TIIE. MICIIIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, NOVE _E %-T; I"5' THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, NOVEMBER'S. 1965 FROM PRESS FUND: Fine Gets Award For Latest Book By RICHARD CHARIN significance of the act." He con- cluded by saying that while NIRA Prof. Sidney Fine of the history may not have been as important department has been awarded as Roosevelt predicted, his re- $1000 for adding "the greatest search indicates that it was more distinction" to the press list of important than historians of the the University of Michigan Press period usually believe: with his book "The AutomobileDe Under the Blue Eagle." This an- Ine U's Degrd nual award was inaugurated this Fine was an undergraduate at year with money made available Western Reserve University, and ha rnitrd hic tacfr d d i LOUIS LOMAX IS COMING Writer-in-Residence Program Committee Help Needed: + BOOKLET * SCHEDULING * PUBLICITY SIGN UP NOW In UAC Office Second Floor, Union 'I ADDRESSING THE APA SYMPOSIUM last night were, (from left): Professors William R. McGraw, John Styon. S mposim is, Bcssest APAProd Of -MaeLeash, ee ei, K u mai By JOHN CRUMB, J . The Association of Producing Artist's current- billings,. Mac- Leish's "H e r;a k 1 es," Beckett's "Krapp's. Last Tape," Kaufman and Hart's "You Can't Take It with You"' and Ibsen's "Wild Duck," were discutsed in a sym- posium last night in the Michi- gan Union Ballroom. Prof... Claribel, Baird of the speech department moderated, the discussion between Prof. William R. McGraw of the speech depart- ment and visiting Prof. John Sty-e on of the English, department, originally of the University of Hall at Hall, England. "You Can't Take It with You" was chosen as representative of American "classic" theatre, Baird' said. Kaufmann was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for this play. It was a peak in his career in that it has , interesting characters (characterization was his weak point) as well as good farce. Styon noted that it is very sentimental. The play is half comedy and half farce, and the boy-girl scenes sag under the heavy mush. Yet Rabb, the APA's director, I - is working just for that nostal- gia in "playing it straight" that allows one to enjoy it, realizing that we are "superior to it" and it is a sign that American theatre is still growing, McGraw said. Further, he said, it cannot be criticized as a form, i.e., farce, but as a play centered around the idea of unconventionalism. This theme is not treated with the cynicism of pure farce. "Man must have his allusions," McGraw said, and "tragedy is when man is forced to look on himself ob- jectively." Ibsen's "Wild Duck" sees no absolute right or wrong, and Ibsen probes man's mind as an observer, not a moral judge. Thus, McGraw said, Ibsen's con- flict is the recognition, by a fam- ily, of the "truth"-what they really are. They are destroyed by the loss of their illusion. What was "right" for them was not truth, but a comfortable compromise. "Yet, like Willy Loman in Ar- thur Miller's 'Death of a; Sales- man'," Baird said, something was gained by the destruction of illu- sion, even though Willy killed himself. Ibsen is subtle and he leaves a question at the end of "Wild Duck." His play is a dia- lect and he lets the auyence draw the moral conclusion.- MacLeish and Beckett are well billed together, Styon said, "but by the Michigan Alumni Fund. The award is open to any Uni- - versity faculty or research staff member, including those with emeritus rank. Publications are judged by the editorial committee of the Press. The presentation of Fine's award was made by University President Harlan Hatcher during a luncheon in the University's Inglis House, attended by the members of the executive committee of the Press. -Daily-Ron Berman Last Saturday in Detroit, Fine's book also received the Merit Ciaribel Bair (moderator), and Award of the American Associa- tion for State and Local History. Analyzees NIRA Fine's book is the first to anal- u etio iisyze the effects of the highly con- ne tio is itroversial National Industrial Re- covery Act (NIRA) on the auto- mobile industry. President Frank- n , lb senlin D. Roosevelt praised this act , Ib sen asthe"most important and far reaching legislation ever enacted perhaps MacLeish could learn by the American Congress." It from Beckett ... Herakles, doesn't was later declared unconstitution- fit our times as a god-figure ... al by the Supreme Court. he is all brawn and no brain. It's While discussing his book Fine like asking Ajax to be the hero stated, "There has been a ten- of the Trojan War." dency among students of New "And the tourists are very em- Deal history to downgrade