TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1961 TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, MAY is; 1961 OCAL INSTITUTIONS: Study Reveals Diversity, Continuity in India Past By GAIL EVANS - The importance of studying local institutions in India is that these studies can show the rich diver- sity in Indian history as well as give continuity to historical inte- pretations, Prof. Burton Stein of the University of Minnesota said yesterday.' Although there is a unity in In- dia through the caste system and the Brahmans, Indian culture is a "part society," he observed. The linguistic diversity and the diver- sity of India itself makes even the study of local history difficult. The peasant aspect of society is the basis of local history, which is concerned with institutions found in towns, he said. Records in Archives Records and documents of local institutions come from temple 11- braries and village' archives. From these records historians try to determine what effect these local institutions have on surrounding areas, Prof. Stein commented. In northern India chronicles are the major source materials but in southern India inscriptions on stones and metal provide most of the historical -data for the pre- Britisn period., History Begins Often studies of the economic and social history of India begin, with British colonization. But these studies present an "unreal picture of a stable agrarian so- ciety," he emphasized. "Historians must go back to the medieval setting where the in- stitutions have their roots. In poli- tical history historians can begin Fraternties To Raise Tax with the 19th Century British in- fluence. since political history was not a significant integrating forcet until this time, Prof. Stein added. The problem of periodization is important in establishing the be-< ginning of the medieval and other significant eras. Political histor-l ians perpetuate dates like 1818, which is an important date in the; spread of British power, but Prof.I Stein suggested that 1870-1880 aret more significant dates for the) modernization of India. Hectorans, Tap Twvelvel When Zeus climbed high on gold- en dawn and smiled on fates of Priams' land, He blessed pursuit at noble Hector's hand The call went forth for each to take his stand. Then all the best of Troy were brought by honor to this noble band. Those tapped were: David P. Baron, Phi Gamma Delta; Bruce M. Boardman, Phi Delta Theta; Richard K. Clark, Alpha Tau Ome- ga; Donn B. Conner, Chi Phi; Gordon L. Elicker, Beta Theta Pi; William C. Herrick, Delta Kappa Epsilon; Gayle E. King, Delta Up- silon; Michael A. Landwirth, Zeta Beta Tau; James R. Nette, Lamb- da Chi Alpha; Gregg H. Page, Sig- ma Phi Epsilon; Robert V. Peter- son, Chi Psi and Arthur L. Rosen- baum, Zeta Beta Tau. Philosopher Inves igates Social Work The ethical problem facing so- cial workers is whether they have sufficient knowledge about indi- viduals to attempt to influence the course of their lives, Prof. Arnold S. Kaufman of the philosophy de- partment said Tuesday. There are two philosophies of social work, he observed. The func- tionalists restrict aid to the spe- cific problem which the client brings to the worker. The diag- nostics believe that "social work- ers should attempt to deal with the complex problems, of which the specific problem is just a symptom." In the latter the social worker must presuppose that he has some special insight into the moral goals which the client ought to adopt; that he knows better steps toward happiness than the client. Prof. Kaufman asserted that so- cial workers interfere with a per- son's right of self-determination by trying to influence clients. "It is morally defective for a social worker to impress his moral values upon the client." "I am not denying that it is possible for one person to know what is better for another, but it is not reasonable for social work- ers to have such knowledge for all. "In government we establish protective systems to prevent tyr- anny of one person over another. However, in social work there is no way to prevent tyranny." "Social workers lack requisite knowledge," he continued. Al- though they make extensive use of psycho-analysis, social workers still do not have enough data to formulate conclusive steps to im- (Continued from Page 1) are considering other jobs. Sev- eral members of the faculty have had very attractive offers from other universities, non-profit re- search organizations and indus- try. Medicine .. . Dr. William N. Hubbard, dean of the medical school, predicted no exodus of medical school fac- ulty members as a result of the appropriations cut. Four faculty members are leav- ing this year, he said. One is go- ing to join a research institute and the others will enter private practice. More men will be joining the faculty than leaving it, he adds. Nursing... Concern about faculty attract- ing and retaining in the face of diminished chances for pay in- creases is the main problem for the nursing school, Dean Rhoda Redd says. As the school operates on a calendar-year basis, it does not Mayer To View Delhi Master Plan Architect-engineer Albert Mayer will lecture on "The Regional Mas- ter Plan for Delhi, India-A Pio- neering Effort" at 8:00 p.m. today in Rackham Amphitheater. Deans of 'U' Colleges Plan for Austerity have any indication of faculty1 turnover at this time.I Education ... The education school will have] nine additional faculty members next year, mostly financed by grants, Dean Willard C. Olson says. Two lecturers and other ap- pointments are still under con-J sideration by the Regents. "No one is leaving that we know of," Prof. Olson says. "However, some faculty members are inter-' viewing for other positions within, the University." Natural Resources... The school