THE MICHIGAN DAILY
SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 1924
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OBSERVER
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metropolis; not only because it is the
country's rail center, but because it
contains the most extensive accommo-
dations for "tramps" of any city. West
Madison Street, South Clark, South
State . . . these are the "home
towns" of thousands of migrant la-
borers who come to Chicago for the
winters because it is the cheapest city
in the United States for the man with
little money. And it is to Chicago-
that the men come when they are in
their luck and need medical treat-
ment, or charity, or both . . .
Chicago is not the bum's paradise-
there is no such place-but certain-
ly is his haven . . .
Perhaps it is right that a sociologic
book, one designed to analyse things
rather than portray them, that the
color of the bo's life should be mini-
mized. But the Observer wonders-
suppose Mr. Anderson had coupled
his technical knowledge with the bril-
liant pictures of Ben Reitman, or had
opened a few chapters with bits from
Carl Sandburg's poems-Would he not
have achieved a truer picture?
FOUR POEMS
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below you-
red
green
blue
black
yellow ad Iviolet. . .
Then-just before you hid
behind the western hills
you yawned
and vomited a aiess
of colors
across the sky.
O Mister Sun
don't you like our colors?
or did the stench of our
world1
turn your stomach?I
Which? why?
FREEDOM
one week before we were married
We sat in my red canoe.
while Moonbeams frolicked upon
the ever-changing surface
of the dancing River
as it gurled and sang
on its journey
toward the open sea-
Do you remember?
when the world was sleeping
and the Moon skipped
among the clouds
like a Satyr whirling
over the soft fields
of spring-
Do you remember?
oughly practical, absolutely self-con-,
fident, and in the end quite cynical-
all as Shaw himself would have de-
sired her.
And finally, there is the Pirandello
play, which as far as I am personally
concerned was the most brain-storm-
ing production I have ever seen: it
almost made you think too much.
Here was a man who pretends to all
his friends -thatthe is erazy and then
latter admits that his insanity has
really been a sham. For twelve years,
it is true, following an accident with
his horse, he was without his reason,
but after it returned to him he has
ben content to let the world be well-
lost. Why should he return to his
ordinary life with all its pettiness
when as a king in history he can live
a course already decreed for him?
Which is to be preferred, he asks,- thej
life of a lunatic, who can order every-I
one at his beck and call, or so-called
sanity dominated by rigid social
codes?
It is all a puzzle but in actual per-
formance one gained a sense of pro-j
found truth and an even profounder
problem and surely, above everything,
a very- profound "point.";
Freud writes that he wishes some man
could popularize the essentials of psy-
choanlysis as Corners has popularized
the facts of rejuvenation. "I hope the
book has such success that our friend,
who has performed such high service
for science, may have the means to
continue his work," adds the dis-
tinguished psychoanalyst. A notable
feature of Mr. Corners' book is that it
reports Steinach's discoveries in Stein-
ach's own words.
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SUNDAY MAGAZINE
ANN ARBOR, MICHIOAN, SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 1924
Freud Writes About Rejuvenation "We had nothing more in common
Dr. Sigmund Freud, the famous psy- than the memory of a short-lived hap-
chologist, has written from Vienna in piness, and I can tell you that that
enthusiasm over George F. Corners' kind of common memories separates
book, Rejuvenation: How Steinach people rather than unites them."-
Makes People - Young (Seltzer). ("The Mate," Schnitzler.)
We Hear From Our Chicago
Correspondent
Has Good Time; Wishes We Were There
_ .,
a
Chicago-sur-Lac,
February, 1924.
r March, 1924.
I have long had in mind this com-
munique from the world's literarya
center, but events deterred, and now
as the season closes I will attempt to
satisfy the longings of you inhabitants
of the outlands. with bits of gossip
current in, the most sacred ruelles.j
As I became retrospective, but one,
thing I regret- that our divine Mary
played Salome in Detroit. I cannot
bring myself to attribute the perform:
ance to the liberality and esprit of the
Detroiters.. The opera is taboo in
Chicago, and in Chicago: "L'Art-c'est
moi." The only explanation is that
the Michigan-dwellers were ignorant
of the nature of the work. Like Paris'
ability of the Drake became oppres- a bull forbidding students orgies at
sive. Barcin suggested the Entertain- De Briles. He was hastening to Ike
ers, but I was not equal to several Bloom's where he had a conference
hours of Boston Store perfume, cory- with Harold Bell Wright. While f
bantic mulattos, ogling octoroons, and was motoring later I saw them sit-
naughty Nordics, we compromised on ting on Lorado Taft's Fountain of
the Stables where the is self-styled Time in Washington Park. Hecht was
atmosphere as the devil, where the perched on St. Paul's head and.
waiters dance, and where the or- Wright was on Aphrodite's knee-they
chestra does not play for Victor rec- were engaged in a heated argument
ords. Barcin consumed a flask of on the aesthetic theory of St. Thomas.
