PAGE TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, 192-3 SUNDAY, JANUARY .21, 1923 THE MICHIGAN DAILY .._ :. ..- . And even more discouraging is the A .Lt tlfutility of the various efforts. Every e T heatreH ere I organization seems to be going its BLUE DEVILS complacent, separate way. Such a ROBERT BATRONthing as co-operation. is unthinkable. ROBERTBARTRO Mr. Shuter quite naturally laughs at the "highbrow drama" being attempted omwn were not garulousB ut they Did you read the criticism of the at Michigan resolves itself at best in- here, while the blood of every faculty passed way ng g ith my wey Opera in the recent Alumnus? Well, to a more or less crude imitation of member runs cold at the thought of esteemed grandfather and since that probably not; no student ever reads certain of the good and many, of he the official recognition of the Mimes esteme grndfthe an sice hatproabl no; n stden evr radsbad -fuatures of Broadway comnmer- as a 'campus dramatic society. ° The -time people have become talkative- the Alumnus. The point is that it wasdci as.re is all very discouraging. as' cmus sticlsoi The extrem~ely so. Opinion, interpretationI the only campus article on "In and cialism. It i l eydsorgn.Paes lbsrglsaog na extrnzey s. Oinin, ntepreatin th ony cmpu aricl on"Inand Even for those who really. desire se-; eerie, rattling barn.'. Professor Nel- and criticism are cast about with an Out" that even hinted that the show i E r t ra lly desie Ue- sre rattin an Pressor Ne- insane disregard for the wasted por- might have had some faults. The rious dramatic training at the Uni- son works months and presents one tion which falls upon sterile ground. general tone of the reviews of the rsity there is little opportunity: performanc s of a play y centuriesnold. Somewhere in this chaos are seeds play was perfectly appalling.. One Sixty five people tried out for mew- Professor Hollister is calmlycontend- of genius. If we permit ourselves to would think the Union officials them-u bership in Comedy Club, of which ed with his small audience and the number only ten wee received. It i~s inevitable 'green curtain. And the grope about, an occasional brier point selves were the authors. A certain not possible that all of the unfortunate Union Opera: in heaven's name, what scratches our sense of delicacy, and student even had the rural enthusiasm fifty-five were excluded because Of does it all amount to after all from we flee to revised editions of the to claim that it made Zeigfeld, Gest' lack of room. The same is true of an artistic standpoint? classics and bury our heads. and the rest look to their laurels. Masques. One hundred and fifty girls T Perhaps the crass, which caused our The Players club,-Masques, Comedy have applied for membership in this to th e theory, if te American drama mental anguish, was only the outer club, and the other dramatic organi- organization, although it has been is to be ".saved". It will be by the hide of something good. Had it been zations may seriously try to put on frankly announced that only twelve product of the American universities. presented in another color we would programs of true literary merit only will be accepted. The Players' Club A college course they say, is the ideal have pronounced it acceptable. The to be met with the most cynical, has about three times as many people time for the prospective dramatist to manner of presentation doe3 influence scathing criticism by the village pa- on its various committees as it has in experiment and -to develop his powers. the ultimate verdict. Our popular per the next morning. There is noth- the acts themselves. Something is But Michigan men interested in this literary dishes are not really bad, but ing particularly wrong with this; per- all wrong. If, for example, there were field have had to go to Mr. Quirk of the platter is cracked, the linen is haps they deserve it. But what I do several hundred students here who the Ypsilanti Players to get their soiled and the new cook has not yet object to is the foolish, sickening wanted training in business adminis-{ works produced. I refer particularly discovered our positive tastes. praise given every year's Opera, evi- tration and it was denied them, the to Carl Guske, whose "Fata Deorum" * * * dently merely because it is sponsored various members of the faculty would was published by Frank Shay of New If freshn-en are to be educated to by the Union.. immediately raise a vigorous protest, York in an anthology that contained Univeisity life a better instrument of Personally, "In and Out" seemed and, needless to say, the authorities such names as O'Neill, Glaspell, and training would be hard to discover, impossibly slow and dull to me. It would remedy the lack. But drama- Millay. Leon