The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 30, 1946 Page: 4 of 4
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THE THRESHES
Hits and Highlights
By Robert Flagg
SEVERAL individuate who have
made public mention of the fact
thut the Dallas Symphony has rec-
orded some albums for Victor. Now
these individuals have implied that
the Dallas Symphony Orchestra is
so good that representatives of Vic-
tor, Columbia and other record com-
panies are stumbling all over them-
selves in trying to sign up the Dal-
las orchestra.
Such is not the case. Some few
years ago Victor made a contract
with the present leader of the or-
chestra to the effect that he would
conduct a certain number of com-
positions to be recorded. At that
time the Dallas Symphony was still
a gleam in someone's eye. So to
make a short, story of it, this con-
ductor, after knocking around the
country for some time, was selected
to lend the newly formed Symphony.
The contract being still in effect,
the Dallas Symphony through no
virtue* of it's own has recorded'an
allium or so for Victor.
AN INTERKNTINt; story reached
me the other day. This past
March the Ballet Theater appeared
in town, and the Houston Symphony
played for them. It seems that the
Houston Symphony so botched up
parts of Stravinsky's "Firebird
Suite" that the corps-de-ballet
couldn't resist a subdued chuckle
or two. Consequently every mem-
ber was fined three bucks by the
stage manager for laughing.
rill.DA" is the result of ambrosial
U Rita Hayworth's desire to prove
that she can act. But as always be-
fore, she proves that she is such a
looker that, nothing else matters.
It; is Miss Hayworth's business to
portray a woman as bad as she is
beautiful. On the rebound from a
young bum (Glenn Ford) she mar-
ries an elegant bounder (George
Macrt adyi, who falls desperately in
love with her. She then spends a
large part of the picture acting as
much like a nympholept. as the traf-
fic will boar, and since all this
transpires in Buenos Aires, the
traffic is reasonably lively.
All I his sinning makes for a fair
amount of pulpy entertainment,
nicely paced and aptly delivered for
the first hour or so, but then it be-
gins to drag. Glenn Ford has a good
bit of style as the young scoundrel.
But after all it's Rita Hayworth's
picture. Incidentally she does a good
job of singing the rather sultry ly-
ric, "Put the Blame on Mame,
Boys."
FOR MUSK-ALLY minded ex fly-
hoys we recommend the pur-
chase of Marc Blitzstein's "Airborne
Symphony," whenever it is released
in album form. The "Airborne,"
which made its radio debut last
Sunday, is a history of flight set
to music. Choice bits are the narrat-
ed descriptions of the fly-boys
readying for a mission only to have
the mission called off.
Observation of the week ... pink
cheeked, curly-haired children are
no better heard than they are seen.
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MASTERSON—
(Continued from page 1)
States the LST 359 was torpedoed
and sunk losing 2 men and wound-
ing 16.
Lieut. Masterson then returned
to the United States and was as-
signed to the NROTC Unit at the
University of South Carolina as an
instructor in Navigation.
He reported to The Rice institute
on 2f> April as a relief for Lieut,
Comdr, P. M. Owen.
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INMATES AWAKE—
(Continued from page 1)
mouth, England which accounts for
his slightly British enunciation and
his rapid-fire "Is that clear?—D1
you understand ?"
When his students ask an es-
pecially great number of questions,
he will answer them all and con-
clude with reluting of an occasion
where he once was paid for answer-
ing questions. It seems that he once
knew a gambler. "Poor man, he's
dead now," said Dr. Bray. "But he
would walk Into my office, lay a
ten dollar bill on my desk, and ask
me to calculate the probability of
drawing to an insicje straight!"
Although mathematics is his
business, Dr. Bray is not like the
individual in a tale he periodically
tells. "I attended a convention of
pedagogues once where the prin-
cipal speaker was a superintendent
of high school mathematics. This
man actually had the effrontery to
say that he would rather spend Sat-
urday afternoon working quadratic
equations than to go to the football
game."
Until recently Dr. 'Bray was
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ference faculty committee. A fa*
miliar sight at athletic events, Dr.
Bray has inspired a cheer that goes
something like "X to the Y, to the
Y, to the Y, to the Y. Y to the A,
to the A, to the A. We see you Dr.
Bray."
Engineers seem to be Dr. Bray's
pet peeve. He is constantly making
some caustic remark about the slide
rule boys. He says "Engineers have
so much faith in their slide rules
that they would just as soon go to
war with their slide rules at rlght-
shoulder-arms, the slide extended
for a bayonet." This he usually il-
lustrates with a drawing upon the
board. However he has a slide rule;
admits that be "bought it when I
was a sophomore at the University
of Minnesota in 1907, and it's just
as good now as it was then."
Dr. Bray is an excellent mathe-
matician. He classifies problems as
"Very interesting" and "not inter-
esting at all." He treats his subject
with such enthusiasm that his "in-
mates" are afflicted with some of
his fervor. He actually makes math
interesting!
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