THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER A TWO iCEIVES U.S. GRANT: Mednick to Investigate. Creative Theory' The University has been award- I a federal grant to support a free-year study on "The Associ- e Basis of the Creative Process," awrence G. Derthick, United tate8 commissioner of education, rnounced yesterday. The grant, totalling $91,562, was lade by the Cooperative Research ranch of the United States Of- ee of Education. Prof. Sarnoff A. Mednick,'of the The fabulous SHELLEY BERMAN ANN ARBOR HIGH Wed., Oct. 12-8:30 p.m. University psychology department, and Martha T. Mednick, research associate in the Institute for So- cial Research, will direct the study. I Employs Theory Prof. Mednick said that the study will use his associative theory to develop tests for creativ- ity at the high school and college level, adding that the tests might be used to provide an additional I CARLOS Ann Arbor High Fri., Oct. 7 8:30 P.M. ......... m 11 basis for selecting students for college entrance. "There is a general discontent in universities with selecting stu- dents just on the basis of high school grades," he said. Prof. Robert C. Angell, of the sociology department, said that such a discontent exists at the University, although "we do select our students on other bases in ad- dition to grades, such as various test scores." No Creativity Measure However, he pointed out, the ordinary tests do not measure cre- ativity. He said that he and several of his students had taken Prof. Med- nick's tests, and that work in the area of accurately measuring cre- ativity is "an important thing." "If he comes up with anything, we should certainly use it," he said. Testing research is being con- ducted at Ann Arbor High School, and the University Survey Re- U of M Folklore Society Old-Timey FOLK MUSIC with MIKE SEEGER only 90c UNION BALLROOM Fri., Oct. 14, 8:301 Tickets: Union Disc Shop search Center will aid in getting nationally representative norms at the high school level. Charles Jung, Grad., will be the prencipal research assistant for the project, Prof. Mednick said. University students Linda Golden, '63, Ruth Mellen, '62, Zona Schei- ner, '62 and Virginia Kuski, '62, will assist with the project. Stowe to Speak On Nasser's Role Under the auspices of the journalism department, Prof. Le- land Stowe will present a lecture at 4:15 today in the Rackham Amphitheatre on the subject of "Nasser Between East and West: His Communist Bloc Deception -- His Growth and Evolution. This is the second lecture in a two-part series entitled "What we need to know about Nasser." The lectures are based upon three months of research in the Middle East which Prof. Stowe recently completed. Lewis Given City Council Appointnent The City Council re-appointed Vice-President for Student Affairs James A. Lewis to the city Human, Relations Commission, of which he had been a charter member, Monday night. Lewis' term as a charter mem- ber began in 1957 and expired last May, and he was not re- appointed at that time. Monday night he was named to complete the term of Dr. Ralph M. Gibson of the Michigan Program for Mentally Retarded Children, Pe- diatrics and Communicable Dis- eases. The term will expire in May, 1962, Dr. Gibson resigned early in the summer, stating that other duties precluded further work on the commission, Mayor Cecil O. Creal, who submitted Lewis' name for council approval, explained. Of his new appointment, Lewis commented, "There's work to be done, and if I can help, I'm glad to do it." The members of the commission are "all happy" with Lewis' ap- pointment, Dr. H. Vaughn Whited, chairman, said. "We feel he's a good man, with a pulse on the situation. His contributions are always welcome." By MICHAEL OLINICK The University's Flint Senior College opened its fifth year last month with a record enrollment and plans for future development. "We must keep our growth equal to our responsibility," Dean Da- vid M. French said yesterday. This need will be translated into an in- creased budget request from the state, he explained. The Flint branch is a school for juniors and seniors, offering pro- grams in liberal arts and sciences, business administration, a n d teacher education. There are 461 candidates for the bachelor's de- gree and 20 non-degree students enrolled at the college. The faculty, which increased by one since last year, numbers about 30 members. "Our growth is going