The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, April 25, 1958, Page Page Five, Image 5
A New
Brighter
Clothes
Appear
By MELVIN E. BYARS
For centuries Indian peasants
have been weaving by hand a
plaid material made of a crisp,
fine cotton. This fabric was used
as a turban by the natives. Its
name origin is from Madras,
India.
At first, India madras at
tracted that susceptible breed
called tourists, and they brought
some of it back home to show off
to friends. Oddly enough, it
caught on.
It first appeared as a rather
bizarre Item in the higher priced
brackets of men's clothing, but
now it is available at more com
fortable- prics and becoming
more common every day. The ar
rival of brighter clothes in the
men's wear picture is a heaven
sent event. This plaid, used in
sport coats and even dinner
jackets, can be worn to any, ex
cept the most formal, occasion.
Madras for men is used in every
thing from ties to trousers and
hats. As women usually do, they
have stolen the idea and gone
wild, so don't be surprised to see
a coed drag by in a madrar plaid
evening gown.
Bleeds
Authentic madras from India,
when slung into the old auto
matic, "bleeds" on everything
except itself. -Considering this,
by all means have it washed by
hand. Bleeding is an unusual but
good quality, because It mellows
Phi Kap, Sig
ZTA Pledges,
ZTA
Margaret Adams, Sandra Cly
burn, Debbie Norris, and Kay
Wilson were recently pledged to
Zeta Tau Alpha, social sorority.
The new pledge class officers are
Marcia Ward, president; -Sandra
Clyburn, vice-president; and
Margaret Adams, secretary
treasurer.
Sigma Chi
Sigma Chi social fraternity
has recently activated two new
members. They are Johnny Dor
sett, John Dross, Sammy Fewll,
Tom Fickling, Bob Lofgren, Jim
Mozingo, Mike Quinn, Jim
Sherer, Harvey Shiflet, Gary
McFarland, Milton Smith, and
BELLES
(Continued fi
Clark, Robert Wall and Nell
and Linda Nevius.
Pinal
This past week many coup
*b pinned on this Campus. Chi Pa
and Gloria Hopper (Pi Phi) ;
Phi). Phi Kap's Frank Eas
Ron Dunn and Ronnie Lamb
and Mabel Whisenhunt (C. C.
Tony Pickett, alum, now in r4
Sam.
dC's
Ciguu
und Sundi
Profit to
Phone Day
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Fad Is
NEW FACE IN. THE CROWID
gentlenan on the portico of the
at Britton's. The shirt is a Mac
Johnston's. All items are in the
photograph@ by Phil Wilkinson.
the garment with age like an old
pair of bucks everytime it is
given a bath. (Please don't try
washing your bucks.) There is
a domestic variety which is an
exact copy but does not bleed; it
is used for bathing trunks. What
an awkward situation that could
be if it did bleed.
The natives that make it evi
dently are not very careful, be
cause the design at the begin
ning and end of a bolt is not the
same, nor any two patterns the
Chi Elect;
Elects
Edwin Spears.
Phi Kaps
Bob Rogers was elected presi
dent of the Alpha Eta Chapter
of Phi Kappa Sigma recently.
Rogers succeeded Ed Bowen to
the' presidency.
Other officers elected were
Sonny Hite, vice-president; Sam
Mendenhall, scholarship chair
man; John Cloyd, secretary; Joe
Harley, party chairman; Joe
Thompson, treasurer; Tom Mc
Lean, corresponding secretary;
and John Verdier and Stanley
Anuhus, house managers.
Frank Easterling and Sonny
Rite remained as IFC represen
tatives.
'em page 4)
Skipper, and Rodger Groves
*gs
les joined the ranks of those
i's pinned were Jimmy White
io Johnson and Jill Ryon (Pi
terling and Bonnie Carlton;
art. Lambda Chi's' Ken Ray
) Sigma Nu; Penny Ray and
~sidence with dear old Uncle
VENDOR!
tie, Pastry
wich Machine
You Without Cost
3804 Devine St.
Phone Night
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*Madras
. An addition to the bAg family
Roman temple is wearing a madra
Gregor at Marshall's, and ehe Keith
anthentie plaid from IndIa. (The e
same. Garments made in this are
like finger prints-they are "your
own." In fact, seams cannot be
matched. These idiosyncrasies
help make the crazy stuff more
likeable than ever.
Never Mix
the examples on the right rep
resent this to the fullest extent.
