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XXXIV. No. 123
ANN ARBOR, MICIIIGAN, SVNDAY, JARCII 16, 1921
PRICE, FIVE
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A DELTA CHI
'ES STUDENTS
ANNUAL AFFAIR
Food And Fun
Mix With Work
In Rehearsals
T AKE MAJOR PARTS IN CAST
"C
ME TO
EVENT SIMILAR TO ONE
OF WASHINGTON GROUP
Committee Chooses Students For Highi
Standing in Representative
Campus Activities
Plans which are now being formu-
lated by the committee of Sigma Del-
ta Chi,.national professional journal-
istic fraternity, for the second annual
Gridiron Banquet, to be held here
April 1 under the auspices of that
fraternity, are being pushed forward
at a rapid rate. The affair is to be
patterned after the national event
of a similar nature held at Washing-
ton, D. C., at which prominent jour-
nalists from all parts of the country
are placed upon a figurative gridiron
in newspaper wurx.
The local affair is to be the largest
attempted by this chapter of the or-
ganization, and several prominent
newspaper men from all parts of
Michigan and Ohio have signified their
intentions of being present,. Included
in the list of those invited are not
more than 70 students, chosen for
their standing in student activities~by
the committee in charge. The list in-
cludes practically all of the recognized
campus activities, as follows:
Publications Men To Co
The Michigan Daily: Robert Ram-
sey, '24, Samuel Moore, 25, Robert
Henderson '26, Alfred Connable '25,
Edgar Ailes '25, Lawrence Favort '24,
E. G. Dunne '25; Perry. Hayden '25.
William Roesser '25, Walter Scherer
'24, and Clayton Purdy '24. Michigan-
ensian: Frederick Gilner '24. William
Etheridge '25, Neil Barber '25E, Tho-
mas Kindell '24. Cass Hough '25, Gif-
ford Upjohn '25, -and George Pattee
25. Chimes: John Bacon '24, Jack
Huber '25,, Kenneth Hoag '24, John
Sabo '25L, Frederick Pinney '25, and
Harry McCobb '24. Gargoyle: Car-
rol Jones '24, Halsey Davidson '24,
Lisle Rose '25, Donald Steketee '24,
Ar'den Kirchner. '25, and Robert
Strauss. Technic: John A. Billings
'24E. and Howard Preston '25. Law
Review: Burke Shartel. Athletic]
Program: Cheiter Swigert '24, Ora-
torical Board: J. K. Munn '24. Michi-
gan Union: Thias J. Lynch '25Land
Henry Hubbard;'24X. Student Coun.
cil: John Kelly, '241., President. S.,
C. A.: Harry-Clark, '24I., Harold.Coff-'
man, Egbert Isbell, '25. Athletic man-
agers: Donald McCabe, '24, football;
William White, 24, baseball; Arthur
Graves, '24, track; Ralph Wright, '24,
basketball; Edward Murane, '25L, in-
terscholastic; Robert Rice, '25L, minor
sports; Harold Gaisne, intramural,
and Jack Morse, '24, cross country.,
Athletes Invited
Also included in the list are the fol-
lowing prominent athletes: HarryE
Kipke, '24, football captain; _ierbert
Steger, '25. football captain-elect;
Howard Birks, '24E, basketball cap-
tain; George Haggerty, '25, basketball
captain-elect; Jack Blott, '24, baseball
captain. There also are 17 class presi-
dents, which includes all classes in
the University.
One, two, three, kick! One, two,
three, kick! The chorus sways regu-
larly from side to side, keeping time
to thestrains of the orchestra, inter-
rupted now and then by the barked out
instructions of the director. The
words of the songs are almost drown-
ed in the hum of conversation that
rises on all sides of the room. Oc-
casionally the noisy buzz is hushed
during a particularly peppy chorus;
or an unusual dance number. The
Junior Girls' Play rehearsal is in full
swing and Sarah Caswell Angell hall
is caught in a chaos of hurried prepa-
ation for the opening Tuesday night.
