The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 28, Ed. 1, Saturday, April 18, 1959 Page: 3 of 8
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By Friends Tardy for Banquet
r By MIKE CUMMINGS
The Fish '62 banquet got start-
d on time but class president
Bob Randolph wasn't able to be
there when it started.
It has been an unwritten rule
for class presidents to be deprived
of.' full benefit from their ban
quets the last such incident oc-
curring to Hugh Clark Brown
Fish '60 leader. He was snatched
en route to pick up his date.
This year lightning struck soon-
er. Randolph along with vice
president Dickie Matthews spent
the biggest portion of Friday
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by WILKES BERRY
"Rio Bravo" like Franklin
Roosevelt seems to have been
either loved or hated. I have yet
to find a neutral.
Those who liked It talk about
Walter Brennan John Wayne
and how funny it was (I doubt
that it was Intended to be humor-
ous). The film's detractors preface
their remarks with the observa-
tion that it was (shudder) a west
ern; then they proceed to point
out that Ricky Nelson and Dean
Martin comprise one half of the
cast.
FROM THE above judgements
I draw the following conclusions
1. Wciitnu ara funny. Thar
must be; evaryona laughs at
lhtm.
2. Fame is not a fleattag
thing. Walter Brennan and
John Wayxi arc still packing
tham' In. and they're bna on
tha icraan tinea Maurlca Char-
aller could sing.
3. Ricky Nelson and Deano
are not bad actors they're Just
slobs.
I enjoyed "The Consul" very
much. Misses Miller Whetstone
and Carter sang competently and
beautifully.
The acting was far superior to
any other that I've seen in collegi-
ate opera productions. Frank
Morris's sets 1 were the expert
pieces of work we have come to
expect from him.
The story is absorbing if n'Tjit
preachy and didactic in places.
THE ONLY criticism I have Is
the fact that I .don't enjoy two
straight' hours of Menottl's music.
After talking with musicians
who are certqlnjy not open to
charges of having uncultivated
tastes I find that I am not alone
in holding this opinion.
"The House on Haunted Hill"
Is one of those mistakes which
falls into the same category with
the '40 Studcbaker that rldicu
lous tripe about missing Buddy
Holly and Agnes Gooch.
In short it goes on my list of
Famous Movies I Have Hated.
VINCENT PRICE does manage
to squeeze in a sneeringly sinister
line: "My wife is amusing." Some-
how it just doesn't seem as amus-
ing as it did when he said it
You won't believe the cheap
theatrical stunts to which they
have stooped. The very living end
is that absurb skeleton . . . Oh
I can't write anymore about this
loser.
A national magazine suggests
the following formula for box-
office bonanza: "Most Important
of all make sure that boy sees
girl; boy meets girl; boy gets
girl."
So that's how "Glgl" won nine
Academy Awards.
afternoon at the banquet site
making sure everything was per-
fect to make this the biggest
event of the year for the fresh-
men. SEVERAL COUPLES were al-
ready arriving for pictures at 6:30
when the two leaders left for their
dorms to get dressed up. Randolph
went by the post office to pick up
his mail.
Upon leaving the post office he
was accosted by a group of size-
able fellows including Robert
McLeod Baby Huey Wiseman
Jerry Dodson Thurman Neill
Jimmy Glover Don Edwards
David Rucker Dale Woffard and
Tommle Adams.
Randolph came out on the short
end of what there was of a tangle
and the party proceeded toward
Fort Phantom lake.
Since at the lakeside from 6:45
till 8:00 would have been chilly
a few huskies uprooted some mes
quite bushes and built a rousing
fire.
After an hour or so of joke-
telling and escape attempts the
two-car caravan went back to
Edwards Hall to pick up Ran-
dolph's tux etc. The next stop
was the banquet.
The victim was hogtlcd and
me mean Doys placed a sign o-
round him "Bottled in Bond by
Fish '61."
AS A ROOMFUL of freshmen
stared with mouths agape the
group brought the confiscated one
through the kitchen into the din-
ing area. Then they made a quick
exit.
Randolph broke the spell with
"Well I'm happy to be here.'
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BEE HARBIN standing supervises the work of girls who
are helping make the costumes for the next dramatic pro-
duction "The Barrets of Wimpole Street." The costumes are
being designed by a class in costume designing. The play i
to be staged May 7-9. (Staff photo by Dallas)
Four Students Slave
On Drama Costumes
By FRANCES MARBURY
"Only slave labor need apply"
laughed the four girls hard at
work plying needles and scissors
to rich brocades and taffetas for
the 12 costumes being made for
"The Barretts of Wimpole Street."
Working in a tiny room with
one brand-new sewing machine
("We're quite proud of it") the
four were Nancy Hood freshman
speech major; Elizabeth Haney
home economics major; Mary
iBurris speech major all fresh-
BITS AND PIECES
Seventeen' Says Boys Want
Well-Dressed Friendly Girls
Graduate Class
Gives Program
A concert reading of Carl Sand
burg's 'The People Yes" was to
have been given last night in
Scwell Auditorium.
.Members of oral interpretation
classes took part in the program
directed by Mrs. Montie McGinty
assistant professor of speech.
Presenting the concert reading
was four members of the gradu
a(ng class in oral interpretation.
