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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1946
Smooth SayingA
The enlargement of the store cer
tainly promotes the general welfare
of campus romances.
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What new rules will be improvis
ed to prohibit leaving the campus
in an airplane, mainly with Frank
Camp.
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News Item: To all girls with a
weekly allowance, Riley Frost is
perfectly willing to take you to the
movie—only fifty cents per head.
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Have you heard? Things have
changed with Dickie Lee and San
dra.
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Charles is definitely not “Cole”
toward Betty Hunt, thanks to Sal
mon.
What happened to the man short
age? Oh you lucky girls—you “ain’t
never” had it so good.
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At last Caralyn McCurdy has
found her ideal man —Horace,
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Ain’t the campus jeeps cute?
If only they had drivers.
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“Rat Week” is gone, but the
memory lingers on, so does the
shoe polish.
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Tom Morgan seems to have taken
over “Percy,” and with only one
date. Just call him “Flash.”
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Jackie Freemn sure is wasting
her youth waiting for “Baldy” Tal
ley.
DRAMA SEASON OPENS; DRAMATICS
CLASS TO PRESENT COMEDY-DRAMA
“NIGHT OF JANUARY 16TH”
Drama will take its place along
with the many other student acti
vities at West Georgia College
when the Dramatics Class presents
its first production before the close
of the first quarter. A definite
date has not been set due to the
many problems involved at the pre
sent in obtaining scenery and
equipment for the stage. Every
thing possible is being done and
the production will make its ap
pearance before the quarter closes.
Plans are under way for a produc
tion each quarter during the school
year.
The class has chosen for its first
play, “Night of January Sixteenth,”
a comedy-drama in three acts that
had a long and successful run on
Broadway in New York. It is a
play that will hold your attention
from the moment the curtain opens
until it closes. Did Karen Andre
kill Bjorn Faulkner? Or is her
story true that, in order to avoid
bankruptcy, she planned to fake
the suicide of the international fi
nancier and then escape with him
to South America with a fortune in
cash and credit? Is she, with Larry
Regan, an ingenious perjurer and
murderer, or is she the shrewd, but
forthright woman she would have
us believe? On the sixteenth of
January—near midnight—the body
of a man came hurtling through
space, and crashed —a disfigured
mass—at the foot of the Faulkner
Building in New York City. He was
thrown, or leaped, from the roof of
his luxurious penthouse. The de
fense will claim that it was suicide
while the prosecution will contend
that it was murder since a bullet
wound was also discovered on the
body.
You will discover the answer on
ly by attending the play. A Jury
will be chosen from the audience
Who is it that write Lila Jean
Prater such passionate love letters
from Michigan?
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I don’t know all your names yet,
but just wait. “Every dog has his
day.” I’ll be slinging you.
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Barbara is now a “staying out at
nite this year, but Bailey aint.
Guess that stops that romance.
Barbara’s having a “Wink”of a
time.
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Hurray for our new cheer lead
ers. Lets back ’em *up.
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Where did “Dippy” get them
pretty roses? Could it have been
flower loving Eugene Cook? Cook,
does the coach know you love flow
ers? Just call him Ferdinan.
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Why does Jack Pinson go home
every week-end? Is he going to
something, or trying to escape
something. Pretty “Grave” matter
Jack.
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We have an Authur Murray, Jr.
On the campus. None other than
Lewis Adams. Swoon, swoon,
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The question of the week: Is Car
olyn Camp really carrying the
torch for Clyde, Jr?
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Just watch “Doopy” Davis swoon
over all the vets. Watch it fellows,
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When will Mac Griffith and
Tucker get together again? They’re
both suffering horribly. Let’s be
sensible, Tuck.
when the curtain opens. They will
be asked to sit in the jury box on
the stage and to render a verdict
after they have heard all of the
evidence. The play is supplied with
two endings so that the cast may
carry on regardless of whether the
verdict is guilty or not guilty. So
ingenious is the statement of the
case, so cleverly is the play written,
that the issue is never decided un
til this jury has given its verdict,
but the play is more than just a
trial by jury, for it is full of the
dramatic surprises that make the
theatre worth while. Sophisticated
New York audiences made it the
hit of a season, and among the no
tables to serve on the jury during
its eight months run on Broadway
were James Roosevelt, Jack Demp
sey, Ricardo Cortez, Babe Ruth, and
Helen Keller. On one occasion four
United States Congressmen were
among the jurors.