Cunningham, also a other than "Old Man Dare's" Talks probably would have been much bet- tics is an art . . . . "It is unneces- Michigan name, whose play, "Hos- to College Men, by Howard Bement. ter if nine-tenths of the encores had sary." (Continued on Page Three) Mr. Bement knows how to talk been cut out, and the production trim- familiarly to college men better than med down from a three to a two-hour ; any author who has attempted a book play. Mr. Shuter, for all his good' of this sort, because he has written points, has not yet learned Mr. Zeig- truth and common sense in a .style feld's trick of never giving the public which will neither bore nor become quite all it wants. Another bad fea- YOU MEET - preachy. ture-and. this is the point the alum- If freshmen were presented 'with a nus article stresses-is the ,shameless A hurried word of introduction - a single glance - and copy of "OJd Man Dare" instead of a plagiarism from certain professional some new acquaintance has formed an opinion of you. set of moth pitted bogey man "tradi- revues. "The. March of the Tin Sol- The impression e carries away, born of an instant's in- tions", their acclimation to Univer- diers" is of course, tranfferred bodily sity life might be accomplished with- from a .similar number in th'e Chauve spection, may be the foundation of success or the cause out the application of personal viol- Souris, with the French doll introduc- of failure. In many cases clothes make or mar your per- ence. ed to partially disguise the fact. An- sonality. See to it that you are always in the best of President Marion L. Burton wrote asphasia bears a surprising resem- I condition. the introduction to this little book, blance to the low comedian in "Sally," which, should be sufficient reconi;end- or perhap:s even closer to the famous. ation for a book touching upon the gawky maid of "The Bat." Even Kate, fundamentals phases of college life. as excellent as Dresbach makes the;DETTLING - TAILOR character, is an absolute copy of the 1121 S. University Ave female impersonators that have made Quantities of printed froth appeared "Hitchy-Koo" and "The Greenwich Vil- during the past year urging the cam- lage Follies" famous. In short the pus powers to allow men to become most expensive dramatic undertaking aart of the audience at the Junior minite queer figure, renotely suggest- ing and old man. The chief charac- teristic of the aparitien was a cer'tafn disareeable ' nudity which resulted from its complete lack of all the ac-: cepted appurtenances and- preroga- tives of old age. Its little ,stooping! body, helpless and brittle, bore with extraordinary difficulty a head of absurd -largeness, yet which- moved onI the fleshless neck -wih ahorrible :agili- ty. Dull eyes sat in the clean-shaven, wrinkles neatly hopeless. At- thel knees a pair of hands hung, infantile in their smallness. In the loose mouth a tiny cigarette- had perched and was solemnly smoking itself. "Suddenly the figure darted at me with a spiderlike entirety. "I felt myself lost." * * * "The planton who .suffered all these indignities was a solemn youth with wise eyes situated very far apart in a mealy expressionless ellipse of face, to the lower end of which clung a' piece of down, exactly like a feather sticking to an egg.- The rest of him wt,- fairly normal with the exception of his hands, which were not mates; the left being considerable larger, and made of wood." boy-or perhaps. it i.s with th'e mag i-. that Claude marries. All the magic ty and has incident ficent appreciation of true sophistica- of Miss Cather's refined and sympathe- it shows that a wo tioi .'The stylehe- employs is'iiten= tic 'style in .lavrshed upon the stoy ot -way -to fame. and t] sely journalistic and he.writes with a Cladde's struggle with life and fate. a book that will k flagrent disregard for ruls of sen- Had she not tried to transplTant her-- tence structure. The resultant chop- rustic hero, the tory mght have been x.M py sentences and detached phrases are. as great a success as her other novels. !aveft peculiarly adapted to his material. It In - the second half of the book, becomes the written Journal of his jlaude goes to war to escape .some- (Continued f mnd - thought .-fragments crowding thing which haunted his life.