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THE MICHIGAN DAILY

FOR' BOATREGATTAR
Friday and Saturday, June S and 9,
Date Set for Annual
Boat Club Affair
PICK SAFETY PLAN MANAGER
Seeking' to avoid the wet season
which hindered the success of the
1915 regatta, the Boat club has set
Friday and Saturday, June 9 and 10,
as the dates for this annual event, the
time being nearly a month later than
that of a year ago. H. G. Muzzy, '17,
third ensign of the Boat club, has
been selected as general chairman for
the regatta.
The financing of the regatta will be
left almost entirely to funds to be
secured from a series of dances, the
first of which will be held on March
31 in the gymnasium. The only other
source of funds is the tag sale on the
day of the regatta. From these two
means, the Boat club expects to be
able to meet expenses.
The action of the Student Council in
giving to the Michigan Boat club the
complete control of all plans for the
safeguarding of the Huron, has pleased
the officers of the club immensely, for
they have been seeking just this work,
inasmuch as it is in direct line with
the entire work of the organization.
Robert W. Collins, '17E, was offered
the managership of this work, but he
accepted it oil behalf of the club, and
they will attend to the managing of
the policing, the placing of the pulmo-
tors, donated by the Michigan Edison
company, the care of the two telephone
lines constructed along the river, an
the housiug of the life, boats. Thc
Michigan Edison company made offers
of co-operation with the Student Coun-
cil to make the Huron safe, and the
Bo-at club will act as the campus's rep-
resentatives.
In addition to this amount of safety
material already subscribed, the Boat
club is getting under way a campaign
to secure from every honorary frater-
nity and sectional club upon the cam-
pus one life preserver, which will be
marked with the name of the donor7
and will be numbered according to the-
time it is given. Two societies have
pledged themselves to furnish these1
preservers already, and the rest are
expected to come through soon.
One of the biggest features of theI

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MENAECHMI CAST
FINALLY .PICKED
Pinney and Wilner Take Prominent
Part in Classical Club's Latest
Production
,LL OF ROLES TAKEN BY MEN
Selections for the cast of "Menaech-
ai," the Classical club's play, which
. to be given March 30 in University
hall,,have been definitely decided upon,
and include a number of names woll-
known in campus theatrical prod ?-
tions. Earl Pinney, '16, Michigan
present premier orator, who starred as
"Manson" in the Oratorical associa-
tion's 1916 play, "The Servant in the
House," takes the part of "Prologus"
in the Latin drama. Charles F. Wil-'
nor, '19, Who also was in the cast
of the oratorical play in the role of
"Robert," carries the part of "Ancilla,"
or the maid, in the coming production.
All of the roles, female as well as
male, are to be taken by men, as was
the practice in the Roman theater.
Special attention is being given to the
costuming and staging in order to pro-
duce as nearly as possible an histori-
cally correct presentation.
The cast is as follows:
Earl Pinney ................. Prologus
Rollin C. Hunter, '17 ...............
Menaechmus Soscicles
Harold R9Roehm, '18....Menaechmus
John B. Barker, '16 .......... Matrona
Charles Wilner, '19. . . .Ancilla (maid),
George D. Wilner, '17.....Peniculus
George Robbert, '16........... Senex
Ralph K. Carson, '17........Messenio
Henry G. Hoch '19. Medicus (physician)
Lewis P. Waldo, '18. ......Erotium
Maurice S. Tolochko, '19 ..........
Cylindrus (cook)
Lyudon's for kodaks, films, finish-
ings Open Sundays, 9:30 to 4:30 only.