The "male" members of the cast
are having the hardest time of any-
one in the show. They forget and
pitch their voices too high, they tripj
over their canes and swing them awk-
wardly, and they invariably forget to
remove their hats when they come on
the stage, as a well-bred gentleman
should. But in spite of all these minorI
difficulties the play is rapidly being
shaped to a point of perfection. The'
girls who are playing feminine roles
seem to have had no difficulty in as-
suming their parts. They move easily
'about the stage, sing without a trace
of self-consciousness and make en-
chanting chorus girls. Between acts
they are free to wander about the
hall or the gymnasium, and their gay-
ly colored costumes make the affair
seem more like a masquerade than a
hard-working theatrical enterprise.
Outside the hall, the stairs of the
gymnasium are lined with the more
studious members of the cast, prepar-
ing lessons for tomorrow's classes.
Farther down, in the vestibule, is a
group of gentlemen patiently waiting
for the rehearsal to end, stage-door
Lotharios getting in good form for the
time when the show will adjourn to
the Whitney.
After the first act is ended someone
shouts "Refreshments served below,"
and with one accord the hungry cast
hastily adjourn to the parlors of the
gymnasium, where coffee and hot-dogs
await them. The orchestra, .youths,
recruited largely from the School, of M
Music, trail cautiously along- in the
rear and hang about the outskirts of'
the bread line, looking a little lost in
the feminine maelstrom.
Fifteen minutes for food and back
to the grind! One, two, three, kirk!
The choruses file back on the 'stage
and start to work with renewed en-
ergy. Some over-ambitiotii damsel.
steps too high and slidesto the floor,.
from where hber choru laughingly
rescues her and starts again. The
.play draws to a conclusion. "No finale
tonight," call's the director, and with.
a delighted shout the cast, the chorus,
and the orchestra depart, and another
rehearsal is ended,
Wine Easier To
Campus Men Think
1925 Girls' Play
Rates With Opera
What do Michigan men think of the
Junior Girls' play? Sentiment on the
subject is obtainable only by the in-
quiring reporter method, and after a
careful investigation, the results are
wholly favorable. Only one man was
opposed to the giving of the play, and
he was speaking in jest.
Prominent men on the' campus were
asked their opinions, and thetcon-
census of opinion indicated that the
play is considered worth while and
popular. "The women should be able
to produce music fully as well as the'
men do for the opera," said one man.
"and their dancing is sure to be more
graceful. Having so much less money
to spend on the production, more at-
tention has to be paid to the plot and
lines, and for that reason, I believe
that dramatically, the production is in
a fair way to rival the opera."
"Why not have a Junior girls' play?"
asks another. "It is a good thing, and
the popularity which it has met in
the past indicates that it is worth
presenting."
The play has become an institution
at Michigan, and since the admission
of men to the audience last year, more
interest has been shown in the pro-
ject. The appeal of the opera is re-
versed in that women take the parts
of men instead of men of women. Men
on the campus are looking forward to
seeing the play, and getting instruc-
tions in how to act the part of their
own sex. Originality of music has
always marked the production, and
the promise of catchy airs is a draw-
ing card for many. "Just plain in-:
terested," is the statement made by
several of the men consulted, and that
could be given as the sum of the at-
titude of Michigan men toward the
Junior girls' play.
LONDONEXTINdOS JOY'
HUR'S DURIN6 EXHIBIT
London, March 15.-London is
place where nearly everyone goes to
bed early and gets up late, but just
to please the tourist joy-seekers coin-
ing to the Empire Exhibition, it is
going to let people have a good timee
up to 2 o'clock in the morning five
days a week this summer. At present
cabarets, restaurants and hotel ball-f
rooms close a little after midnight ex-
cept extension nights when one. cat
dance until 2 o'clock in the morning.
