THE MICHIGAN DAILY a __E MIIG N D IL .) &IV L3 " LM A . Regents Accept $418,000 PLAN PRIMARY: Set Two-Party Elections In City Council Races PA D ADVERTISEMENT development of a program in Japan. The John Harper Seeley Foun- dation of Chicago gave $6,000 for research in obstetrics and gyne- cology. Three grants were accepted from Parke, Davis and Company. One of $4,500 was from the company's Ann Arbor laboratories for the continuation of aid to research under the direction of Dr. John M. Sheldon of the Medical School, one was for surgical research un- der the direction of Dr. Charles Gardener Child III, and the third was a $625 grant for a fellowship in pharmacy. The Regents accepted a total of $3,525 from fifteen insurance companies for the- Actuarial Science Program. These grants were made through the Develop- ment Council. The National Fund for Medical Education gave $2,000 for medi- cal research, and Babcok and Wil- cos Company gave $1,900 as a grant-in-aid for technical and en- gineering education at the Uni- versity, The Ann Arbor News and State Journal (Lansing) gave a total of $1,840 for University Press Club Foreign Journalism Fellowships. Various donors gave $506.50 to establish the Harry H. Goode Memorial Loan Fund in Engineer- ing. The American Society for Me- tals Foundation for Education and Research gave $500 for an under- graduate scholarship in metal- lurgy. The Regents also accepted the gift of a series of 54 Graeco- Roman, Coptic and Islamic anti- quites from Egypt from President Emeritus Alexander G. Ruthven and Mrs. Ruthven. Union, League Complete Plan For Weekend Plans for a weekend of skiing, sponsored by the Men's Union and Women's League, will be discussed at 7:30 p.m. tonight at a mass meeting in Rm. 3S of the Michi- gan Union. The trip will begin Feb. 10 be- tween 1 and 2 p.m. when skiers will board University buses for Holiday Hills in Traverse City, David Baron, '62E, Union social committee chairman, announced yesterday. The ski package includes trans- portation to and from the Univer- sity, lodging for Friday and Sat- urday nights, four meals, ski tows for Friday night, all day Sat- urday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to dusk, and a dance on Saturday in the lodge. Payments may be made at the mass meeting tonight or at the undergraduate ofice in the Mich- igan League, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The deadline for payments is Jan. 18. C/ne pta iLd4 By RICHARD OSTLING There will be two-party races in all wards in the April 3 City Council election, and both par- ties will need a primary in the first ward on February 20. The completion of petition filing on Monday showed two-way races in the second, fourth, and fifth wards, and a woman running against an incumbent for mayor. In the first ward E. C. Roberts III is opposing Harry K. Remnant in the Republican primary' for the seat resigned by Harold J. Mc- Kercher, a member of the all- GOP City Council. In the Demo- cratic primary, Wallace W. Frank- lin will run against Lynn W. Eley. Seeks Resigned Seat Meeting in the general election from the second ward will be Republican William E. Bandemer and Mrs. Shata Ling, a Demo- crat. They seek the seat resigned by Mrs. Florence R. Crane. The third ward race finds in- cumbent Henry V. Aquinto, mayor pro-tem, opposed by. the Demo- crats' John W. Conlin, Jr. George A. Keebler, a retiring member of the council from the fourth ward, will be watching with interest the race between Republi- can Richard G. Walterhouse and Democrat Richard L. Kennedy. Lough Challenges In the fifth ward, incumbent Bent F. Nielsen is being challenged by Thomas S. Lough for the Democrats. Another Democratic hopeful, Ellis Fondrem, died of a heart attack in December. Mrs. Ling, Lough, and Kennedy, were the last three candidates"to file. Mrs. Ling, founder and executive director of the Senior Citizens Guild, seeks her first public ofice. Lough and Kennedy, both Uni- versity graduates, rapped Ann Ar- bor's one-party government in in- troductory statements; Lough call- ed it "an unhealthy situation" and criticized Nielsen's representation of the fifth ward, particularly on, the building of the new North- belt thruway. Kennedy said, "our one-party city goverliment is turning into idle government" and felt that, not enough is being done to keep Ann Arbor from becoming just another Detroit suburp. There are five Republican coun- cil members not up for election this year. Browne Cancels Lecture on Drama The lecture, "Drama as the Ve- hicle of Religion," scheduled for 4:15 p.m. today in Aud. A, An- gell Hall, has been cancelled. The lecturer, Prof. E. Martin Browne of New York's Union Theological seminary, is ill. presents b Thursday and Friday-GREED Saturday and Sunday- THE LAST BRIDGE LEIGH J. YOUNG *, dies recently Professor Dies Here Leigh J. Young, professor emer- itus of silviculture and mayor of Ann Arbor from 1941 to 1945 died Dec. 24 in St. Joseph Hospital, Ann Arbor. Prof. Young had taught at the University from 1911 until his re- tirement in 1953, with the ex- ception of ten months in 1927 when he served as state Director of Conservation. He was instrumental in the early development of the forestry department, especially in the ac- quisition and development of nur- sery and forest properties, includ- ing the Saginaw Forest, Eber White Woods and Stinchfield Woods. He was past chairman of the Ohio Valley Section of the So- ciety of American Foresters, and a former president of the Michi- gan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters. In a civic capacity, he was al- derman from 1930 to 1937 and president of the City Council from 1937 to 1941 before his election as mayor. Memorial services will be held at 4 p.m. tomorrow at St. An- drew's Episcopal Church. Contri- butions can be made to the alumni fund of the Society of Les Voy- ageurs. Prof. Young is survived by his, wife, three children and 12 grandchildren. by Thomas S. Lough for the Theological Seminary, is Ill. r NOW f }II u IDfllr q QI ll ilff lpl i [ II!, u ni- DIAL. NO 5-6290 0 E Cit EXTRA! Bugs Bunny Color Cartoon I THE BISHOP'S COMPANY will present C. S. LEWIS "ihe GREAT DIVORCE" IN THE SANCTUARY Orchestras FIRST METHODIST CHURCH s' by In 1958 more than 100 film historians from 20-odd coun- tries were assembled in Brus- sels and compiled a list of the "12 Best Films of All Time." Greed, which Cinema Guild is showing Thursday and Friday, is no. 6 on the list. But unlike all the other 11 entries, Greed exists as a terribly incomplete work, one from which its cre- ator drew off in disgust, a truncated fragment, a cine- matic Venus de Milo that has not only lost its arms but been terribly disfigured by editorial attempts at restoration. What we have, indeed, is a pathetic memorial to a genius who steadfastly refused through his dying day, to have any connec- tion with the film that is con- sidered "no. 6 of - all time." The American audience knows Von Stroheim as the Prussian-type officer in films ranging over three decades. His career as an actor reached its zenith in Grand Illusion; but much more recently he put in a memorable performance in Sunset Boulevard, as the dis- carded lover and servant of Gloria Swanson. As a director, Von Stroheim was a discovery of the 1920's and never in that capacity out- lasted the period. Blind Hus- bands, Foolish Wives were typi- cal of his work - studies of meaningless sexual bonds that Implied a commercialization of what should have been tender and intimate relationships. Of his films of the 1920's, Lewis Jacobs has written:.."They pro- mulgated the belief that women have a right to love after mar- riage and that, if husbands are indifferent, those husbands can- not blame their wives for seek- ing attention elsewhere." These "advanced" views appealed to a public with a growing appetite for sophisticated fare, while the critics praised his psychologi- cal realism and compositorial skill. Von Stroheim seemed des- tined for a long career as a di- rector of the Continental type then being lured to Hollywood by advantageous offers. There were, however, murmurs about his autocratic methods and his extravagance; and his fourth picture, The Merry Widow, was taken away from him by Universal and completed by Rupert Julian.* In 1923 the newly-formed MGM decided to make a bid for attention by giving von Stroheim carte blanche in ma- ing a film. He chose Frank Nor- ris's novel McTeague, a marked departure from his earlier ma- terial, for the Norris story, a landmark of American natural- ism, is a grim and sordid study of character degeneration in a money-mad culture. With his passion, for exactitude, von Stroheim took the cast to San Francisco, the'setting for most of the novel, where he co- mandeered whole blocks of houses, demolishing whenever he felt it necessary, and in at least one case, tying up the city's traffic to obtain an effect- ive sequence. For the final scenes, in Death Valley, the un- fortunate actors were taken to Death Valley, where life, ac- cording to Jean Hersholt, al- most copies art by threatening annihilation. MGM. was ap- palled by the cost in money, and the studio's feelings were not mollified when von Stroheim proudly presented them with his finished