The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, February 10, 1950 Page: 1 of 4
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VOLUME THIRTY-SEVEN — NUMBER SATEEN HIHIH HOUSTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1950
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Hell Is Scene of "Danse Macabre"
Bare Shoulders
Archi-Arts honorees were presented at a JDepart-
ment reception Sunday night* The group includes,
from left to right, standing, Goonie Harris, Virginia
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Barber, Coletta Ray, Jackie Meyer, and Bertha Gray,
seated, Joan Bennett, Joie Payne, Etta Colish, Caufflille
Coulter, and Genie Hare.
Fibi Society To Be Limited,
Meeting Set For Tuesday
The initial response to the announcement of a proposed
Rice Film Society has been greater than was originally expected.
An informal organization meeting at which final plans for the
society will be made has been announced for Tuesday evening,
February 14 at 8:00 p.m. in the Lecture Lounge of the Fondren
Library. At this meeting offi-
Campanile Rushes
To Meet Deadline
The final round-up of material
for the 1950 Campanile is being
Campus Discussion
Reveals Costumes
For Saturday Night
cers for the remainder of the
year will be elected.
Tentative plans call for a series
of six film programs to be pre-
sented by the society. Members in
the organization, which will prob-
ably cost $2.00, will entitle anyone
to a reserved seat at these show-
ings. It was pointed out lhat al- ma(je this month in order to meet
though the tentative program in- deadlines set by the printer and en-
cludes modern foreign^ films, early graVer who intend *16 have the book
classics, and outstanding documen- ready for distribution May 15, it
taries, the decision as to what pic- waa announced.
tures members will see will rest in Organizations which do not hand
the hands of a Program Committee jn their story of the year's activities
to be elected by members. Mem- before noon Monday should not be
bership is open to all faculty mem- surprised to find the same account
bers, students, and friends of the ag in lagt year,g book by their 6p_
Rice Institute and will be limited ganization with only dates left out,
to approximately 150. Programs will GLORIA WILSON, EDITOR, warns,
be presented in the Lecture Lounge Th^ groups have all been given suf-
on evenings to be selected by the 'icient warning by the Campanile
. . staff and must be willing to accept
, , , , , the consequence of their delays in
A short film will probably be pre- getting thia materiai in to the office.
sented at the organization meeting, Seniors whose nam^ haye not
which is open without charge to been scratched from the list posted
anyone interested in motion pictures.
The Audfo-Aeoustic Society
will meet tonight in Anderson
Hall at 7:30 The Mcintosh 50
watt amplifier will be explained
and test results on response and
distortion will be-given. Results
of several of the, new phono pick-
ups and preamplifiers with equal-
ization curves wil also be shown.
All interested are invited to come
to this first meeting.
on the lounge bulletin board can
expect to have only their name and
prospective degree listed beside their
picture Unless they turn their ac-
tivitias.lists in to the office, Eugenia
Harris, or Pat Amsler before noon
Saturday.
Persons who have been holding
snapshots for Sallyport are urged
to place them in the box opposite
the Student Association office dur-
ing the coming week so that all
campus groups can be included in
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by Ruey Boone
"But darling, you don't need a
costume. You already look like hell."
This is the latest Rice version of
"famous last words," rising from
the confusion in deciding up on ap-
propriate attire for the highly an-
ticipated Archi - Arts masquerade
ball, tomorrow night. It seems that
"Danse Macabre" is presenting no
little trouble to the students, since
the word from the costume shops in
town is that the only thing that's
deadly about their outfits is the
small animals.
Campus talk has revealed that the
students are letting, their imagina-
tions run wild with plans for every-
thing from coming in "dead drunk"
on a pink elephant (the Houston zoo
asks please do not send them any
more requests for such, since their
last pink elephant died two years
ago); to cowboy outfits (shades of
Roy Rogers) and hobby horses as
Ghost Riders in the Sky.
One bitter Republican intends to
appear as F.D.R., himself. And still
another is thinking about masquer-
ading as a cup of coffee from the
Roost (sudden death). Other appro-
priate suggestions have been Hinges
of Hell, Chivalry (for Rice boys,
that should be easy), and the Old
South. Some *of the students' ori-
ginality is evidenced by such themes
as "dead give-away,", "dead as a
mackerel," "hot as Hell," "Hell-div-
er," "dead-head," "a bat out of Hades
and others equally ridiculous.
For the girls who are worried
about the neighbors' reactions to
their early-dawn arfnval home after
the dance, there is the suggestion
that they go straight to church, that
way avoiding any possible gossip.