From April 1 until the Exposition
closes, every night will be extension
night except Saturday and Sunday.,
The London County Council, chief,
regulating authority on public be-,
havior, has just yielded to widespread
demand for making London a little
gayer during the exhibition. But it
hasn't yet yielded to the request that
the late dancers be allowed to keep on
buying champagne until the orchestra
COMMITTEE NAM
ENTIRE CAST FO
115 6IRLS' P1
FINAL IRESS RE HEAtSAL
BE ELI) TOMORROW
NIGHT
17 GIRLS WILL PLAY
MAJOR PARTS IN SH
Choruses to Number 1,W in A
Production to be Held at
Whitney, March 18-22
Cast and choruses for' the J
Girls' play, "Thank You, Ma
which the class of 1925 is prest
March 18-22 at the Whitney th
will have their final dress rehe
tomorow night in preparation fc
opening performance on Tuesda:
The cast, as announced by the
mittee yesterday is as fol
"Chick" Meyers, Bernice Hill;
cer Meyers, Miriam Wetzel; Mi
Livingstone, Edna Christensen;
Livingstone, Frances H'orine; A
Whimble, Dorothy Sessions; I
'line Leonard, Helen Martin;
Morton, Eleanor Crook; Cl
Bray, Vesta DeWitt; Mr. Levi
Dorothy K. Kalmbach; Nanette,
Schroeder; Professor Amos Ru
Florence Nelson; Professor
Bristle, Nellie Rittenhouse; 'P
man Jo, Thyra Sheffield; Bo
Phyllis Turnbull; Ming Toy,
Beattie; Yioto, June Knisley; S
Gladys Trowbridge.
Choruses Announced
The choruses' for the play
also announced and are as fol
the flower girls, Margaret
Rowena Benson, Elizabeth B
Winifred Cheney, Mary Eliz
Cooney; Florence Johnston, V
Moran, Isabel Nichols, Martha
neider, Cornelia Shepherd, A
Stoner, and Jean Svensgard;
senger boys, Marion Barlow, Bea
Chapin, Helen Chapin, Margare
liot, Thelma Hamilton, Kath(
Kocher, Alice Neesley, Gertrude
Cauley, Dorothy McFarlen, Ph
Turnbull, Fannie Roberts and T
thy Williams; Egyptians, Doris
singer; Berniee Boyd, Jeane Br
Jean 'FOgle, 'Julia Hicks, Olive
mans,. Fannie JohnstonD, Do
Knapp; Virginia lacLaren,. E
Scherer, Margaret Sidney,
Sims; the lanter-n chorus, F
Alden, Jtina Barnes, Charlotte C
well, Jane Dewey, Olive Fast, E
Hulscher, Lee Jenks, Rhea'.j
Edna Kadow Constance MacDo
Ruth Mountain, Thelma Rayn
Claire Shinnick, Charlotte Sp:
steen, Josephine Stearns, Gera
Truscott; flower spirits, E
Bauschard, Maude Corey, Evelyn
hany, Elizabeth' Drake, Mar
Hays, Sally King, Julia Moore
Edna Morency, Elizabeth Oln
Taking important parts in the play, Edna Christensen, as Millicent Liv- Wetzel as Spencer Meyers, Eleanor
"Thank You, Madam," which the 'ingstone, Frances Horine as Mary Crook as Dolly Morton, and Vesta
class of 1925 w ill present March 18-Livingstone, Dorothy K. KaImback as DeWitt as Chester Bray; the bottom
clas of 1925 will teetr, arch 18- Mr. Levinsky; the second row: Ethel row, Dorothy Sessions as Adolph
22, at the Whitney theater, are, read- Schroder as Nanette, Berenice Hill as Whimble, and Helen Martin as Made-
ing from left to right, the top row: Chick Meyers; the third row: Miriam line Leonard.
"Show Has Good
Book"--'Campbell
"The book of 'Thank You.. Madame,
is a gooad one," said Prof. Oscar J.
