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the michigan daily
februarv 10. 1934
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kemp's band wowed
them in n..carolina
Neat, debonair, Hal Kemp gingerly At that particular moment Skinny
unwrapped a very damp and withered Ennis, drummer by trade and even
collar from his neck and dropped it more debonair and neater than
limply on the floor. A few minutes Kemp, stole in on the show, looking
later just as he was slipping on a like a steamship steward. He was
pair of mauve and orange pajamas, looking frantically for a new razor
and buckling his pink satin lounging blade when he saw my pencils and
robe around him, your reporter bust- notes.
ed in on him. "Reporter, eh?" he said, coming
"Mr. Kemp, I'm a reporter, and I over to me. "You want to know all
want to get your-" about my sudden rise to success.
"Well, now, that's just dandy," he Well--."
cut in on me abruptly, but not too There was no way out of it. I forced
rudely, trying not to bubble over with a smile and pretended to take notes
too much enthusiasm. I pulled out a as Hal ordered two bottles of White
pencil, paper, a cigarette, three Rock.
rainchecks to the "Streets of Paris,' An hour later a sharp knock at the
and sunk into an overstuffed arm- door woke us up. A steady droning
chair. in the room indicated that Ennis
"Like Fred Waring," Hal said in was still talking. He had just started
answer to question No. 1, "I organized on his second year in high schoo:
a little band in high school, with big- when they bounced him for going out
ger ideas ahead for college, with the teachersdand getting thei
"Later at the University of North drunk.
Carolina - by that time jazz had Kemp went to the door and let the
been invented - the band practically bell-hop in. Hal took the bottle from
took the campus by storm. Well, al- him and tossed a nickle tip at him
most practically." The boy killed him with several op-
Kemp is one of the few remain- tical glances and slammed the door
ing band leaders who has not, at Hal wassjust about to open a bottl
one time or another, studied violin when I stepped up to him.
under some great maestro. "Don't you think it would be sel-
"School got sorta depressing aca- fish if we drank up these two bottles
demically during the sophomore year, by ourselves, Hal" I said above the
so we all went over to Europe, and hum "Don't you think it would be
if I do say so, we didn't do so bad."m.ontoumhintldn,
He was ticking off in grand shape, more courteous, more gentlemanly, t
and I wondered how long he could we gave it to Skinny?"
last. "That's a good idea," he agreed
"Yes, we had quite a time with "After all, he needs it more than
Ed Windsor - you know him, don't we do." I nodded my head and
you-the Prince of Wales," he said, gripped one of the bottles.
drawing deep on a fag. We gave it to him.
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Tranter, Hudson; Dorothy Gies, '36;
and Margaret Phalan, '35.
Theta Xi
Attending a breakfast party fol-
lowing the J-Hop will be Reta Peter-
son, '35; Doris Everett, '37; Gertrude
Jean, '36; Jane Reed, '36; Barbara
Casper, '34; Mary Lou Schwendt,
'37; Mary Earnshaw, '35; Barbara
Otte, '37; Dorothy Shappell, '36;
Dorothy Daws, '37; Margaret Martin-
dale, '34; Mary Monks, '34; Gertrude
Oberle, Lansing; Lorraine DeeWaele,
--Dey Photograph -Rentschler Photograph Bay City; Phyllis Brumm, Ann Ar-
Philip A. Singleton, '35E, chairman of the 1934 J-Hop committee, bor Catherine McColl, Wyandotte;
led the grand march with Ann Timmons, '36. Singleton is a member of Schenfeld, Detroit; Edith Babirsah,
t Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. Miss Timmons is affiliated with Kappa Alpha Sandusky, O.; Genevieve Dwight,
Theta. Both are from Detroit. Castalia, .;, Portia Webb, Pontiac;
Arlene Lucas, '34. Mr. and Mrs. John
C. Mathes, Ann Arbor, will chaperone
-othe breakfast.
Others who will attend the formal
dinner dance Saturday right are
Irmtraud Weyrich, '37; Frances
w ith 19 1 Manchester, '34;Ruth Boomower,
cor;pared w ith 191 6Helen Stetson, '35; Cecile K.
Poor,'34; Jean Hayward, '35; Ger-
trude Walker, '36; and Mary Beth
s By Marie Murphy cert Promenade" should have to be Tarbell, '37.
Back in those colorful, old days opened to the four younger campus
f when crinolines and rustling silks were fraternities and the independents. Trigon
fashioned into huge bustles and wasp- You see, in 1896 when the Regents Trigon will hold a closed formal
waists, the gloriously impressive passed these requirements, the "rig- dinner at the chapter house before
. J-Hop was innovated. No one knows inators" went off in a huff to Toledo, the Hop, with the following guests
quite when or for what particular where they had a ball all their own. for both events: From Ann Arbor,
reason the dandies of this era de- In that memorable year two JHOPs Winifred Bell, Mary Elizabeth Wag-
cided to hold the "affair." .But if were held, so there must have been ner, Jean Braidwood, Dorothy Sta-
clippings in The Daily of 1896 are room for all. pleton, Agnes Graham, Marjorie
fairly accurate when they describe But even by 1913 all was not just Schultz and Vera Newbro; Francoise
the social event as the "Twentieth what it might be, for that year the Riblet of Erie, Pa.; Peggy Perrine,
Annual Ball," we should by the pro- Hop was the occasion for several Hillsdale; Marjorie Lee, Pontiac;
cess of subtraction say that the first smart, young things to try to put a Virginia Reuter, Ypsilanti; Jeannine
of these occasions was held in 1876. "punch" in the affair. "Michigan's Hopkins-Smythe, Long Island; Sue
These gay young couples in their hoodlums had innings for a short Thomas, Dayton, O.; Anne Shaw,
outlandish clothes, and their odd space last night" according to The Highland Park; and Bettina Right-
style of dancing left no record of Daily, "when about fifty toqued (bet- mire, Detroit.
