I I PAGE TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, JANUARY-26, 1964 PAGE TWO TUE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 1964 ARTS AND LETTERS: Nomura Describes No, Kyogen Drama By GAIL BLUMBERG The culture of Japan is rich in traditional dramatic forms; No and Kyogen are two of the oldest of these, Manzo Nomura, master of the Kyogen art form, said re- THIS WEEK'S EVENTS MANZO NOMURA REGENTS: Music School Completi on Arnounced The new music school on North Campus has been completed, Vice- President for Business and Fi- nance Wilbur K. Pierpont told the Regents at their monthly meeting Friday. The school is preparing to move into the new facility during the next few months with possible scheduling of classes there this summer and complete transfer set for next fall, he indicated. The museums building additionj is also rapidly being completedj and will be ready for occupancyj next month or in March. The Regents also approved re- quirements for a second B.S.E. de- gree in the engineering college. Under the new policy students will need 14 additional credit hours to receive the second degree instead of the present eight. cently. The No drama is of a lyric, serious quality which relies upon poetry and literary sources, often presenting a tragic theme, he ex- plained. Kyogen, Nomura continued, is mainly of a lighter vain. It often handles human situations and their relations to the themes pre- sented in the No drama. Thus, he added, the tone is often hum- orous. Comic Interlude The Kyogen are used as a comic interlude much in the same way that the Greek drama use the Satyr plays to act as a diversion between their tragedies, Nomura noted. Although Kyogen is first a dra- matic form, a strong element of singing and dancing is woven into the plot, he remarked. The dramatic forms that Kyo- gen players work with was formu- lated in the 13th and 14th cen- turies, although they are presented in the polished form to which they had evolved in Tokyo by 1603, Nomura explained. The Shogun rule of Japan had heavily supported the No and. Kyogen, at which time they grew and flourished. In 1867, with the restoration of the emperor, these dramas were dropped from favor. Following the second world war, there was a tremendous upsurge in their popularity, due mainly to the American interest in Japan and its culture. This interest has been the strongest factor in their revival within Japan itself, No- mura commented. Many of the restored No and Kyogen performances were de- veloped for the American occupa- tion forces, where the Japanese saw them for the first time. Carver of Masks Manzo Nomura is also an expert mask carver and does most of his own work. The masks, he explains, are used in the No drama and for supernatural characters in the Kyogen roles. The tilting of a mask, exposing a different angle, can change the expression upon the face of the mask, he said; and he displayed a mask which changed from the leer of a devil to the comedy mask grin. CAMPUS OPINION Smoking Report: Disturbed? t 3 j ' : 3 1 I, 11 , Monday, Jan. 27 NOON-5 p.m.-Individual tickets for the Inter-Quadrangle Council and Assembly Association presen- tation Saturday of comedian Dick Gregory will go on sale at the Hill Aud, box office. Tuesday, Jan. 28 3:30 p.m.-Wolf Von Eckardt, free-lance architectural writer and critic, will speak on "The South-West Washington, D.C. Re- newal Program" in the Architec- ture Aud. 4:15 p.m.-Prof. Albert Ban- dura of Stanford University will speak on "Behavioral Psychother- apy" in Aud. A. 7:30 p.m.-The International Students Association will present a lecture and discussion program on "The Political Image of the United States" in Aud. A as part of their spring cultural series. Wednesday, Jan. 29 7:30 p.m.-The International' Students Association will present a lecture and discussion program on "The Cultural Image of the United States" in the Multipurpose Rm. of the UGLI as part of their spring cultural series on "Inter- national Image." 8 p.m.-Prof. Louis L. Orlin of the Near East history and litera- ture department will speak on "Palestine in the Last Centuries Before Christ" at the B'nai Brith Hillel Foundation as a part of a lecture series on "The Jews and Jesus." 8:30 p.m.-The University Choir, conducted by Prof. Maynard Klein of 'the music school, assisted by instrumentalists from the music school faculty, will present an evening of "Music for Choral and Instrumental Ensembles" as the opening program of the "Con- temporary Music Festival" in Rackham Aud. The Festival will include five concerts from Jan. 29 to Feb. 7. The opening pro- gram will include works by Sven- Erik Back, Igor Stravinsky and Ralph Shapey. Thursday, Jan. 30 4 p.m.-Prof. Richard W. Jones of Northwestern University will speak on "Homeostasis Feedback or Adaptation?" in Rm. 311 of the West Engineering Bldg. 4:10 p.m.-Prof. Roman Jakob- son of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology will speak on "Slavik Pro- sodic Pattern and its Evolution" in Aud. A. 4:15 p.m.-Prof. E. Cary Brown of the University of Chicago will speak on "Empirical Research in Public Finance and Its Implica- tions for Fiscal Policy" in rm. 101 of the Economics Bldg. 8 p.m.