Campbell, .of the English department,
endorsing the twentieth annual Junior
Girls' play. "It present a story which
offers opportunity f6r picturesque sets
and much good-humored college sat-
ire," he continued. "The dialogue pos-
sesses the rare virtue of being easy
and natural. It is free from the twin
hanes of much uidergraduate comedy,
forced smartness and painfully con-
trived jests, yet it is always lively anq
ampusing. The authors have never
~tried .to seem funnier than they are.
If the lyric and the music are worthy
of this book, The Junior Gi'rls' Play of
the Class of 1925 will set new stand-
ards of excellence."
Professor Campbell, who conducts
many of the drama courses in the
English department, is considered an
outstanding authority on contempor-
ary drama.
Get Than 14
Budapest, Mar. 15.-Water
come more expensive than
Budapest because of the spe
ter taxes imposed to increase t
income. The Hungarian gov
found the tax so burdensoi
forced to disband the Budal
financial administration.
7ater
has be-
ri
Find Students
Careless About
Drawing Checks
When is a student a crook? Sonie-
time or other throughout the school
year when, whether, intentionally or°
unintentionally, a..student overdraws
his account or passes a check with no
money in the bank to cover -the same,.
he is committing a criminal act in the
state of Michigan.
'A day or two previous to a holiday;
or vacation seems to be the time
when most attempts are made to over-
draw accounts, was the information
received from several of the bankers
and merchants who were interviewed.
"The highest number of checks we
have turned back in one day is 54,
which occurred last June," reported,
a cashier of one of the Ann Arbor
banks. It has been found by some of;
the State street merchants that there
are some students who will deliberate-
ly cash a check in order to get some
money on which to get home on be-
fore a holiday. Most of these students,
however, take these checks up when
they return.
No cases of forgery were reported,
although one of the cashiers told the 1
following interesting incident which
happened about three weeks ago. A I
young fellow stepped up to the-win-
dow of the bookkeeper and said, "How
much is my bank balance, my name is
so and so." After Having been noti-
fled that it was $14, he went and wrote
out a check for $71 which he present-
ed at the window of one of the tellers.?
The teller was a little suspicion s of
the check and walked back to see the
bookkeeper. In the meantime, how-
ever, the young man disappeared
through the door. A further examina-
tion of the check proved it to be a
forgery.
Brumm Says Play
Is!Entertaining
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"A play brim full of good fooling
and attractive music and dancing," is
Prof. John R. Brummu's characteriza-
tion of "Thank You, Madam." 'or
eleven weeks Prof. Brumin has -'bee
directing cast and choruses for thej
latest of the women's productions, are,?
his enthusiasm is apparent in his en-
(Torsement. He"goes on to describec
the production in every phase.
"The .play," le says, "will prove to
be thoroughly entertaInii.g. ' The atory
is consistently suAained to the end
and is altogether colegiate. It hits
our outstanding college characters and
foibles with a kindly satire. at the
same time employing no stock situa-
tions or outworn theatrical devices.
The whole plot will be realistically
romantic and sophisticated without
sacrificing beauty and good taste."
"There are more choruses than
formerly," says Prof. Brumm, in com-
menting on the growing production,
"and they present an almost bewild-
ering variety. But every chorus 'be-
longs.'. The dancing is quite distinc-
tive for an amateur show. And the
play is well cast; the variety of char-
acters and their individuality will add
much to its success. Each girl was
chosen for her peculiar fitness for the
character she interprets.'
"The music deserves special men-
tioni. One , remembers it-whistles or
huts it unconsciously. A well bal-
,anced orchestra wfll ' help to estab-
lish the score as probably the best in
the history of the play." So thinks
the professor-director.
stops. Unless this is done the people Evelyn
out for a good time will have to buy chorus,
enough liquor before 12:30 to keep Maudec
them merry until 2. beth (
Smith, Eola Zeigen; clo
Alice Allen, Edith B
Corey, Claire Douglas,
'Hayes, Elizabeth H
Junior Girls' Play History
Reveals Interesting Gro
From a morality play -Every
Senior," given by the junior class one
afternoon in Barbour gymnasium to
the present carefully planned produc-
tion of "Thank You, Madam," which
runs forsixtperformances atthe
Whitney theater is a far cry! Such,
however, has been 'the growth of the
Junior Girls' play.
The first play which is recorded in
the fragmentary files of the Daily is
"Every Senior" given in 1905. "Michi-
guse," in the files of 1908, is reported
to resemble a Michigan Union minstrel
show of which Mrs. -Jordan said, "It
is a pity, for so much talent to be ex-
hibited only for the benefit of girls.,"'
In the play'for 1909, "Eds and Co."
Professor Wenley was already dis-
cussing the issues of the "is" and the
"isnotness" of the "isnot." Billiken
the god of things-as-they-ought-to-be,
was celebrated in "Martiagan" in 1910
when such songs as "I Am the God
of Luckiness," and "I Kind O'Like
Ann Arbor," made tremendous hits.,
Ambition in reality marked the 1912
play which moved its. place of presen-
tation to Sarah Caswell Angell hall.
"In Old Bagdad" occurred the suc-
cess, "Just for a Smile." The tenth
annual nlav "The Treasure of Toule"
ditties to the juniors. "The
Yogie" and "Felicia Finess(
duced the next two years sh(
influence of the War, while t
commenting on "Meddling wi
in 1918 said, "The questionc
a public performance will be
this week."
"Gold" in 1919 was the firs
be presented at the Whitney t
which the senior women wer
ed in taxi-cabs. The compan
Detroit performance also. R
the 1920 play,'"Patricia Passe
Millar, a reporter from ti
said, "Had Michigan men see
gan women as did a select
night, certain provi4cial
might have been changed."
Sam, the colored porter in
Sue" in 1921 established a r
popularity of a comedy st
two hits of the show. "Over
penses" and "Reputations"
sung by the women of the U
Special scenery and emphasi
made "Sceptres and Serena
matically worth rememberi
the cannibal-chorus and "The
were perhaps the most popu
hers..
Years of struggle to open tI
hla' ni- a ote )uhui
wine in ei JU IR ID S
c alewa-91O UND IL
he city's
e it was P YTICKETS O INUES
nest .city - -
'Tickets for the Junior Girls' play,I
IThank , You, Madam," to be given
I March 18-22 at Whitney theater will
be on sale from 2 to 5 o'clock tomor-
rorw at. the box' office of Hill audi-
w th torium. Beginning with Tuesday,
'March 18, the sale will be continued at.
eYankie ' the Whitney theater.-
eSix performances of the play will be
~"pro-
wed presented next week. The first. on
he DailyI Tuesday, "will be given in honor of thef
he Dars"senior women, and Is open to the1
th Mars" i
f giving women and the faculty of the Uni-
e deidedversity. The remaining performances.
decided on Wenesday, Thursday, Friday and
t play to Saturday nights, and on Saturday,
heater to afternoon, are open to the general
heatr topublic.
e escort- b.
y gave a Prices for seats are as follows:
.v i $2.50 for the lower floor and boxes;
seviewing $2.00 for the first four rows in thej
se Daily,. balcony; $1.50 for the second four
n Michi' rows in the balcony; and $1.00 for
f last the remainder of the balcony. The
opinions gallery will not be open. Good seats
for all of the performances are still
a "Selina available..
ecord for
ar, wxle
head Exc- JPN W l REUL
Novel Costumes, Tuneful Sc
To Feature "Thank You,1Ma
-Illinois to Give Opera
Urbana, Ill., March 15.-"Carlotta
will be the title of the Illinois Pie
rots' opera which will be present
April 11-12 at Urbana. The first try
outs were held recently, and the fina
cast will start rehearsal before th
end of the week.,The' opera is beir
coached by Leroy Prinz of Chicago.