Tryouts for the female parts in
the play are being held at the pre
sent in the dramatics class. Since
the class has only three men it will
be necessary to call for volunteers
from the rest of the men on the
campus. Tryouts will be announc
ed in assembly on Tuesday, October
29, for all men interested in having
a part in this production. There
are parts for thirteen men ranging
all the way from judge, the district
attorney, and defense attorney, a
gangster, a Swede, on down to the
court attendant and policeman.
Plans are also under way for
creating a Stagecraft Club to take
over the responsibility of the stage.
They will produce the set for this
play and all others to appear dur
ing the year. A number of boys
have indicated their interest and
hope to organize during the com
ing week.
THE WEST GEORGIAN
PIANO RECITAL AT
WEST GEORGIA
COLLEGE OCT., 29
Mildred Miller Davis, organist of
the chapel at the First Baptist
Church of LaGrange, will be pre
sented in a piano recital at the
West Georgia College gymnasium
on Tuesday evening, October 29 at
Bp. m. This recital is being spons
ored by the Arts Study Club in an
effort to raise funds with which to
buy a record player for the three
Carrollton public schools.
Mrs. Davis has chosen her pro
gram from the works of the new
as well as the old composers. It
promises to hold a varied appeal
for she has included a nocturne
and a scherzo by the romanticist
Chopin, a concerto by Bach, and
three compositions by Claude De
bussey, who has been classed as an
impressionist.
These are the selections Mrs. Da
vis has chosen to present:
Halian Concerto— „...Bach
Allegro animato
Andante Molto expressino
Presto grojoco
Nocturne, Op. 27, No. 2 Chopin
Etude, Op. 25, No. I (The Harp
Etude)
Scherzo, Op. 31
Intermission
Clair de lune Debussey
Air Arabesaue
Reflets dans l’Eau
Warsaw Concerto Addinsell
(Arr. for piano solo by Henry
Greehl)
New Hostesses
It seems that the Administration
thinks every dormitory should
have a person who can make the
boys and girls of the campus think
of their dormitory as their “second
home”. West Georgia as very fort
unate in securing three ladies who
have the student’s well-being at
heart and who will do nearly any
thing to make them comfortable
and happy.
Mrs. Guy Shannon, who is acting
Dean of Women and hostess to Ad
amson Hall, comes to West Georgia
from Middle Georgia College at
Cochran, Georgia. Mrs. Shannon is
already a favorite with the girls
who live in Adamson. We under
stand that she plays the violin as
well as the piano. She can sing too,
Buddy!! Mrs. Shannon has a son
who is a college student, so you
may rest assured that she will un
derstand all your “troubles”.
Mrs. Sally Sweet, who is hostess
at Melson, has lived (and I quote)
"nearly everywhere”. She was born
in Michigan but she moved from
there when she was thirteen. She
married an army officer during the
first World War and since then
she has followed the Army. She is
the mother of three daughters—
all of whom are married. The girls
in Melson say she is just as sweet
as her name! (Best of luck to you
in eradicating those rats —not the
Freshmen!)
She is a Sunday School teacher
at the Tabernacle Baptist Church.
Mrs. Webb seems to be very proud
of her boys “over on the hill”.
Last but not least —the Cabin
has anew host and hostess this
year. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Rossett,
who are W. G. C. students, are liv
ing down at the Cabin and are
keeping the water hot—and that’s
the job.
To all our new hostesses (and
host) we say "A HEARTY WEL
COME TO W. G. C.” and we hope
your stay here will be a most plea
sant one!
Husband—Dear, you should be in
Congress.
Wife—Why, Dear?
Husband —Because you’re so good
at introducing bills into the house.
aiding. f~^arade
By Len Hutcheson
The people who are making a
general nusiance of themselves
pushing and shoving their way in
to the dining hall should be shown
motion picture of their asinine an
tics. I doubt that it would have
any lasting effect but it might help
them to know that they are not
acting in a manner to merit a pat
on the back.
My sense of humor has undoubt
ably been ground into dust, for I
fail to understand just what fun is
derived from the idiotic surge to
ward the door that sometimes
starts even before the bell is rung.
I have information from a reliable
source that no one goes about
snatching food from the tables be
fore the students are let in; there
fore nothing is gained by the mad
rush to the tables. Mutton is mut
ton five minutes before or five min
utes after the bell and no amount
of culinary alchemy will transform
it into porterhouse steak.