-The Ann Arbor Civic Theatre will present Shelagh De- laney's "A Taste of Honey" in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. 8 p.m.-Mark S. Massel of the Brookings Institution in Washing- ton D.C. will speak on "Legal and Economic Problems of Regulatory Administration" in the East Con- ference Rm. of Rackham. A coffee hour will follow. 8:30 p.m.-The University Mu- sical Society will present the Mazowsze Dance Company in H1l Aud. as the eighth program in the Choral Union series. Friday, Jan. 31 8 p.m.-The Ann Arbor Civic Theatre will present Shelagh De- laney's "A Taste of Honey" in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. Saturday, Feb. 1. 8 p.m.-The Ann Arbor Civic Theatre will present Shelagh De- laney's "A Taste of Honey" in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. 8:30 p.m.-Ernst Krenek, guest composer and lecturer, will pre- sent a program on "Measured Order-Unmeasured Chance" as the second concert of the music school's Festival of Contemporary Music. Janice Harsanyi, soprano, and the Stanley Quartet will also be heard in the program. : I (EDITOR'S NOTE: Standing in a cloud of smoke,. two Daily interviewers, using unscientific methods of surveying, polled students in the Fishbowl and East Medical Bldg. The question: "Do you think the gov- vernment report has affected the smoking habits of you or your friends?" By MARJORIE BRAHMS Associate Editorial Director and GAIL EVANS Associate City Editor Has the smoking report scared you? Some students, when asked this question, shrug- ged noncommittedly; others, a little more agitated, replied that they were shaking the habit as soon as "my first exam is over"; others, standing firm in the face of government collected data, said they will keep on smoking. Elmer White, '64L, sitting at the Young Demo- crats recruiting table in the Fishbowl, said, "The report hasn't affected me. Smokers knew before, even if not statistically, that it hurt them. The report is like the situation of a woman who knows she is pregnant, going to the doctor and finding it out from him. As a matter of fact," White continued, "I was going to quit when I heard that Gov. Romney and Barry Goldwater don't smoke. But then I heard that Hitler didn't smoke either, so maybe there's a certain personality trait of those who don't smoke that I don't want." At East Med, Jay Cranston, freshman in medical school who has been smoking one pack of filter cigarettes a day for five years, commented, "The statistics are not enough to make me stop smoking. After all, the percentage of physicians dying of heart attacks before the age of 6Q far exceeds the percentage dying from lung cancer." He added, "I am not convinced the detriments of smoking out- weigh the pleasures." ,. Interfraternity Council President Clifford Taylor, '64, who had stopped in the Fishbowl to check on rush registration, said he has been thinking about giving up smoking "because it kills you." Dennis Schneider, '65, said "If you're going to die,' you're going to die. Thirty years from now, when smoking will affect you, there'll be a cure for cancer. If you play the averages, then it's smwirt to quit." He- added he had cut down a little. A freshman in medical school, a long-time smoker, said he is trying to cut down. "It might become a trend for doctors not to smoke. The professors here are urging students to give up smoking," he noted. He admitted that he felt some shortness of breath; but he said he is not as worried about what happens when you keep smok- ing as he is about what happens when you stop. Jean Turkish, a freshman in medical school, said she found the report "frightening, especially the data about the doubly high mortality rate for smokers who begin as teenagers." She found the smoking report compiled by the British government two years ago to be vaguer than the United States report, the latter she called "bolder, more straight- forward and with more evidence." Another medical school freshman, Leroy Vernon, said he has cut down from 22 to 12 cigarettes a day. He puts cigarettes in bunches of 12, wraps each bunch in tin foil and takes only one pack a day. He has cut down because of "the knowledge that there's a link between smoking and cancer." Daniel Syme, '67, smokes a pack a day and has been smoking for two years. He stopped for one week after he'read the report. "The pressures of the University keep me smoking," he said. Richard Streb, a freshman medical student, called the statistics "loaded." The report did not really give the percentages in the general population for lung cancer, he said. Joel Whetstone, '67, said he had just quit that day and he thinks it will last. He had been intending to quit for the past two weeks and after he finished his last pack, he finally did. Meanwhile, at East Med, two students debated the merits of smoking. "It's unnatural to smoke," one said. "It's unnatural to wear clothes, too," the other retorted. A TASTE of HONEY Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre JAN. 30-FEB: 1 Box Office Opens Tomorrow at 10:00 A.M. Get Your TICKETS Get Your DATE! _u 4 "rJ :""".i": r::: n"rr: