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by the music school have to be
instruments. Often a student may fitted into the schedules of Uni-
have to house his instrument in versity buildings. Each program
one building and take it to an- also needs a separate rehearsal in
other to practice, the same auditorium and as a re-.
With the additional space in sult most of the school's recitals
the planned building, the orches- are doubled into a few programs,
tra and band will be able to find Dean Moore said.
rooms to use for smaller sectional The new school will be able to
practices. At present the group accommodate about 850 students
must practice as an entire unit. and will include a student lounge,
Included in the new building faculty lounge, 175 practice areas,
will be a music school concert hall comparatively sound-proof class-
-something which is now non- rooms and meeting rooms for the
existent. The 170 programs given professional music groups.
Today Marks Playwright's Birthday;
Engel Talks of O'Neill's Contribution
By JEAN HARTWIG
Today marks the 70th birthday
of one of, if not the one most,
important American playwrights.
Eugene O'Neill, one-time actor,
sailor, mail order house clerk, gold
prospector, newspaperman, "bum
on the' docks" and author of more
than 40 plays, was the ringleader
in the rebellion against the banal-
ity of the American theater in the
1920's, according to Prof. Edwin
A. Engel of the English depart-
ment, author of a book about the
playwright entitled "The Haunted
Heroes Of Eugene O'Neill."
Taking the title of his work from
a passage in the play "Lazarus
Laughed," demonstrating O'Neill's
belief that death is the root of all
evil and that all men, as "hunted,
heroes," are searching for some-
thing that doesn't really exist,
Prof. Engel cited the poet's con-
tinual preoccupation with the
phenomenon of death.
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REMARKS ON O'NEILL-Prof. Edwin A. Engel discusses the
relation of O'Neill's plays to his turbulent life. His plays are mostly
autobiographical and show O'Neill's search for some kind of
religion and his preoccupation with death. His power and vigor are
some of the qualities that have made many regard O'Neill as the
greatest American playwright.
Play 'Rehearses' Death
"The Iceman Cometh" is re-,
garded as a rehearsal for the ac-
tual death he was to. play in Bos-
ton some 15 years later," Prof.
Engel said.
O'Neill supposedly died of pneu-
monia in 1953 in Boston at the.
age of 65. However, Prof. Engel,
on a Fullbright fellowship in
Copenhagen, met an American'
physician who performedthe.post
mortem on O'Neill's body. From.
evidence indicated by the deterior-
ation of the writer's brain, the
physicians who examined Itre-
ported alcoholism as the cause of
his death, instead of the alleged.
complications resulting from Par--'
kinson's disease.,
I don't know if anybody else
knows about this," he said. "It.
was probably the result of O'Neill's
drinking when he was still a young
man. His father, his brother and
he were- all very heavy drinkers."
Used Serious Subjects
O'Neil's most significant contri-
bution to the American theater
was his attempt at things never
before done and his use of serious
subjects in the frivolous era of the
1920's, Prof. Engel explained.
"O'Neill tried so hard that he
sometimes fell flat on his face,"
he added.
The Irish-American playwright,
who admired Strindberg but wasn't
"psychotic enough" to write in the
same way, has an allegorical qual-
ity in all of his earlier plays. He
was always searching for some'
kind of religion-probably due to!
his break with the Catholic church.
Head of IGY
1o Talk Today
Prof. Sydney Chapman of the
aeronautical engineering depart-
ment and head of the Interna-'
tional Geophysical Year will dis-
cuss "The Atmosphere" at 4 p.m.
today in Aud. C. Angell Hall.
Prof. Chapman's lecture will
present . a historical resume of
discoveries concerning the atmos-
phere and discuss the role of the
IGY in this. area. The extent of
present knowledge about the at-
,mosphere will also' be discussed.
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His works show a strong reflec-
tion of his turbulent life and are.
mostly autobiographical, according
to Prof. Engel. All ob his plays
seem to center around his strange
relationship with 'his mother,
whose addiction to narcotics
O'Neill could never reconcile with
his belief in her affection for her
family.;
His earlier plays are more con-
trolled than his later, efforts, in
Prof. Engel's opinion. Citing "The
Emperor Jones" and "Desire Un-
der the Elms" as his favorites of
O'Neill's first attempts, the pro-
fessor said their quality of con-
trolled.emotion impressed-him the
most.
"His emotions didn't run away
with what he wanted to say," the
professor explained: "In his later
attempts he lowered his sights and
stopped trying to write like Soph-
ocles and Aeschylus."
Two Plays Superior
Only two plays are really super-.
ior among those written in
O'Neill's later years, according to.
Prof. Engel. These are "The Ice-
man Cometh" and "Long Day's
Journey Into Night."
Giving his opinion on 'Neill's
Look Sharp
Male students are sporting
assorted beards and goatees as
a contest to find the "Hairiest
Hawk of 1 958" gets under way
at Henry Ford Community Col-
lege.
