I THE MICHIGAN DAILY \ Famous Russian Basso To Sing fIJ IDuring Cleveland Opera Week IfT ssaaaarsaaasets*aaOas IL LY I. I 1Ini / Bradstreet Indicates All Business' Less Tihan Average of ' Year Agp BANK RETURNS, MAIL ORDERS, tGNERAL SALES, SHOW DEICLINE New York, April 7.-Trade and in- dustry, according to Bradstreet's, taljen as a whole, average only about fair, and several measures of move- ment for March confirm the earlier reports in these columns of a tapering off from a year ago. This is borne out by bank clearings returns, by mail- order sales, by pig iron and automo- bile outputs, and by late weeks' car loadings, all of which have fallen be- hind February or March a year ago. There was, however, a thread ,of im- provement running through the re- ports from the Southwest as to retail trade. 411 reports seem to be slightly dis-. ,'couraging. Better weather found little reflecion in enlarged retail or jobbing trade, except at some south- ern and southwestern points, and this+ was practically offset by a sag in .re- ports from the Pacific coast, which had been fairly good throughout the yiste r . 1/ost activity -is still manifest in the constructive lines, 'but steel buying has;lessened, while building materials bae ishown a slight increase in ac- tivity, C oaIl, so coal especially, has Sbeen. depressed, with prices about at theirloWst, .although''the olening of t nRiavigation has steadied things a trifle where prospects of expansion from this cause exist. Failure to agree on wvage scales in the south- western coal fields may render 40,000 en idle. Vtarch sales on the stock exchange totaled 18,206,114 shares, a decrease of 11 percent from February and of 29 percent from March a year ago. Bond sales for the month totaled $282,490,- 889, a gain of 20 percent over Febru- ary and of 5 percent over March last year. Production in pig iron for three months, 9,554,000 tons, is 2 per cent below .that of the similar period last year. Automobile output for the first quarter will be 1,040,000, as against 875,503, a gain of 18 percent over the 1923 output for the same quarter. Wheat exports dropped from. 344,275,- 22 bushels to 305,467,365 bushels for the 40 weeks ending April 3. Bank clearings at leading cities of tlie United States for the week ending April 3, as reported to Bradstreet's otirnal, aggregatdd a gain of 5.3 per- cent over last week and of 7:5, percent over this:week last year. Detroit re- ports a gain of 26.3 percent over last year. Bank debits gained 4.2 percent over the, like week a year ago. l Cleveland's week of Metropolitan Opera, which begins on April 28, of- fers a repertoire of seven operas, which includes such favorites as "Aida" (opening night), "Carmen," "Rigoletto," "Faust," "Romeo et Juliette," '1 Trovatore"-all of theml popular works which most musicI lovers have heard dozens of times. The last reports from Dreher's ticketI office in Cleveland quote an advance sale of over $60,000. The one opera included in the rep- ertoire which is not so widely known is the Russian masterpiece of MVous- sorgsky, "Boris Godunoff." It was selected because of the magnificent opportunitiy which it gives Feodor Chaliapin in the title role. As the false Tsar of the Russias, Chaliapin'si impersonation is said to be superb, aud with the assistance of a cast which includes Kathleen Howard,? Ellen Dalossy, Marion Telva, Hen- riette Wakefield, Bada, Picco, Mar- 5 9 Feodor Chalialdn dones, Reschliglian, Tokatyan, Anan- s, ian, Audlsio, Palrnieri and other 1 dones, Louis D 'Angelo, Rosina Galli, well-known singers, the performancer premier danseuse of the Metropolitan will 'be one to delrht the "moderns" Opera company, will give incidental In opera. The seat sale for this per- danres with the famous Corps de Bal- in torma.ThonFrsday nsght fOsper- let. Roberto Moranzoni will conduct. formance-on Friday night of Oper: Tuesday evening brings "Carmen," week-is one of the heaviest of the with Florence Easton, Queena Mario, entire season. gEdward Johnson, Jose Mardones and Chaliapin will sing th oe O}other favorite singer s~ na i o G gi Mephistopheles in Gounod's "Faust" oten aitsnght ers. inoGi on the preceding night, Thursday, xensa ihBnavn il with Edward Johnson in the title and Lucrezia Bori will give "Rigo- role, Frances Alda as the lovely Mar- letto" with Guiseppe De Luca, Marion guerite. Dalossy, Howard, Tibbett Telva, Adamo Didur and other sing - and D'Angelo contributing. Those ers assisting. who heard Chaliapin in Boito's opera, Thursday evening, "Faust," with "Mefistofele" during the recent De- Chaliapin and Edward Johnson, troit engagement of the Chicago Frances Alda and Lawrence Tibbett Operatcompany will notsmiss aother and others. opportunity to enjoy his magnificent' "Boris Godunoff" will be sung on. singing, his artistic interpretation, Friday night, with the cast already the inspiration which the appearance given. of this great actor always brings. Saturday matinee will be particu- Cleveland's new Public Auditorium larly popular-"Romeo et Juilette," is being made over for the appear- wt il n oi oLcAai ances of the Metropolitan Opera com- an, Didur and other fine artists. pany. A horseshoe of forty boxes has The season will close on Saturday been built, which encloses a dress, night, with "Il Trovatore," with Rosa circle of 600 seats, behind which rises Ponselle and Martinelli, Telva and the parquet, row upon row, until the Anthony and other singers.,! final row downstairs is over six feet ~-"- - - from the floor level. Every occupant Short Exam Found of every seat downstairs will be able to see the stage perfectly. The bal- Equally Accurate cony of the Auditorium needs no i With Longer One recommendation to those who have sat there for musical events. And the ~~ perfect acoustics of the Auditorium New Haven, Conn., April 10.