Friday, April 12, 1940
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
movies
Theaters feature comedy,
romance, horror pictures
By Hubert Ogden.
Comedy, romance, and horror
await the student movie-goers at
the local theatres this week. The
pictures promise to bring a week
of fine entertainment and a means
unto relaxation to all of the cine
hia houses.
"It's a Date" or at least it would
probnbly be a very fine idea in our
opinion to make it one for this
picture now at the Lincoln.
lnmgine Deanna Durbin and
Harry Owens and his famous
Royal Hawaiians of "Sweet Lc
lani" time program fame appear
ing together wilh the colorful set
ting of Hawaii as a background.
The story begins on Broadway,
moves to Maine and finally to
Hawaii. Deanna and Kay Francis,
her mother in the production are
offered the same stage role by a
producer, but Deanna tries to re
fuse when she learns her mother
wants to play it. Deanna pretends
lore for Pidgeon, says she will
give up her career, and seta out in
pursuit o th hapless Pidgeon,
whose lore for the mother is se
cretly rebirned. Who geta the role,
and who geta the man, is revealed
in a urprising and suitable finish,
The story of one of the bloodiest
and most dramatic perioda in all
history, the fighting 15th century,
will be told in the "Tower of Lon
don," starting Saturday, on the
screen at the Nebraska theatre.
This drama which was a year
In the making features Basil Rath
bone as the diabolic Richard III,
infamous "Crook back" king, and
includes other able dramatic play
ers in its cast ef hundreds.
Boris Karloff of "Frankenstein"
repute has a powerful part as
Richard's ally, the fearsome ex
ecutioner of the Tower.
"Oh Johnny, How You Can
Love," with Tom Brown and Peg
gy Moran is a second feature at
the Nebraska.
Currently showing at the Stuart
are W. C. Fields and Mae West in
"My Little Chickadee."
Starting Saturday at the Stuart
will be "It AH Came True" star
ing Ann Sheridan with Jeffrey
Lynne and Humphrey Bogart.
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Tickets on sale soon at STUDENT UNION
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Joe Whitley-
NEW YORK CITY. -April 11.
At Vassar they were rival
queens in the campus social whirl.
They beguiled their starry-eyed
classmates for four long years
with tales of their family back
ground and gold hoards, and did
it so convincingly that each was
secretly green with envy.
They were graduated in 1938.
They met for the first time since
school a the Vassar club here a
month or so ago. Each mentioned,
very vaguely, a career in "inter
ior decorating" and "social work."
They met for the second time
last Friday. Of all places they
had to bump into one another at
Madison Square Garden where the
little Caesar of the extravaganza,
Billy Rose, was holding one of his
colossal try-outs for show giria,
dancers and swimmers for his
1940 Aquacade show. Both were
picked as mermaids.
It had gone far enough. All of
a sudden they retired to hold a
peace conference and to tell all.
One had been toiling as a taxi
dancer at the Roseland dance hall.
The other had been a candy girl
at a Broadway five-and-ten.
Epilogue. Currently they're
roommates at an actors' hotel
waiting for the world's fair to
open.
HELP WANTED SNAKES.
If you have any snakes lying
idle and want to show the true
fraternal spirit, you could express
the varmints to the drama de
partment of City college here and
win yourself a Bpot in this ciois
ter s great heart forever and aye.
Only hurry.
You see the annual City college
variety show is coming up right
soon and the script simply insists
on snakes. The local gendarmie
has refused the impresarios per
mission to hunt in Wall street, and
sdance
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16 Musicians
hit parade
Union Hit Parade
1. Friendship, Kay Kyser,
2. Cecilia, Dick Jurgens.
3. Tuxedo Junction, Glenn Mil
ler.
4. Easy Does It, Bobby Byrne.
5. Starlit Hour, Glenn Miller.
6. Pluckin the Bass, Cab Callo
way.
7. What's the Matter With
Me?, Dick Jurgens.
ft. Little Brown Jug, Glenn
Miller.
9. Cherokee, Jimmy Dorsey.
10. Singing Hills, Blue Barron.
Friendship is
most popular
song of week
In spite of the way almost every
body puts on a pained expression
and turns away every time some
one tries to sing or play "Friend
ship," that novelty song climbed
to the top of the Union juke box
popularity list this week, making
one of the fastest climbs to the
top of any of the songs put up
for student approval this year.
Usually it takes several weeks
for a song to work up to a top
position, as "Cecilia," recorded by
Dick Jurgens did. "Cecilia" is now
in the number two spot.