Louise 'Pletke, Will Ella Stark,
Stewart, Gladys Trowbridge,..
VanBaalenT Sally Walser; Cos
Evelyn D'omany',. Margaret'
Salty King, Elizabeth Olmsted
elyn Smith, ,Eola Zeigen; college
I Martha 'Ghase,' Dorothy-Emery,
Kingsley. Olive McKay, Elsa
I(Continued on Page Eleven'
Good Jazz Gift
To Music World
Harvard University.-"J'zz - good
jazz-is America's only original con-
tribution to the music of the world,"
Prof. E. P. Hill of the music depart-
ment of -Harvard, believes.
-"It reveals a typical American mood
h S PLY SCODetails in plot, music, costumes.; been orchestrated by George S. H
scenery, and lighting, are being care- of Brooklyn, N. Y., who orchestr
fully worked out for the 24th annual the music for "Cotton Stockings,"
'fuly wrkedoutforTheISthKnnul rs now conducting the orchestra
Junior Girls' play, "Thank You, Mitzi's "The Magic Ring." A 14-p;
Scores Madam," upon which the curtain of I orchestra made up of advanced
Scorescontaining the music and the Whitney theater will rise Tuesday dents in the school of music and o
lyrics of "Thank You, Madam," go on night. Strenuous efforts, begun last yw
sale tomorrow for the remainder of June have been increased so that oc- has been practicing with the chor
the week at the University of Music Icasional committee meetings have de- for some time.
house and at Graham's, Wahr's, andveloped into daily rehearsals. Pro- Unique costumes are one of
Slaternsqbok stores.sBginningewit
Ster's book stores. Beginnin""g with fessor John R. Brumm of the depart- features of 'Thank You, Mada
the opening per ormance on uesd ay, ment of journalism, who has been di- since almost every .chorus has 'a
Srecting the play, now pronounces it tinctive personality. A number of
Whitney theater. They contain the ready for the entertainment of the costumes have been rented "1
17 numbers of the play and have a University. Fritz, Schoultz and Compan of
colored cover of the same design. as
the advertising. posters. The scores Written by Louise Barley and Jose- sago, while a great deal of 'time
will sell for $2.00 acopy.phine Stearns, the book for "Thank energy has been expended on the
You, Madam," was selected from 24 which have been constructed' by
' manuscripts submitted by members of members of the play. They ra
Don t Overwork" the class. The action of the story is from brilliant red to shades of or:
placed for the first scene in a florist's and to maize and blue. Some of
is in ru or shop in Ann Arbor, and for the second costumes will be smart, some ap
scene before a movie star's home in priate for interpretive dances, bu
Cambridge. Mass., March 15.-En- Hollywood. Seventeen junior women will be unusual.
couraging news is given to students i take the principal. roles from "Chick." Colorful sets of scenery made
by an instructor at Ifarvary Univer- the handsome hero, to Bobbie, the sly O. S.- Davis of Detroit, form the b
sity who says that it is impossible to little messenger boy. A parody on ground for the two acts of the I
do all of the asigned outide reading the Opera might well be "Our hand- The interior scene in the first ac
I
are still
niversity.?
s on plot;
les" dra-
ng while
e Ladies"
lar num--
he Junior
c= n ally 's
and possesses a new and vital rhy-
thnm. Some, American composer with
a proper sense of style, who is well
grounded in both types of music, may,
Tokio, March 15. -- The Iinperial embody -l the features of jazz in a
Theater in Tokio. until the earthquake symphonic composition.
and fire of September 1 the finest in "Will some popular jazz composer1
the Orient. is to be rebuilt this year, acquire the technique that is neces-
according to a recent announcement. sary to raise his work out of the jazz
The frame of the old structure, left class, or will some highbrow' con-'