The Rambler (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 29, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 8, 1940 Page: 1 of 4
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Let's Attend
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We're Proud
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TW Golf Team
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POUT WORTH. TEXAS WRtfNKSDAY, MAYS. 1940.
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Working His Way through!
NUMBER 29.
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Four Readers
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Compete Today
In Poetry Meet
ht pupils of Miss Katherine
Lr. head cf the piano de-
ent. performed last night in
Icond annual all-concerto re-
tire Fine Arts auditorium.
[program was the climax of
kr's work done by advanced
(students. The first concer-
Kratn, presented last spring,
»ved to bts one of the first
[lsind given in tips part of
(untry. It received such ap-
that the all-concerto pro-
Jwill probably be a regular
of the usual Spring reel-
son.
Ibers and artists were:
IcertO ,in. G Minor, First
Lnt1"' (Mend^lsstohn), by
|nc Dunn and Mary H'ope
"Concerto in D Minor,
lavement" (Mozart), by
; Morgan and: Dunn; "Con-
|n D Minor, Second Move-
(Mendelssohn), by Mary
line Davis and Miss Kiland-
jjneerto in C Major, Third
hent" (BecVioven). 1^
(y Hagard and Jane Fergu-
Coneerto in D Minor, Second
lent" (Rubinstein), by Jane j
fcor and Miss Hagard; '^TWC Sweetheart
(Francki, by Misses Per- , r» * 7 1
nd Hagard; and "Concer- ^ODg l\i aV DC Heard
Minor. Third Movement" /\ r» j.
well), by Marie Plummer Un Kadio rrogram
ss Ferguson. j
Fred Waring may use the song
Young-blood Wins
Boaz Oratory Award
With Original Speech
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if the numbers were played j f
pianos. The pi'Qgran^was
isweeth. art of
"Pleasure Time
Glamburger Coy Graham Kyle
—Bill Wood Photo,
Courtesy Star-Telegram
Fort Worth's First
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Glamburger Boy
Attracts Ladies
Last Friday night a car drove
into,, Bradley's on Vaughn, Boule-
vard for curb service. The "car con-'
tained two couples. When a person
came cut to take their ,prder, thi j
T'vl ■ in the car screamed and told :
the hoys to drive away. When the i
automobile was again in tho street, 1
the boys were ordered to drive i
book ;nto such a position that the I
"•iris were on the opposite "side of
the drive-in.
The obi 2ct of this confusion wore
brief bluo short s. a white shirt
rw'th an ov r-sized blue "B" em-
b'azoned on the front), white
socks, and whit ? shoes. It was Fort
Worth's first glamburger boy—
vOrnham Gillis Kyle, TW freshman.
Graham has entered competition
with girl hops on th theory that
"••'rls mieht sometime eat while j
lWC" on hJs
Intativeoof many diff rent J *»"* broadcast over
of music. Mendelssohn is 'NBC some Friday_evening as a
"the clasic romanticist.'" , sa'u^e t° Texas esleyan.. Mrs.
is known as a pure class- ( Sargent Hill, formerly Miss Billye v,nv„ friends were elsewhere. His j
Beethoven's , works are a Louyse Mullins, revealed Monday employers testify that a substantial,
the bridge between classi- , that sent the song, her com- increase has been made in feminine ■
6id romanticism. A Russian position, to Waring about two ( s;rcP th° advrt of th glam-
Inalist is the term applied weeks ago ynder the title "Be- ^M1wnr hov. Mrs. Brndley is cort-
Imstoin. Franck is consider-: neath a Thousand Stars." gratu'ating herself on .having con-
[first of the French modersn. ! "Sweetheart of TWC" was the peived the plan of using Kyle in
veil is called the greatest name given the tune when it was enmrv tition with scarccrtv-clad j
an romanticist. ; used in the Sweetheart Revue in glamburger girls scattered over the j
February. Mrs. Hill entered it in e't.v. She honed to ke<?n ur> with
Margaret Breedlove, Lorene
Lamkin, Carl Lesta Davis, (and
Glen Conrad were contestants in
the finals of the Hogsett. Poetry
readia(0contest held in chapel this
morning
T. J. Ycungblood, sophomore
from Fort Worth, won first prize
in th3 Boiiz oratorical contest fin-
als helcrMonday. "The Brighter
Side" was the title of his original
speech.
Wilson Canafax, senior from
Dallas, and Lee Griffin, sophomor?,
from McAdootook, second and
third places;| respectively. Cana-
fax's subject was "Tragedy" of
Youth." Griffin spoke on "Muss
der." « •
Dr. Norton Ta'lev. asQciat.' pro-
per cf soeech at Texas State Col-
i -.on for Women, Denton, judged
th? oratorical cont st. Dr. Talley,
n graduate of the University of
Iowa, formerly taught ^t the Ne-
braska Wesleyan college. He won
a contest similar to the local one
when he was an undergraduate stu-
dent at Simpson's collage in Iowa.