Note how they are co-ordinated
with shirts and trousers: Never
mix these plaids (or any other
plaids); always wear solids with
them (mostly quiet colors to keep
Morrow Or
Play For M
Buddy Morrow and his orches
tra, featuring vocalist Sandy
Sherwood, will furnish music for
the annual campus-wide May
Day dance to be held on May 6
at the Memorial Youth Center
from 8 til 1. Tickets are $2.
The Buddy Morrow Orchestra
has recently been voted the "Top
College Band in the Nation."
The Morrow band has a.unique
sound which comes from the
rhythm and blues-based "Big
Beat" style plus quiet ballad
work, all featuring Buddy Mor
row and his trombone.
The May Dance will culminate
the annual May Day activities
which begin with the suspension
of classes at 10: 15, The first
event on the calendar will be the
ODK-sponsored Awards Day af
ter which the students will be
treated to a free box lunch on
the lawn behind McKissick Li
brary.
Festivities will be continued
with Phi Epsilon P1's usual pie
throwing contest. At four o'clock
KSK will sponsor the May Day
Coronation and Pageantry cere
monies to be held on the Horse
b INC.
a & Holidays
375
;Plaid
of plaid is India madra. Tie
sport coat by Parkdale avaiab1e
shirt bermudas are at Wrisht
Nat is worn by Bob Freeman,
from damaging the retina).
These items are available locally
(see caption).
Madras is masculinely bold yet
conservative. It is beiU done in
silk this season but is very, very
expensive. These cotton items are
reasonably priced and are avail
able in stripes, too.
If you are a little shy and
backward, try a tie at first, then
who knows - maybe an Indian
madras plaid Jaguar top. Oh,
my, what prospects!
bhestra To
my Dance
shoe. The Queen, Coles Cathcart,
and her court will be clothed in
special costumes selected by
Jimmy Leventis, Julie Petoskey,
and Bill Handel.
"Dances Throughout the Agesi'
will be the theme of the pagean
try. The eight dances which will
be given will range from the
time of the cave man into the
future.
Sigma Chi's
Derby Day
Is Success
Last Wednesday afternoon at
4:00 the Sigma Chi Derby Day,
a fun-filled day for the Carolina
campus, got underway. The high
light of the day was the selecting
of Miss Venus of 1958. Each
sorority has a representative in
the contest.
Miss Venue is chosen for her
figure alone. Each contestant
weai's a paper bag over her head.
so that her identity will not be
known.
Many other unusual and enter
taining events, including a tug
of-war, took place among soror
ities. The Bronze Derby was
awarded to the winning sorority.
I NOTICE |
The Russell House movie for
next Thursday is "The Night
People," according to Student
Union. It is a recent movie in
Technicolor and CinemaScope.
Time of showings can be gotten
from the Russell House bulletin
board or the information desk.
Student Union has announced
that Rodgers and Hammerstein's
"The King and I", starring Deb
orah Kerr and Yul Brynner will
be the movie for May 8. "Quo
Vadis," MOM'S greatest spec
tacle has been selected for the
final movie of the year on May
15. It stars Rdbert Taylor, Debo
rah Kerr, Petet Ustinoy, and Leo
Genn and has a running time of
three hours.
Student Union less 4nnouneed
that it Is beginning its coasidera
tion of Thursday movies for next
year. Student cooperadlon Is
being sought in making selection
f movies and earema Any
ther suggestions regarding the
howing of Thursday movies will
be welcome. They should be made
it the Student Unlon .Uee er at
he Russell house luformation
lask.
Ma.xcy
Activates
Maxvy Brotherhood, indepen
dent social organization, held its
spring semester activations re
eently wth initiation on last Fri
day night. An activation banquet
was Saturday with an activation
dance that night.
Those activated were Bob Bry
son, Bill Harris, Bill Nelson,
William Marshall, Frank Wylie,
Ray Rhodes, Ken Baker, Horace
Huggins, Charles Taylor, ano
Jack Ritchart.
Fats, Fan
By BOB GROSSE
Music Analyst
Just as the boys were winding
things up for the night, a well
dressed matron in an expensive
fur wrap came up to the stand
and addressed the piano player,
"Tell me, Mr. Waller, just what
is swing?"
Olt Fats leaned back, his eyes
twinkling roughishly, and an
swered her. "Lady," he said, "if
you got to ask, you ain't got it."
That was Fats, all right, Fats
Waller, the great hulking giant
with the heart of a little boy,
pianist, composer, singer, musi
cian.