of natural resources operations will remain fairly sta- ble, Dean Stanley Fontanna pre- dicts. There will be no one joining or leaving the school's faculty, nor will programs for the coming year be changed. However, the school will be pressed for operation money, al- though the school does not know the extent of the cutback of funds or efficiency yet. Social Work... Concern over retaining young faculty members with future po- tential is the main problem pre- sented to the social work school. "Unless some funds for merit increases is approved, it will be- come difficult to keep the facul- ty," Dean Fenele F. Fauri said. Four professors have been ap- proached by other schools, but none has decided to leave as of yet. As the school's requests to the Legislature were for increased funds for merit raises, curriculum and enrollment are not seriously hurt by the austerity budget. Public Health. . . Public health problems now re- quire an intensified attack and the limitation to be imposed by a decreased budget is a serious threat to the school's work, Dean Myron Wegman of the public health school said. ', Plans for the coming year had included increased research on the problems of industrial health and nuitrition, but these and recruit- ing will suffer from the money cut-back. Ito To Evaluate Japanese..Writing Prof. Sei Ito of Toyko Engineer- ing University will speak on "Ways of Thinking in Modern Japanese' Literature" at 4:10 p.m. today in Aud. C. Architecture... "The most critical problem in the architecture college is a lack of space," Dean Philip Youtz says. Students are overcrowded as a re- sult of shortages in studios, lab- oratories, and office space. A cut in the school's budget will also result in curtailment of several planned programs, including an increase in exhibits and publica- tions. 'Two faculty members have re- signed to take other positions and will be replaced, leaving the fac- ulty at the same size," Dean Youtz says. however, reductions might be necessary in the teaching fel- low program. Enrollment will re- main constant in the next, year. "The school is finding opera- tions handicapped because of a lack of sufficient operating funds," Prof. Youtz said. "Our needs are not being met." Dentistry .. . Dean Paul Jesserich of the dent- istry school says he cannot com- ment on the effects of the aus- terity budget until the school has received more definite informa- tion about the amount of the school's funds. IFC, Union To Sponsor Annual Sing The Inter-fraternity Council wi l sponsor their annual sing at 7:30 p.m. today in Hill Aud. as part of the Michigan Union's Creative Arts Festival. "The Play of the Wecher" by John Heywood and "The Twin Menaichmi" by Platus will be pre- sented for the second time at 4:10 today in the Arena Theatre of the Freize Bldg. 4. NOW SHOWING GORGO Bill Travers William Sylvester Also KEY WITN ESS V I i I ENDS TONIGHT DIAL NO 8-6416 * STARTING FRIDAY PAID ADVERTISEMENT Gift eAIra presents Thursday and Friday: ON APPROVAL Saturday and Sunday BEAUTY AND THE BEAST I I U Dm ill NO 5-629 DIAL NO 5-6290 NOW Continuous Showings Come any time Today between 12:30 and 8:00 P.M. and see a complete showing. REGULAR POPULAR PRICES Fraternity President's Assembly unanimously approved an amend- ment to their constitution calling for a 50 cent increase over the present $1.00 per man head tax Tuesday night. The amendment required a three-fourths vote of the entire body for passage. Each fraternity will be assessed $1.50 by the Inter- Fraternity Council for each mem- ber and pledge starting next fall. 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U.S. age 28 Occupation, Folksinger of sorts who has toured Europe and is now closing his tour of this continent in the "cul- tural Mecca of the Midwest" in his only solo appearance of this season. BE THERE! 90C Tomorrow, UNION Ballroom 8:30 P.M. S. GoCo Cinema juild * Tonight and Friday at 7 and 9:10 Saturday and Sunday at 7 and 9 JEAN COCTEAU'S BEAUTY ONAAND THE BEAST with Bea Lillie, Clive Brooks Music by Auric, Costumes by Berard with Jean Marais, Josette Day SHORT: THE BESPOKE OVERCOAT SHORT: DOUBLE WHOOPEE, with LAUREL AND HARDY Architecture Auditorium 50 cents Sine the theatre awareness ofe most of our public goes back l only a few years, during which1 Bea Lillie has not been active' here, a brief account of the ca- reer of this inimitable come- dienne is in order. Born in Toronto in 1898, she made her way to London with her mother and her sister Muriel, famous1 as the composer of "You're Rotton to the Core, Maud." Bea's urchin - like appearance and lackadaisical mannerj caught the attention of Andre' Charlot, the impresario, whoa rescued her from third-ratea variety reviews and gave her natural talents the opportunity for improvisatory self-assertion. These are not very easy to sum- marize. She mocks the uncon- scious gestures-humming, un- mirthful laughing, fussing - that betray lack of inner con- fidence in the most common ex- changes of everyday life. Yet from this groundwork her mon- ologues send out fantastic sal- lies that build up into a pyra- mid of madness, which might crumble under its weight, but doesn't, or collapse, , if logic had a brick to throw. She could be compared to Harpo Marx; but he has great pathos, and she has not a smidgeon; and while he seems a creature from another planet, she is a skeleton from the drawing- room. Her comedy has the ef- fect of a thin blade of steel having the vapors. During the 1920's she associ- ated with the Noel Coward- Gertrude Lawrence set; Coward has written the words for doz- ens of her numbers. In 1920 she married Robert Peel, great- grandson of the prime minister; in 1925 she became Lady Peel. Her husband, who inherited the socially conscious tradition of his