- Here each on the other, impressions suc-! Miss Cather fails utterly to picture that some day she V ceeding those, fleeting memories, re- scenes to big for a- woman's under- known, never-to-t fiections, all struggling for place. standing. Her knowledge of "la where she could da Indeed, so strong is' this illusion guerre" is second-hand and unrealis- dance the slave g in "Fog Patteris", "Night Diary", tic. Young Wheeler meets many new leased, released b "Grass Figures", that it is all but is kinds of people, among them the lov- Prosence. Never w a violation of privacy to read. - able sergeant Hicks, an excellent portray this before I have said that Mr. Hecht offers no character. He too is disappointed and the solitude of her interpretation of the pictures he un- like many other realists is dealt an very soul be revea folds before us. True, but I am not so unkindly blow by fate. The tragedy She put on the p sure whether or no there is any me 3- remained, that one so fine and emulous hat. "Good-night, sage hidden in them. I turn to the -could meet no other end than death, a blowy night. Tc last lines of the last story in the book, with the truth of life engulfed in the Friday, fish again. and read them again: "That's the se- C oud of innocence to the end. hair-nets in the mor cret. Life is a few years of suspended The story is told with epic simplici- ing, too. animation. But there is no story in that. Better forget it." MILLIONS. by Ernest Poole, The Mac. iillan Company. Reviewed by Ronway T. Halgrit. 7 1 7 J Girls play. The problem was voted upon, deliberated upon, and sat upon but it persisted and won. It ways one of the obviously unrea- sonable regulations programmed on the University's generous.list. It has passed, and it is strange that so much should have been written and so much subscribed to a resolution to clean the mud from the wheel. Puer S nbit Caroline Matilde, Queen of Denmark, once scratched these words with a diamond on w window of the castle of Fredierickborg: "0 God, keep me in- nocent; give fig'eatness to others." This brief prayer contains much that is significant. First, it presupposes that innocence and greatness are anti- thetical,-a presupposition that may well be scanned by present-day aspir- antis to power, and especially by col- lege students. Notice that it does not imply however, that contamination is synonymous with greatness. If this were so we would all be Napo eons. N. B. Kipling Bids for Own Manuseript The highest bidder for an unpub- lished manuscript of Rudyard Kipling, which has recently been offered for sale, is the famous author himself. Mr Kipling had forgotten the existence of such a manuscript and it was only af- ter examining the work that he pro- nounced it genuine, although he only faintly remembered incidents connect- ed with it. The story is a satire on Anglo-Indian society called "At the Pit's Mouth; Personal recollections of Duncan Par- reness-translated from the diary by R. K." and was written in 1884 when Kipling was a young journalist in In- dia. Efforts have ben made to publish the manuscript, which is still protect- ed by the original copyright, but the author has refused to give his sanc- tion-. ' III###1###tlili9#E#1#I#t####1#l####11## i0i#1###!#1#I# I# 16 1#I f!###11i lfI II IIIIIIII il 111 1111IIL 2 Science adThrift . o~r - A RCHIMEDES said, "Give as well as the physical world. With c me a lever long enough, and a sound bank for a fulcrum, and a a place to stand and I will good-sized savings account for a move the world." And modern lever an aggressive young .man can- physicists do not deny the assertions pry success from the most forbidding - of the ancient ree circumstances. This bank has been The laws of fulcrum and lever a successful "fulcrum" in Ann Ar have an application in the financial bor for years. - - The Ann Arbor Savings Bank a - "The Vank of Friendly Serbice" T=Resources $5,600,000 Two Offices - = a_ ---- - - B lItIVIIIIlllHHI l!#l1i I~IillI~Il HIII##l~IIllmIiil llIIIIIIIII l tlll l 11 !###!#I IIIHl I IIID lI#!# ll IIlI111f1tInH #1 These, as I feare:, Wvi7 give a "Millions" cannot be compared with- somewhat blased impression of the Ernest Poole's big novel "The Har- book. They show none of the romance 'hor" but it is nevertheless an excep- that Cummings has ,succeeded i cull- tionally well written story. His char- ing from his frightful experiences. r s rm acters arc, as natural as the members, The acquaintances that lie made here of one's own family. The big thing are almost all somewhat tinged with that Mr. Pole has accomplished is to romance, of the highest sort. b show the effect of to-day's material- He has rounded out his narrative ism upon the prolituriat, the influence in a 1ost remarkable way. Fille of gold upon those who do not possess with material which deservets much at- it, and how truly greedy a group of , tention, embellished with humor and tov'." people may turn out to romance and done in an effective style; be. The story is placed in New York, it is a real literary achievement for for where else in our lnd are the our younger American writers. streets paved with proverbial gold and nurses lined with "Millions"? Gordon 1001 AFTERNOONS IN CHICAGO, by Gable is hurt in an automobile acci- Ben