OUR OWN LIL' ABNER and his Daisy May attended Ihe Sadie
Hawkins dance at the Municipal clubhouse recently. Ed Durner,
above, won the Lil' Abner prize hands down, and is shown with Doe
Thompson, the Daisy Mae of the ball. The dance was the first ac-
tivily of the Veterans club.
Curtain Call
With Ritch
Congratulations to Jeanne Wil-
triHit for getting the leading role
in tlie Community’s Theater’s lat
est production, “Years Ago.” Ad
vance reports indicate that Jeanne
is handling the role very capably.
The dramatic department of
Asheyille-Biltmore is very fortu
nate in having the facilities of the
atic for its workshop. The room
consists of rather make-shift
stage set in one corner of the hall,
but it is entirely too small to al
low any activities other than re
hearsals. There is no room for
set construction, and, in fact,
there are no sets except three
black drapes that serve as in
terior walls. The lighting system
which consists of a few spot
lights, an overhanging string of
border lights, and a trough of
footlights, is entirely homemade
even down to the improvised
switch board. One easily con
cludes that these deficiencies
along with the smallness of the
auditorium section renders it
practically impossible to give
productions there.
It was for the above reasons
that the one act play, “Fish Don’t
Kiss,” was presented in the new
building, which proved almost as
inadequate as the “garret.” There
is no need to discuss the perform
ance at any length, for, no doubt,
everyone has formed their opin
ions already, but it might be ap
propriate to note the lack of fa
cilities for presenting plays. The
new building was definitely not
designed for any such purpose
and in that condition such under
takings are doomed from the be
ginning.
It appears to this writer that the
situation is very dark and that
the least we can hope for is an
auditorium. This is not an opin
ion nor is it put forth in editorial
form. It is simply a hard fact and
a problem that, of necessity must
be worked out if Asheville-Bilt-
more is to obtain the goal it has
set for itself.
Money, money, money! While
we worry about money for new
buildings, etc., one Hollywood
film company spends $24,000 dol
lars for two ermine coats whose
duties are to hide (heaven forbid)
the shape that exists below Betty
Grable’s head. This blow against
humanity takes place in her lat
est picture whose title was
changed from “The Lady in Er
mine” to “This is the Moment.’’
Speaking of Hollywood, the in
genuity of the fliker-makers has
scored again on the process of
producing the movie version of
Maxwell Anderson’s “Joan of
Lorraine” (incidentally, Ingrid
Bergman again apepars as St.
Joan). There are several scenes
in which the heroine and her
knights appear in shining armor
astride their gallant steeds. The
steeds, however, proved to be
rather ungallant and shied em-
barasingly at the sound of the
clanking uniforms. It was decid
ed that the horses must be con
ditioned to the noise, so for three
weeks the stable hands wore
suits of armor while working
around the animale. After some
time they became used to the
noise and became real troopers.
Sadie Hawkins
Dance Held By
A-B Students
Each year thousands of peo
ple observe a mythical holiday
celebrated in the never-never
land of comic strips. That’s Sadie
Hawkins day, when maidens
beautiful and ugly, have a chance
to chase helpless males, catch
them and drag them across the
fenish line to face “Marrying
Sam.” A1 Capp, in whose “Lil
Abner” strip this mad event
originated, couldn’t give up the
marathon now if he wanted to.
The University of Tennessee
was the first to execute this vari
ation of the shot-gun weding, and
last year some 3,000 celebrations
were held in colleges, high
schools, grade schools and even
factories.
Like so many other colleges in
this area Asheville-Biltmore went
all out in observance of the day
by holding a dance under spon
sorship of the Veterans Club, at
the Municipal Club House, Nov.
12. Students and friends of the
college turned out in full cos
tume for the gala affair. Music
was furnished by Neal Nolan and
his friendly five. During inter
mission of the dance, a man
chase and pig catching contest
were held.
Council Meets
Student conduct at the Sadie
Hawkins Day dance was dis
cussed at a regular meeting of the
Asheville-Biltmore Student Coun
cil Nov. 18. Due to the absence
of several members, no action
was taken on any subjects but
Frank Messer, student president
appointed a committee to direct
a chapel program which was
scheduled for l3ec. 3.
Norman Bie President
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the Cuban members of the
club.
During the evening a num
ber of Spanish songs were sung
and recorded by the group.
Recordings were also made of
the rest of the program, which
included jokes, and a discus
sion of the aims of the club by
Norman Bie and Jack Wiggins.
The next meeting of the club
will be held at the home of
Jack Wiggins, 14 Griffing
Boulevard, on Dec. 13, at 8:30.
Disks And Dat(a)
On The Platter
There’s a Capitol album,
“Benny Hides Agam,” that glides
along s-m-o-o-t-n-i-y with that
slicK pilot, Beny Goodman at the
stick. The feature of this flight is
that Beny takes off as a duo and
ocmes flying back as a full or
chestra. Trio, Quartet, Quintet,
Sextet, Septet are intermediary
stopovers on an intinerary that
touches at LAZY RIVER, PUT
TIN’ ON THE RITZ, CHICAGO,
and BANNISTER GLIDE. Benny
gives generously of that stream
lined clarinet throughout, and it
all adds up to some pretty glib
gliding. Albums worth yanking
out ot this month’s pile include
one set each of Gene Krupa and
Louis Armstrong re-pressing, the
latter item from Columbia’s ar
chives of jazz classics; a well-ar
ranged “Prom Date” with Tex
Beneke by RCA Victor, with an
eye on the campus crowd and
affiliated alumni; a competing
“Campus Classic,” an omnibus
job with Capitol’s people in an
electric list of college favorites;
two contrasting albums of spirit
uals, one containing a very rhy
thmic and down-to-earth spate of
revival songs by Sister Ernestine
Washington with jazzband ac
companiment from Bunk John
son’s Ork; the other, slightly
more knowing, by Sister Rosetta
Tharpe, for Decca. These last two
fall pretty squarely in the folk
song category; so I had better add
a third round out, “the sod-bust-
ing one foot in tlie furrow.” It’s
the bluesy, railroading song
cycle, “Midnight Special” done by
Leadbelly for Disc, assisted here
and here by a whoop from Cisco
Houston. Can’t find “sod-buster-
ing one-foot-in-the-furrow,” in
Webster, but I think it qualifies
just the same as descriptive words
signifying a jam session of folk
singers.
OUTING WITH JO Stafford in
her STANLEY STEAMER neatly
complements that other ride Cap
itol gave us with Benny Good
man. “Get your veil and get your
duster” doesn’t sound like what’s
with fashion now, but it’s good ad
vice for this excursion, which
originates in MGM’s “Summer
Holiday” film.
Dinah Shore, not to be outdone
by Jo, asks us to go on her LONG
TRAIN WITH A RED CABOOSE,
and promises great things when
we get to KOKOMO, which is an
other of those grassroots songs
from the rolling pampas of
Broadway and Hollywood. It’s
a spring from “Mother Wore
Tights” and there out. Dinah re
cords for Columbia.
FOR THE LONG-HAIRS there’s
the musical lines portraying “The
Royal Hunt,” part of a larger work
of Hector Berlioz, as interpreted
for RCA Victor by Sir Thomas
with the London Philharmonic
Orchestra in an album of “Beech-
as Favorites.”
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