Mrs. McMillan McClean, speech
Instructor at Southern Methodist
univrslty, Dallas,' judged the poe-
try readers.
Tn h?s winn'ri" orptlon "Vounfr-
that thoop who feel it
♦ rivtv +o. sav that jro'SH® peo-
-i' rin not hnvo a c,ha"c \ and that
th"v ha^o a hard fight, should
rharfre th^'r attitudes. We must
ch-^er for victory, saving that the
game is net ov r at the "half,"
ho declared.
"Compromise and tolerance" was
the theme of Griffin's speech. Sup-
pr ssion of one's right to think
and reason with "mental freedom"
is as dangerous to our country as
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WiUie Will Ride—
With Company!
Willie the Ram is getting too
ancient and decrepit to walk in
parades, members', of the fresh-
man class think, so they have
decided to build him a carriage
in which to ride.
According to present plans,
two freshmen girls from the
class of '43 will ride in the car-
» riage and two boys from the
class of '44 will pull it in parades
rnxt year.
The carriage committee is
composed of Jane Sims and Paul
Burge. This affair was setled
at a freshman meeting after
chapel Monday.
Guest Judges on Campus
Three Student Soloists,
Orchestra To Play
In Final Spring Concert
George Henderson, Jane Jj,ongmoor,
Osborne Steriey Will Play, Sing
A 40-piece student orchestra will accompany three TW students of
music in the annual spring concert to be held Friday ev-oning, May 17,
in the Fine Arts auditorium.
♦ Marius Thor, director cf the TW
□orchestra and director of the con-
c©rt, announced yesterday
names of these scloists:
the
!>•'. C. Norton Talley of TSCV>, field hero Monday. Mrs. McMillan
Dunto2|, pictured at left above,. McClean, of Dallas^ jnjBged the
the judge in the finals of the Hogsett po try reading contest for
Boaz oratorical contest for boys girls in chapel today.
Organdy, iaffeta
Jbverywnere as
May ^ete IN ears
Thespian Officers
Installed at Home
Of Miss Sullivan
F nn Leach was installed presi-
dent of the Thespian club last
week at a meeting in the home of
ha Chi Will
|e Tomorrow
Hose Year
i a contest conducted by Revue di-
I rectors to find an original theme
! song for the show. Her
modern trends and to us"1 his 32-
inoh stride and ,size-8 feet to speed
' won the contest and she was chos*.!
song , un her service.
; ^"cham b\<ron work Uist Thurs-
| en as the Campus Sweetheart, so i dav on stra'ght salary plus tips,
; An hpmontaH in uto strains v'hich he claims range from 10
C"nt=; to 20 cents. He says that the
has' majority of customers do not tip.
I Not to he outdone, the entir^ TW
I she was presented to the
i of her own waltz.
| Grady Barnes, sophomore,
Mu chapter of Alpha Chi 1 orchestrated the number.
f>M its annual formal din-: Waring's idea of saluting schools
lursday ni'gij), at 8 p. m. in
V room of the Worth hotel,
guests will be President and
W Sone.
pure of the program will
Annie Jo Medlock's re-
fer recent trip to the re-
lAlph Chi convention at
|estern university in George-
She and Miss Imogene
one of the assistant spon-
lade the trip.
last thing on the program
| a short speech by Douglas
ard giving the achievements
Isenior Alpha Chi members
Itheir college careers. Other
P orr the program will be
Virginia Lee Smith, Vir-
paiJey, and Dorothy Hag-
an original poem read by
Mice Sehaudies.
P -••• Hock, Etola Roper,
pnia Wallig are In charge
Rements. -
Rtise Lee Lisenby, club
p was in charge of the
|'°n Monday night of offi-
in the parlors of
Kgoner hall. n
r" -tn; wore installed:
Miller, president; Dorothy
vice president; O. D.
Insurer; and Hortense
'■try.. A social hour
' installation.
officers are:
'halidies, president; F. C.
? president; Miss Milled'
and Annie Jo Medlock,
with original songs was in response
to petitions signed by thousands of
students from neraly every Amer-
ican college, say his sponsors, Ches-
terfield cigarettes. His quarter-
hour program, which is heard here
over Station WBAP every night
from Monday Ihrough Friday, is
said to, be among th<J' programs
liked best by college students to-
day and has been selected as, the
best quarter-hour on the air by
radio editors of the United States
an Canada.
A similarly popular program with
college generation is Glenn Miller's
"Moofflight Serenade," also spon-
sored by Chesterfields. It is heard
ever CBS stations Tuesday, Wed-
nesday, and Thursday evenings.
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Who Will Buv Our '
Candy? Sing Scribes
"Why don't you send Mother
some candy for Mother's Day?
It's next Sunday, you know."
Thus spoke Charlotte Phelan,
Mclntrye, Press club president, as
sh'.< began Monday a candy sale
which the organization will make
this week. .
Miss Phelan displayed a sample:
a gold-colored, one-pound box of
Martha Washington chocolates,
especially packaged as a gift. All
members of the club will take or-
ders for the candy this week, at
one dollar per box.
Money collected will go into a
"fumf to "buy Award* fmv students
who have done outstanding wrrrlc
on sUfdent publications.
football squad walked down to
Bradlrv's with trousers rolled
above the kne^s and demanded au-
ditions for jobs after Kyle was
emplcved. One squadman offered
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Students May Win
Prizes by Writing
Essays on Japan
Three trips to Japan are offer-
ed as prizes in an essay contest,
sponsored by the Society for Inter-
national Cultural Relations in To-
kyo, commemorating the 2600th an-
niversary of the founding of the
Japanese Empire, a dispatch to The
Rambler revealed Monday. Cash
awards sufficient to finance one
to .threp-montli visits in Japan ac-
company the prizes.
Essays are to be interpretative in
nature, not more than 8,000 vvdrds
in length, and must deal with one
of the following topics: the char-
acteristics of Japanese culture, cul-
tural intercourse between Japan
and foreign countries, or the posi-
tion ot Japanese culture in the
world. Contributions, to be mail-
ed by September 30, must be type-
written, but the contestant's name
is to appear only on a separate
curriculum vitae accompanying the
manuscript.
Full information on the essay
contest is available at the Japan
Institute, 630 Fifth Avenue, New
York City. Final announcement
the winr!^^ will be made on
April 29, 1041.
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Facultv Will
' * ■ • M
Robe Graduates
Friday Morninsr
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Six hundred and twelve yards
; of organdy, costing $165.24, and Dorothy Rose Sullivan, 4500 Nolan
| I SS yards of taffeta, costing $73.32, Street.
I uiiived on the campus last week Oth r officers
Line]^—
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COL. IKE ASHBURN.
Col. Ike AshJJurn of Texas A.
and M. college, who will deivler
the commencement address., here
May 27.
—Photo Courtesy Star-Telegram
Approximately 73 graduating
seniors will receive their caps "ft nd
gowns in the annual robing cere-
mony Friday morning at 10 o'-
clock in the Fine Arts auditorium,
Dean Walter R. Glick announced
yesterday.
President Law Sone revealed last
week plans for conimencement ex-
ercise, to be held in the Fine Arts
auditorium Monday morning, Way
27, at 10:30 o'-clock; and the bac-
calaureate service, to be held at
the First Methodist church Sun-
day morning, May 26.
Col. Tke Ashbum, aslsstant to
the president of Texas A. and M.
College, will dellvertfttscy/nmence.
ment address, ' and the bacca-
laureate sermon will be preached
by Dr. J. N. R. Score, pastor of
the First Methodist church.
In the robing ceremony ,Friday
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to be made into antebellum gowns Margaret
lor attendants in the annual May
Fete, to oe lielci May lio in trout
ol uan Waggoner hail.
Said Mrs M. K. Sandifer, diree-
«
tor of the festival, upon the ar-
rival of the material, "This is just
jjiky working out four jig-saw pufc-
jities at the same time."
May Queen Charlotte Boyd has
announced that four colleges and
j four high schools have alreday ac-
! cepted invitations to send repre-
sentatives to her court. They are:
Texas Christian university,
Southern Methodist university, Dal-
las; North Texas State Teachers
coliege, Denton; orth Texas Agri-
cultural college, Arlington; and
North Side, Arlington Heights, Dia-
mond Hill, and Riverside high
schools of Fort Worth.
A violin quartet, .composed of
Margaret Justice Broks, Earl .Schu-
mann, George Henderson, aVld Hen-
ry Alexander will play several
southern numbers in keeping with
the "Gone With The Wind" setting
to lie carried out in the festival.
Amplifiers are to be attached to
each violih so that the volume will
be increased to that of a trumpet,
which, according to Band Director
Sandy Sandifer, will be unusual
and very effective.
o
Foster Miller Will
I Head Mulkey Council
Foster Millefl, junior, will be
president of the Mulkey hall
Dormitory Council next year, it
was decided in an election in the
dorm Monday night.
Other officers elected are:
Truett Cooper, vice president:
Gctorge Spnhr, secretary; and
James Mecktin, treasurer.