ancestors, formed orches- tras of miners during the bleak depression days and paid from his pocket the financially minus results of this sympathetic in- discretion. Her son, by then Lord Peel, was killed in action in World War II. The present dowager Lady Peel-for you will find Bea Lillie in Burke's Peerage -had two marriages: the one on the books, with ec- centric English nobility, and her other marriage with the theatre, which she regarded with equal loyalty. During the second world war, she worked as an entertainer for the sol- diers on the European front. She has appeared in only a few films, and in only one, On Approval, was she in a starring role. (The present generation may recall her brief appearance in the Salvation Army episode of Around the World in Eighty nave 1of tis.fim th rn-+-in essentially the work of Clivef Brook, who adapted an old F Frederick Lonsdale comedy - called, with conscious irony,c "daring and modern" and set "in grandmother's day." Queent Victoria was the ancestralt grandmother, and she herselfl would have laughed at this rib-f tickling. Clive Brook is an im-l poverished arrogant English earl; Roland Culver is hisi equally impoverished but meek friend; Googie Withers is a] statuesque blonde, an American1 pickle heiress; and Bea Lillie is a flinty Merry Widow. They leave fashionable London to, spend a period on the bleak es- tate of the widow. The comedyy of manners dissolves internally, under the strain. There is a wonderful sequence in which all, four characters dream. The lan- guage, before and after, is cor- rect and hostile. They all de- serve each other, one can say- after some striking clashes of verbal armies-but since they move with complete correctness, each side has its triumph. Time compared the film to classical ballet, "exquisitely styled"; but this shows only the American ignorance about classical ballet which Time would surely reflect in 1945. So-called classical bal- let-Coppelia, Swan Lake, La Sylphide - to mention three widely different categories-is essentially a romantic art. But Time was correct about the film's essential stylization. Many contributed to it-the ori- ginal author Lonsdale, with his sense of period; Cecil Beaton, who designed the sets and cos- tumes; Clive Brook, who not only adapted it to the screen but directed, produced, and starred in it; and as muchas others Bea Lillie, who is the most hard-grained, cross- patched frustrated Victorian fe- male on record; we should add, in modesty, filmically. This is definitely a film for the sophisticated. The short subject merits more than this brief note. Produced by Wolf Mankovitz, The Be- spoke Overcoat, based on the Gogol story, is presented in an east London setting, a Yiddish paraphrase that makes more meaningful the atmosphere of loneliness and poverty in the original. * * * Using a theme that has been kept alive in the memories and imaginations of children and adults over the centuries, and which in modern times has ap- peared again and again in such forms as King Kong and Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde, Jean Coc- teau, better known for his in- terest in Surrealism than in' Mothe r Cnnge ereated what by following comments have been extracted: "After a year of preparation and obstacles of every sort, viola! tomorrow I shoot . . . . From the run- through I am convinced that the rhythm of La Belle et Ua Bete is a narrative rhythm. I am telling a story. It's as if hidden behind the screen, I say: 'And then such and such a thing comes to pass.' The char- acters do not act as if they were living, but living a life that is being told. Perhaps this is necessary in a fairytale .. . I've been shooting in the rain, without lights, using torches, magnesium flares and fumees anglaises. No matter what it costs, I am determined to evoke the beauty which comes by ac- cident and which I love ... Marais' voice seems to me most impressive. The voice of a sick creature, an animal in pain ... Alekhan is timid. He hesitates. He does not dare to work for harsh effects in his photogra- phy. The result is a certain soft- ness that I have to correct. Everything is still too pretty. I want it rougher, with more con- trasts. I shall badger him until he comes round . . . After the projection I scold him. His mania for 'camera effects' and diffusion offends me. That's the arty way. Nothing is better than a sublimation of the documen- tary style. That's the style I want to get out of him . . Nothing seems to me duller than photographic unity in a film, a unity that the experts take for style. A film should entertain the eye with contrasts, with effects that do not try to copy nature's but seek 'that truth which Goethe. calls the opposite of reality. It is not be- cause -I am dealing with a fairy tale that I take such liberties with realism. A film is a writing in pictures, and I am trying to impart to mine an atmosphere which will correspond more to feelings than to facts .. . Once more I burn my eyelids and cheeks under the arcs. Burn upon burn. I shall pay dearly for this film ... Two mad days, near the breaking point, won- dering if anyone else ever worked at a film with such fury .. . I have finished. Which means I now begin-I begin the mon- tage . . . . This day is for the music . . . I had unconsciously made a music of my own which these waves of orchestral sound contradict. By degrees Auric tri- umphs over my discomfort. My music gives way to his. His music marries my picture, im- pregnates it, exalts it, com- pletes it . . .. Yesterday ,I pre- snted it (the film) in the nro- 'M I I 4 -p ~f ~ rA *__Under the floodlights-They dared Fg the most terrifying perils on Earth! -_____In the backstage shadows- they faced the deadlier violence Sof their own passions! "' MffADANA M JIM . .: ;::