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Sunday, April 2, 1972

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To the Arts Editor:
Although I am one of those who
are excluded from enjoyment of
the Spanish plays because of not
knowing Spanish, I strongly dis-
agree with the sentiment expres-
sad by your reviewer In the March
23 issue, who wonders "why the
Spanish department doesn't give
one performance of these annual
productions in English?" I have
not the slightest objection, in prIn-
ciple, to the performance of plays
translated from other languages,
which enrich our repertory just as
plays translated from English en-
rich the repertory of many coun-
tries where English itself is a
foreign language. But when a lang-
uage department puts on a play In
the original language, the central
purpose is precisely- to give stu-
dents of that language and other
interested persons the otherwise
virtually nonexistent opportunity
to experience the play in its ori-
ginal text, and to give the mem-
bers of the cast the valuable ex-
perience of rehearsing and per-
forming in the language which for
most of them is a subject of
study, though not necessarily their
major. My own participation in
French and German plays as a
student, and in one German play
and several dramatic readngs
since joining the U of M faculty,
has been so rewarding to me per-
sonally that I am keenly aware of
how much such an experience can
mean to the present generation of
students.
I realize that your reviewer did
not suggest that performances in
Spanish (and, by inference, in oth-
er toreign languages) be abandon-
ed, but only that there be an ad-
ditional performance in English
for those who do not understand
the original. This shows , little
awareness of how many additional
hours of preparation, especially on
the part of the cast, would be re-
quired for that one English per-
formance.
There is plenty of opportunity on
this campus to see excellent per-
f rmances of drama in English,
both original andrtrnslated. .t
the same time, there are people
on campus, in the Ann Arbor com-
munity, and in the high schools
and universities in the surround-
ing area, for whom the plays per-
formed in the original languages
by the various U of M foreign
language departments ore wel-
come and exciting events. Though
they constitute a minority of the
total theater-going public, their
numbers are by no means as neg-
ligible as your reviewer seems to
think.
-Mary C. Crichton
Associate Professor
of German
To the Arts Editor:
If I roused myself to write to
you every time I found some-
thing in your newspaper t h a. t
annoyed or astounded me, my life
would be one long letter-to-the-
editor. owever, I can resnran
myself no longer and must com-
ment on some of the more recent
film reviews. Last week I nearly
choked over breakfast while read-
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opinion that Bette Davis had nc
acting talent. Has he sen "Jeze.
bel" or any of her '30's movi s?
Perhaps he prefers Ruby Keeler
And today Peter Munsing informs
his jaded readers that "Ro o i
Service" is better than some Mars
Brothers' movies because it at
least has none of that usual "lon
musical interludes . . .,more cam:
than good humor". hoes he care
that the Marx Brothers were mu-
-sicians in Vaudeville before they
were comedians? These scenes, are,
however, of much more than aca-
demic interest - aside from be.
ing lovely music, they are unadul-
terated fun. I +enjoy them tre.
mendously. They are an integral
part of the very unique whole
which is a Marx Brothers' film
Munsing (as well as others who
for some reason feel compelled toe
heckle at these scenes) should sit
back and flow into the spirit of the
movie. The musical numbers are
filled with the most gentle good
humor, which contrasts perfect-
ly, to my way of thinking, with
the fast-paced, sharper inter-
changes between the brothers. I
cringe every time someone heck-
les and breaks the spell.
Part of the problem is your ap-
proach to the reviewing process
-itself. Why should a reviewer have
"a basic knowledge of film (from
Ingmar Bergman to Albert Zug-
smith)" (Mar. 31)? Why not have
critiques written by people who
have a particular interest in,
knowledge of, and sympathy for
the genre they write about? May-
be then I won't have to choke over
breakfast so often.
-Monica Carver
To the Arts. Editor:
The Michigan Daily for Sunday,
March 19, inadvertently printed
last year's advertisement for the
Professional Theater Program. I
find the accident has provided us
with an eloquent statement aboul
the nature of the program t h a t
P.T.P. supports in the P o w e r
Center for the Performing Arts.
P.T.P. offers the community plays
with exchangeable titles by anony-
mous authors and claims that the
University of Michigan "proudly
presents five brilliant plays' Be-
fore the Power Center was built,
these mediocre efforts were pre-
sented in a concert hall complete.
ly unsuitable for theater, but those
were the years of the most ambi-
tious A.P.A. productions, and they
easily overshadowed whatever the
variations of Butterflies Are Free
and Last of the Red Hot Lovers
were then called.
But now that we have a new
theater P.T.P. offers nothing o
consequence to put intonit.
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Fortunately the University Play-
ers do know what to do with a
new theatre. (Our students and
their directors also know for that
matter how to take good adva t-
age of the facilities of the Lyd'a
Mendelssohn and Trueblood Thea-
ters.) The University Players' pro-
duction of Shaw's Caesar and Cleo-
patra was an altogether fitting
premiere for the Power Center,
and the forthcoming producticn of
Arthur Kopit's Indians, which will
Olose the season in the P o w e r'
Center, indicates something of the
range that worthwhile theater on:
a university campus ought to of-
fer.
--Werner Grilk
Germanic Languages and
Literatures
To the Arts Editor:
The Daily has done it again:
How can you print three re-
views of the Ann Arbor Film
Festival.when not one of the re-
viewers saw all the films? How
can you judge the Ann Arbor
Festival on the basis of only
seeing the winners?
Talk to someone who saw all
the festival. Ask them about a
film like Winter Soldier, ask
them about Pamela and Ian.
Ask them about some other
neglected movies, like Choice
Chance Woman Dance, Opera-
toritis, Krassner, Norman Be-
loved Husband of Irma. Didathe
Daily mention anything about
some of the weird films liker
Pornogra Follies or Near the Big
Chakra or Free Gingival Graft!?
How can The Daily talk about a
film festival when they weren't
even there? What did The Daily
say about Pat Oleszko?
And the directors - did The
Daily know that Andrew Lugg
was a past judge at the festival?
Did The Daily know that Rich-
ard Myers has won in the past?
Did The Daily mention anything
about how unusual it was that
many of the winners were made
up of films by directors
who had won in the past? How
can The Daily pass judgement
on a good festival with judgesI
who defeat the purpose of a fes-
tival of independent director by
giving special consideration to
established directors like Morley
Markson, Richard Myers, and
Scott Bartlett?
For unusual incompetent1
journalism, the whole Daily
staff should be sentenced to
watch Pear I, Pear II, and Fig
in one sitting.
-Richard Gans