-Short are nationally famous. Because of its and snappy exams are just as accn- huge capacity of over 10,000, a price rate in testing college students as range for the Metropolitan Opera of those four times as long, Dr. Donald $1 to $7 is made possible: and as any A. Laird, national research fellow in profits which accrue are to be given Yale university, has announced. to the Cleveland Music School settle- I He examined 67 psychology stu- ment, there is no tax: Especial at- dents with 80 questions which could tention is being given to orders re- be answered by a single word or ceived from out-of-town music- short phrase in an hour and a half. lovers; checks should be made to the Scoring the first 20 questions on the Cleveland Concert company, and or- percentage of correct replies and cor- ders sent to Dreher's ticket office, j relating these figures with those ob-R 1226 Huron road, Cleveland. tained on the basis of the full test of Elizabeth Rethberg, with Giovanni 80 questions lie found there was only Martinelli, will sing "Aida" on the a slight difference. IHe also scored opening night, with a distinguished the first 40 and the first 60 questions cast which includes Karin Branzell, as if these sections had been the full Giordano Paltrinieri, Nanette Guild- test and found that the correlation ford, Giuseppe Danise, Jose Mar- increased but slightly. A NNUAL AUMNI MEETING TO BE HELDAT SAGINAW Saginaw alumni will entertain the first district meeting of the Associ- ated Michiganealumni clubs ofsthe ninth district on April 17, as was ap- proved by the board of directors of the association at the meeting held here recently. The ninth district includes the southeastern part of Michigan and all of Ontario, Canada. Detroit with its 4,000 alumni has the largest club in this district and probably will send a large delegation to the district cele- bration. A big feature of the meeting will be the annual Sprout, originally the spring vacation stunt party of the Saginaw club of the University, but this year to be held jointly by the alumni and the undergraduates. Dean Mortimer Cooley of the engineering college will be the principal speaker of the program. The ninth district meeting of Asso- ciated Michigan clubs will be the sec- ond under the reorganization scheme of the general alumni association. The initial meeting was the one held in Cleveland last January for the third district. Others will follow the Saginaw meeting, most of them being scheduled for May. WOMEN NOW ENROLING FOR LAKEGUEEV CAMP Summer vacations are still some- what a thing of the future, but plans are already being made for the dele- gation of women which will go to the, college camp at ake Geneva, Wis., during the latter part of the summer.. Women interested in attending the camp, or in learning more about it, are urged to sign up immediately at the office of the University Y. t. C. A., in Newberry hall. Any woman on the campus is elig- ible to attend the camp, which will be open to college women for ten days during the latter part of the summer. The delegation last year consisted of I fourteen women, including two from the nurse's Y. W. C. A. This year it is hoped that double this number from the University may attend the camp. CEMENTS IBRARYl, LOW 1CLUB SHOWNAT EXHlBITI" Clements library and the new Uni- versity Law club were given unsual prominence at the thirty-ninth annual exhibit of the architecural league in New York City recently. One of the exhibit rooms for the Fine Arts build- ings contained a University of Michi- gan special exhibition with numerous architects' plans, photographs and enlarged drawings, as well as artists' I sketches of the Law club and the library. 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The rate of the total states is 12.6 per 1,000, as compared with 11.8 for the wvh ile home on your vacation about that -- The Detroit Mercantile Adjutsers -- 211 EAST- LIBERTY STREIET BETWEEN FOURTH & FIFTH AVES. The Most Outstanding Values in Ann Arbor! Trip to Europe .. t ' .year 1922. On the other hand, the birth rate of the total states for the first nine months of 1923, 'was 22.8 per 1,000, as compared with 23.1 for the same period in 1922. Here North Carolina leads with 30.2 per 1,000, while Mon- tana is lowest with 17.5. Michigan shows a slight increase in birth rates, 23.7 per 1,000 as against 23.6 for 1922. Transcripts of Michigan deaths have not yet been received for the quarter. 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