Easy come, easy go.
Of course the faster they come
up the faster they go out. Still,
one that came up fast and is still
up there after several weeks is
Glenn Miller's "Tuxedo Junction."
A newcomer, "Easy Does It," re
corded by Bobby Byrne is in the
number four spot.
Oldest favorite on the list is
Glenn Miller's "Starlit Hour" now
in the number five spot. "Pluck
in' the Bass," a Cab Calloway
novelty number is holding down
the sixth place in the popularity
listing.
Dick Jurgens' "What's the Mat
ter With Me?" and Miller's "Lit
tle Brown Jug" took the seventh
and eighth places respectively.
Jimmy Dorsey's "Cherokee," fig
ured ninth after holding the top
spot for several weeks. Tenth in
popularity is Blue Barron's "Sing
ing Hills."
naturally the students are des
perate. They've appealed to Frank Buck
who's taken the matter under ad
visement. The snakes they want
must be "toothless and well-bred."
If you're afraid that evil days
might come upon your pet rattler,
be advised that if you can ship
him on, the campus magnificoes
in charge of the show "solemnly
promise not to swallow the snakes
or to teach them to prattle
Plato.
Orchestra
Five stellar bands scheduled
for Lincoln spring dancing
By Ralph S. Combs.
Here they come! Lincoln is go
insr in nlav host to several bier
name bands within the next few
weeks Jimmy Lunceford, Larry
Clinton, Herbie Kay, Freddie Ebe
ner, and Lee Dixon.
Bronze Jimmie Lunceford's boys
are going to invade the Nebraska
Coliseum on April 19th for the
annual "N" club hop. With a name
band such as Lunceford's, who has
currently been featured at the Cot
ton club in New York, the "N"
club venture should prove profit
able both to the student body as
Master control
keeps programs
going straight
Ninety-eight thousand programs
passed through the Master Con
trol of the Columbia Broadcast
ing system last year and not one
mistake was made. This is the
record of the work done by two
men sitting at the switches of
Columbia's huge "nerve system"
on the 23rd floor of the CBS build
ing in New York.
Made up of a number of smaller
networks or circuits, a radio net
work 'can be juggled, pieced to
gether, split in a number of ways
so that the correct program goes
to the section of the country for
which it is Intended. One hundred
seventeen stations are associated
with the CBS directly and can
hear the same or different pro
grams originating from the same
building in New York.
Purpose of system.
Correct juggling of these pro
grams so that they are sent to
the correct sections of the coun
try is the purpose of the Master
Control. If it is five twenty-eight
in New York the two men sitting
at the panel which is covered with
a bewildering maze of dials, keys,
switches, plugs, and loudspeakers
become alert. In one studio a dra
matic program is being fed to the
stations in the Pacific coast area.
in another a concert Is being sent
to the southern states.
Cues mark change.
At five twenty-nine the pro
grams are ready to be changed
The announcers make the closing
remarks and the word cue: "This
is the Columbia Broadcasting sys
tern" is given. Each individual pro
gram synchronizes to almost the
exact second with the others.
Moving the keys, pushing but
tons and pulling plugs, the two
men change the program from the
studio in New York to the 117
individual stations throughout the
country. As many as seven dif
ferent programs may originate in
the same studio at the same time
each to be heard in a different
part of the country. On the other
hand they may be heard as one
huge network. Such is the magic
or tne Master Control.
and his
ORCHESTRA
featuring
Marjorie Whitney
Vocalist
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broadway
a terpsichorean bargain, and also
to the "N" club as a pocketbook
buiger.
Lunceford's hen-cats are rated
as an organization of top merit
...handling smooth ana sweet
stuff, hot and hurry numbers, and
blues all with keen dexterity.
Jimmie and his rhythm rousta
bouts recently returned rrom a
successful European tour of conti
nental spots. Major network
broadcasts and lots of popular re
cordings are ulfo part of Jinimie's
past and present.
Another earr.mis highlight will
be the presentation of Larry Clin
ton's top-notchers at the unions
sivond birthday narty May 1 in
the Coliseum. Larry is recognized
as America's number one arranger
in the por ar music Iieiii, as won
as being the composer of such
tunes as "the Dipsy Doodle," "My
Reverie," "My Silent Mood," ana
'Our Love. Clintons conniving
carpet-cutters are currently being
spotted in commercial broadcasts
from const to coast.
Herbie's bunch.
Just outside the campus limits,
(See BANDS, page 8.)
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