Maybe the pushers and shovers
would be more impressed by the
showing of a cattle stampede. It is
the same principles, the same mad
rush to nowhere in particular.
However cattle are not likely to
feel regretful or sorry for the in
juries and destruction they cause,
not having been endowed with the
higher emotions of the human race.
I heard somewhere that mobs are
usually incited by some hysterical
half-wit who considers himself the
earthly arm of heavenly justice.
Others who do not feel this power
find it easy to sink into the anony
mity of numbers and follow the
leader doing whatever he directs,
never knowing what they have
done until it is too late. When
they do learn they loudly disclaim
responsibility for any part of the
deeds. I have noticed no cases of
hysterics on the campus and the
number of persons I have observed
suffering from delirium tremens is
CAMPUS HAZARDS
No doubt while scurrying around
the back campus you’ve seen the
cute little signs which read, "Dan
ger-Go-Ahead”. Take it from me,
they mean what they say! You not
only observe large hunks of heavy
paper floating gaily down to earth
from the tops of the AC Building,
but also heavy buckets plopping to
the ground from great heights.
Then of course there’s always the
danger, if you get too close in, of
having a right or left tympanic
membrane (for the benefit of those
not yet educated by Dr. Doubles or
Artingstall, that is a section of
your ears) shattered by the work
men perched aloft. This is not done
by having him throw something at
you, but it happened to me by hav
ing one give out with a lusty ren
dition of "Here We Go ‘Round the
Mulberry Bush”, as he teetered
Quiz N Quips
There’s a rumor goin’ around
that West Georgia College has a
population with a larger number of
boys than girls. While taking a
census on what the students
thought about this, these are some
of the answers your reporter re
ceived :
Joy Hampton: Ou-la-la!
Doris Cannon: I think it’s pretty
wonderful, but it would be much
better if I had more time to chat
with them!
so small as to be negligible. The
school has entrance requirements,
therefore it is reasonable to assume
that there are no half-wits loose on
the campus.
It follows then that the pushers
and shovers are suddenly seized
with this affliction at mealUme and
become rational human beings as
soon as they hit the inside of the
dining sail. Some research should
be conducted into this malady be
fore a plague strikes the campus.
So far as I know nothing will be
done to stop these fits of insanity
until someone is trampled under
and ground into the cement. This
might dampen the spirits of the
eager beavers until the carcass is
dragged from the scene. I hope, if
it is written in the pages of des
tiny that someone be injured before
this madness stops, that someone
be one of the pushers, and not
some innocent bystander. I could
see a sort of poetic justice in a
pusher having a taste of shoe leath
er he started on its way.
You are not expected to pay any
attention to me for I have no pow
er other than that vaguely describ
ed as the duty of all students to
their Alma Mater. I am not gulli
ble enough to think any attenUon
will be paid to me even if I had
power. Maybe you will pay atten
tion to yourselves when you finally
succeed in maiming someone.
I like West Georgia and sincerely
hate to see the school hurt by the
selfish actions of a few who en
danger the well being of others
merely for the sake of getting in
two feet ahead of someone else. No
one planted this article in my mind
—it grew there as a result of my
own observations. I do not believe
any small group has the right to
endanger the happiness and peace
of others. If you must push, go
push yourself off a cliff, but let the
innocent people alone. Let the
passing parade move in peace.
back and forth on a stack of bricks
midst a pile of rubble.
Besides, there is always the hope
that if you took a shortcut through
the mess on the ground, that you
wouldn’t break three or four legs
or arms making it.
Not knowing how it journeyed
there, I couldn’t say, but one of
the signs is now resting (unless
someone has decided his reputation
was at stake and moved it) at the
side door into Adamson Hall. Could
be whoever put it there had a vag
ue idea of what goes on inside of
the rooms of Adamson. But that’s
another story.
Anyway, unless you have a life
insurance policy made out to your
family, and you want them to col
lect on it, I would advise taking the
few extra steps needed to detour.
Anne Russell: Oh, Gosh! That’s
all I can say.
Nadine Ashmore: It seems sorta
strange having boys at “Rec” on
Saturday night.
Martha Wilson: It’s different, but
don’t we all go in for something
different?
Helen Leach: They say it’s won
derful! Give me time and I’ll try!
We can do anything we want to
if we stick to it long enough.
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