product, a picture ten hours long. He recommend- ed that they release it in two five-hour parts. MGM refused to consider 'such an idea. After A futile effort at compromise, in which von Stroheim cut the The truth appears to be that even though orrbly mutilated by the demands of Hoflywood commercialism, Greed is a com- manding work in which even isolated scenes are stamped with a distinctive character, the mark of an artist with a clear inner vision, for whom there was seldom enough time and never enough m-on e y. The charge levelled at von Stroheim is megolomania. He was cer- tainly not interested in com- mercial success, which would have been his for the asking; he had only to rein his ideas and direct smooth ironies to have had as successful a ca- reer as von Sternberg or Lu- bitsch. After Greed he complet- ed two films and started two others, which were taken away from him. That was his end as a director; from then on, we saw him only as an actor, gen- erally in minor roles. He elt bitter about Greed because it. was the one film he made where there was no compromise, and he probably thought that it would have made its way, if it had been given its chance, like Griffith's equally revolutionary Birth of a Nation (1915). But he was doubly hampered-not only because he didn't own the film was he unable to control what other people would do to it, but he was an expressionist art- ist from belief, not creed The brutal film he made, abetted by brilliant performances from the cast, would not have had a, success in 1924, had MGM been Sovietkino, though some might argue that the latter would have gone along a little farter with the idea. But the end re- suit would not have been that different. Society has its toler- ance for the artist, sometimes its warm acceptance;hutne- er, when the artist works. in a popular medium, may social ar-. rangements be challenged. The artist does so, as von Stroheiu- did, at his own risk. During the war, the film ver- sion of Steinbeck's The Moon is Down alienated its audience because it sympathetically por- trayed, an intelligent and des- perately lonely German soldier in Norway. it was inevitable that after World War II Ameri-; can and European moviemakers would again focus their camerae on particular Germans an ,Nazis instead of their war-time stereotypes, but it was a dec- ade or more before film akers felt audiences were calm enoughF toa digest this provocative and. still controversial subject mat- ter. The Last Bridge, our fea- ture Saturday and Sunday, was one of the first post-war films which focussed on the individ- ual. The movie is dominated by Maria Schell, who plays br. Helga Reinback, a sincere and confirmed German nationalist serving in a German hospital in the Balkans. Kidnapped by a band of Yugoslav Partisans, Dr. Reinbeck is given the choice of healing the enemy wounded or death. For Helga it is really a choice between humanity and country. Her medical training demands that she choose hu- manity, her patriotism forbids it. "I always believed," the Par. tisan chief tells her, "that to a doctor, wounded enemies are al- so human beings." But Helga knows that if she heals the Par- tisans they are going to kill her own countrymen. Whatever her decision, tragedy seems inevit- able. Friday, Jan. 6, 1961 8.00P.M B ud-Mor NO ADMISSION CHARGE. Offering will be taken. I Auspices Wesley Foundation Henry MAtarTin Loud Lecture Committee LABORATORY PLAYBILL TODAY 4:10 P.M. Dept. of Speech i RESORT FOR RABBITS A Hopwood Award-Winning Script Trueblood Auditorium Frieze Building No Admission Charge I I r DRAMATIC ARTS CENTER presents AN EVENING OF THEATRE DIAL NO 2-6264 Now! "ONE OF THE 10 BEST PICTURES OF 1960" -National Board of Review VE8CR4M Poa_-Rr PETE ff, 61) fAff 5111 Deborah Kerr won the New Yc Film Critics Awci for her performance in "The Sundowner F\.Robert Mitchum, named "Actor of the Year" for his performance in "The Sundowne by the National GL YNI JOHNS Board of Review ULI I ~ll , !I Plays of Strindberg, lonesco, Synge Original works by Moonyean, with choreography by Sandra Bader, music by Alain Giraud and Gordon Mumma 'rk ord :rs" rn Fri. and Sat. 8:30 P.M. First Unitarian Church, 1917 Washtenaw Admission $1.25 DAC Members 75c Tickets on sale at Marshall's Book Shop and at the door DIA MERR SUNDAY ELIZABETH TAYLOR "Butterfield 8" 6 II TONIGHT and Tomorrow at 7 and 9 SATURDAY and SUNDAY at 7 and 9 Erich von Stroheim's I g "THE LAST R I Maria Schell's penetrating sight into the torture of divic loyalties and herrrich act ability achieve for Dr. He Reinbeck the rare film distil tinn of hceinir a fuill-bhlooded a 1,,