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SStudy of the Motion Picture
(By William M. Randall)
"During' the past ten years a new
medium has been added to the reper-
toire of art's interpreters. We have
long: had the five great fields of artis-
tic endeavor: Literature, The Drama,
Painting, Sculpture, and Music. With
the-. advent of' the- Motion.- Picture, a
sixth -has appeared. Unfortunately
for the form itself and. for the race of
ma'n, the" artists.do not know of it.
And -so we have the astounding and
sdirrow'provoking spectacle of a great
opportunity for wonderful accomplish-
ments going to waste. The Motion
Pieture is a man fallen among thieves;
it -is waiting- for its Good Samaritan.
Of course, it .is true that the so-
called prostitution of art is no- new
thing. We find it in every artistic field
-in the trashy novels and the trashy
Theatre in'New York as "one of the
chorus" and later as a dancer. She
-was never, observe, an actress. And'
yet we find her starring in the movies.
And-I for one, do not recall that she
ever played minor roles; that she ever
served an apprenticeship in her art.
She,-was~"discovered" over night. Non-
sense! She always'had whit appeals
to the people who see her. today. It-
wa' her sex and- her ability to play it
up that got her on at'the'wNew Am-'
sterdam.
Thi, then, is- our - staraa dancer
whose- appeal is 'distinctlysensual.
She is introduced to us in theplc-
ture -as- Lily, the cabaret girl. She
comes d'ancing' into the middle of- the'
spotlight in as little'as -will get by
the censors, an'd continues - to dance
for a few'feet of'film. So far, so-good.
poor supporting cast, who have to
Sscurry around and- scrape together a
semblance of a plot to give Mae an ex-
cuse to be charming. The plot they#
manage to evolve bears- a family re-
semblance to Camille, except that ifJ .
comes out happily after all; due to the'
'thoughtfulness of the author in pro-
viding a man for Lily-Camille to fall
back on when -Armand went home to
bert, with delivering- a merely nega-
tive opinion.- Ofs the three books in
question; "Casanova's HIomecomring,"
by Arthur Schnitzlerf "Women in
Love," by D. H. Lawrence, and "The
Diary of a Young Girl," by- an'anony-
mous writer, Judge Simpson said: "I
have read the books'. with sedulous
care. I find ea'bh is a distinct contri-
bution to the literature of the day.
Each of the books deals with one or
another of the phases' of presnt
thought." It is a remarkable instance
of judicial clairvoyance. But what
will become of subsidized vice com-
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ANN- ARBOR ,MICHIGAN SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1922
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plays that clutter up our- libraries; She can dance. We must give her
in"the trashy pictures and the trashy credit for that. And then she goes
marbles in our art stores; and in the back to her. dressing room. Now--far.
trashy music in our cabarets and con- lbeit from me to insinuate that I have'
cert-halls. But in no other field has seen the inside of all the cabaret
there been such an absolute dearth of: dressing rooms in this great United'
worthy effort, such an abs'olute waste' States. But you can take it from me,
and mis-direction of e'nergy, and such I-the inside of. a dressing room was
an appalling effect upon the public never like that! If it was, there would
taste and, I believe, upon the public: have been no need for the Actor's
morals, as has resulted from the firstf Equity. As a matter of fact, it is not
decade in the history of the Motion a dressing room into which she goes;
Picture. j it is a cross between the best room
Last year somebody or other pre- in an artistic Sultan's harem and the
sented Mae Murray in "The Gilded ,showroom in a Fifth- Avenue "Maison
Lily." This picture might be taken des Robes" In other words it is a
as typical of the sort of thing with beautiful set designed to bring out to
which a major part of the exhibitors the best advantage all of Miss Mur-
are seeking to amuse their public. ray's gowns and all of Miss Murray'sl
First of all let us examine the hats not to mention her Russian wolf-
star," whose name appeared in let- hound and snagger stick.