Heclit. Covici-McGee. dent and not expected to live. In a small town, up-state, Madge, Gordon's Reviewed by Dorothy Sanders sister is notified of the accident and Ben Hecht's latest book, "1001 Aft- she hurries to her unconscious broth- ernoons in Chicago", while scarcely a er's bedside. With her come her re- ' literary achievement, is fascinating. latives, to see that Madge gets her Mr; Hecht in the unmistabable lan- "Millions" and their motives cannot guage of sincere enthusiasm paints truly be called althruistic. The char- from multitudinous angleshe spirit acters of these "respectable citizens" of the city streets. He shows it to us is bared by the shining light of the with an understanding -born of symn- gold and they all can be seen to gloat pathy. Here is none of your surgical over the possibility of unearned riches. detachment, your impersonal analysis Incidentally they only cause Madge 'which ha-s become so offensive in the much trouble and help to make things young moderns. On the other hand. harder for her in an already trying though every word he utters is color- position. Just to complicate matters ed by his personality, Mr. Hecht offers enter Miss O'Brien, the self-styled absolutely nothing by way of inter- sweetheart of the unconscious young pretation. It is almost as if this man, but unqueftionably a. "gold-dig- businelss of -life were too tremendous ger". 'Other members of the bed-side for that. . scene are Joe, the "big-hearted part- In the great heterogeneous mob, the ner" of Gordon, and the surgeon and million faces passing and repassing nurses who care for him. Young each other, Mr. Hecht, glimpses some- 'Cable lives long enough for Poole to thing beyond their furrows and the weave a story about his bed-side- frowns and the smiles. He sees the which is filled with tense drama, bits little souls terribly in earnest behind a° humor, and great amounts of their masks, and he pauses to ask human interest. The death scene is why. The sketches and short stories dragged out through a pitiful number in "1001 Afternoons" are infinitely va- of pages, but it is justified as a me- ried in subject, tone and mood, they 'dium for excellent characterization. run the whole gamut from brushed off The story rings true and will hold tears to hearty laughter, and yet, upon interest for the reader who likes good reflection they leave a unified impres- character pictures. j sion on the mind of the reader. Those' legions whose weary feet stand end- ONE OF OURS. by Willa Cather. Alf. lessly in street car isles, those thou- red A. Knopf, $2.r0. sands whose rough 'red hands make Reviewed by Ronald Halgrim life clean and comfo-table for us, are living out their days in a bewilder of -Women see the- grim wored of reali- waiting. Waiting-for what they do ty thro rose tinted glasses and this not question, can not que-stion for the trait is easily detected when they at- most part. There is a dumb, word- tempt to write a novel dealing with less, acceptance of the perplexities big things. After reading Willa Oath- which they can not solve, the confu. er's two novels "My Antonia" and "0O sions which crush them. -Yet. Mr. ; Pioneers!" I had been waiting with Hecht finds them asking no odds, in- great expectancy for her next story exprssibly tired but unemrbittered. f to be published. Eagerly I bought a That is their glory and the strength copy of "One of Ours" and was. of his compositions. We see a stoical promptly disappointed. Women should Fanny before the Judge,--"Fanny has stick to the things they can write best no words. Something heavy in her if they are to gain a reputation, and heart. something vague and. heavy in keep it, as novelists. The fact that her fhought-these are all that Fanny Miss Cather took three years to write has." We have Jan "still tearing up "One of Ours" does not redeem it. the letter, his thick fin-~ers tryinw' The first half of the book dealing vainly to divide it into obits", and-the' with plain country life of our great Mother "holding the year old child to farming Western states 'resents a I her, walked toward the elevator. pleasing picture. Claude Wheeler, a There was nothing to see in her young man out of place in his sur- eyes." rounding is described with a sym-; "1001 Afternoons in Chicago" is rich -pathic understanding which shows in fanciful images, "gold and' ruby that Miss Cather can write. At heart reflections of the bridge lizhts-hanl this boy is a radical,b ut likeable phil- like carnival ribbon, in the water", osopher who is confused by the bustle "the busy part of the city is like the of modern life and can not see the exposed mechanism of some monstrous value of the modern materialistic clock." Hecht sees everything with aims. 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