:oming regatta will be a float parade,
imilar to the one attempted last year,
ut on a much larger scale. Every
raternity, honorary society, and see-
ional club will be asked to prepare a
oat for the parade, and Staats
Abrams, '17E, who is in charge of
Iis part of the program, is quite en-
husiastic over the favorable manner
rith which all treat it. He looks for
good representation.
There will be a meeting of all canoe-
ts in the university within a short
.me, when plans will be discussed and
uggestions made for this part of the
egatta program.
GLOVES
)r men, best known makes at reason.
ble prices, on sale bNy . F. Allen &
'., Main street. wed-eod
CLOTHING
rom the Rouse of Kuppenheimer on
ale by W. F. Allen & Co., Main
reat. wed-oed

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BOOKS WRTH EAING
Self-Helps for the Citizen Soldier.-
By Capt. Jas. A. Moss and Capt. M.
B. Stewart, United States Arny.-
Menasha, Wisconsin: George Banta
Publishing Co. $1.25.
Coming at a time when prepared-
ness is using up large quantities of
editorial ink, this addition to the flood
of military information can hardly fail
of a good sale.
The book will meet the popular de-
mand for an expose of the every day
life and needs of a soldier, and the
layman who wants a simple explana-
tion of the pleasures and pains which
he will encounter when he goes to his
summer military camp this season will
nd it interesting and instructive. The
diction is clear and unassuming. The
type is heavy and the book is bound
in a rough cloth and printed on a
glazed paper that will stand a great
deal of rough handling. This is fore-
sight on the part of those responsible
for it, since it is really a text and ref-
erence book.
The authors might have enhanced its
value had they been satisfied to leave
it a straight text and left out the
propaganda and the absurd pen and
ink illustrations which are scattered
through the first few pages.
L. S. T.
"What does all this advertising
about 'Go to Church Sunday' mean?"
asked one of the students as he no-
ticed a placard in a store window.
Then he added, "For my part, I don't
need an organization to help me in my
religious life," and having delivered
this parting shot, he meandered along
on his way to the campus for his 11:00
o'clock class, without a thought of the;
part that organization had played in
his daily routine, eating, buying, and
studying. Each activity could be car-
ried on without the added machinery
of boarding house, store or university,
but he accepts the organizations be-
cause on the whole they contribute to
our effectiveness.
Many a man has lived a religious
life without the church, but the ma-
jority of Christians have found the
need of some organization to bind them
together for mutual benefit and serv-
ice. In our economic life the middle-
man is an accepted factor and we sel-
dom think of protesting against a link
in the chain which to some may seem
unnecessary. The church stands today
a;i the great instrument through which
many men have found adequate ex-
pression for their religious faith and
because it satisfies a real need the
institution lives.
No organization of the church has
the promise of existing forever, apart
from its usefulness to Christians, and
only so long as the church nerves its
high purpose will it live. Many Chris-
tians are willing to confess that the
church has its faults, but it is the best
instrument that we possess to promote
the religious life, and today it is com-
manding the allegiance of more men
than ever before in its history.
Answers to Correspondents
Mr. J.-To answer your letter ade-
quately would take more space than
we have at our disposal. If you will
send me your address in care of The
Daily, I Will be glad to write you fully

THE PIT
"Black as the Pit
From Pole to Pole"
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
I am dying, Egypt,.dying!
Ebbs the crimson life-tide fast,
And the dark Plutonian shadows
Gather on the evening blast;
Let thine arm,b Queen, enfold me,
Hush thy sobs and bow thine ear,
Listen to the great heart secrets
Thou, and thou alone, must hear.
And for thee, star-eyed Egyptian-
Glorious sorceress of the Nile!
Light the path to Stygian horrors,
With the splendor of thy smile;
Give the Caesar crowns and arches,
Let his brow the laurel twine:
I can scorn the senate's triumphs,
Triumphing in love like thine.
I am dying, Egypt, dying!
Hark! the insulting foeman's cry;
They are coming-quick, my falchion!
Let me front them ere I die.
Ah, no more amid the battle
Shall my heart exulting swell;
Isis and Osiris guard thee-
Cleopatra-Rome-farewell!
W. H. Lytle.
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SPRING HAS COME!!
If you don't believe it, please notice
that the Huron River Boat Livery is
advertising.
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AND THIS FROM TEXAS
"The University is planning to adopt
a course in domestic science for men."
Traditionally, they should perforate
the pie with a six-shooter-but flying
hot grease would raise havoc with the
hair on their arms.
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WORSE AND WORSE
"How to handle the college boy" is
:he subject of an article in the March
issue of the Ladies' Home Journal,
written by Dean Vaughan, of the Medi-
cal School. As head of the medical de-
partment, he ought to be able to give
valuable advice as to the proper time
to feed, etc.
IS HE MARRIED?
And then, couple of columns over,
we see . that "Carranza Refuses t o
Talk." He should learn how to say,
'Gott ist mit uns."
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ALAS!
low doth the busy little bee,
Improve each shining hour?
We could find a rhyme
For this last line,
But we're scared it might be sour.
WRONG AGAIN
No, Willie, they are not called "over-
flow dances" because they are held on
Saturday nights, and part of the crowd
gathers after ten. Or is that too
subtle?
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ARTISTIC.
We understand that in keeping with
the black and white color scheme at
the B. V. D. Dance they procured a
black gentleman orchestra. , And the
men-not to be outdone, finished up
.vith white on the right lapels of their
coats.
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HELP!
We understand that the Gargoyle is
again allowing the ladies to put out
an issue. Which, you know, only leads