Contestants began cultivat-
ing their'beards Sept. 20, the,
day after the school's first
dance. The starting date was
1 set to enable students to -at-
tend the dance "clean-shaven,"
according to Elmer White, HF-
CC student council president.
The hairiest hawk will be-
chosen Nov. 14 by a panel of
five faculty members and De-
troit businessmen which will
judge the group and announce
the contestant sporting the
best-looking beard.
The winner will be awarded.
an electric shaver and a trophy
engraved with his name and his
title of "Hairiest Hawk of 1958."
In connection with the
beard-growing contest, a shave-
off will be held during the week
following the contest's end. No
mirrors will be. allowed, but
students may use any other re-I
flective surface to aid them in
shaving' off their beards.
Prizes will be given at the
shave-off to contestants who
come closest to getting a clean
shave.,
play "A Touch of the Poet," which
is currently being produced on
Broadway starring Helen Hayes,
Prof. Engel said he read it while
in Copenhagen and thought that
the cast and producers must have'
"lifted" the quality of the play to
warrant such good notices from
the critics.
As the qualities.that make
O'Neill "more and more regarded
as the greatest American play-
wright," the professor of American
literature mentioned his power
and vigor as outstanding. Although
he doesn't handle the vehicle of
language as well as a poet would
be expected to, a certain instinct
for the stage makes his plays
distinctive.
Wordiness A Strength.
"O'Neill takes four or five hours
to tell his message, while T. S.
Elliot can do it in a much shorter
time. This represents a wordy'
quality, but is a sort of strength
in his writing," he said.
Prof. Engel considers O'Neill
"vastly superior to Tennessee
Williams" and doesn't believe that
he can be compared to Arthur
Miller on the basis of the few
works that Miller has completed.
Pointing out Willy Loman, Miller's
example of the American sales-
man, Prof. Engel said that O'Neil's
characterization of a salesman,
while. only incidental in "The Ice-
man Cometh," is the superior of
the two in the estimation of some
critics.
r Has Intensity, Honesty
O'Neill, whose greatest triumph
came in 1920-22 when "Beyond
the Horizon" and "Anna Christie,"
won the Pulitzer Prize in consecu-
tive years, has an intensity and
honesty in his. writing that, have
intrigued audiences and gritics for
almost 40 years.
In describing "A Touch of the
Poet," one critic defines O'Neill's
charm as "a sense of rich and
thorough satisfaction such as al-
most no other modern playwright's
work seems able to give."
Giles To Give
Concert Today'
Assistant University Carillonneur
Sidney F. Giles will give a carillon
recital at 7:15 p.m. today.
He will play compositions for the
carillon including "Fugue" by Van
den Gheyn, "Ballet" by Loos, "Al-
legro" by Lefevere, Van Hoof's
"Menuete," and Clement's "Suite
Archaique.',
*Also to be performed are carillon
arrangements: "favotte"' by
Gluck, "Minuet in G" by Beetho-
ven, "Confidence" by Mendelssohn,
and "Concerto" by Vivaldi.
'U' Geologist
Writes Book
On Minerals.,
Prof. E. William Heinrich of the
geology department is author of a
new book published this week by
McGraw-Hill.
The book, "Mineralogy and
Geology of Radioactive -aw
Materials," deals with radioactive
materials and their properties.
Minerals of scentific and ec-
nomic importance such as uranium
and thorium are discussed inde
tail.
Much of the information is
based on Heinrich's investigation
of radioactive materials In the
United States and abroad.
Part of the laboratory and field
research has been supported by
the University's Phoenix project.
The work is the first of its scope
aimed at combining both the
mineralogic and geologic aspects
of uranium and thorium.
Art Delegates.
To Meet Here
At Conference
The twenty-second Midwestern
Art Conference meets today at th
University for the first time.
Prof. Robert Iglehart chair-
man of the art department, ex-
pects about 150 delegates to attend
the three-day conference. Every
major university in the midwest
will be sending representatives, be
said.
Students' work is being dis-
played In the halls of the archi-
tecture school. This is not a for-
mal exhibition, just "what the
students are doing right now,"
Prof. Iglehart explained. The fac-
ulty is giving a more formal ex-
'the Undergraduate Library.
Meetings will be held in Rack-
ham Amphitheatre and the-archi-
tecture auditorium.
The. conference will create 'an
opportunity for the exchange of
ideas and'general information on
various: aspects of art, stimulate
continued interest in contempor-
ary art problems and motivate ex-
perimental a nd e r e a t i v e 'ap-
proaches to the teaching of art.
Music Group,
Elects Lowell
The Michigan Music Teachers
Association has elected three fac-
ulty members of the University's
music school as officers.
Prof. John Lowell was elected
first vice-president; Prof. John
Flower was elected secretary and
Frank Stillings was re-elected
treasurer.
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