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MAROON AND GOLD
SATURDAY, CCTOEER 15, 1938.
LIST’NIN’
CAMPUS CHATTER
By Louie Hubbard
By Wesley Holland
Larry Clinton, whose overnight
rise to the front ranks of Ameri
can dance orchestra leaders was a
radio sensation of 1938, has joined
Tommy Riggs and Betty Lou in a
program hour on NBC-Red Net
work at 8 P. M., Saturdays. Bea
Wain, swing songtress, is the fea
tured vocalist of the new show.
Clinton, who has been a profes
sional musician smce he joined
Ferde Grofe’s orchestra as a
trumpeter in 1933, first attract
ed attention of name band lead
ers through his talent for arrang
ing. By 1937, he was arranging
more than one quarter of the
popular tunes published in the
United States.
He formed his own band in the
fall of 1937 expressly to make I
recordings. These records took I
quick hold on the college cam-|
puses, and soon the new band was'
playing prom engagements at such
leading Eastern universities as
Yale, Princeton, and Pennsylvan
ia. In December, 1937, the or
chestra made its debut on the NBC
networks.
Clinton has been scarcely less
a sensation as a composer, his
hit numbers including "The Dipsy
Doodle”, “Satan Takes a Holiday",
“Whoa Babe", “Shades of Hades’,
“A Study in Brown”, “Abba Dab-
ba", and “Midnight in a Mad
house”.
Tommy Riggs will be the master
of ceremonies, and ‘Aunt Jemi-
na s dialect will be heard in con
versation with Tommy’s imagin-|
ary Betty Lou. j
Never before has Broadway as
sembled such a galaxy of name
bands. King Benny Goodman will j
be at the Waldorf, Tommy Dor-'
sey at the New Yorker, Kay Ky-
ser at the Pennsylvania, Larry i
Clinton at the International Casi-'
no, Ted Lewis at the Casa Manana,
Eddy Duchin at the Plaza, Will
Osborne at Glen Island Casino,:
Sammy Kaye at the Commodore,
and Russ Morgan at the Fabadise
restaurant.
Out Chicago way, Hal Kemp,
the suave sender of sophisticated
syncopation, will dish out his tele
graphic rhythms at the Drake Ho
tel, commencing October 8. Bud
dy Robers is slated for Hotel Sher
man same time, Guy Lombardo is
already installed at the Palmer
House, and Bob Crosby is at the
Blackhawk. Jan Garber is slated
to take over the baton from Bo-
boat Crosby in November.
hair cuts 25c.
This week brings on more talk
concerning Elon's football team. I
didn’t get the full particulars of
last Saturday's game with La
Salle, but from all reports the boys
should have won the tilt. It
seems they came in scoring posi
tion several times, but just could-
not make the grade. That's all in
the past now, and I am picking
the Maroon and Gold boys to take
the Bears with two or more touch
downs to spare.
The other day I ran across a
back number of my home town
paper, which is the usual small
town weekly, and I found an arti
cle which expressed the editor's
feelings concerning ‘swing’. I
submit it for your approval or
otherwise; “Just about once every
decade some particular rage
sweeps the country irresistibly
from coast to coast, touching
everything, submerging the indi
vidual personality in an hysteri
cal sea of mob passion. Some
times this peculiar manifestation
comes in the form of war, or fi
nancial panic, or a Presidential
election, or maybe just a midget
golf course. At present the most
violently contagious epidemic of
wholesale idiocy comes in the
form of what some cultists are
pleased to call “SWING”. It
makes me blush with shame to
even let the idea of “swing’’ and
its devotees, called “jitterbugs’’,
enter my mind, but I have pre
served a stoical silence as long
as I can stand it. When I think
about 120,000,000 apparently nor
mal human beings constituting the
foremost nation in the world, con
vulsed in an orgy of shameless
barbarism, I begin to wish I were
a lama, quietly going nuts in the
wilds of Tibet.
In deafening and overwhelm
ing volume the orgiastic strains of
something called “The Flat Foot
Floogie with the _Floy . Floy"’ is
driving the American public to
verge of insanity. Nothing with
a name like that could have any
meaning. What is a “Floogie”?
I don’t know and I am only mildly
curious, but I have a feeling that
I wouldn’t like to meet one face
to face. My imagination leads me
to believe that it is a large and
'shapeless thing with wild red eyes
and a large nose that has no shape.
He also would have long flowing
tentacles of greenish gray and lav
ender hair all over him. There
would also be large impossible
feet and crooked legs with scales,
and above all this thing, for I
know not what it would be clas
sified with, would have a nice per
sonality like a duck. Come on,
“jitterbugs”, get a hold on your
selves. I have a lot of faith in the
American Constitution, but this
“Flat Foot Floogie” has me guess
ing. After all, we survived the
jig saw puzzles, midget golf
courses, and we haven’t entirely
succumbed to the recession, so
brace up, don’t break now. If the
crisis gets any worse we can al
ways rely on Mickey Mouse as a
good stabilizing effect on our
nerves, a neutralizer so to speak.” |
EXIT “FLAT FOOT FLOOGIE”.
Did bid night surprise any of
you? I mean the results, of
course . . . Charlie Hamrick is do
ing better every day with that
bunch of “swingsters”. They have
been doing quite a few jobs late
ly. He usually makes arrange
ments to satisfy the customers, too.
The other night they played so
late that we were just in time
for breakfast ... I have been wait
ing for something to happen that
would merit a saying I heard the
other day. I had heard it many
times before, but it just struck me
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Elon College
FOR SALE
One Typewriter,
Priced to sell.
The first $15.00 gets it.
W. V. Huffines
Elon College, N. C.
or have above the required
amount. One person told me
about not attending church and
chapel, but strange to say had
more than enough quality points.
When you want Flowers,
come to us first. Select
flowers of every kind
for every purpose.
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I as a good saying for something
[that is really terrific. Red Norvo
was the “NUTS”; I can't think of
anything for Mildred Bailey. As
far as I am concerned she is
“tops . Louie Hubbard, Hawley
Herritage, and I left here before
lunch in order to be on tha^ front
row. We waited for Mr. atid-Mrsr
Swing to come in, .got tlieir auto
graph. spoke a few words with
them and actually touched them
. . . The administration has mail
ed out the usual yearly letter to
I all seniors telling them how many
.hours and quality points they lack
of the rhythm
y of action-
the pause
that
refreshes
It’s the refreshing thing to do
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