up to the point. We throw open this
column to any woman or women that
wish to run it a weekofrom today-
being Sunday, March 19. Is there any-
body in the audience that has a watch
-or wishes to take the job?
Is that a fatal step?
--By Gee.

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AT THE THEATERS
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*Ma e6tic--sdamnUe Ryan, Ruth
Blair and Clifford Bruce in "The
Fourth Fstate," Fox Feature.
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Orpheum--M argueride ('ark in
* "Iice and Men." ,veilIng liw.
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Forbes-Robertson's leminisceiies
Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson.
whose farewell 'appearance at the
Whitney theater March 22 is awaited
with so many pleasurable anticipations
of past triumphs, has given a corres-
pondent some interesting reminiscen-
ces of his career.
"My first visit to America was made
25 years ago, when I came over to
be leading man for Mary Anderson.
What a wonderful woman she was!
I do not think the void she left when
she retired from the stage has ever
been filled. Miss Anderson had a
great classic intuition and the decla-
matory sense-so rare in these days
with actresses. She was one of the
most intelligent and cultured women.
I ever met. She was always study-
ing.
"She was very beautiful and had a
most charming personality. Combin-
ing so many remarkable qualities, her

sUccess was not, surprising."
Although it is not generally known,
Forbes-Robertson and Madame Mod-
jeska inaugurated the custom of pre-
senting Shakespeare out of doors, now
so much in vogue in England and
America,.
Of his old days at the Lyceum thea-
ter in London with the late Sir Henry
Irving, Forb(es-Robertson tells many
interesting anecdotes. Amongst others
i, one of William Terriss, physically
the handsomest actor of his day.
"Irving was very fond of Bill Ter-
miss and was mightily amused by the
imCOnscions impertinence with which
Terriss treated him. Irving had a
r 1 room (called the Beef Steak club)
ust 'l the stage near his own dress-
ing o,. One night Terriss smelt
e samry odor 01 appetizing cooking.
'l inc smell that, Guv'nor!' said Ter-
ri; to Irving during a wait in the
wings. 'ies, very good,' agreed Irv-
ing, and added, 'You must come along
some time and have supper with me,
my boy!' 'Nothing 'would please me
(1A -r, 0uvr'nor,' said Terriss, to which
Irving replied, Well, when would you
like to come?' 'Tonight,' responded
Terriss promptly. Irving was delight-
ed with the business-like acceptance of
his invitation."
At the laqestic
Another one of those clever "Keith
Big Time" bills will be the drawing
magnet at the Majestic starting Mon-
Qty night. It is a bill especially se-
lected to please and there is no con-
tietion in the acts.
Really high class music has its par-
ticular niche on every vaudeville bill,
and acts of the class of Countess Van
Dorman and Company are thus doubly
welcome. Three women and one man
take part in the oifering, presenting a
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Forbes Robertson, at the Whitney The atre, Wlmnesda y, March 22, Matinee
and Ev e)Iing.

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