VMI Cadet. April 18, 1938

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Digges Announces
Hop Committee
For 1939 She 113. (fiabct V I R G I N I A . A N - V Y MK
INST Corps To Dance To
Music Of Guy
Lombardo
VOLUME XXXI No. 2778 LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA APRIL 18, 1938 NUMBER 25
'39 Hop Committee Chosen;
Under New Constitution Rules
Committee Now to*
Manage Final Hops
Final Selection Of
Committeemen Made
April 17—In an interview with a
CADET representative, Dudley P.
Digges, newly elected President of
the 1939 Hop Committee, announc-ed
tonight the final selections of
his committeemen, and the fact
that the '39 Committee, acting un-der
a new constitution, would take
over the management of the Final
Dances this year.
Three Main Purposes
The Constitution, of which this
last announcement is not an integ-ral
part, will serve chiefly in three
main capacities. First to provide
a definite set of rules under which
succeeding committees may act
year after year, thus avoiding un-necessary
confusion at the begin-ning
of each Fall term. Second, to
provide for a change in the man-ner
of electing new members from
the Third instead of the Fourth j
Class as previously done. Finally,
to provide for a more thorough ac-tion
of the Committee in the field
of business management and re-sponsibility.
Committee Officers
Committee officers are to con-sist
of a President, Vice-President,
Business Manager and Treasurer.
Next year's oficers as elected at
a recent meeting of the Second
Class Finance Committee are:
President Dudley P. Digges, Vice-
President, T. Woodrow Gray, Busi-ness
Manager, Bill Hastings, and
Treasurer, W. A. Bond.
New Committeemen
Committeemen, as announced to-night
by Digges are selected from
this year's Finance Committee and
will fill the following positions:
In charge of the flowers, lounge,
and punch bowl: A. H. Morrison
and C. L. Burgess.
In charge of the chaperons'
stand: W. K. Johnson.
In charge of the orchestra stand:
J. S. Littrell and L. H. Meem.
In charge of Floor Committee:
J. M. Tabb and I, V. Parham.
In charge of lights: W. M. Mc-
Carthy and P. B. Baldwin.
In charge of sound board: T. A.
E. Moseley, Jr.
In charge of police of hall: A. W.
Ellis and F. G. Jarman.
In charge of paper decoration:
W. A. Irving, G. K. Slaughter, and
R. A. Edwards.
In charge of wire: J. W. Chiles,
H. W. Ellerson, Jr., and R. C. Brit-tingham.
Electricians: W. C. Mitchell and
J. G. Bernard.
In charge of publicity: L. E. Hud-gins.
In charge of storeroom: P. W.
Riddleberger.
To Manage Final Hops
The '39 Committee, unlike any
preceding committee, will inauga-rate
a new policy by assuming the
management of the Final Hops this
year. It will take full charge both
financially, and as to the manage-ment
of the dances. To facilitate
this policy, the present Hop Com-mittee
will close its books after
May First Class Hop, and transfer
its funds to the new committee.
The only part of the present com-mittee
will play in the Final dances
will be the selection of the Final
Hop orchestra which has already
been signed.
This new policy will enable the
new Hop Committee to acquire ex-perience
in its new capacity, and
thus be able to operate upon a
more stable basis upon ttie open
ing ot the Fall term with the Home-coming
Hope.
Hop Committeemen
PRESIDENT
Dudley Digges
VICE-PRESIDENT
Woody Gray
BUSINESS MANAGER
Bill Hastings
TREASURER
Bill Bond
Second Class Show
Moves Into Final
Week of Practice
Costumes And Scenery
Completed; Dress Rehear-sals
Begin This Week
Wat Ellerson, director of the Sec-ond
Class Show, announced to-day
that the first dress dehearsal
of the production will be held in
J. M. Hall tomorrow night.' The
second rehearsal is scheduled for
Thursday evening. Ellerson stated
that the cast is very fortunate in
having the properties ready in time
to hold two dress rehearsals. In
most of the previous productions,
he revealed, the cadets have been
able to hold only one such prac-tice.
Costumes
The costumes, wigs and drinking
tankards, which were ordered from
Jack Mullane of Washington, D. C.,
have arrived, and practically all of
the props have been collected. Mrs.
Medford G. Ramey has helped im-mensely
in getting the dresses for
the 'girls.'
