The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 2, 1943 Page: 2 of 4
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et Slackening
Y'JW
What has happened to our Rice idea of patriotism in "Back-
ing the Attack?" Very much in'evidence is the tremendous
drop in sales of War Bonds and Stamps. The last week that the
Bond Wagon was open it hit a new low. It is true that the war
news has been very comforting lately, but the fact remains that
a war is still going on and that our fighting men still need our
whole-hearted support. We can give them this support by pur-
chasing more bonds and stamps. We can best show our patriot-
ism to our country and to our fighting forces by giving as much
as we possibly can to the war effort through the buying of bonds
and stamps.
The slogan of the Third War Loan was "to buy at least one
extra $100 bond." Many hundreds and thousands of true Amer-
icans gave up things they wanted, and, perhaps, things that
many of them needed, to buy that extra $100 bond. They felt
that, if our boys overseas were giving their lives, the least they
could do here at home was to give their money. This applies to
all of us. "Buy and buy until it hurts." Every time we buy War
Bonds and Stamps we are not only helping to put guns into the
hands of our boys, but also into the hands of our allies. We are
helping to make bullets to go into guns, and we are helping to
feed all the allied armies as well as the civilians of those coun-
tries who have been only recently under the iron rule of our ene-
mies.
We ask each one of you, "Is not this reward enough for
your money?" Yes, we think each of you will say it is. So let's
see what we can do about changing that new low in bond and
stamp sales to a new high.
The Bond Wagon has been open five weeks since the begin-
ning of the summer session. During that time a total sale of
$5,983.45 has been reached. This amount is above the half-way
mark attained last year, and is a very good record for a school
so small as Rice. If the drop in sales of War Bonds and Stamps
is not checked, however, we will not come near the total sales
reached for last year.
"Back the Attack" and buy as many bonds and stamps as
you possibly can. Remember that our fighting forces are de-
pending on us, and we can't let them down.—B.S.
0— —
Quotable Quotes
"If you feel you can't buy War Bonds, write your reasons
down on a piece of paper and mail it to a friend or relative of
yours on the fighting front.A friend or relative who is facing the
hell-fire in modern war ... a friend or relative who may be ly-
ing, body torn, on a bloodstained battlefield far away from home.
Tell HIM you just can't buy more War Bonds."
—From the Orange Daily News
Society
The Honor Council
is having a picnic Sunday in Me-
morial Park for the members and
their dates.
The Rally Club
had its Thanksgiving party at the
Old Hitchin' Rack Wednesday night.
Among those there were: Beth Hum-
mel, George Peterson, Peggy Brin-
ton, John Ligon, Ed Bottler, Allene
Lummis, Clinton Quin, June Whit-
tington, Margie Stroup, Archie
Hood, Reba Bethea, Myryen Cron.
THE THRESHER
Entered as second class matter,
October 17, 1916, at the post office
in Houston, Texas, under the act of
March 3, 1879. Subscription price:
by mail, one year 75 cent3 payable
in war stamps.
Editor Bettie Lou Johnson
Bus. Mgr. 4 Margaret Morrison
Sports Editor Mildred McCall
Society Editor * Reba Bethea
Music Editor Rosemary King
Mailing Editors Jean GrCenman
Reporters Jean Brock, Joyce
Pounds, Addisbn McElroy, Preston
Frazier, Dorothy Marshall, Cecille
Sass, Joan Logan, Barbara Ewing,
Dallas Hawkins, Dorothy Mc-
Cleary, Bobby Sahol.
Pat Jarrard, Red Davis, Bryant
Bradley, Mary Dee Miller, Dan Bul-
lard, Bill Bunte, Wayne Bowman,
Carl Groos, and Ada Dean.
Katherine Mayfield
will leave Houston Thursday to at-
tend the graduation of her fiance,
Cadet Samuel Williams Marshall
III, .from the bombardier school at
Childress. A miscellaneous shower
an ! bridge party was given in her
honor Tuesday night by Mrs. J. S.
Anderson and daughter, Mrs. W. L.
Beckman, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs.
Carl M. Knapp announce the ap-
proaching marriage of their daugh-
ter, Carolyn, to Roy Hohl, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Roy C. Hohl of Dallas.
The wedding will take place Wednes-
day at 8 p.m. in the Second Presby-
terian Chui-ch. Elizalbeth Knapp,
Dorothy Hohl, Mary Jane .Price, and
Jane Barnes will be the bride's at-
tendants. The couple will probably
leave Thursday morning for Mary-
land, where the bridegroom is sta-
tioned. The bride has been an active
student q,n the campus as vice-presi-
dent of EBLS and editor of the
Owl, alumni magazine. The bride-
groom attended Southern Methodist
University.
