University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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STACK SHOW influence i shown in Top Banana, presented by one of girls dorms. Like it' Broadway counterpart, show's success relied on garish costumes and sprinkling of sex. Carni Dust, Side-Shows and Elbows Campus Carnival is walking past rows of spangled, tcmpcra-splii.shed sideshows. It is blared enticements that irritate the ear and excite the eye. It’s crowd elbows in your ribs. Or a tense feeling during the drawing for a free Bermuda trip. To the people behind the grease-paint and the garish facades, it is a long grind of dancing, with a blister forming on your heel. It’s that rivulet of sweat runing down your neck, collecting dust and make-up as it goes. Or shouting a gravel-throated sales pitch into a whining public address system. But no matter what side of the ticket booth you're on, you must agree it is undoubtedly the most gratifying form of charily you've encountered. By voting for an Ugly Man or getting splashed at Shore Leave, the Cammn Phi Beta-Beta Theta Pi show that made the most money, you help the Carnival gross $6,85)9. And for small-budgeted collegians, that’s a good day’s work. Here you are on May 55. in the indoor -.ports arena, steeped in Carnival. For a few hours education majors and pre-business guys are gone. You arc a pitch-man or a mermaid, a Parisicnnc ora Roman soldier. You are the Aspirin Age and “Top Banana. a dancing cigarette and a grunting rasslcr. Sure, on Monday you have public In-altii and Immunities lo face, but Monday must wait its turn. The dust rises ami door prizes timl owners while Alpha Phi Omega’s keep Ilicir tinsel Carnival whirling. And when it’s clone—the tents folded. I lie swimming lank drained, floss candy and peanuts eaten—you duck out on to University avenue. The night is cool, black, still. And an after-Carnival party beckons you. POLITICAL SHOW microphone is adjusted before customers arrive. A win delimit'd on human horses, not votes. DeKE. and Chi-0 Washington Derby 1. D. LlllNHOWtA 2. H. Stassim 3. R Taft 4. E Warrin 5. E Klfauvir 6. H Humphry

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FLOSS C NI)V. a carnival necessity, ami side-show .spiel hold coed's interest. ENTERTAINER, arms akimlio. stands on pint form in front of tent as conic-on to show that is alxiiit tu stall on inside. Halo around light over girl's head is caused hy dust kicked up hy thousands of feet milling around the earthen floor of the indoor sports arena Carnival made W.SK!) for charity l afc ’ 16

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SOI ATTING worker applies finishing touch Itefore first show starts. hiking tank for water show requires fir hose and sidewalk engineers lo hasten pre-show jo! . PAINTING sign for Hroadway Itlnxhex is lest for agile, shoeless painter. Campus Carnival GRASS SKIRTS rustle and sailors Ogle during soug-and-dance numlier of “Shore leave.” Show was eomhination »f South Paeifie and Kslher Williams' water hallet. Cast was anxious during entire run that tank might collapse as it had done before opening. HOME MADE CANDIES S CAKES from MRS SPARROW 1 0 FUGHTS from the u HVING QU8