The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, March 20, 1942 Page: 2 of 4
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The first performance of Beeth-
oven's Ninth Symphony in Vienna
was one of the most amazing con-
certs which has ever taken plaee.
The program consisted of The Con-
secration of the House, the Kyrie,
Credo, and Agnus Dei of the Missa
Solemnis, and the Ninth itself. It
took place on the 7th of May, 1824
and the theater was packed.
At the close of the scherzo the
audience let itself go and broke out
in tumultuous applause, Beethoven,
- tanding with his back to the audi-
ence. stone deaf, did not realize
what was going" on until Fraulein
l.'nger, the contralto soloist, turned
him around to face the audience.
Then the applause really started.
Inadequate Rehearsals
The performance certainly left
much to be desired. Inadequate re*
hearsals, two conductors (Beeth-
oven insisted on beating time simul-
taneously with the great fiddler,
Schuppanzigh) and a multitude of
other inadequacies and superfluities
must have made very little impres-
- ion on the Viennese audience which
was drunk with the spirit of "AUe
Menschen werden Brueder," "Seid
amschlungen M i 1 1 i on e n ! Riesen ;
Ku.-s dei' ganzen Welt!" and the !
* remendous display of creative fer-
tility before them.
.Monday night next will probably
'ring a much better performance of I
the Beethoven Ninth by the Hous- '
ton Symphony Orchestra than 1824 j
Vienna saw. On that night, there '
vil! be no deaf composer on the po- I
dium, unconsciously beating time. .
making the audience's tears flow. '
But the best that Beethoven had to
t.ff« r. ins music, will be there, mak-
ing e v e * y b o d y happy that not.
Marksmen Hit 876
For Hearst Match
Three " 'octed. teams from the
\ i;i i |'t tii fd the Hearst Trophy
Mutch /'t'jfn the riflt- runye Saturday. •
\ It hough -eo? e.s from all three
e<i:11-■ wen- not announced, the 870
i «:oi ded >y tiie first team of five
was ex per' ed to -tand !iii>h in the
i e-mpetit.on with schools from ali i
.■V i the it a t i ftn. The cadets who
; :ed were: First team, Brumlow,
\ .vlrt-i. Fugate, (iillis. Fortune; sec- !
e.nd team, Fowler, Simms, Sills,;
P i e s c o t t, Purnell: third team, |
Sparks, Starkey, Deonecke, Wright, J
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Gluh Ideupi
The Writing Club met Monday
night at the home of Mary Emily
Miller.
The Choral Club held its weekly
meeting Wednesday night at the
home of Dorothy Richey with regu-
lar rehearsal followed by bridge and
the serving of refreshments. The
next scheduled meeting will be held
at. Autry House Wednesday at 7:45.
The Presbyterian Student Asso-
ciation met T h u r s d a y at Autry
House.
The Student Religious Council
held a called meeting Thursday aft-
ernoon at Autry House.
Payne
everywhere has the idea that "All
mankind" (and that means every-
body, in Schiller's Ode) "shall be as
brothers" perished.
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Baptist Council
Names Delegates
For Campus Group
The BSU Council held a meeting
at Autry House at noon Tuesday to
consider the election of representa-
tives to the campus Religious Coun-
cil for the coming year. Ralph Ford,
Mose Allen Tread well, and Dorothy
Lanman were chosen as the repre-
sentatives.
The council began consideration
of the spring program and the BSU
banquet. A meeting was set for
Sunday afternoon at the home of
Dorothy Dell Hall to select the
council members for next year.
Mrs. R. Graham Jackson has re-
signed hc-r position as Rice BSU
student secretary, it was announced
at the noon BSU prayer - meeting
Tuesday,
.Mrs. Jackson came here from
Southwestern Seminary of F o r t
Worth in 1980 to take ttjt; /ampus
secretaryship.
The BSU enlistment of students
reached its present record under her
direction of the organization.
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Glamour Preferred■
Continued from page 1
drama circles earlier this year as
the murdered count in "I Killed the
Count," was at his profile-mugging
best as Kerry Eldrige, 50 per cent
of the so-called model marriage of
Hollywood. Ann Bridges gave a
delicate.' though perhaps a bit too-
casual performance as Lynn El-
dridge, Kerry's long-suffering ex-
comedienne wife, who is trying to
keep her sense of humor and values
in a mad house mislabeled "Home.
Sweet Home,"
The Other Woman is well cast,
with Peggy Johnston playing Lady
Bonnie Towyn. an old flame of
Clamour Boy Eldridge. Her hus-
band, Sir Hubert Towyn, is played
by Oscar Cadwallader.
Supporting charaeterr are played
by Nancy Allen Blackemore. Betty
Jo .Jones, Jim Hargrove, Beth Ann
Dent. Andy Hahn, Jerry Dobleman,
Julian Williams, Nell Poole, Eldred
Robinson. Jimmie Brown, Sophie
Wheeler, Edd Payne, and Warren
Woodward.
Outstanding performance among
these Were turned in by Miss Blake-
more, who played the perfect social
secretary; Hahn, the loose-jointed
press agent; Dobleman, the hard-
boiled Hollywood producer with a
heart of gold; and Miss Poole, who
played with vigor the irrepressible
president of the Knights and Ladies
of Purity. June, the Great Dane,
who subbed in for the lion called
for in the script, completed the ros-
ter of well done characteristiza-
tions.
o —
HARVEY
AM-YOUR-MAN
FOR
PRESIDENT
STUDENT ASS'N
Slimes Offer-
Continued from page 1
garet Viekrey, chairman, Estelle
I.indsey, Shirley Rowell, Jack Mc-
fonn, Mary Clarke Jarvis; conces-
sions: Malcolm May, chairman, Sel-
lers Thomas, Jack Herbst, D. B.