This week-end got off to a beauti-
ful start Wednesday night with the
Rally Club party at the old Hitchin'
Rack. Everyone had a marvelous
time gathered around the one stove,
hanging on to a can of beer. Many,
many people were there—and such
mixed couples too: Marvin and Reba,
Martha Shaw and Chili, Ann Martin
and Harold, Betty Ann and Cotton,
Patsie and John Van de Mark, Ruth
and Dan and good ole Joe. June
DON'T BE A PltL
VOTE FOR PHIL
ROBINSON
For Frosh President
Whittington was also there. What
say, Peterson?
Bettie Scott's birthday party Sat-
urday after the game was an up-
roarous affair. Poor Es, just ask her
about the loud pop she heard when
she left her house for the game.
Clinton told the story, much to her
embarrassment. B* Scott had a date
with the ever-present Tommy. Loose
was there with Jack Joplin, Marie
Jo with Bob Tull, Mary with Tom,
et cetera.
We wonder if it's true that this
relationship between Redgraves and
Eunice is still purely platonic? Weg-
horst is counting the days until Toby
Be smart, take a part
Be the one to vote for^Gunn.
To vote right is an art
"LET GUNN BE THE ONE."
gets here frqm the naval base at
Norfolk. He se,ems to have things
pretty well under control. Two Lou-
isianav*Poly Tech Texans, Jerry Har-
riss and Linwood Durrett should
come out from hiding and give the
Rice girls a chance—or do they have
interests back home? F. Simonds fs
trying hard to rate Marion Holland,
and it seems as if his efforts haven't
been in vain. An old familiar sight
seeing Don Stevens and Rosemary
The third concert of the season
was given last Monday by the Hous-
ton Symphony Society with Mrs. Vir-
ginia Jean, pianist, as the guest so-
loist for the evening. The orchestra
was not at its best throughout the
entire program, but its first number
was very good. It was t^ "Entrance
of the Gods into Walhalla," from
"Dad Rheingold" by Wagner. After
a rather weak beginning the rest
of the score was very well read, es-
pecially the closing passages. The
violin section was thin throughout
the whole program, but "the wood-
winds proved themselves worthwhile
in this number.
The major work of the evening
was Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 in
E Flat, or the "Eroica," as it was
known when dedicated to Napoleon,
until the composer's ideal hero ac-
cepted the title of emperor. Music,
strictly speaking, however, cannot
tell a story or paint a picture. It
does not mean anything that can be
expressed in words, and Beethoven's
eloquence was in only one language,
that of universal music. This sym-
phony is magnificent because it
speaks in his language of the quali-
ties of mind and heart he found in
the ideal hero.
The first movement opens with
the main theme given out by the
cellos, followed by numerous synco-
pations ahd strange intervals, yet
returning to the central idea. The
second (Adagio) movement appeals
more directly to the listener, but it
is theoretically too long and lacks
sufficient variety in orchestration
and thematic treatment to justify
its length. Consequently, the basic
ideas of the movement are repeated
endlessly, especially the funeral
march and its sad rhythms and mel-
ody in C minor. The Jthird Scherzo
movement follows in peculiar con-
— Hi-ast—to'-thf -prteeding- one, Jiftgin-
ish?-
all.
-It's all gossip and not true at
FRESHMEN
Don't Head Fairy Tales!
VOTE FOR
Robert (Bob)
MAURICE
FRESHMAN
SECRETARY-TREASURER
walking together on the campus. He
looks wonderful in his new uniform.
Tom "Pretty Boy" Flannagan
should be warned' that robbing the
cradle is'worse than playing, with
fire. If Repass is still being true to
Tresch, why does she say that Tom-
my Hopkins is such a big "tempta-
tion" to hfer. What's this we hear
about Margie Scott breaking a date
with Gerhart to go with Dave Par-
There's really a battle going on
between Marion Holland and Jean
Brook over Kisling. Among the cou-
ples seen everywhere together these
days are John Whittenberg and
Katherine Carter, Lib Brown and
Charlie Hagemeier. Turn about is
fair play: Roberta was with old
flame Gibbie Ritz while Smut was
out with,Maribel. Everyone enjoyed
the last football game in spite of the
rain and cold. Murnez came all
dressed up but she" stayed under
tire stadiiftn to keep from getting
wet.