Thoy were Miss George Foster
Colorado City graduate student;
Frank Morris graduate student
from Muskogee Okla.; Mrs. John
Gamble Abilene graduate student
and Milton Copeland graduate as-
sistant and debate coach.
In addition an IB-member
choral reading group was also
presented. They were members of
an' advanced oral Interpretation
class.
By DOROTHY GOODWIN
Perhaps the least neglected cor-
ner of theh library during Na-
tional Library Week or any other
is the current magazine section.
You might have missed these two
articles though so to be devesta-
tingly original wake up and read
what a couple of fellows have to
say about a couple of girls.
SEVENTEEN'S one regular
male writer Jimmy Westcott in
his current article "Thoughts
While Tying a Tie" discusses his
thoughts before a date:
"... I often like to imagine
what she's doing as I get ready
. . . counting her money torturing
the cat sticking pins in my pic-
ture gazing into the mirror for a
couple of hours . . . And a girl
might wonder what a fellow is
thinking."
AMONG OTHER things he Is
Thomas to Leave
For Lectureship
J. D. Thomas professor of Bible
at ACC will leave Monday night
for Nashville Tenn. where he has
been invited to speak at the
David Lipscomb Lectureship.
Tuesday afternoon he will be
in a panel discussion on "Conversion."
Wednesday morning he will
lecture on the theme "Evangeliz-
ing the Far East."
He Is planning to be back at
ACC Thursday night.
hoping that she'll be well-dressed
that she won't be overly Inquisi-
tive that she will not have too
obvious interest in other fellows.
But above all he hopes she'll be
friendly:
"Girls get ideas sometimes that
they want to be someone else. I've
dated girls who wanted to be Kim
Novak Madam Curie Mata Hari
Florence Nightingale. It's nice to
be out with the original cast
though a girj who Is friendly
come what hiay."' "'
BITS AND PIECES
In Family Circle's "Auntie
Mame as Her Son Sees Her"
Lance Brisson gives laurels the
Motion Picture Academy denied
his mother Rosalind Russell. He
begins with "I'm just 15 years
old and I'm no boy philosopher
. . . you want to talk about
mother so I might as well tell
you ... on that subject I am very
prejudiced Okay?"
LANCE'S MOTHER is one who
spends time with him encourages
him to be individualistic and who
brings neither her troubles nor
her current role home with her
from the studio.
"To me mother is just mother
whether she's being wacky In
"Auntie Mame" an old maid In
"Picnic" singing in "Wonderful
Town" or hacking around in the
dirt of her garden." '
To the oft-asked question of
what happened to Auntie Mame
at the end of a day at Warner
Brothers Lance answered:
"Mother shed her with the
makeup. She wrapped Auntie
Mame in-herjcosturne and left her
where she belonged". . . and came
home yelling "Hi gang what's
new?" If Rosalind doesn't have
an oscar she has a son whose
love and pride must half make up
for itl
men and Bee Harbin senior-
drama major supervisor of tbav-
work. NOTICING THE lack of drama:
majors on the crew this reporter-
heard "We just work down her
because we like it so much the
kids are all so friendly."
The costumes designed by the-
first costumes class ACC has of-
fered in many a year according to.
Dr. Gaylan Collier head of trie-
department are planned with
many points in mind.
"For an exuberant character-
like Robert Browning the cos-
tumes are in bright warm colors;-.
Elizabeth's costumes grow from:
subdued colors to rich golds when:
she rebels from her father" sold"
Dr. Collier.
"THEY ALSO HAVE to be
planned in relation with the set
and with each other on the stage"
said Dr. Collier "to paint a pic-
ture."
Some of the men's costumes
which require heavy materials
and difficult tailoring are being-
ordered from the Colorado Cos-
tume Company in Denver.
Some of the crew workers who
are using sewing machines in
their rooms are Janet Lewellyn
Ellie Browning and Jo Ann Rig-ney.
THINK ON THESE THINGS
Get-Togethers Make a Man
Meet Himself Coming Back
By JIM SAMUEL
Our society seems to be headed
Into a cycle of perpetual get-togethers.
Lately college and
church activities are being chan-
neled into so many club and com-
mittee segments that individual
initative is disappearing.
Consequently such a mass of
intricate governmental structures
get between us and our purposes
we find it twice as hard to attain
them. We spend so much time
going to meetings we meet our
selves coming back.
I'm convinced we need fewer
get-to-gethers and more "get-
aparts." Rather than assigning a
simple job to four we need to let
one man take the full responsi-
bility. Jobs would be done twice
as fast with half of the headache
and futhermore if the job wasn't
done there wouldn't bo all this
buck-passing to put up with.
People are coming to the point;
that they can't do anything by1
themselves. For some unknown
reason many committee-members-feel
they can not think on thcir-
own outside of the committee
meeting. Just like some people-
thlnk they can't do anything for-
thc Lord lest they do It within the
four walls of the church building:
As a result the vast majority is--content
to let small minority
think they can't do anything fer-
tile Lord lest they do it withlnj
the four walls of the church!
building.
As a result the vast majority
Is content to let small minority
think and act.
More self-disciplined commit
tces-of-one are the order of thes
day Less social conformity and!
more self-expression will tap the?
potential of each individual's per-
sonality . . . think on these things-
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