Bordeaux Extraordinaire and when I Aquinas as evidenced in Getting
reproached him began to quote:
"Haette Gott mich anders gewollt,
- Er haette mich anders gebaut."
Gertie's Garter.
On my way home I stopped at Les-
chin's to view an exhibition of Chi-
nese hosiery, and at Capper & Cap-
ner's to urchase amP Pa ff T
le p uu tas some ear muus. i
When I left he was quoting Verlaine was late when I arrived home, so I
to a pretty young creation from Wil- dined lightly on partridge and an-
mette. In hyrd d
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Famous New York modiste, lunching at the Ritz in. a tube-like three
quarter length Coat of navy blue charmeen embroidered in Oriental
coloring and pattern completed with a collar of squirrel, is believed to have
set the present vogue for coats!
are favored.
For sports, Mah Jongg, Hy-Lo and plaid
-zcoies, after which I picked up a
of the old world Chicago is the only Jevnes displayed an excellent col- volume of Tessin le Marevilly - La
graceful. adept of debauchery in lection of sketches by Felician Rops Vierge Accablee. One line: "Qu'im-
America. She jealously guards her in January. One chef d'oeuvre con- !Porte leur passe farouche s'ils ont su
laurels-nemo me impune lacessit. If sisted of three straight lines and was faire un tel bien" struck me with such
Detroit was shocked Chicago still re- labeled "Pessimism in Despair." I force that I went immediately to bed.
tains it. was overwhelmed by its intensity. I beg to remain
Amelita G-C. has deserted us with I met Ben Hecht today in the Old Im
painfully vague promises of return Dutch Room of the Tip-Top Inn. He Votre tres humble, tres obeissant,
- was downcast because the President et tres fidele serviteur,
nextseason.. my God! must we jour-
ney to New York next winter for "An- of Northeastern University had issued! Ezra Demi-Livre.
nie Laurie!
In the meantime the city is still
governed by the laissez-voler policy- Ne
the subway is as much as ever an Notes On New York
ethereal thing - the Illinois Central
continues to darken our magic sky-
line-pennies are coaxed from school WARD ALLEN HOWE
children-school boards betake them-
selves and their households to St. Probably the best short description color shifts and varies with almost
Moritz and Chamonix -- the Temple of New York is that by William magical speed.
.Building is completed -- God is in Showalter who labeled it "the cosmo- What is it about New York that at-
Clark street - at the College Inn polls of civilization-the metropolis of tracts this ever increasing legion of
Semitic reverly holds sway under the mankind." Ward Price, a well known writers? What do they find in it to
tantalizing baton of Isham Jones - English writer, on a first visit to the spur their pens onward The ob-
North t U~~~~~~Lnited| States in 1920 said in an inter- prterpn owr.Teo-
Northwestern University co-eds areUnt&Saein12sidnanner vious answer is that it is the magni-
view for the New- York Times that s
selling lone-quarter piece bathing suits NwYr s" iyo eidrn tude, the complexity and the shifting
to- swell the fund for the rehabilitation kaleidoscopic scenes of the city's
of demoralzed professors-Mrs. Pot- daily life that constitute its most pow-
gates it looks like a racial museum,
ter Palmer XIV appeared at Onwent- with English labels-an international erful attraction and help to make it
sia in jaguar-skin hosiery. one of the most fascinating cities in
patchwork with an Anglo-Saxon tewrd Col th priatc
But yet another star .in our crown! fringe." But whatever descriptive the world. Could the peripatetic
Duse--delle belle mani-gave atmo- phrases critical writers may apply to Caliph larun Al Rashid have seen
New York he would have encountered
sphere . to the Auditorium. For six it, none will deny New York's import-Nig k that far outrivaled those of
.-dollars I sat in the thirty-seventh ance as a world center in industry, ightisveBagdad.iA careful and
row. Of the play, Ibsen's "Spettri," I finance and the arts.