Ned Feddeman has secured the
old cutlasses and the two "horse"
pistols from some of the people of
Lexington. Dan Bayless has also
contributed several cutlasses for
the swashbuckling cutthroats. Col-onel
Moseley has supplied some
stage jewelry, and he will be in
charge of making-up the villanious
ruffians and the "dainty, sweet
ladies" .-of- "Captain Applejaek.'^ Lnmbjardc's
The first and third acts of the
play are laid in an old English
home while the second is in the
cabin aboard Captain Applejack's
pirate vessel. Fred Adams has
painted the ship's scenery, which,
with the rest of the scenery was
ready to be set up yesterday.
Mitchell and Bernard are in
charge of all electrical equipment.
They have constructed a set of
ceiling lights in order to provide
adequate lighting of the stage. This
will be not only a definite ad-vantage
to the present production
but also to future ones.
Early Supper
It is hoped that it will be pos-sible
to obtain an early supper for
the Corps on the night of the play
so that those who attend the play
will not be late for hops as they
usually are on this occasion. The
play itself will last about an hour
and forty-five minutes. The Com-manders
will play before the show
and between the second and third
acts. A surprise feature will be
presented between the first and
scond acts.
Guy Lombardo Easter ffDancet
Is Feature for This Week-End
'94 Hall Scene
Of Spring Hop
Festivities
Sweetest Music This Side of Heaven
Corps Riding Club
Becomes Necessary
April 15—The Commandant an-nounced
today that if the plans for
the formation of a riding club met
with the approval of the Corps the
fee for membership and the activi-ties
offered by the club will begin
•the first of May.
Corps Being Questioned
An individual man in each com-pany
has been asked to investigate
the attitude towards this movement
in his company and to present this
at a meeting which will be called
in order to ascertain the attitude
at the Corps. These men are dis-cussing
it with the members of
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Govt. Inspection
May 26 and 27
April 15—The annual Govern-ment
Inspection of the ROTC units
here will be made May twenty-sixth
and twenty-seventh. These
dates fall on Tuesday and Wednes-day
of the last full week in May.
Inspectors N*med
The Commandant announced the
names of the officers who will
make these inspections in an inter-view
today and they are to be
Lieutenant-Colonel E. N. L. Glass
of the U. S. Cavalry who will have
charge of the inspecting of the
Cavalry unit, Lieutenant Colonel
Daniel Conner of the U. S. Field
Artillery who will inspect the Field
Artillery Unit and Major C. D.
Corle of the U. S. Infantry who
will make the inspection of the In-fantry
unit. Lieutenant Colonel
Glass and Lieutenant Colonel Con-ner
are not new to VMI as they
Lombardo Style Outstanding in the
Large Field of Modern Dance Music
American radio audiences and playing second sax and Fred Hig-dancers
like sweet and harmonious man tooting the horn. They also
dance music. Authentic nationwide' double on flutes and clarinets,
polls have proved that. But Guy | There you have as versatile a group
socthing melodies are of instrumentalists and vocalists as
one of the causes, rather than a there is in radio today,
result. Larry Owens, one of the two
The inspiration of their style members of the Royal Canadians
goes back nearly a score of years not from Canada, makes most of
to the time Carmen and Lebert the vocal arrangements. He is
Lombard began learning to play on aided and abetted by Carmen, who
the wind instruments which play , is the ace song writer of the ag-such
an important part in the in- gregation. Carmen has written
terpretation of song favorites. such song hits as "Footloose and
That inspiration, of course, is
something which lives only in the
Lombardo musicians themselve.3
and thus falls beyond the realms
of practical analysis. So the best
way to find out what produces
those graceful, swirling tone pic-tures
is to break the band down,
instrument by instrument. Here
they are, together with the boys
who help weave the musicap pat-terns.
Brasses: Lebert Lombardo,
trumpet (also soloist); Jim Dillon,
trombonist and Bern Davies, bass
horn. Saxaphones: Carmen Lom-bardo
(also soloist); Victor Lom-bardo,
baritone saxaphone (also
clarinet); Fred Higman, second
saxaphone; Larry Owen, third sax-aphone.
Percussion: Fred Kreitzer,
pianist; Frank Vigneau, second
pianist; Francis Henry, guitarist;
George Gowans, drums. And, of
course, there is the recently added
Fhopsophone, a cross between a
mellophone and trombone, played
by Dick Fosdick.
Vocal Trio
Guy Lombardo's vocal trio, which
is really a trio in more ways than
one, is composed of Carmen Lom-bardo,
Larry Owens and Fred Hig-man.
These same men also com-prise
the saxaphone trio—with Car-men
on first sax, Larry Owens
Fancy Free," "Snuggled On Your
Shoulder," "Sweethearts On Pa-rade,"
''Boo-Hoo." He does all the
solo vocal work Occasionally Fred
Higman's voice is heard carrying a
few measures along with his deep
baritone.