Thomas Wright Waller was
born May 21, 1904, on W. 134
St. in the Bronx almost within
the shadow of P.S. 89, the school
he attended as a boy where, be
tween piano lessons, squabbles
with truant officers, and running
errands for a grocery store, he
received his only formal educa
tion. Tom's father, Rev. Edward
Martin Waller, was the preacher
at nearby Abyssinian Baptist
Church-at that time the largest
Protestant congregation in the
country - and Tom got lessons
from him in religion, honesty,
and respect for his fellWwmen,
lessons which he never forgot.
Reverend Waller was also re
sponsible for his musical career,
for Tom began by playing the
organ in his father's church.
Lincoln Theatre
In 1918, after graduating from
P.S. 89 and a few desultory
months at DeWitt Clinton High,
Tom got his first steady job
playing the organ at Harlem's
Lincoln Theatre for $23 a w-ck.
Fats learned a great deal at the
Lincoln, too, for his teacher was
James P. Johnson, one of the
first of the great jazz pianists.
J. P. gave Fats his strong, solid
left hand and his bouncing style;
he taught Fats all he knew; and
Fats learned well.
He learned quickly, too, and
his playing was soon in demand.
He cut piano rolls for Q.R.S. in
1921 and recorded with blues
singer Bessie Smith. In several
years, he was well-known around
New York, working at vaudeville
shows, theatres, night clubs, and
Harlem rent parties.
"Hot Chocolate,,"
By 1925, Fats was in Chicago
at the Vendome Theatre along
with Erskine Tate and Louis
Armstrong and he had toured the
country several times. 1929 found
him back in New York writing
and producing a highly success
ful Broadway musical, "Hot
Chocolates" which featured two
WaIler favorites, "Ain't Misbe
havin' " and 'Honeysuckle Rose."
More cross-country tours and
personal appearances followed
that, and for several years in the
early '30's, Fats' radio shows
over Cincinnati's WLW and CBS
were a national institution as
well as a nightmare for FCC
conscious network officials.
As Fats' fame spread so did
his girth-he finally ballooned to
over 285 pounds and stood just
under six feet tall. The WaIler
appetite was a legend in New
York eateries; six pork chops and
a pint of gin would do for break
fast, and for supper, a couple of
sirloins and a slab of ham,
washed down by more gin.
Europe
During the thirties, Fats made
several movies, recorded con
stantly and played in clubs and
theatres in every part of the
country. He even went to Europe
a few times and turned the Con
tinent inside out. He was a smash
everywhere from Swe4en to
French Morocco; he stayed at
the "Moulin Rouge" in Paris for
several months until composer
Irving Berlin sent him enough
money to come home. Curiously,
one of Pats' biggest thrills of all
his traveling was that the famous
classical organist, Marcel Dupre,
invited him to play the huge pipe
organ at the Cathedral of Notre
Dame.
warded
Balfour
designates annually the most out,
standing member. of the active
chapters for the college year.
The province Balfour Award in,
aOordingy, the highest under
graduate honor within a province.
The award, created in 1929 by
Past Grand Consul L. G. Bal
four, is based upon the four
qualifications of scholarship, per
sonality, fraternity service and
student activity.
Bob, a graduating senior from
Forest City, N. C., has main
tained a B average while at Car
olina.
He has served the chapter as
Pledge trainer, Chairman of the
executive committee, Pro-Consul,
Alumni Contact officer and twice
as rush chairman in addition to
his other duties. He has partici
pated in many intramurals.
Bob McNair
In student activities he has
served the B.S.U. as public re
lations director, has been on stu
dent council for three years, been
vice-president of his sophomore
class, treasurer of the student
body and was elected president
of the student body on the first
ballot in last year's general elec
tion. He has served as an officer
in the N.R.O.T.C., and K.S.K. He
is a member of the Y.M.C.A.,
Blue Key, has been elected to
Who's Who in American Colleges
and Universities, was selected as
last year's Mr. C.C. by the fac
ulty and students of Columbia
College and is to be the master
of ceremonies at this year's
Derby Day.
Bob has been Carolinas-Vir
ginia regional Vice-Chairman in
charge of Educational affairs
and has held the same position
in regard to Student Government
affairs. He was Carolina's dele
gate to the Ninth National
N.S.A. Congress.
He has served as Senator in
the South Carolina state Stu
dent Legislature last year and
was President of the Senate and
chairman of the Interim Council
this year.
The award was made in Bob's
favor on the grounds that he
truly typifies Sigma Chi on the
basis of scholarship, personality,
fraternity service, and student
activity.
Of Events
FrIday, Apr. 25
1:00 p.m. - Freshman "Y"
Luncheon, Assembly Room, Rus
sell House.
2:00 p.m. - Christian Scien
tists, Room 204, Russell House.
