Page Six THE SALEMITE December 7, 195(^ High Fidelity Gifts Make Cool Noises and Play Long Since Hi-Fi sets and recordings have become the rage on campus, long-playing records will be the in fallible Christmas gift. For your friend who prefers jazz there is a new album by Dave Brubeck, youngest of the ranking jazz masters. His new album— “Brubeck plays Brubeck”— is mak ing music news and history. In this album which includes originals hy Brubeck such as “Swing Bells and “The Duke,” Brubeck is great because he gives free reign to his astonishing solo piano improvisa tions. In this album Dave Brubeck gives way to his imagination and creates adventures in invention. These re cords are brilliant creations that express his thoughts and moods of the moment. Brubeck’s sponton- eous presentation is captured on thrilling high fidelity records. Michel Legrand and his orchestra have a new album which is equally as exciting as his "I Love Paris” album. In his newest one, “Castles in Spain,” Legrand presents a vivid picture of Spain. Michel Legrand takes you on a musical “magic carpet” tour of this enchanting country. This music has succeeded in capturing the violent vitality and powerful allure of Spanish music. Throughout the recordings in this album there flows a deep, surging current of excitement. In “Mala- guena” one hears the songs of the wild Spanish gypsies; and in “El Gato Montes” the blazing excite ment of the bull ring comes thrill- ingly alive. Jo Stafford Sings Broadway’s Best” includes twelve of Broad way s finest songs. Included in this album are such standards as Come Rain or Come Shine,” “Dancing in the Dark,” “Embrace- able You,” and “Night and Day.” Jo Stafford sings these songs with exceptional communication. She Around the Square.. With Kennedy sings with a great amount of warmth. Miss Stafford sings these songs straight; she does not need to employ any nonsense. A new recording of a great das sical selection, “Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2,” by the Philadelphia Orchestra under the direction of Eugene Ormandy, will thrill all hi-fi fans. This recording presents an electrifying perform ance of this classic in brilliant High Fidelity. The mood for the drama of the Second Concerto is set by the dark, rolling chords which begin the Concerto. This master work awakens the imagination and within few bars of music, one can feel the sea breeze, the spray from mountainous waves, feel a depic tion of night and moonlight. The piano creates ever more figurations above the restlessly surging or- I chestra. The piano solos are breath taking and brings an emotional warmth to the performance. This record has power and brilliance and will overwhelm you every time you hear it. For the Christmas season, Percy Faith and his orchestra have a new album — “Music for Christmas” which is one of the best recordings that is out for the Christmas sea son. This is a survey of some of the finest melodies for Christmas. It includes carols such as “Silent Night,” “Joy to the World,” and “O, Holy Night.” This is one of the few programs of Christmas music that does not offer the words. Percy Faith and his or chestra have succeeded in convey ing the power of the songs and have conjured up the time and at mosphere that produced them. Any hi-fi enthusiast would be thrilled to find a record album in his stocking on Christmas morning. —Mary Ann Hagwood Do you want to deny your loved ones the comfort and little lux uries they deserve ? Let anyone have a false impression of the in telligent and really wonderful per son you really are ? Take a back seat anywhere at anytime? Take life the hard way, when an easy way is at hand ? Course not. I didn’t either after I read Edwin L. Dingle’s Treatise Number One on the “Art of True Living”. The little pamphlet, which mysteriously appeared in South, includes an order blank for a twenty-six week course in Mentalphysics. At present, Mr. Dingle is offer ing to reveal—not the secrets—but the way to find the secrets of the ancient Tibetans for a mere $2.00. But, he hastens to add, unless you send an extra $3.00, there will be no personal correspondence, grad ing of test papers, or diploma. His own history (which he generously