- ~observant person who. will persistent-
cannot speak._ But I saw her hands! As a field for writers New York is ly roam the streets and by-ways of
I dined last night at the Drake with especially famous. It has been fic- New York with arrectis auribus and;
a young composer, Barcin Tavanez, a tionized again and again. Few auth- eyes wide open can not fail to secure I
protege of Schoenberg. He is a rhyth-j ors, seemingly,- can resist the temp- material and impressions that will be
mic maniac. Unlike Schoenberg and tation to lay at least one scene of their of very definite help to any literary
Varese who are inspired by the charm-l productions within the limits of that ambitions that he may have. Opin-
ing dissonance of a traffic cop's entrancing city by the Hudson. And ions vary as to the relative merits of
whistle, an auto klaxon, or a steam the results of their efforts have notvarious sections of the city with re-
crane, he haunts La Salle Station, the always been of a very accurate nature. spect to their literary, inspirational
Armitage avenue car barn, and the Ernest Harvier, writing in the New and atmospheric qualities. A neces-
Congress Street Elevated for his elan. York Times, tells of a young girl from sarily limited and brief discussion of
After listening an entire week forWilkesbarre, Pa,, who lost her way the more prominent places of interest
q on the Bowery and asked a policeman and locales that are often used in
Unique, sounds to emanate from the:
construction work on the Edgewater for directions, stories of New York life will help to
Beach Annex, he returned barren to "Don't you know anything about bear out the assertion that the metro-
Bec Annex, he reud n to New York?" asked the officer. polis is a very prolific hunting ground
his' studio with the resolution to con-t
fne himself to railroads. His playing No more than one of the writers for writers.
extensive of New York fiction stories," answered First, consider lower Manhattan,
ear. One can actually smellteni the young girl sadly. that Is the region below Fulton,
The Stretthe old dead line beyond which
harmony. As he played for me his The tendency among writers, espec- Street, h
Apres-Midi % d'Enfer, an odor of ially those who gain their knowledge: no crook could go without pain of
a'maranth and asphodel pervaded the of the city through the newspapers arrest. It is a region' of surpassing
and films, is to overdraw and o interest, historical as well as pres-
salon. Every sound f.rom, the screech-;epaie ai hc nsm ent-day, for it is here that the city
ing air brakes: to the locomotive bell, emphasize, a habit which In some en-afr. sheeta h iy
ai brakdced, to theslocoortersel cases has reached to gross exaggeraf- irst came into being as an insignifi-
was reproduced, visions of porters ion. It is no easy matter to present cant little fur-trading post. From
and conductors tripping with cadence a true picture of New York life cr P.attery Park is obt-ined a superb,
step in some enchanted garden be- even a segment of it. The city is If of the harbor ,its waters plowed
tween dawn and sunrise.- - constantly changing. Old lornities pi from every port in the
Our dinner completed, the respect- are transforedaver mm ts I w:m.+.-..- A Y)..-. --
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Four Poe
LEO NIEDZILSK
DEATH
Say, Death,
*why do you beckon?
'Tis useless
l tell you-stop!
awhile yet. , . awhil
You have hounded me eve
my eyes opened to the lig
of day, and
:the rattle of your disjointe
. is ever in, my ears -
Stop! Stop!
I will not befriend you,
you bastard son of Sin--
No! leave me
to drink with Life
and Pleasure
Leave me to know
and befriend them
Leave me to woo
and wed them
Leave me to their
mercies and graces...
to their false names and
painted faces.
and then-some day,
when all this shall
cloy me
like hemlock
and lethal wine
I will call you back
and we shall go
spinning
down through infinity
and chaos
in tight .embrace
But not yet--not yet!
WAITING-FOR WHA
years ago
You asked me to wait.
the years are gone,
thundering down the
empty halls
of the dull remembered
and now
I fold my thin dead hands
over my sunken breasts
and stare understandingl
at the cobwebs and
dust on the faded walls
of my life,
yet-
And I wished I too
could be free. . . but
You only laughed softly
and pressed my hand
whispering
Next Week We will be
Married-
Do you remember?
i
DRESS
SPORTS
COSTUMES
I sit here waiting.
You asked me to wait.
A SUNSET
0 Mister Sun
You need not burn my teo
and throw your prickly be
at my eyes to make me kn
how much you hate
this world of ours.
No Mister Sun
You need not torture
me so cruelly
to make me understand-
PLAYS
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Such a conclusion, you can see, is
the only possible one for an artist,
but then again the average audiences
appreciate anything but art, and so
they raise the usual cry-the madden-
ing, persistent cry--that the theater'
is "to entertain, and not to draw one
through a knot-hole!"
ks for "Saint Joan," nearly every-"
one is agreed that it is one of the dis-_
tinctive landmarks in our literature;
in every way a really great play, And
as for Winifred Lenihan's portrayal of
the leading role it is quite impossible
to understand how anyone could de-
sire a more complete interpretation-
that is, considering Shaw's philosophy
aa. a. basis. She Is intellectual, thor-
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Coats with short swinging capes
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Coats, sleek and slim, may be
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$150.00.
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I knew It aeons ago.
only yesterday
Mister Sun
I saw you
crawl up out of the east
rubbing your sleepy red ey
(I felt sorry for you)
But you were soon awake.
You stalked majestically
across the blue expanse of
Drinking in the colors
- of the worlds that
twirh d about in a