' Who is the Don that Suzanne
Johnson is so interested in? Betty
Keyser seems to have Peck under
control. What's the matter, Bayless,
are you losing your touch ? The girls'
dream man, R. D. Garrison, is said
to provide his deck with nightly
entertainment. The boys like it so
much that they even had a record
made of Barney for future enjoy-
ment.
We hear that Carolyn Knapp and
Roy Hohl had a wonderful weekend
in the country. What's happening to
Beall and Camille? She seems to like
John's ibetter'n Jimmy's—and he
spends most of his time duck hunt-
ing. Where does Gladys Jackson get
all those lieutenants? After all
Gladys, there's a man shortage.
Speaking of men, have you seen
Joyce Alessaqdra's Gene? We didn't
know such specimens were still
around—'but Joyce has everything
under control. We wish Charlie Ha-
den would learn to keep his duties
straight. It isn't a good policy to
stand a girl up, .Charlie. We saw
some of the Navy wolves drooling
over a Broadside—especially over
their latest pin-up girl,( Dottle Mar-
shall. Did you see Howard Scott
giving Marie "Virginia Barrett a ride
back from A House? Heard that
Maralyn McCurdy has a date with
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with a pianissimo staccato that
moves four measures in the step of
a secunda only, on the lower notea
of the violins. The trio is one of the
delights in' Beethoven's music. A sub-
ject for the horns, like a hunting
call, was not played as it ipight or
could have been. It was not strictly
in tempo, but it rarely is, and it ia.
also fiendishly difficult for these
unreliable instruments.
The final movement begins with
a dominant seventh chord in the
form of a cadenza, after which the
theme enters pizzicato, first present*
ed in the simplest possible way by
the strings, then echoed by the wood-
winds in a very fine style, imitating
each note of the strings, half a
measure 'behind them. After the
themes are once stated in theit en-
tirety; the remainder of the move-
ment explores tonal and contrapun-
tal possibilities. Thematic material
from all the preceding movements,
especially the first with the cellos,
is heard, with one of the final themes
being chosen from an air in Bee-
thoven's music to "Prometheus."
This symphony requires an almost
limitless degree of depth and in-
terpretation along with a perfect
performance rarely heard even by
the best orchestras. Mr. Hoffmann
has the interpretative ability, but
the experience of his players having
been academic limits him in carry-
ing it out. Very few of Beethoven's
works, however, are ever fully real-
ized, except probably as conceived-
by the composer himself, so the
Houston Symphony did a good job
for itself in overcoming many of the
obstacles it faced in. this Score.
An astonishing amount of Morton
Gould has been given the symphony
audiences this season. This time it
was "Guaracha," for which the or-
chestra seemed especially well suit-
ed, and which it performed much
better than it does 'the'clasSical com- fn"
positions it has repeated for years.
f"he audience seemed to like it, how-
ever, and so did the conductor;
Mrs. Virginia Jean was presented
as soloist in Piston's "Concertina for
Piano and Chamber Orchestra," an-
other score in its first performance
here. Her technique and interpre- N
tation mark her as a learned musi-*
cian, but the full results of the piece
were -not completely attained, as per-
haps Iturbi or Levant might have
done. Nevertheless, her number was
the high point of the evening. Her
cadenzas were very accurately and
brilliantly performed, but her eritore
was a considerable let-down. The
Chopin "Noctui-ne" is hardly suit-
able for a concert stage, mainly be-
cause the composer's nocturnes are
too academic and shallow in the-
matic material and construction.
The next number was Weber's
Overture to "Der Freischutz." The
opera, especially famous because it
is purely German in subject and
treatment, is based on a legend by
Apel. It marked the begihning of a
development in German opera which
culminated in the incomparable mu-
sic dramas of Wagner. The opera
itself, to satisfy the fashion of its
period, deals with love and magic;
and the overture, as a good operatic
prelude should, gives this . atmos-
phere and some of the musical de-
tails which are to follow. The he-
roine, Agatha, is represented by a
clarinet solo; it was introduced
throughout the rest of the score,
but was played out of tempo.
The program was brought to an
end with two often heard Wagnerian
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numbers, "Entrance of the Guests"
from "Tannhauser," and "The Ride , i
of the Valkyries," from "Die Wal-
kure" (the stormiest of all known •
music). The orchestra did not keep
up its,time in either of these works;
but lapsed back into its former'statq
of horn blunders, whieh, incidental-
ly, was not the only group for er- T
rors since the strings did thdr
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