their social activities. But the Hops tempted known as "tight") angentrance at- Xi Psi Ph
fairs that the smoo-runningbeefn. Waterman gymnasium. Attending breakfast at Xi Psi Phi
In The Daily of 1899, we find it "The trouble started when the Hop fraternity following the J-Hop, will
described in no complimentary man- authorities refused to throw open the be Ethelia Olson, '34; Katherine
ner: "It is far worse that our pres- doors leading to the gallery to the Rucker, '35; Evelyn Rendle, Toledo;
ent J-Hop committee, under the lead- crowd without. More spirited leaders Gladys Atsell, Toledo; Phyllis Moody,
ership of a sophomore, has succeeded of the mob began an insistent attack Detroit; Arlene Grill, Flint; Aileen
so poorly in maintaining the high upon the south door. The window Wendor, Toledo; Evelyn Goodshaw,
standards set by its predecessors. Due panes were the first to go, then the Midland, Mich.; Viola Mary Wint,
to the inability of the decorator to locks and hinges were forced by a Detroit; and Gladys Scheffer, Ann
fulfill his contract, strangers were ram. Arbor. Dr. and Mrs. E. J. Ryan will
kept busy wondering which of the "Further entrance was blocked by chaperone the breakfast.
color combinations represented the a janitor who threateningly wielded Zeta Psi
colors of Michigan. Refreshments a pair of Indian clubs. Cowards were
were a wafer and a glass of water. plentiful. No one dared advance. Fire Guests at the Zeta Psi booth are
The lighting was poor. Favors were extinguishers and a few improvised Marion Holden, '37; Lois Zimmer-
hard dressed kid programs which billies were more than a match for man, '36; Marion Brooks, '34; and
one fears will break if bent, and the bravery of the storming party." Margaret Bryan, '36.
which look like a cross between card- And to think that with all our Lawyers Club
board and leather." Could one ask for technological improvements, our sky-
more? scrapers, and our Twentieth Cen- Twenty women are being enter-
Perhaps part of this difficulty was turies, we have to hold our J-Hops tained by the Lawyers Club at the
due to the fact that the nine older in a calm, dignified manner . . . no J-Hop, and plans for the occasion
fraternities were not yet reconciled brawls, no dance in Toledo or any- include a breakfast in the dining
to the idea that their "Junior Con- thing. hall of the Lawyers Club immediately
-- -_ - . ---- _ __ _after the dance at which the mem-
bers and their guests will be present.
howaboutAa gargoyle?. The guests include Marion Mc-
A EN AVANT ... ,..ad Humorous and timely is the J-Hop Dougall, Harvey, Ill.; Eleanor Bren-
a edition of the Gargoyle in which are nan, Geneva, N. Y.; Alice Morgan,
included many new features as well Grosse Pointe; Mary Rumsey, Hills-
1 as a general preview of the Hop. dale; Margaret French, Morgantown,
Tom Powers' snappy cover cartoon W. Va.; Jane Brydges, Toledo, O.;
precedes caricatures of Michigan's Mary Jean White, '34; Mrs. T. S.
Burr, Patterson& Auld CO. two All-America footballers, Whitey Pederson, Ann Arbor; Martha Steen,
M". °'".°',^' F-.1, y " Wistert and Chuck Bernard; com- Belle Vernon, Pa.; Jean Aimer, Chi-
Detroit, Michi-n a Wlk-l~inie, Ota"s ments and pictures on the music of cago; Polly Solotsch, Grand Rapids;
AAIHal Kemp and Henry Busse; shorts Virginia McCoy, Steubenville, O.;
For your convenience A of amusing campus incidents, a mul- Elaine Schlesinger and Marion Big-
Ann Arbor Store ti-color photograph of our own Pre- nell, Detroit; Monica Cullen, Milwau-
A. posterous Valentine, and a host of kee; Mary Calvin, Brazil; and Ann
603 Chrch St. cartoons. Johnston, Ann Arbor.
F R A N K O A K E S . M g - The Garg is obtainable at any and Additional guests are Maxine May-
all of the local magazine stands. nard, Lansing; Doris Cox, Mr. and
..___ __......____-______________Mrs. C. G. Cox, Betty Schirling, and
Peggy Bronson, all of Detroit; Ruth
Christiansen, Port Clinton, O.; Mar-
FLOW ERS Martindale, Erie, Ind.; and
Jean Benach, Pittsburgh, Pa.
* The chaperons are Prof. and Mrs.
Th*Sve*s John P. Dawson.
Valentine of All Independents
a* Guests who are attending the Hop
Your sentiments on Valentine's include Avonel Moll, Blissfield, Mich.;
Day are fully expressed when Jean Ann Frissel, Muskegon; Ange-
you send her Flowers from this line DeBee, Ann Arbor; Emilie Paris,
'36SM; Josephine Ball, '36, Ann Ar-
shop. We offer a generous se- bor; Virginia Lee Rice, Ypsilanti;
lection at moderate prices. Ione Randels, Hillsdale, Mich.; Dor-
othy Wurst, Detroit; Harriet Clarke,
Lnader, Wyo.; Virginia Ladd, Ann
The A nn A rbor Florists Inc. Arbor; Marcia ConnellDetroit;
othea Pinkert, '37; Doris Vater, '36;
122 East Liberty Phone 6215 Hazel Loff, Mount Morris, Mich.;
Harriet Wojtowicz, '35.
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