Lundy; decorations; Maribel Spiller,
chairman, Stayton Nuntl, Mollie
Alexander, Benton Davis, Bill Bra-
zell; publicity: Jack Dickson, chair-
man; Nelson Duller, John Bricker,
Betty Bills.
Taylor and Dwelle passed up a
Pre-Law party to attend a dance at
Hermann with Vera and Dorothy.
. . . Lida May Blahopolo is wheel*
ing her boy friend's Lincoln Zephyr
while he hoofs it at Ft. Crockett.
. . , We hope everyone who makes
the Osteon returns intact. . . . Lib
Potter and an Ellington Field cadet
took in Tommy Dorsey last week.
. . . The toughest race in the forth-
coming elections will be for vice-
prexy of the Association. . , . Lake
Fowler is sweating Skeeter Lewis.
. . . Smitty has got that glum look
on her face again—she's lost Kin-
ney . . . again! . . . Chet Palmer al-
most missed the Kansas City trip
when he and an Education class-
mate tarried too long outside the
station Wednesday. . . . Margie
Weiser is back in town. . . . Billy
Christopher, Bob Tresch and Frank
i Smith are all courting Molly Alex-
ander. . . . Red Anderson and Eu-
genia Gantt had a date the other
night . . . wonder if it's the old, old
story? . . . Jane Barnes is working
hard to snare Wally Chappell . . .
Ann Bridges and Juan Vina can't
blame the play for all those dates
they've been having. . . . Orchids to
Nell Poole and Betty Jo Jones for
t, h e i l' performances in "Glamour
Preferred" . . . also to Beth Ann
Dent and her classy costumes. . . .
David Farnsworth and Lib Knapp
are together again—old flames, but
there's nothing but Smoke. . . .
Question of the week: Ask Grace
Picton why she is called the "Baby
Bather."
Buck Wright continues to cast
speculative eyes on half a dozen
campus belles, but refuses to settle
down.
jPhysicist Need
May Hit 80,000,
j Bridgman Says
The national demand for physi-
j cists, needed badly for wartime
: technical tasks and vital research.
i may hit <•>(),000 during the emer-
gency, Dr. P. W. Bridgman said
here Saturday.
On the campus to deliver the an-
nual Sigma Xi lecture, the Mollis
professor of mathematics and nat-
ural science at Harvard asserted
that his own university may begin
requiring physics of all undergrad-
uates next semester.
Sigma Xi Initiation
Dr. Bridgman was the guest of
honor at the Faculty Club Saturday
night as the campus affiliate of
Sigma Xi, national society for the
promotion of scientific research,
initiated Dr. Szolem Mandelbrojt,
visiting professor of mathematics,
and Donald V. Moore, graduate biol-
ogy student, and 12 associate mem-
bers. Earlier Saturday he attended
an informal luncheon with members
of the physics and mathematics fac-
ulties. He was the house guest of
Dr. H. A, Wrilson, professor of
physics with whom he worked dur-
ing the last war at the Naval Ex-
perimental Station in New London,
Conn.
Dr. Bridgman and Dr. Wilson col-
laborated with other research
physicists in developing the binau-
ral submarine detector in 1916.
The visiting scientist lectured at
8:15 Saturday night in the Physics
Amphitheatre, discussing labora-
tory procedure by which he devel-
oped controllable pressures in the
vicinity of 400,000 atmospheres, or
(1,000,000 pounds to the square inch.
the engineering society
and dates are turning out for a
barbecue supper Sunday, March 28,
at the Spring Branch Gun Club.
There will be an orchestra for danc-
ing afterwax-ds.
margaret turner
will become the bride of John
Schroeder tonight at 8 at Grace
Methodist Church. Mary A i 1 e e n
Turner is her maid of honor, and
Betty Anne Turner will be her oth-
er attendant. Robert Hill will serve
as best man, and Jack Turner,
Royce Burton, George Cox, and
Lyle Austin will be ushers. Mrs. W.
E. Murphree (Jackie Cribbs) gave
Margaret a linen shower last Mon-
day at her mother's home. Mrs. Per-
ry Francis entertained with a lunch-
eon at home on Tuesday.
owls members
and their dates plan to take ad-
vantage of the spring weather this
Sunday. They are holding a picnic
on grounds near the Katy Road.
ruth wilbern,
Vivian Pennington, and June Sie-
gert entertained Mrs. Bill Landrum,
the former Sylvia Odem, with a
household shower Wednesday night.
Gifts were presented in a treasure
hunt.
visiting the campus
last week were Frank Guernsey
and Perry Chandler, both now sec-
ond lieutenants in the Air Corps.
miss carolyn conway '41
and Scott Adams '40 were mar-
ried at St. Paul's Methodist Churcn
Wednesday evening. The bride's
only attendant was Miss Marjory
Adams, sister of the groom, and the
groom's best man was Pete Sehley
'40. After the wedding the parents
of the bride held a reception at their
home for relatives and close friends.
The couple will live in Harlingen,
where Lieutenant Adams is an in-
structor in the Air Corps.
0^..* .
Lasher wins
Wor on Weather!
For years, telephone cable has been hung by stiff wire rings
from its supporting strand. But repeated expansion and con-
traction caused by temperature changes sometimes proved
too much for even the best cable sheath. Fatigue cracks
developed near the poles — this meant leaks — possible ser-
vice interruptions—expensive repairs.
Recently, men of the Bell System developed a machine
that lashes the cable and strand together in such a way that
the concentration of strains near the poles is minimized.
The Cable Lasher has also proved a great aid in the speedy
installation of some of the new cables needed for airfields,
camps, bases and war factories.
There are many opportunities in the Bell System for men
with the urge-— and the ability—-to do a job better than it
has ever been done before.
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