.0, 1921 THE MICHIGAN DAILY MAGAZINE' 7 I { me, or sending me to Trinity? It was like "Spider" Coe of Boston and Se- all of you. attle will catch a game on the fly and "From the time I was a baby you tell us about it at one of our smokers treated me as i I was something while passing through our beautiful wonderful, and now when you find out little city. A number of times we have I'm not what you thought I was you had a press wire run into Keen's Chop kick me out." Something there for House and other places, on the day of1 mothers and fathers of other "white- a big Michigan game to get the plays headed boys" to be thinking about, direct from the field as made.- It Is a distinct relief after the quite This football stuff takes me back to usual run of triangle. and society the days when I stood on the side- dramas to take up such a delightful lines, my own husky baritone ming-E and wholly charming bit as "The ling with the roar and bell of the hard-E Whiteheaded Boy." There is a light- ened rooter and the thrill pipings oft ness, a natural airiness to its style our loyal high school partisans. How which you will' find nowhere outside our souls swam on the crest of that of the school of the Irish National wave! And when it bore us victori- Theater. It is one of those noteworthy ously supperward or somewhere to efforts which carry the thoughts back celebrate-but wait-does it get you to "The Playboy" and in fact, the in- that way, you boys of Ann Arbor'. I'llE fluence of Synge can be seen in the bet a brace of football tickets it does. writing of Mr. Robinson. Finally, it And, believe me, the flavor lasts? Just demonstrates that the fineness which wait until you are out in the world infused the Abbey theater movement and someone steps up to you and says in its years of early maturity is not "Michigan!" dead, and that in the younger Iirsh Come you to New York, Young Mich- dramatics, we may still hope for new igan men, when you have cashed in and perhaps, if it be possible, even your credits; sit in with us and put better things to come. a few shots of hop into the game; you will find the latch string out, and the EXTRACTS OF HISTORY OF THE weakest word we can give you will U. OF M. CLUB OF NEW YORK be "Welcome Brothers!" (Continued From 'Page Five) THE SHORT STORY CONTEST could get enough material, and when (By G. D. E.) they came back, we got them to tell It has been called to my attention us of their work whenever they could that some possible contributors to the; be induced to do so. One of the little short story contest are refraining from things the club did was to remit the sending in stories because they haven't dues of men in the Service. In fact, access to a typewriter. it seems to us now that what we did Manuscripts in longhand are ac- was all too little, for they honored u ceptable if they are written neatly far more than we could hope to honor and legibly. Those who use type- them. writers are requested to double space What most stirs the blood of a live their manuscripts. In either case college man? Yes-you said it, broth- write on only one side of the paper. er-football! As a club, we approved If anyone has a good plot and feels the return of Michigan to the West- that he cannot do it justice I wish ern Conference, but with Penn going that he would send it in. Likely enough into the discard we miss the chance someone who is weak on plots and of seeing a Michigan classic so near strong on diction and phraesology can as Philadelphia. be found who will collaborate. Send Not many of us get to the Michigan in your plots anyway. The same at- games nowadays, but some of us do, tention will be given them as the full and occasionally one of our veterans fledged story. Sharpens Itself without removing the blade A smooth, keen edge is provided for each and every shave with the Valet AutoStrop Razor without constant blade expense. A trial will convince you. Come in and borrow a Valet AutoStrop Razor for 30 days-the trial is free and does not obligate you. An oer of this kind has never been made in connec- tion w k any other razor ad is more convincing proof of the i14 of the Valet AutoStrop Razor than any arasnuent we could present. Come i and take one with you or write at once. Calkins-Fletcher Drug Co. Some of America 's Jiagazines (Continued From Page Three) sprung up but this month in Chicago. ably the best to be found between It is perhaps, the most arresting of all magazine covers. True, the editors named. Its cover is artistic, the ar- ticles within are written by persons have a peculiar bias against free verse of promise,, the pictures with few but we must take into consideration weird exceptions, are excellent. It that the vast majority of vers libre has some remarkably good wood cuts. is fit only for the swill barrel. The The Double Dealer of New Orleans Smart Set still clings to the lyric, is something' far better than the aver- and it is my opinion that it publishes age. I predict a short life for it; it is as much good verse each month as forward looking, and entirely free from any other two magazines. the Victorian smugness that the South Occasionally the Smart Set has a re- is emerging from, it is furthermore, I lapse. For instance, the November believe, edited and managed by per- number was bad. But, strange to sons of Jewish extraction. Prejudice say, when this thing happens the will likely stamp it out on all scores. crimes are committed by the lumin- Cabell's magazine I have caught but aries, by the known writers rather a fleeting glimpse of. than by the unknown. Thus, in the The Midland is a puzzle to me. I November issue we have the worst dislike to condemn the publication on story written since 0. Henry died, that reading one issue, but the one I have is to ,say, one by Ben Hecht whose gives nothing but a trace of hope. novel, "Erik Dorn," is excellent be- Still, the two stories in it were far yond question, though chaotic in from being as bad as the stuff the spots. The story mentioned reminds average magazine turns out, Thefe one of 0. Henry at his worst, and 0. were 'such good possibilities in the Henry was none too good at best. stories, such insight, and graceful I have given too much space to the writing that I begin to wonder if the Smart Set. One would think that I editor isn't a trifle afraid of hurting were a successful contributor. In someone's feelings by making the concluding with this publication, how- stories vertebrate. The poetry in it ever, let me mention the book reviews was not worth reading. However, I in it by Mencken, without' doubt the recommend the magazine. It will be best the country affords. Mencken is interesting to watch; it may evolve approached only by Van Wyck Brooks into something worth while, highly and by Spingarn. worth while. 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