the in- barrassing. They are on stage to fluence of NIRA. My book shows fill in the Gretian background, that at least in one industry, the yet they do not prepare the au- NIRA had tremendous signifi- dience for Herakles or his wife. cance."" It is a great strain on the leading He continued to say that stud- actors to compensate for the tour- ies of other industries under NIRA ists who do little more than stand are needed before any overall con- around feeling restless. clusions can be reached about the The audience more easily iden- tifies with Krapp, Styon said. Beckett forces the audience to laugh at intensely serious sub- jects and at the pathos of Krapp without being revolted by him. DIXIELAND Hie is no myth, no pretention and is more close to the audience. by the fabulous "Krapp" is, as such; a more ef- fective dramatic statement. Prof. McGraw got the oppo- JASS BAND site impression. Although the tour- ists are superfluous, the ,total'of "Herakles" is concerned with man being higher than the animals 211 N. MAIN and somewhat noble. The device of using a myth best conveys this description of modern man. Ph. 483-4680 Rather, "Krapp's Last Tape" is too obvious, heavyhanded and re- petitious. "In contrast, 'Herakles' is a more interesting world," Mc- Graw said. Entce On CARPENTER ROAD igan. He has been a faculty them- ber here since 1948. His "Laissez Faire and the Gen- eral Welfare State: A Study of Conflict in American Thought, 1865-1901" has been previously published by the University Press. Fine is currently working on a two-volume biography of Frank Murphy, former governor of Mich- igan and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court., te rece ve nis masers an Moc- torate at the University of Mich LAUCHER's THE 80111 TING BROTHERS' --- M A Brshlion fi/mrn Pesenfsd By Cimeme V * I T a * 1 r r 1 * U aI CARYOGRANT ats An T9i A MC U , " " i CARY GR saNT in r I ti 1 r 1 * I TH R HT C u i U IO'I r 1 *w~w Irr rswwisrw~rrrwwwwM~t rw r i * CAMPUS DIAL. 8-6416 5 -- L'AMO0IJR AL OVE PEYA AMOR LOVE IS INTERNATIONAL LIERE LYOBOV TICKETS: $3.50/rouple , International Cemer m. 18-now. Fishbowl-Nov.'8, 9, 12 1st Floor Unior'i- Nov. 10, 11 AST 1965 GALA BALL NOV. 12--8:30 P.M. UNION BALLROOM MAXIMILIAN BAND I I NEW MAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION' presents EVIENING OF SONG with Sister Mary Lorena, S.S.J. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5 8:00 P.M. !~ i APA To Perform Hart's Cassic on Broadivay 331 Thompson i By JOYCE WINSLOW "You Can't Take It With You," APA repertory production cur- rently playing here under the auspices of the University's PTP, will go to Broadway later this fall. TfuiTn a n iitr nn7 "Most of the costs of production have already been underwritten by the University while the APA was here." The APA had indicated earlier it would disband after this fall's en- FREE IN-CAR HEATERS TONIGHTTHRU SUNDAY COUM5M PICTURES WYLEWS the colletor,.- TECHNICOLOW PLUS--FUN HIT ** LEM f 90HE E - darda. IB ' IP"+ N . - d --------- - - BOX OFFICE OPENS 6:30 AFTER SUN. WE WILL BE OPEN ON FRI., SAT. & SUN. ONLY m I~ "1 S~is OLYMPIA' :TIME ment atheycum hee gagement here. The fact that it is vember 23 staying together for a Broadway run may mean it plans to renew Earlier this year, the APA- sI Phoenix cancelled their projected its contract. Negotiations are cur- Broadway run at the Lyceum rently underway with the Univer- scheduled for this winter. The sity's PTP for a return of the reason given for the cancellation APA to campus next fall. was the lack of a Ford Foundation , - I University Typewriter Center Home of OLYMPIA, the Precision Typewriter 613 E. William St 665-3763 Grant which would have subsidiz- ed the company in their move from the small Phoenix Theatre to the larger Lyceum. According to Gary Schaub, administrative assistant of the PTP, the pro- jected move to the Lyceum would have "expanded the company. They would have presented six' shows under the APA-Phoenix banner." "The cost for putting on 'You Can't Take It With You' to be shown at the Lyceum is consider- ably low," Schaub said. Psentst p U II IN and "KRAPP'S LAST TAPE" i I I 9 ATTENTION: FRESHMEN AND SOPHOMORES JUNIOR YEAR ABROAD AT AIX-EN.PRqVENCE, FRANCE There will be an informational meeting for all in- terested students on Tuesday evening, Novenber 9th at 7:30 P.M. in the 3rd floor conference room of the Michigan Union. Faculty members and stu- dents who attended the program last year will be present to answer your questions. fi Tl a WOMMMMEMMO" STARTS TODAY DIAL 5-6290 I I B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation 1429 Hill Street, SABBATH SERVICE 11 I 11 I ___________ ' sS~s I I I I