ters at least as large as those an- Now what does Lily do? Very little,
nouncing the title of the attraction, I assure you, my friend. By- actual'
and therefore must be held forth asy count she dances twice, drinks one
an inducement of at least as great glass of wine, walks in the paik once,
weight for seeing the picture. If I weeps twice, laughs three times, and
am not amiss in my theatrical-history lies around in graceful positions the
(and I don't think that I am) - Mae rest of the time. In other words, she
Murray, a few years ago, was gracing I is not there to act; she.is there to be-
the boards of the New Amsterdam looked at. The work is done by the
mother.' They are much m'ore thbughit- missions if judges cannot be relied
ful in themovies than they are in the Iupon to be devoid of afy sense'of lit-
plays. erary values? Judge'Simpson, by his:
WIe'll-that's that. A represents the opinion in this case; has likely won
contribution of'that month from one of ter himself the sort of immortality
the largest' studios. It will be seen that 'would have acc'rued to the'French
by probably eight or ten million judge in Flaub'ert's'trial if he had said,
people. What will be its'effect? What "No, gentlemen, I do not agree with
will the young girl'in'the large city' you. I think 'Emma-Bovaryy is a pretty'
or the .small town think when she good book!"
sees this wonderful lady with the
Lily-whlite Soul fin'd Love andHappi- THIE OCTOBER SMART SET
ness in a cabaret (and at the' same
time have a wonderful time)? Is it (Continued from -Page Seven)
goiflg to make her any more con-? name a few strikingexamples:-"Gen-
tented to pound her typewriter ornwt g m-
weed the beans? Obviously not. Prob- uine Diamonds, Cut to $38.5 "Dr.
ably it will not move a single person Eliot's Five-foot Shelf of Books, the'
to attempt to ddsFascinating Path to a Liberal Educa-
are notso gullible as that. But it will I nita, the Origial Nose Ad-
~ea.~ot o goand o liewis. We tr'"' iStogy Using a urs"; "et
give a distorted image of life; it will uster"; "tof U ig a Truss"; "Peggy
mrake for discontent and unhappiness; Bob, th tpo o " y Corpsino ,Ne'w
and all because it chooses, like ninety- Rdom Trhatent"; "Tobacco Habit
nine out of a hundred other moving HurmA r No Pay"; "Play Jazz on the
pictures choose, to tell lies instead of Curd r o "Th ZayzJar ooh
the truth. Luc Chinese Ring"; "By Merit Alone
That's what's the matter with the -Chiropractic"; "Are You Old at
Moving Picture! It's a Liar-that's 409"; "You Have a Beautiful Face-
all! But Your Nose!"; "How a New Kind
of Clay Re-made My Complexion in
30 Minutes."
YEA, A DANIEL! The front advertising section con-
tains a slightly better class of ad-
Judge Simpson's opinion in the re- vertisements, but nothing to boast of.
Jfhhe type of reader Smart Set wishes
cent trial involving. the morality of )to reach is the type that buys good
three publications of Thomas Seltzer luck rings and patronizes cheap ad-
is probably unique in the history of vertisers of quack medical discoveries,
literary inquisitoridl. For the first I see little hope 'for the future of the"
time in the' history of such trials; the republic, but more likely its prompt
deciding magistrate was not content, collapse, within a year at least.
as in the final trial liberating Flau- DELBERT CLARK.
IL Suets SuplyStoe
(By W. Bernard Butier).
Incentives next in force to the
Great War itself are offered the de-
velopment of' Anerican aviation by'
such events as- the' Pulitzer Trophy
race, recently said Prof. Felix W."
Pawlowski of the Ae'ronautical en-
ginedring department. Professor
Pawlowski stressed the' influence o
the great German' and French races in
their important' contributions to can-
tinental aeronautical development.
Like events are to take place at Mt.
Clemens, Oct. 12, 13 and 14 where'
more than 23 of the most modern
types of airulanes have been entered
in-the Pulitzer Trophy race, the great-
est speed classic of modern times.
Many of the machines are of recent
design, while several withhold their
specifications until the day of the con-
test. It is known that many of these
machines are exnected to do betteri
than 200 miles an hour..
Both executive and administrative
branches of the Government have
given their unqualified endorsement
of these speed events, and the Army:
together with the Navy have-enteredt
their fastest and lightest machines.
Besides the Mt. Clemens speetl num-
bers, the Curtiss Marine Flying Tro-
phy race will be held on October 7
when more than a dozen fying boats
and sea planes will compete in the
-over-water classic.
In all these events $10,000'in money
prizes and $30,000 values ffi gold and
silver trophies will be presented. On
account, of the unprecedented speed
expected and the unusually low alti-
tude maintained in the later races,
every effort is being made to- render
immediate hospital and surgical aid
in case of injuries. Dr. Angus Mc-
Lean of Detroit is orgaizing an ex-
tensive staff of specialists which will.
be retained to offer relief in addition
nurses detailed to Selfridge Field.