included on the back of the sample booklet) proves just as fascinating as the promised course. He was born in England, and orphaned at nine, traveled widely in the East Indies studying philo sophy and religion, walked clear across China and Burma, lived in Oriental temples (his temple life is divulged only to his advanced students), and restored his physical, spiritual, and mental body from al most utter extinction to perfection. Imagine! I must hurry before the post office closes, because he tells me to “OBEY THAT IN SPIRATION. Fill out the en closed application form and start FULL SPEED AHEAD toward the splendid man or woman I CAN BE and AM.” Speaking of the mysteries—Have you called 5-0S51 lately? No, I don’t know who it is, but several people have told me, disappointedly, that it isn’t the KA house at Wake Forest. * * * My temporary residence, the Sights and Insights cubbyhole, is slowly but surely'beginning to look like a squirrel’s nest. Chewed paper cups, fingernails, and pencils are all over the place. Sissie, Toni, and Mary Walton conducted an hour-long discussion Tuesday night on the Dangers and Joys of Tree Climbing. Everyone sits around cracking, picking, and nibbling the pecans that the annual engraver, Mr. Price Coursey, brought us. I’m wondering how many of us will be, after the copy is mailed Saturday morning, “bright-eyed and bushy- tailed”. * * * Here’s the line-up of couples that will come through the big frosted and fantastic wreath tomorrow night; I. R. S. president Joyce T-aylor and Dan Lafar, Kappa Sig at Davidson; Pat Greene and Ben Tench, Theta Chi at Wake Forest; Linda Chappell and Sonny Kincey, SAE at UNC; Carol Cooke and Charles Wiley, Phi Gam at David son; Juanita Efird and Wesley Herndon of U. Ga. Med. School; Martha Jarvis and Tommy Call- cott. Pi Kap at Duke; Mary Belle Horton and Johnny Clark, Kappa Sig at Wake Forest; Martha Du vall and Arthu,r Venable, Kappa i Sig at Davidson; Nan Williams and Fred Morris, ATO at Davidson- Connie McIntyre and Rod Beals Lambda Chi at Wake Forest- Mimi Joyner and Joe Burt, Sigma 1 Chi at Wake Forest; Catherine Cline and Bill Redding, KA at Davidson; Jane Noel and Terry Mitchell, Mars Hill. If you think being a member of I. R. S. simplifies getting a date for the dance, talk to Martha Du vall. It seems that she entered a phone booth on second floor of Clewell, and six phone calls and dollars later, emerged shouting, ‘victory at last with number six!” * * * Funny thing that the appearance of a skinny green cedar tree can so quickly change the “handing-out- all-this-money-is-ru4ning-the-spirit” feeling. —Martha Kennedy MCWRRIS SERVICE Nmtt To CoroKno Thootro 4> O « • Somhtrieiloo—SofaUk—fliiiioi *Tko noM WksTo SolomitM Moot” y €he5ter;iFieId * ♦ * Personally, I’ll take the home- spun philosophy of Tom Perry any day. It’s hard to imagine Salem without him and without the yel lowed “Laffs” taped to the cash register. Maybe the new vending machines in the Student Center were bad for his business. Handier, perhaps, but a poor substitute. ThalKimers is aglo'w with many wonderland gift suggestions for you to take home to your famliy and friends, be they little tots up to big brother, sister, mom and dad. Ask Santa, in our Toyland, for your hearts desire ... see the loveliest Holi day party clothes and accessories in town. Most of all, we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. SANTA CLAUS ANALYZED Why oh why does Santa go, “Ho-Ho, Ho-Ho, Ho-Ho, Ho!’* Is it just because he’s jolly? I beheve he’s off his troUey. ... Gifts for everyone on earth Breed hysteria—not mirth If you had his job to do Bet you’d shake like jelly tool your gift problems before they start. Give Chesterfield m the carton that glows for rLl-to X Christmas list. Smoke for real.., smoke Chesterfield! !“ I'’.®" Phnoaophtoal vprso wcepted for publication. Chesterfield. P. 0. Box 21. New York 46, N. Y. COLLEGE INN RESTAURANT AND SPAGHETTI HOUSE For The Best In SIZZLING STEAKS — SPAGHETTI PIZZA — SALADS PRIVATE DINING ROOMS FOR BANQUETS AND FARTIES between wake forest and WINSTON-SALEM ON REYNOLDA ROAD PHONE 2-9932 You Are Invited To Visit The ‘DEACON’S ‘DEN »at(,«Sener

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