Other candidates for the offices
\Vere:
Wayne HHlery fcjr president;
George Henderson, senior vio-
lin student of Thor, who win play
"Violin Concevto in E Minor"
(Nardini); Osborne Steriey, voice
student of Mrs. Ellen Jane Lin<i
say, who will Sipg "I T>jve Tl
(,Grieg), and "None but the Lonely
Heart" (Tschaikowsky); and Miss
Jane Longmoor, piano student of
vMiss Katherine ,Kiland<?r, who will
play "Concerto in D Minor (Ru-
binstein). "
o
Ivong Period of Preparation
Speaking for the artists Thor
said, "We have been preparing
very thoroughly and I am looking
forward to this event with great
expectation of seeing a large"
crowd cf students in the audience
supporting thei^ .fellow students
who will perform."
"The orchestra has done some
fine^work this year," he added, ex-
plaining that for the concert it
will be augmented by members of
the Fort Worth Symphony.
Climax of the program will be
the performance of "Finlandia," a
tone poem by Jan Sibelius, famous
modern Finnish composer. Mem-
bers of the TW Choral club, di-
rected by Mrs. Lindsay, will sing
the well-known "Dear Land of
Home" theme in the piece, and
Dorothy" Hagarcl will be at the
organ. Miss Ruth Miller, soprane
student of Mrs. Lindsay, will be
soloist. ,,
National Finnish Spirit
"In these days of the small nari
dent; Perry Crow, secretary-trea-tlons, struggles for independence
surer; Dorothy Rose Sullivan, j 'Finlandia' pictures the national
scrapbook editor; Beth Lynch, re- Sj,]rit Gf ||10 Finnish people," the
porter; and Austin Foster, paili- ; c|ji-ector asserted. He revealed that
mentari&n. ; wjien the number is played in
After the installations services Finland the audience rises when
theru was a short business meeting js piayed just as American people
in which there were some By-Laws the Land of Home" theme
added concerning entrance require- stand upon hearing -The State-
ments for the club ;next year. Itr Spangied Banner." '
order to get into the club a stu- j The vvork has had great popu-
were
installed
*
Breedlove, vice-presi-
dent will have to come in one of
three divisions, (1) make-up, (2)
acting, or (3) stage craft. Each
person wishing to enter the club
will be assigned an older member
as a counselor^ ■»
Each student must serve four
and one-half months pledgeship
and must pay his dues before be-
coming a pledge and during the
time as pledge do any duty called
upon by thS* club. At the end of
"pledgeship a i^id test in the field
upon which Wis entering will be
given.
o
Second Anthqipgy
Of Phoenix Poems
To Go on Sale Soon
The second annual "Phoenix An.
thology" will be lsued by the col-
lege poetry* club this week, ac-
larity in this country since the
German invasion of Finland. It
has been included in concert pro-
grams""by* most of the symphdnles
of America during the past sea-
son and "Dear Land of Home" is
in the repertoire of most singing
organizations.
Most of . the other . ^umbers on
program to be .given here
have been selected to appeal to
students, and it is rpresentative of
the finest classical * music, Thor
has revealed. IW'rIso stated, "We
expect a musically letter perform-
ance at t+fis concert/than we have
had at any other in previous years,
and music lovers of the city as well
as all students will be very
come."
'Flavor' Depends on
You Now, Dean Tells
H. Howard
ceding to
sponsor.
The anthology will be on sale
until the supply is exhausted; price
is thirty-five cents. The introduc-
tion is by Mva,. Rose Lisenby, head
of the English department and
one of those responsible for the
club's existence.
Travis Covington, Mildred Sice-
loff. F. C. Leach. Jr., Austin Fos-
ter, George Henderson, Dawn Har-
ris, Douglas Youngblocd, Mary A.
Sehaudies, nn<! othegs will be rep-
resented in the collection. Dorothy
llagard is the club president and
Mildred Siceloff the president-elect.
The sponsor descrbes the book
as- a decided improvement over the
first edition in style and printing.
Grady Barnes for'vice president;
T. e' Stafford'for fecretary; am^j Copies may be obtancd^Kmn ^ny
Virgil Wit-ktfms for treasurer . I member of th* club
Hugh s, Aledb High Seniors
"Maybe we are all just bottles
of soda pop," Dean Walter R.
GIck'told members of the junior
and senior classes of Aledo high
school at their annual banquet in
tlie Aledo gymnasium last week.
The speaker explained that each
student, in high school and col-
lege has most of his "flavor" put
intoifrim by parents, teachers, and
other people until he graduates,
but then it is entirely up to him
what "flavor" he will be.
Industry, honesty, nmbition, and
brtfuty are valuable ingredients to
put into every life, the„Dean con-
cluded.
Milburn Plgg, president of the
student body here last year, is the
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