Most Distinguishable Dance Music
An interesting fact about Guy
Lombardo's music is that they play
a faster tempo than most people
realize; but there's no accented
beat involved and that causes the
tempo to appear slower.
•A noted musician once said that
the Lombardo band is the most
distinguishable of all dance music.
It's the only orchestra to which the
average listener can easily tune in
during the playing of a number
and immediately identify. Their
music is individual.
SelecUon Of Hits
As most everyone knows, Guy
Lombardo plays every week, on
his Sunday afternoon program, a
number which he believes will be
a hit. It has been found out that
these selections are rarely wrong.
His ability to pick these songs
shows that he is able to feel the
pulse of the listeners. This fact
should prove that the music played
at Easter Hops will be that which
is most pleasing and entertaining.
were here and made the inspec-tion
which was held last year.
Major Corle is new, however.
The prepartions for this inspec-tion
are underway now and final
plans will be announced later. This
inspection climaxes the year's
work in military science and every
effort will be made to receive a
good rating.
CADET BILLS MUST BE PAID BY MAY 15TH
In order that books may be cleared and a few of this
publication's IOU's be marked paid, all Barracks sub-scriptions
must be collected before May 15.
We gotta eat too.
Band Steps Out in New
Uniforms for Parade
Last Tuesday at Parade the Post
Band appeared for the first time in
their uniforms, which in the
opinion of all made them look 'run-ning'
for the change.
The uniforms are navy blue with
gold trimmings including a gold
stripe down the side of the trous-ers
to replace the old White stripe
which took only two or three pa-rades
to make them extremely dir-ty.
The blouses are of the English
cut type and thus allow much
more freedom of the throat which
is a great help to those members
playing wind instruments, as com-pared
with the uncomfortable stiff
Committee Anticipates
100% Corps Attendance
By RED McCRACKEN
April 10—"The swetest music this
side of heaven" will ring out in
the gaily decorated '94 Hall next
Friday night when Guy Lombardo
begins playing for the Easter Hops
to be held April 22nd and 23rd.
100 Per Cent Attendance
The drive started by the Hop
Committee recently to have a one
hundred per cent attendance at
these dances has had its effect on
the Corps and it is believed that
almost everyone in the Corps will
be on hand to make the dances
a success. A recent survey of bar-racks
to determine the number of
men escorting dates to the dances
shows that a larger number of girls
will be present than at any dance
this year. This drive for 100 per
cent attendance was not difficult
to put through as the attraction of-fered
by Guy Lombardo and his
orchestra was more than almost
anyone could resist.
Lombardo A Barracks Favorite
It has been known by the hop
committee for several years that
the corps likes sweet melodious
music for the dances and for this
reason an extra effort was made
to secure Guy Lombardo for this
set of Hops. The weekly Sunday
afternoon program of Guy Lom-bardo's
is a favorite in barracks
and the strains can be heard com-ing
from the radios during the en-tire
half hour.
This success is due to Lonibardo's
being able to pick the public's fav-orite
numbers and then playing
them in a manner which is distinc-tively
his own and which is re-membered
by everyone who hears
it. Guy's soft harmonies have done
much to make America's dancers
and radio listeners prefer sweet
and harmonious music.
The success of the Easter Hops
each year has a great deal to do
with the orchestra which can be
secured by the Hop Committee for
the Finals dances. The success of
the hops this Easter is felt cer-tain
and for this reason Stuart Cot-trell,
president of the Hop Commit-tee,
has advised that the orchestra
for Finals has been selected and
the name will be announced dur-ing
the Saturday night dance.
Other Dances In State
The competition afforded to these
dances by other schools is the
greatest that the Hop Committee
has had to contend with this year.
Washington and Lee and the Uni-versity
of Virginia are holding
their Easter dances at this time and
have secured nationally known or-chestras.
The Friday night dance will be-gin
at nine o'clock and will con-tinue
until two in the morning, the
Saturday night dance will be held
from eight-thirty until twelve
o'clock. A dansant will be held
Saturday afternoon. The combin-ed
price for admission to the two
evening dances will be five dol-lars
and a charge of one dollar will
be made to thoise persons attending
the dansant.
color blouses in the old blouses.
The accessories of white belts and
white lapel cords are still worn
with the blouse.
VMI's own talior shop, under the
supervision of Frank Morse,
the uniforms, which all in all
a vast improvement.