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Hopwood Awards Lecture
CAROLINE 'GORDON,
Novelist and Critic,
Winner of the O.Henry Memorial Award
"THE SHAPE OF THE RIVER"
RACKHAM LECTURE HALL
Wednesday, April 5, al 8:00 PM.
The Hopwood Awards in Writing
will be presented after the lecture

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On the first day of the Black Action Movement strike, a BAM
representative asked my Chemistry 346 class for permission to speak for
a few minutes. He received it and urged them to go on strike. Only three
or four of the forty in the class chose to strike. The others chose to remain
in class. I honored a student-made decision and held classes. The next
meeting of the class was broken up by a group of about a dozen strikers.
A similar incident occurred in the laboratory the next day. A larger num-
ber of strikers were involved. Subsequently, BAM leaders issued instruc-
tions to their followers to stop disrupting classes.
Because disruption of any voluntary assembly is a serious matter,
I brought charges against one student involved in each incident. Most
students in the class supported this action and several volunteered to act
as witnesses. One student was found guilty of class disruption by the
business administration school student-faculty judiciary. He was put on
social probation for the summer 1970 term. The other student had his
disruption charge brought before a University-appointed hearing officer.
The case was not resolved and I later dropped charges.
It is difficult to bring charges against people in a situation like
the BAM strike. I supported the aims of the strike and sympathized greatly
with the strikers. However, when tactics shift from voluntary participation
to disruption, the issue changes. One must weigh sympathy for the strikers
against violation of a basic principle of democracy, freedom of assembly.
If BAM supporters can break up classes, then supporters of classified
research can do the same thing. If we tolerate for a good couse the disrup-
tion of peaceful, legal meetings, then we have no protection for any
meeting. That is a serious issue. That is the real issue.
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