Field- and ambulance service will also
be employed to take care of the sani-
tary and. health conditions which
must be' met' on the great course"
which will draw, according to pre-
dictions, the largest crowd ever as-
sembled in this country to witness'
outdoor sports.
The National Airplane' race's' are
- i
the foremost machine averaged 156
miles an hour over the 150 mile
course; Most believed' then that this-
record would' never be surpassed, but
at Omaha, Neb., in 1921, Bert Acosta
flew his Curtiss-Navy Racer in the
Pulitzer. race with an average of
176.7 miles per hour over a closed
course of 150 miles.
In' th race' to'be held next month,f
be Air Mail Trophy and
mercial Plane races on
October 12, aid the Libe
Builder's Trophy race on
tuber' 13. According to t
list of entries, practically
best American aviators w
ered.
On the dates of the
E machine races, the .Secot
Aero Congress will convenie
gates assemiibled' from mo
cities in the United States.
cipal aitn' of this convent-k
talilish a permanent' nati
nautical association. Infor
ceived from the Detroit A
ciety says that the primai
to come before the delega'
the drafting of a prograir
the adoutiofi of federal ai:
the formation by act of (
a bureau of civilian aerc
the Department of Comme
The Detroit Aviation So
out. "For three' or four
gress has had many meas
consideration, measures w
place civilian flying und
jurisdicti".
"The U. S.-Army Air S
Naval Bureau of Aeronauti
U. S. Air Mail Service are
fwith an efficiency approo
Iper cent. They are credite
reaching-developments in n
naval- aircraft- perations
I equal, in many instnces,
similar' air forces abroad
military and naval air fore
handicapped by a lack of f
Fach -has its highlytraine
cialized personnel, and th
counts fo the prestige of
ican service aviation today
"With civilian aviation i
ent. If the public has lo
the peaceful attributes of
is 'due for a change of
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'THE FIRST AEL-METAL AIRPLANE IN AMERICA, SHICM THE ARMY
HAS ENTERED IN TIE PULITZER R-C9-S.
comparable to those auto speed clas-
sics' held at Indianapolis' in the early
days of the automobile industry when
the Indianapolis track was eniloyed
as a test ofthe qualities and defects
of the machines.
The looked-for great success of this
aviation meet is partially based on
the record Which the National races
made in 1120 when on Thanksgiving
day of that year, more than 50,000
people drove out to the Long Island
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to that made possible by the staffs of 'field shortly after daybreak
the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps that spectacular exhibition
Surgeons, hospital orderlies' and tkinds df' flying. During this
however, more than eight times as
many ships are entered. Not even
the officials in charge of the events
,rnow- the dimensions and notor pow-
er plants of many of the machines
which are to enter. It is known that
the LTnited States Navy is at the pres-?
ent time testing two of its fast planes'
at Selfridge field and has in reserve'
some "mystery-planes" which. it will
not release until two-days before the
race. These will be convoyed to the
field by a special detachment of the
U. S. Marines.
Besides the Pulitzer Race, there will
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Stt nery, 'Fountain Pens,-Loose Leaf ooks
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American ManAgement
(By Delbert Clary)
Most startling .to American readers:
*as the recent statement of President
-Ernest M. Hopkins, of Dartmouth Col-
lge, in an address- to the student
lody, that "Too many imen' are goingI
to college. The opportunities for se-
curing an education by' way of a col-
lbge course are definitely a privilege
and' not at all a universal' right." The
educator advocated, in effect, the re-
cognition of an aristocracy of iritel-]
lent as a practicable method of check-
ing the rapid increase in college and
university enrollment.
The Dartmouth president, it would-
seem, has proposed the only feasible
solution to the problem of over-
crowded colleges, a problem which
has become very real in recent years.
Universities and large colleges lave
suddenly awakened to find themselves
wofully inadequate in available facili-
ties to the unexpected deluge of stud-
ents. The inevitable result has been,-
of course, a lowering of standards
everywhere. Class and lecture rooms
have been crowded, sections which not
long ago never ran over a hundred
have suddenly mounted in enrollment
to several hundred, and it has become
Spring a Latin' word on the average'
student and-he will reward you with a
blank stare, or a "Talk United States! ''
Classical allusions mean absolutely
nothing to' him. The Rubalyat and
"the red ship" are often synonymous
in hIs vocabulary. His criteria for
judging literature are Captain Billy's.
