Page Ten THE MICHIGAN DAILY Saturday, February 15, 1941 Page Ten THE MICHIGAN DAILY Saturday, February 15, 1941 Three Top Bands Bring c M '" A Mad Drummer L~ Arbuckle Bucks J-Hop Weekend--Something You'll Disapproval Remember When Old And Grey Of Drumming I No One Can Tell What Might Come made you bring Goodman and Krupa "I want to get publicity, not to and Scott half way across the con- write it", aaid Dick Arbuckle, '42, I tinent to play for you for a few From Seven Dollars W ell Spent hours-and for seven"dollars. as he spelled his name correctly ,.You laughed at the Hawaiian twice for the Chicago Tribune re- All the gleaming glory of the great Bands the fraternity boys imported porter. white way backed up with rolling but tired legs and a thick, nervy in the 1920's, the bands with palm "The Hop Committee refused to draperies of deep dyed silks and feeling around inside your head. fronds stuck in the top of the lighted put my photograph on the publicity odpereof deepdydsilksA But the romanticists will tell you drums, the bands with the Brook- poster alone with Scott, Krupa, and topped off with best music MCA that there are always the memories, lyn girls who danced under a skirt Goodman." Arbuckle gave a drum can provide will be thrown into the always the thought that Goodman of carefully manufactured grass demonstration at the last committee laps of those who have paid their and Krupa and Scott were in the skirts, the bands that you hear now meeting, but met with a flat refusal seven dollars for the right to be at same ballroom and that you and she on an old phonograph in the base- from Lee Perry, general chairman. the 1941 J-Hop. were there with them. That makes ment and laugh. But in the days Arbuckle has been posing for yeast While you are reading this you everything worth the money, when they made beer in the garage and Charles Atlas ads for the past may be sowing your oats on the Twenty Years Hence and drank alcohol brought in from two years, but was prevented from dance floor with the music behind Twenty years from now Goodman Detroit Hawaiian Bands were pop- appearing in J-Hop publicity stories you and perspiration under your col- may be remembered only vaguely as ular. because of his connection with the tar or you may be sitting at home the beginner of a movement known Well, some of those same boys are arrangements committee. the morning after with nothing left as swing, some mad, senseless rhythm sitting in offices now and J-Hop that died out and was replaced by means Hawaiian Bands and wood jazz of a different variety. Or he alcohol to them; and you would laugh may be lauded as the father of a at that. Maybe in ten years from new trend in the folk music which now when you are thinking of Good- has been developed to something man and Krupa and Scott nobody Let U s more moving and beautiful than has except you will remember it. ever before been found in folk mu- It's All Worth It sic. And then you can take out your That's what makes the seven dol- J-Hop stub (carefully protected by lars and a whole lot more worth it eve iop and Pr yOU r a layer of cellophane) and the ro- all. That's why maybe the roman- manticists will be right. ticists are right when they say the At any rate now it's done and the whole business only starts the night chances are that, half way through of the dance. Maybe some day the the weekend, you're half sorry that tired kid you are going to take home you have to go through more and (or have taken home) will be darn- half glad that it isn't all over with ing your socks and telling you to just as you were getting into the keep your damn cigarette ashes off swing of the thing the floor. Swing Is The Word Maybe, too, there will be one, Swing is the thing that will be em- out of the original investment, and phasized by the musicians, that will that will be something else to remem- make the whole of creation stop ber about J-Hop weekend. All work guaranteed with one day service, where the dyed silk draperies hide The point is that the J-Hop is a lit- We carry EASTMAN and AGFA FILMS the steel girders of the Intramural tle more than a dance. What that Building. Swing is the stuff that something more is depends upon you. What Music They Do Play ... SWIFT'S DRUG STORE 340 SOUTH STATE Phone 3534 Free Delivery The Rexall Store on Campus M RRILYN SALUTE T0 SPRING THE MARILYN DRESS SHOPPE cordially invites you to come in and view our complete selection of Spring dresses, suits, coats and for- mals. Our values are sure to please you. MflRILYN DRESSES The Raymond Scott Quintet play the weird arrangements of their composer-director and have gained the admiration (if not the respectful amazement) of all the popular music lovers in America. GIVE HER CANDY TO MAKE THE WEEK-END MORE PLEASANT e r oofa B. E. MUEHLIG 126 SOUTH MAIN STREET PHONE 2-3184