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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1956
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Once Played Sax for Bulldogs
By Jackie Skodnik
James Melton, star of the Metropolitan Opera, began his musical
career as a saxaphone player with the Georgia Bulldog Band.
Melton was born in Moultrie and
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entered college at the University of many years and celebrated
Florida but transferred to Georgia l Koyern ' nen ‘ affairs, music festivals
in 1922 to work toward a degree in a " d ler tmportant Katherin * 8 -
music.
His first professional recognition
was the result of the Bulldog Band’s nus ' of - th e-Month
performance over WSB. He later ” J
abandoned his saxophone for his
voice and rose to the operatic roles
of the Metropolitan.
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In his operatic repertoire are such Janies Melton Autorama, which has
operas as “Madame Butterfly,” “Mo-
non” and “Martha.” He also had
the Telephone Hour program on
Ag Representatives
lo Attend Meeting
Of Southern Group
Sixty-nine members of the College
of Agriculture will participate in the
53rd annual meeting of the Associa
tion of Southern Agricultural Work
ers in Atlanta Monday through
Wednesday.
The purpose of the convention is
to discuss research and extension
problems in the field of agriculture.
Papers will be presented by several
representatives, and the results of
their research will be discussed, Dr.
Calvin Murray, agriculture dean,
said.
I his association is the largest of
its kind in the country. It is attend
ed by members of land grant college
agriculture schools, agricultural ex
tension services, representatives and
scientists of business and industrial
concerns, and members of the United
States Department of Agriculture.
University Coeds To Attend
N\ omen’s Athletie Convention
Thirteen University coeds will at
tend the convention of the Georgia
Athletic Federation for College Wom
en, Friday and Saturday, at Valdosta
State College, Valdosta.
Betty Nuttycombe was elected the
official delegate from the University
Woman’s Athletic Association. Oth
ers representing the University will
be Edith Klein and Barbara Landers,
council members of GAFCW;
Sheila Butler, Peggy Hahn, Georgia
Vacalis, June Emmett, Lou Ann
Smith, Evelyn Froliman, Mary Mc-
Ritchie, Mary Ellen Cochran, Nan
Danner and Martha Finley.
Melton has appeared here several
times. In 1950 he was named Alum
by the Georgia
Alumni Record.
Aside from his musical interests,
Melton spends much time on his old
car hobby. In 1933 he instituted the
more than 80 antique cars dating
back to the 1890s. He and Ken Pur-
day published a book on antique
cars “Bright Wheels Rolling” in
1938.
Melton enjoys the outdoors with
hunting and fishing his favorite
activities.
Emory Anatomy Professor
Io Address Biology Group
Dr. Jutnes Miller, professor of
anatomy, Emory University, will be
guest speaker at the University Cen
ter Biology Seminar Tuesday at 7:30
p.tn. in Baldwin Hall.
Dr. Miller will speak on “Some
Effects of Low Body Temperature
in Mammals and Possible Applica
tions.” He has done research in this
field at Emory.
Dr. John W. Nuttycombe, biology
department head, said the public is
invited to attend.
The meeting will be preceded by
a “dutch” dinner at Snelling Hall
at 6:15 p.m.
ROTC BEAUTY FINALISTS LISTED
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With smiles of Southern charm, here are ex
hibited the five finalists for the annual Dough
boy-Flyboy Military Ball. They are left to
right: Conie Hearn, South Myers; Jan Wil
liams, Zeta Tau Alpha; Nancy Kellam, Alpha
Delta I’i; Sandra Dunn, Chi Omega, and Shiela
* ■ la vs, Kappa Alpha Theta. Cadets will vote for
the queen of their choice during classroom
peroids next week. Votes will be tabulated by
Army and Air Force detachments. She will be
presented and crowned at the dance. Johnny
Long and his orchestra will play for the ball
which is scheduled for Feb. 10 in Stegeman
Hall.
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VIVE LE POPCORN!
The other day as I was walking down the street picking up
tinfoil (Philip Morris, incidentally, has the best tinfoil, which
is not surprising when you consider that they have the best
cigarettes, which is not surprising when you consider that they
buy the best tobaccos and the bc3t paper and put them together
with skill and loving care and rush them to your tobacco counter,
fresh and firm and loaded with gentle smokin" pleasure to lull
the palate and beguile the sense : and shoo the blues) the other
day, I say, as I was walking down the street picking up tinfoil
(I have, incidentally, the second largest ball of tinfoil in our
family. My brother Eleanor’s is bigger-more than four miles
in diameter-but, of course, he is taller than I.) the other day,
as I was saying, while walking down the street picking up tinfoil,
I passed a campus and right beside it, a movie theatre which
specialized in showing foreign films. “Hmmmm,” I said to my
self, “I wonder how come so many theatres which specialize in
showing foreign films are located near campuses?”
And the answer came right back to me: “Because foreign
films are full of culture, art, and esoterica, and where is culture
more rife, art more rampant, and esoterica more endemic than
on a campus? Nowhere, that’s where!”
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I hope that all of you have been taking advantage of the
foreign film theatre near your campus. Here you will find no
simple-minded Hollywood products — full of treacly sentiment
and machine-made bravura. Here you will find life itself —life
in all its grimness, its poverty, its naked, raw passion!
Have you, for instance, seen the recent French import, Le
Jardin de Ma Tante ("The Kneecap”), a savage and uncom
promising story of a man named Claude Parfum, whose con
suming ambition is to get a job as a meter reader with the
Paris water department? But he is unable, alas, to afford the
flashlight one needs for this position. His wife, Bon-Bon, sells
her Hir to a wigmaker and buys him a flashlight. Then, alas,
Claui.: discovers that one also requires a leatherette bow tie.
This time his two young daughters, Caramel and Nougat, sell
their hair to the wigmaker. So Claude has his leatherette bow-tie,
but now, alas, his flashlight battery is burned out and the whole
family, alas, is bald.
Or have you seen the latest Italian masterpiece, La Donna E
Mobt.j ("I Ache All Over”), a heart shattering tale of a boy and
his dog? Malvolio, a Venetian lad of nine, loves his little dog
with every fibre of his being. He has one great dream: to enter
the dog in the annual dog show at the Doge’s palace. But that,
alas, requires an entrance fee, and Malvolio, alas, is penniless!
However, he saves and scrimps and steals and finally gets enough
together to enter the dog in the show. The dog, alas, comes in
twenty-third. Malvolio sells him to a vivisectionist.
Or have you seen the new Japanese triumph, Kibutti-San
(“The Radish”), a pulse-stirring historical romance about
Yamoto, a poor farmer, and his daughter Ethel who are accosted
by a warlord on their way to market one morning? The warlord
cuts Yamoto in half with his samurai sword and runs off with
Ethel. When Yamoto recovers, he seeks out Ethel’s fiance
Chutzpah, and together they find the warlord and kill him. But,’
alas, the warlord was also a sorcerer and he has whimsically
turned Ethel into a whooping crane. But loyal Chutzpah takes
her home where he feeds her fish heads for twenty years and
keeps hoping she’ll turn back into a woman. She never does. Alas.
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The maker* of Philip Morris, echo bring you this column, hopo
that if there’s tmoking in the balcony of your campus theatre. It will
be today's new, gentle Philip Morris you'll be smoking.