Monday, February 9, 1948 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three o Generations See Colorf -Hops Revelries, Reveries, eveille Highlight'Week-End of Year' By H. C. L. JACKSON, JR glee fading later into lazy silences. THE weekend of the year-un- Second Spin forgettable in its music, mirth and Saturday saw a city of p.m. merrment--melted into memories risers and slow starters but after- with yesterday's twilight leaving noon gatherings followed by more 6,000 J-Hoppers weary but wistful, banquets soon had the second spin reluctant to let it slip away. well underway. At 10 p.m. black Beginning with a barrage of coats, flashing smiles, bare shoul- dinner partea Friday evening, the ders, shining formals-all churned initial cyclone of activity stopped in a sea of anticipation as the spinning only after the last donut second contingent of 1,500 couples had been dunked and devoured flooded the IM Building's Winter and the 4 a.m. curfew had passed. Wonderland. The Campus Cop sat grumpily on The J-Hop itself was staged the sidelines as "car free" students beneath the sulky blue of an Al- roam edthe city. their shouts of nine night Glistening white snow Waterman Gym Transformed Into Ballroom for_1919 Dance tEDITOuis NOTE Wriig i the than the contrast between the . c. l. Jiaon, a w-rliios spirit rife in the great Waterman etroit columnist, gives picture of gymnasium at one-thirty yester- the dance some of our parents en- day morning, and the atmosphere ioyed. of the same building at one-thirty By H. C. L. JACKSON yesterday afternoon. The J-Ho has rocketed into Every arrangement for the great the social heaven buist into a event was completed early yester- { ~thousand sparks - black, white, day, and the tremendous hal and all the colois of the iainbowsto sie.Asnleft'p shot lowing thiough the balmy within the building sent its echoes night and-come to an end. up to the high ceiling to ring Five crowded hours of happi- back again through the canopy of ness a jumble of music, lights, bunting, to reverberate once again colorss'miles and then,a a vweet- from the walls.. ly swinging waltz slowly dying Son S gse away into a silence tinged with sorrow. It seems as if the struggle be- Chicago Dancer tween winter and spring going on Weeks of planning and con- outside the gymnasium were re- sistent work by the committee peated inside. And just as the made possible last night's success. chill prosaic fingers of winter re- The playing of the orchestras, leased their clutch and gave a STYLES COME AND GO-- Wright's and Benson's, was in- warm evening for the Hop, so Thirty years have wrought spiring. Miss Patsy Shelley, solo the tawdry touch of daylight many changes in J-hoppers' at- dancer from Chicago, added a yielded within the gym to the tire. professional touch to the event. glowing mystery of night-and Color was the salient charac- the lilting fantasy of the dance. revellers had thrown in the teristic of the event. The Hop Night arrived, the dancers en- sponge. The silence that ensued was a living kaleidoscope of shift- tered the hall, and the musical was broken only by squeaking ing shades; a rotating, swirling magic of the evening - awakened, hinges as cautious townsfolk crept mass of laughing women and and banished for the nonce the up out of stormcellers-hopeful smiling men; a blend of futurist cares of a work-a-day world. that the wild winds of J-Hop had decorations and post-futurist The J-Hop of 1919 has flashed given them back Ann Arbor for dresses . . into history. The best of it re- another year Nothing could be more striking mains-MEMORY. slid down the wa U) the booths and bli I ayoff ance under darting crii Live pine trees ti N Il e f I -TOt1 moons surrounde V J ~ while continuousr sey and Dunham r T and over them. Fran WineyGar To EArly Morning Play for Event Friday Reveries before quiet breakfasts Coeds will have a chance to in the early mor repay their J-Hop dates at Mor- the gap from dai tarboard's annual "Payoff Dance" 4 a.m., sagging ho to be held from 9 p.m. to midnight final surge of stre Friday in the League Ballroom. porches free of lin Fran Wine-Gar and his "Pipes exhaustion ovento of Fran" will play for the tradi- The weekend tional, informal affair. Nola will Sunday dinnersf be the featured vocalist. The dee- noon movies for orations will center around a Val- sundown even the entine's Day theme. Proceeds from the sale of tickets to the dance will be .used for the Ewo Mortarboard scholarships m awarded at Installation. Night in the string. Jo Osgood is chairman of the 7 "Payoff Dance' committee. Other he committee members are Penny Klausner, assistant chairman; Ro- as Radliff, patrons; Nancy Holt, C ass decorations; Jerry Gaffney, pro- grams; Eunice Mintz, publicity; and Ruth Klausner, refreshments. lls, drifted over ushed repeatedly mson spotlights. ped with yellow d the dancers melodies by Dor- floated through friendly fires, and wanderings ning air bridged nce to dawn. At usemothers in a ngth swept their igering lads, and ok the city. stretched into for some, after- more, but by e hardiest of the 1 S l t c I; rmd 'ally's y- Ads Now STANDS FOR A FIGHT AGAINST DISEASE THE MUSIC STANDS FOR EXPERT CENTER $ RADIO SERVICE STANDS FOR THE BEST IN TeIE MU'SIC ALL KINDS OF NEW CENdTER RADIOS STANDS FOR THE BEST THE MiUSIC IN RECORDINGS CENTER ) Swing-Classics-Children's FOR THE BEST /' evnevh H.. 'THE MUSIC CNE 300 South Thayer (Just West of Hill Auditorium) Phone 2-2500 you'll treasure more with every wearing! As with the books of great masters,.. the more you study (or wear) 0ldtown Trotters, the more you'll appreciate the "genius" of craftsmanship behind these handsewns that combine punctilious fit with heavenly comfort IN BROWN OR BLACK 8.95 JacoLon..