Monday, Apr. 28
1:00 p.m. - Freshman "Y"~
Luncheon, Assembly Room, Rus
sell House.
Tuesday, Apr. 29
11:00 a.m.-Faculty Luncheon,
Assembly Room, Russell House.
5:00 p.m.--Hypatian, Euphro
synean, Assembly Room, Russell
House.
7:00 p-m. - Carolina Skin
Divers, Room 206, Russell House.
Wednesday, Apr. 30
11:00 a.m. - Religious Work
ers, Club Beom, Ruasell Rouse.
5:00 p.m. - Pep Club, Room
SN6, Russeli Rouge.
'asday, May 1
8, 7, 9:00 p.m. Student Unio.
Shirk, "Night People,'* Ass...
bly Room., RUaa Reamm
McNair A,
Province ]
E. 0 tothat, Jr., Grand
Preator of the North (lrolina..
South Caroina province of
Sigma Chi, social fraternity, an
nounced last week at a special
meeting of Gamma Nu of Sigma
Chi that Bob McNair had won
the province Balfour Award and
is one of the finalists In the na
tional judging. The Balfour
Award is emblematic ofithe high
est undergraduate honor within
the gift of the fraternity as it
e Spread
Fats' final years were spent
mainly in New York where he
recorded for RCA-Victor. Fats'
recording sessions were always
a riot. The Great Man would
come in--often after being out
all night-drape his massive body
over a piano stool and ceremon
iously open his suitcase contain
ing two jugs of prohibition gin,
one for the band and one for him
self. Occasionally, he would bring
arrangements to the session, too,
but more often he would sit down,
call for manuscript paper, and
dash off all the parts while the
rest of the band warmed up.
Endless Output
Fats' arranging technique was
typical of his limitless talent and
musicianship.- He could write
songs anywhere, in hotel rooms,
in bars, even wrote them in taxis.
His output seemed endless-he
had over 360 songs published
during his short lifetime.
Fats was a truly fine pianist
and organist, too. Jaz critic John
Hammond wrote of him: "Amer
ica does strang things to its great
artists. In any other place in the
world, Thomas Waller would
have developed into a famous
concert performer, for when he
was 11 he was a gifted organist,
pianist, and composer. But Wal
ler was not white and the Amer
ican concert field makes racial
exceptions for only a few sing
ers." Pianist Oscar Levant called
Fats "the black Horowitz."
Shy or Bold
An even better indication of
the unforgettable FatQ Waller is
found in his songs themselves,
the products of his talent and
personality. They are alternately
shy and wistful ("I Got A Feel
ing I'm Falling," "Blue Turning
Grey Over You") or brazenly
boisterous ("All That Meat and
No Potatoes," "This Joint Is
Jumpin'"). Who else but Fats
could have made a hit of some
thing like
"Your feet's too big,
Can't love you, cause your
feet's too big"
or could have written
"Like Jack Horner in the cor
ner,
Don't go nowhere, what do I
care?
...Ain't Misbehavin'
Savin' my love for you."
Fats appeared in the picture
"Stormy Weather" in 1942 and
stole the show, rolling his eyes
and ad libbing, "One never
knows, do one?" He gave a con
cert in Carnegie Hall several
months before his death and 8,000
fans packed the house to watch
Pats put on perhaps the greatest
one-man show that staid, old con
cert hall has ever seen. Fats
played the organ, piano, and vio
lin, sang, and clowned gaily, and
the audience loved him.
The End
The end came for Fats on an
eastern-bound railroad train. He
was on the way home to New
York from California on the
Sante Fe Chief and felt very
tired. Early on the morning of
Dec. 15, 1943, just outside of
Kansas City, he lapsed into a
coma, the diagnosis was bron
chial pneumonia. Even Fats'
great body emdd not shake off
the disease, and by 8:00 A.M.,
he was dead, at thes ge of 89.
Letters and cards of sympathy
came from folke in all faid,to
show business, from great politi
cal figures, and from millions of
fans throughout the world. Sym
phony conductor Dimitri Metrop-.
obs eulogized Fats, s a y i n g
"Waller was a sincere -and un
selfish man, and gave of himself
withdht limit to entertain others.
He was happy to make others
happy. . .. The music he made
came from a full heart, and that
made him a rare and endearing
personality."
And perhaps it was all a
PlneG nea#y by 1' el fun
and 1eacher, Jimmry Johnson. J.
P. sonuarsed, "Som. little peo
ple hams'wusie -Ia Umcm,At P26
he was all muse, -ad ... kno