THE MICHIGAN DAILY u THiMC+n..l~lY' To Present 'The Living 4 0oom'ELECTRONIC MUSIC: "The Living Room," a modern Panel Dbmiscu melodrama by Graham Greene about a young woman who moves (Continued from Page 1) in with her two maiden aunts and her invalid priest-uncle, will be "Electronic music is progress presented by the University play- technologically speaking, if it is ers at 8 p.m. today through Satur- progress musically speaking we day at the Lydia Mendelssohn will have to wait and see; but it Theatre. is here to stay so we may as well RoseJs' installed in the living learn to live with it," Haas said room when she comes to stay with in response to a question from the - .. audience. sses Problems of Creation. s S e t .1 3 e ier relatives after her mother's death. The rest of the old brown- stone has been superstitiously sealed off by her elderly aunts. Each time a death occurs in the house, the death room disappears, until the only "living" room left is a former nursery. All life centers around this room, and it is here that Rose searches for a way to live, to build a future for herself. In love with a married man, she soon finds secretive meet- ings and the thought of sharing his love with his wife intolerable. Estranged from her relatives, isolated from the world, Rose must face her dilemma alone in "The Living Room" In discussion the value of the appointment of August Heckscher as White House cultural coordina- tor, Haas said it shows tremen- dous progress. He pointed out that we don't accept government sub- sidy but we need and welcome such government encouragement. It does not mean that bureaucracy will set in upon the arts. Prof. Steinhoff and Prof. Schnit- zer informally debated the neces- sity of suffering in the creative process. Prof. Steinhoff said that speaking of a contented artist is a contradiction in terms, while Prof. Schnitzer believes that great art doesn't depend on "starving in a garret." Pearls Irritated Prof. Steinhoff said, "Even in making those cultured pearls they open the contented oysters andl insert a grain of sand to irritate so that the object of beauty can be produced." He believes that great things are created out of suffering, -as if by the pain the artist earns the right' to the creative joys. Television's value can be ex- ploited for cultural uses, Prof. Steinhoff said, after all they can't kill Shakespeare even if TV is packaged and sold like corn flakes with as much intrinsic value and taste, he said. Space Edifices Johe noted that the umbilical cord holding buildings to the ground has been cut, "we are now building buildings in space, John Glenn was in a building." The next event in the Creative Arts Festival will be a debate be- tween the University and Wayne State University debating teams on: "Are inter-collegiate Athletics Being Overemphasized," at 4 p.m. today in Rm. 3R-8 of the Union. -Daily-Larry Vanice A "LIVING" ROOM-This is the room in "The Living Room," currently at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre and presented by the University Players where a young girl seeks life surrounded by death. The play runs through Saturday. QUANTUM THEORY: Lanezos Cites Relativity As Physics Research Aid Cf a TODAY! By DONNA ROBINSON Prof. Cornelius Lanczos, of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, said that Einstein's gen- eral theory of relativity solved the problem of gravitation, but that there are many fields still unex-' plained. He believed that it could be ap- plied td electricity, quantum theory and other problems. Currently giving a series of six lectures on the place of Albert Einstein in the history of physics, Prof. Lanczos said, "It is my con- viction that the pursuance of Ein- stein's ideas will produce a com- plete unification of science." Related Fields Einstein himself believed this explicitly. He spent the last twenty-five years of his life at- tempting to ,carry the general theory of relativity beyond gravi- CED Appoints Steigerwalt As Consultant Prof. Albert K. Steigerwalt of' the business school and recently appointed consultant to the Com- mittee on Economic Development is preparing a paper on Venezula's economic development. His paper is a part of CED's study of the Caribbean area. CED is an association of American businessmen who are interested in public policies and business co- operation, Prof. Steigerwalt ex- plained that CED hopes to en- courage private effort to compli- ment the government's Alliance for Progress program. Prof. Steigerwalt plans to an- alyze the major constituents of the Venezulean economy and try to discover its trends and relationship to the Caribbean area. Such things as capital accumulation, stability of the currency and the nature of exports and imports will be ex- amined. For example, until the last few years Venezula was an im- porter of finished manufactured goods from Europe but has slowly been developing its own industry. Prof. Steigerwalt also heads an annual seminar in economics and business for students and faculty f r o m Venezuelan universities which attempt to acquaint the structure of the U.S. economy. Through these papers, Einstein, tation and apply it to other fields. Prof. Lanczos began publishing papers on relativity in 1922. then director of the Kaiser Wil- helm Institute in Berlin, became interested in him. Prof. Lanczos then spent one year in 1928-29 working on relativity as a research associate of Einstein. Prof. Lanczos came to the United States in 1931 and remain- ed until 1953. During that time he worked at Purdue University, the National Bureau of Standards' Institute for Numerical Analysis and an aircraft manufacturing company. Dublin Institute In 1954, wishing to return to the study of pure theoretical physics, Prof. Lanczos accepted a position as senior professor at the Dublin Institute, where he has remained ever since. This institute, devoted'entirely to research, is unique, he explain- ed. The only other institutions of its nature are the Princeton In- stitute for Advanced Studies, after which the Dublin Institute is mod- eled, and the Kaiser .Wilhelm In- stitute, and these two operate on a much larger scale than the Dublin Institute. The six "scholars" who are members of the institute work entirely alone on their own re- search. The Institute is govern- ment supported, and the scholars have no obligations to complete specific projects or contracts. The main advantage involved in the very small size of the Institute is the absence of extensive admin- istrative duties which would take time from research, Dr. Lanczos said. Prof. Lanczos said he plans to spend the rest of his life at the Institute studying the application of Einstein's theory of general relativity. The third lecture in his' cur- rent series will be given in Aud. A at 4 p.m. today. The subject will be "The Unification of Space and Time by Einstein and Minkowski." SKI ASPEN Spring Vacailon with ULLR SKI CLUB Last chance to sign up Wed., March 21 7:30 3rd floor Union II PIlin to Vote c R E A T 1 Y E A R T S F E S T 1 Y A L faculty poets Michigan Union and English Department Present Poetr Reading four X. J. KENNEDY J. R. SQUIRES D. HALL will read their. works Today! 8:00 i the Union Ballroom l 11 WRITE-IN Lawrence MEYER No. 1 for SGC TONIGH4T at 8 at HILLEL EUGENE I. SCHUSTER, Instructor Eastern Michigan University presents the fourth lecture illustrated in the Series "An Inquiry into The Jew In Western Civilization" on the subject "JEWISH ARTISTS UNDER A ,CURSE?" Open to All 1429 Hill St. I I S OPENING TONIGHT 8:00 Mendelssohn Theatre Graham Greene's exciting drama THE LIVING ROOM"t PFFOPAAAKICFR THROiGH SATIURDAY TONIIGHT at 7:30 in the League Ballroom I II A w I I