to be in this area," French said. "We need to increase the teaching staff." The first integral part of the University outside of Ann Arbor which offered a University degree, Flint College was established in 1955 by a unanimous vote of the Regents. Nearly a decade before, former University President Alex- ander Ruthven germinated the idea for it when he predicted that ENTERS FIFTH YEAR: Flint Senior College Plans New Expansion CHALLENGE MASS MEETING the time was coming when the University would have to begin, establishing branches off-campus. For a time the senior college shared classrooms and facilities with the Flint Junior College. The senior college now has its own building, largely the gift of Flint philanthropist Charles S. Mott who donated a million dol- lars for the structure. The Com- mittee of Sponsors of the Flint College and Cultural Development Program, a community group, raised an additional $150,000 to furnish equipment for the build- ing. Danish Ballet Sets Detroit Presentation The Royal Danish Ballet will appear at 8:20 p.m. Friday, and at 2:20 p.m. and 8:20 p.m. Satur- day, at the Masonic Temple Aud. in Detroit. Featured in the coming perfor- mance will be both classical and contemporary ballets. Classical works will include "Whimsy of Cupid" and "Coppelia," lanced in their original form. The group, with its 200-year history, is the oldest ballet theater in existence. The current tour the 130-member ballet company is making is the third which it has made outside of Denmark. 1 .1 Ciqepfta jIWdBd presents Thursday 4:15 Union I I PICNIC Thursday and Friday Few critics were able to agree about what was merit and what defect in Joshua Logan's film rendition of William Inge's Pic-a nic. While one critic praised the film's delicate realism, another found it loose and lavish. One said that Rosalind Russell should win an Academy Award, another that her acting was heavy-handed and thus out of keeping with the subtle flavor of the film. Some felt it had received too much praise, oth- ers not enough. But only one felt it was not worth taking se- riously. Picnic might be interpreted as the story of day-dreams real- Ized. When Hal Carter (William Holden), a driftel and braggart, arrives in a small Kansas town offering to do odd jobs in ex- change for a meal, people -are suddenly jarred awake. Hal's rippling muscles and flashy ex- uberance become therapeutic catalysts in a household of frus- tratd women. Immediately, al- most every female, young and old, magically realizes that her hops and dreams can be ful- filled if only she does something about them. Madge Owens (Kim Novak) no longer wants to be loved just for her beauty; and her intellectual kid-sister (Susan Strasberg), straining with adolescence, struggles with the thought that women are more than intellect. A spinster schoolteacher (Rosalind Rus- sell) gallops after a reluctant shopkeeper (Arthur O'Connell). Only Mrs. Owens' (Betty Field) dreams for her daughter turn out to be too extravagant. At the heart of the film is the Labor Day picnic. The festivi- ties begin in the blazing sun- shine of the afternoon. James Wong Howe's camera catches the carefree and raucous energy of these early hours with their traditional games and customs -men showing off their strength by using children as weights, fathers with sticks in their mouths trying to spear rings, foot races, and quartets. He catches too the unsuspecting non-participant who tries to quiet a crying baby, shoo dogs away from the picnic basket, or sneak a drink from a hidden flask. But soon the afternoon turns to evening and the sun wearies into long relaxing shadows, and the people, tired and dusty, grow quieter. Finally, the glow of the disappearing sun is replaced by the silent reflections of Japa- nese lanterns on the dark water. We seem to be entering a kind of fairy tale world. Presently, we are sure of it. From out of the darkness a beautiful young girl sails to shore to be crowned the new Queen. This whole sequence is not unrelated to the rest of the film as some critics have maintained. Nor is it merely a, realistic chronicling of Mid-western cus- toms. Actually it embodies the vitality we associate with Hal and the fantasy we associate with the women of the Owens household. Moreover, its drama- tization of ritualized fantasy colored. A "magic" film in the vein of Melies, it not only charmingly suggests the period but makes the viewer want to welcome Flora into his lares and penates. Our feature Saturday and Sunday is Carl Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc, a silent film made in France in 1928, which the International Film Critics Poll rated as among the best (no. 4) of all time. Dreyer, a Calvinist obsessed by genuine evil as well as a sense of sin, has contributed to film history a series of films of which it can be said that no one else could have imprinted the same dis- tinctive stamp. Vampyr, Day of Wrath, Ordet are other major works; but The Passion of Joan of Arc is universally admitted to be his masterpiece. The film records the agonies of Joan, with her head shaven, (reminiscent of a Partisan vic- tim, unfortunately, to contem-. porary audiences) undergoing her trial in Rouen, before going to her fate as a political vic- tim, with the obvious consent of her Church. Her passion, as Dryer conceived it and bril- liantly brought to an artistic triumph, is that of the dedi- cated individual who has no sense of expediency. But from that suffering what has result- ed? Dryer does not suggest ex- cept inferentially that a new French national state resulted from this martyrdom; but this new national state would also have created its martyrs. It is a highly subjective film that dwells on the individual agony and the stark loneliness of pro- test. A gruesome film, it is seldom shown without a warning to parents. That Dreyer hoped to make it as a sound film is evi- denced by the interchanges be- tween Joan and her persecutors. The only artistic defect in the film-too many lines that had to be given in dialogue. The film's deliberately slow pace, its relentless perusal of the details of persecution, the final weight of agony in Joan's immolation and the simultaneous sense of release epitomize man's appe- tite for torture, so often, as here, masked by morality and patriotism. An excellent analysis of this film can be found in the Pen- guin paperback, The Film and the Public, by Roger Manvell p. 119-123. On the same program is a feature - length documentary, The Lady from Philadelphia, which relates Marian Ander- son's triumphant tour of South- east Asia under State Depart- ment auspices. In one sense, she was sent many years too late; but though she had to conserve her vocal resources, you will hear her inimitable singing of spirituals, Lieder, folk songs, and some popular numbers. The woman of whom Toscanini said, "A voice like yours is heard once in a hundred years" was always a fine artist and in many cases unexcelled. Who now, in the Ann Arbor of 1960, recalls her GOTHIC FILM SOCIETY The first of this year's programs, featuring Ingmar Bergman's THE NAKED NIGHT ("Sawdust & Tin- sel"), Sweden, 1954, will be given this Monday, Oct. 10, at 8 P.M., in Rackham Amphitheatre. Admission is by subscription only; a full subscription to ol 10 pro- grams costs $5.00. Checks or mon- ey orders may be sent to 2396 S. State, Ann Arbor; subscriptions may also be obtained before the showings. For further information, call NO 2-9359 or NO 2-6685; or watch for detailed announcement in this Friday's Daily. FOR STUDY IN BRITAIN: Applications Now Available For Marshall Scholarships mftwl I Discussion: Read the Classifieds I Next semester's topic 1I no STARTING TODAY DIAL 8-6416 I READ THESE RAVESO. "THE PICTURE IS COMMENDABLE ON EVERY COUNT I A magnetic and moving film, ever so subtly it says volumes. Schuman and Eva Ioithaus are first-rate as the sweethearts. Clever and logical, Kautner hasn't Wissed a trick. The climax bears him out with one of the most penetrating fade-outs in yearsI" --Thompwn, N.Y. TYi""t "AN EXCITING PICTURE! Hlighly intriguing movie for the thoughtful viewer. Helmut Kautner is becoming one of the leadingm..ports here and It 1% no matter for complointi" -BIckI-, 4ra 'Trbm"ne "CONSTANTLY ENGROSSING AND CONSISTENTLY WELL DONE I Kautner is a great creative talent. There is a mixture of wistfu charm and realism whii comes of beautifully. Deeply moving, exquisitely photographed The pictr should attract appreciative oers from all woo Our TownI" .--i Thmr, K Y. Poi A. I Students who wish to apply forv a two-year scholarship to any one of 22 Universities in the United Kingdom under the Marshall Scholarship plan can get applica- tions from Assistant Dean of Men Ivan Parker in Rm. 2011 SAB. The scholarship pays $1540 for living expenses, tuition, $70 for books, $560 extra if the student 'U' Considers Foreign Situdy For Juniors (Continued from Page 1) gether and studying under teach- ers from America. The proposed program would be determined by the University through a faculty member living at the school, but the students would be on their own, and would live with families. The report lists the University of Strasbourg, France, as a "ten- tative suggestion'' for a location, because of its cosmopolitan situa- tion, good housing, and commu- nication and transportation facili- ties. The school has been recep- tive to inquiries, but no agree- ment would be made until a Uni- versity official personally exam- ines the situation. Necessarily Limited The program would necessarily be limited to students of the French language, but there are long-range hopes that Strasbourg could become the headquarters for juniors studying in Germany, Switzerland, or Italy, as well as France. The idea of receiving full Uni- versity credit for a semester or year of foreign study originated in the literary college Steering Committee, a student advisory group. Lists Obstacles How much interest would stu- dents have in such a program? Such study at present involves transferring to another college with an established program (of which there are at least 12), or taking a chance on receiving any University credit for the year. Al- so, loans and scholarships are not available. This opportunity would be open to personnel in all divisions of the University, and also to students from other institutions, although the first priority would go to Uni- versity students. Advantages of the program list- ed in the 1959 report are increas- ed international understanding and awareness, mastery of a Eu- ropean language, and increased prestige for the University in Europe, similar to that enjoyed in Asia. is married, and passage from the student's residence in the United States to the university in the United Kingdom and back. Twenty-four scholarships will be awarded in the United States, four of which will go to students in this mid-western region. Some of the universities which the stu- dents may attend include Cam- bridge, Oxford, Edinburg, Liver- pool, and London. Applicants should have a degree from an accredited university in the region in which they are applying. They cannot be over 26- years-old; however, special con- sideration will be given to 28-year- old students who have been in the armed services. Students must have their appli- cations in by Oct. 10. They will be interviewed the following week by the University's Marshall Scholar- ship committee. This committee will then submit its candidates to the regional com- mittee which will narrow the list down to about 20. 'The regional committee will interview these stu- dents in November and will select' four for the awards with six others on reserve. The scholarships are offered by the British Government as an "expression of gratitude" for the aid which Great Britain received from the Marshall Aid Program. High academic ability and wide interests in student activities will be considered. DIAL NO 5-6290 Note Time tedSINNER Schedule wmg OPENING THIS WEEK iZSapknte44 6 t7Item by SIDNEY KINGSLEY directed by JERRY SANDLER WINNER OF DRAMA CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD Curtain time will be set back to 8:45 Friday only to accommodate the Nixon-Kennedy debates Thursday and Saturday cureain will still be 8:00. Television will be set up in the lobby for the patrons' convenience. THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY Lydia Mendelssohn -- Box office opens 10:30 A.M. All Seats Reserved Thurs. -$1.50 Fri. & Sat. -$1.75 Season Tickets Still Available Ann Arbor Civic Theatre FREE! little club, I f8irmwflMe -dancing- October 7 December 9 14 28 November 4 January 6 11 13 18 I Helmut Kautner's Sky Without tarsp starng ERIK SGWMAN EVA KOTTHM~ H0 8 i I II U r.- -7 . W-1 k I .. .y f I See "Battle in Outer Space" at 1:00-3:50 6:50 and 9:45 See "12 to The Moon" at 2:40-5:35 DIAL NO 2-6264 NOW thru SATURDAY lA S~imuusa r~8c.A $ ii'JR LzwII~B ELMER KNA Shows at 1:00-3:30-6:15-8:50 Features at 1:08-3:40-6:25-9:00 I at Union MUG SPACE DECLARES WAR ON EARTH OUTLAW PLANET CAPTURES THE MOON! 9-12 I - FRIDAY - "DARK AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS" FREE! I #__ _ t MICHIGAN -MICHIGAN STATE ~ MOVIES of Saturday's Game Watch Fitzgerald's 99-0yard I I wr~i~vm~ia' -~ ~Inw ~'~eita'~'mz I "" : #'