last year included
such things as: a television, a 10-
speed bicycle, calculators, free
dinner and movie passes and a suite
for two at a local hotel.
Live entertainment will last all
night at the seventh annual Casino
and will feature eight cancan girls.
“We’ve got something out there
for everybody,” Minor Stanley, as
sistant chairman for Casino said.
Last year about 3,500 people at
tended Casino, Stanley said, but
this year more are expected.
“We ll have more space this year
and more people working so it won’t
be as crowded,” he said.
Casino ’79 will begin at 7:30 p.m.
and last until about midnight.
Tickets go on sale April 15 in the
Commons, Sbisa, the MSC and out
side the Academic Building.
university community.”
Talent is sought in music, dance
drama, comedy, magic, juggling and
acrobatics.
"Basically, other than the written
guidelines, the only restriciions
placed on the acts are those imposed
by the imagination,” DuBois said.
Written guidelines state that the in
dividual must not have a contract
with a professional entertainment
agency, nor can he have earned
more than 50 percent of his total in
come from performances.
DuBois said both the audition and
the show acts will be judged on
showmanship and the quality of per
formance. The judges have been
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DuBois said a similar ^America
show was at Texas A&M until ah)
10 years ago.
“They just died off, but we k)
that this show will get stroni
every year.
She said that when the showii
become stronger, it will be cl
into an intercollegiate variety il» feta Indians,
with talent from other schools.
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In Mozart’s merriest musical,
absence makes the heart go wander.
A cynical old bachelor, who’s determined to
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Dr. Rhea Seddon, one of six women training
for manned space-shuttle missions planned to begin next year, re
turned home Tuesday night for a brief visit and a break in her rigor
ous schedule.
The former City of Memphis Hospital surgeon and University ol
Tennessee medical school graduate is undergoing training with
men and the women at the National Aeronautics and Space Adminii
tration’s Johnson Space Center at Houston.
Seddon, 31, was one of six women chosen in January 1978 fron
8,079 applicants, among them 1,554 female applicants, seeking
tronaut positions. m
Her intensive two-year training period ends in July 1980, when
Seddon expects to learn if she will be selected as the first America
female astronaut to be fired into space as a mission specialist,
Seddon, who had a private pilot license before joining NASA, ii
now learning to fly T38 trapner jets.
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