Those who are upset about the $6
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Pageant Scheduled For Witching Hour
With Appropriate Costumes and Sets
Ten spectacular costumes will be seen on ten beautiful Rice
girls in a brilliant pageant at "Danse Macabre," tomorrow night.
From 11 p.m. to 4 a.m., Rice architects and their guests will
spend an evening in one small corner of Hades, surrounded
by grotesque shapes and eerie spectacles.
honorees were presented
at an Architecture Department
open house last Sunday, at the
home of Hal Davis. Vying for the
title of Queen of the pageant will
• be Goonie Harris, Etta Colish, Ca-
mille Coulter, Jacqueline Meyer,
Virginia Barber, Bertha Gray, Joan
Bennet, Jo Yvonne Payne, Genie
Hare and Coletta Ray. Willie Pil-
cher, designer of the costumes, has
explained that, this year, costumes
have been designed individually
with colors and styles to comple-
ment the features of each girl.
The theme of the pageant, which
wifl be held at 11:30, has not been
announcetJJThe queen will be chosen
^ by a board of judges including Leni
Bouvier, the wife of Van Grona, di-
rector of the Texas Stage; Robert
Lent1, associate professor in the Rico
Architecture Department; and Tom
Connelly, winner of the Architectur-
al traveling fellowship in 1948.
The price of the Archi-Arts dance
will be $5 plus tax. The money will
be used for the anual traveling fel-
lowship, given to an architecture
student for study abroad.
Costumes for the students will
include underworld characters, any-
thing pertaining to Hell, evil, death,
etc. The ball is to be masked,
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Review Program
Deadline Nears;
Ads Needed
,, With the deadline for the program
of the_Rice Institute Review of Sci-
ence and Arts rapidly approaching,
^fn students who think they would be
able to sell any advertising for the
program are urged to contact E. L.
Keyser or Wally Love joy.
A list of all firms which have been
contacted will be posted in the
Lounge this week, and will be kept
up to date.
Commissions of 10% will be giv&v'
to sellers for all ads sold.
The money from this advertising
is the only source of funds for the
1950 Review. Advertising rates are
as follows: full page, $60; half page
$40; one fourth of a page, $22.50; an
eighth of @ page, $13.
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Forum To Sponsor
Musical Programs
The Rice Forum is planning to
present a series of student sponsored
musical programs during the Fall
Semester this year. The purpose
will be to present a synopsis of the
history and development of music as
actually experienced in the recorded
sound.
Starting from Renaissance and
pre-Renaissance music, the series
will cover all principle schools and
styles of music to the present day.
A short introduction will be given
to each program explaining the form
and pertinent points of each selec-
tion. The emphasis will be on neg-
lected masterpieces that are seldom
encountered in an ordinary concert
season. •
The first in the series will be pre-
sented by Dan Bloxsom in Anderson
Hall 110 at 8:00 p.m. Monday, Feb-
ruary 13. The subject will be the be-
ginnings and early start of opera in
Italy. Men such as Puccini and Verdi
had a vast heritage behind them,
and even Bach and the classical Ger-
man composers were very much in-
fluenced by "The Italian Style".
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Overseas Study
Openings Available
The Institute bf International Ed-
ucation announces additional oppor-
tunities under its program for fel-
lowships and assistantships in vir-
tually all fiends of study in France,
Germany, Italy, The Netherlands,
Switzerland, and Latin America.
The closing date on application
is March 1, 1950. The opportunities
for study in Czechoslovakia close on
April 1, 1950, and for England on
May 1 of the same year. Additional
information and applications may be
obtained from the Office of the
Assistant to the President.
Trustees Refuse
McCarthy Request
There is no longer any question
about Houston having a professional
football team sponsored by Glenn
McCarthy since his application has
been turned down by the pro league
officials on the grounds of not want-
ing to add a 14th team to the sched-
ule. However, there is still an aca-
demic issue involved,
. McCarthy was turned down by the
Rice Institute Board of Trustees for
several valid reasons. If the stadium
were leased for Sunday games that
portion of the campus (about 75
acres) containing the stadium and
parking areas could be subject to
ad valorem taxes. It is believed that
if non-profit organizations, such as
the Institute, continue to engage in
commercial ventures, declaring such
income to be non-taxable, it would
not be long before the government
would be taxing all non-profit or-
ganizations.
Furthermore, since Rice plays
Saturday games, it would be almost
impossible for the stadium crew to
clean the stadium and grounds for'
a game the next day. The trustees
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The Honor Council recently
held a hearing for nine students
accused of cheating on a test.
The students pleaded gnilty to
the accusation and two of them
were sentenced to permanent ex-
pulsion from school, one to a
two-year suspension, and the rest
to a one-year suspension.
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