THOUSANDS THRONG SANDERS THEATRE AT ANNUAL SMOKER

Two thousand onthusiastic students jammed Sanders Theatre last night as the annual Freshman Smoker, starring Albert Ammons, Roy Eldridge, Ella Fitzgerald, Hildegarde, and Buddy Hasset, 'wont off on schedule. under the chairmanship of George Kuhn and his Committee of eight Yardlings.

After a bit of sweet music by Jack Hill and his band of eight Harlemites, Chairman Kuhn started the ball rolling by introducing the master of ceremonies, George C. MacKinnon, a columnist for the "Record" and prominent song writer.

Albert Ammons, the boogie-woogie swing pianist, and Roy Eldridge, New York's famous trumpeter, who flew up form Manhattan specially for the affair, gave the Yardling masses a taste of Harlem's "hot" music.

Hildegarde "Clicks"

Hildegarde, whose international reputation was assured by "Life's" front cover picture of her, brought down the house, with her interpretative renditions of such numbers as "Deep Purple", "Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup," "My Heart Belongs to Daddy," and "Umbrella Man.

One of the first artists to appear on the stage, Ella Fitzgerald, "the first lady of swing," brought forth ringing applause from every one, when she sang "Hold Tight" and "It Ain't What You Do, It's The Way What You Do It."

G-Man Among Entertainers

Preceding Hildegarde in the list of entertainers, G-Man Hugh H. Clegg related some of the more daring deeds of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and described the work of Edgar Hoover's public-enemy-snatching machinery in Washington.

From the world of sport Buddy Hassett, often called the best singer in the major leagues, and Victor Jones '28,