Whizz-Bang, the campus publications,
and' the Detroit News: A' cultural
foundation for a technical oi profess
sional education is no longer required.-
Specialization, once a term to' conjure'
with, has been so abused that colleges,
and especially universities, in the case'
of the vast majority of students at-
tending them, are little more than
big schools for vocational training.
Spanish and "business ad" are the
only requirements for a throughI
ticket to, the Isles of the Blest.
This lowering of standards is at-
tributable directly to the rapid in-
crease in the number of students seek-
ing a college education. Ten years ago
the' man who went to college was theI
exception, especially if he went to a
university. Only the students of really
superior }intellect went beyond high
school unless to some technical or
business school. The college man in
Samount of industry, have been placed
on the curricula in order to aedomnio-
date the students who want a college
education but who are wasting their
own and the college's time'by seeking-
one. Class attendance and an ability
to answer .catch questions are too fre-
q.uently all-thatis necessary to insure
a passing grade, and the real scholar.
is'" swamed 'by the' mad rush of uni-
versity students who should be in a
business school.
If the 'increase is to continue in col-
le.ge enrollment, some plan must be
devised for its assimilation or check,
and President Hopkins ha's seemed to,
find the solution when he says that too
many are attending our colleges and
the flood should be stopped.
Without doubt the most difficult ad-
mission for a modern Amer.ican edu-
cator to make is that of an intellectual
aristocracy. Democracy in the ab-
stract has become, naturally enough,
so much of a fetish -to Americans that
j they feel constrained to think in terms
of it at all times and under a-ll cir-
cumstances lest they be thought to be
plotting the overthrow of the govern-
ment. There is -no intellectual de-
:mocracy. There never can be as long,
as one man's mind is superior to his
brother's Politicians may rave, andl
pull opportune bunting from their vest
pockets, but there is not now and
never will be deiocaey in the' field"
of mental achievement. The a ding
nobility is that' of the mind-the aris-
tocracy of the intellect. It used-to be
said -that you could always tell a king
from a serf no matter under what cir-
cumstances you might meet thdem, and
the same holds true today. Place ans
intellectual king alongside ail intel-I
lectual serf and watch the
Take 'the i'nlrea inequa
relative mental fitness an
have no more leaders, no
g'res s or' startling achiever
will have a race- of menta
The very ones who cry
in education' are'in most c
selves breathing examples
thing they decry.
It would be a splendi
everyone could 'go to coll
'the 'expenditure of four yea
thousand dollars become
light of history, but everyc
Ten or fifteen ye'ars ago n
real: intellectuals never had
tunity to go beyond high
day everyone' goes-it is
great a fad as the radiop
the result is always the'
mental aristocracy is only 1
to greater relief by the fot
college and the p'roportio
unchanged.
If, as seems inevitable, de
must be takeui to raise, c
rnaintain; the standards of
universities, the only possil
would appear to be that p
President Hopkins, a res
college attendance to thba"
nitely prove' theniselvts
saperior. A horrible yell
up, and the local demagog
storm, but the result would
whole- vastly beneficial. A
fessors would lose their jo
new colleges for thb cdll
select renfaindet- both of" f
students, would breathe a
enjoy to the full the deligh
ti' of getting and of giving
tion.
Drink More Pure Milk
And insist on its cobiingefrom the
Ann Arb r, 4th atid Cgathcerine-
Impossible to require work of a qual- all but an insignificant minority of'
ity equal to that - of ten years ago. cases made good when he graduated.
Anyone capable of making the grades His collegiate training was the neces-'
necssary to graduation from high sary rounding-out process which'
school may now enter a college or, enabled' hiu- to hold responsible posi-'
university, take a sort of business I tions and to be of definitely more value
course, and graduate at the end of than a high school graduate.' Today.
four years, capable of earning' forty there is a strong tendency to wind-
dollars where had he never been to up as a store clerk or an- employe in-
college he might have earned onlyj some 'establishment where 'a high-
twenty. ' school graduate could do the work'
Standards are lower. Classical edu- - fully as well. Easy courses, requir.-
cation is coming to be'almost ignored. ing only average mentality and a fair
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