THE~ MICHIGAN DAILY____________
Stage,
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IWitney1
"Blossom Time", the enchanting
,chubert operetta, will be the attract-
ion -at the Whitney theatre on Satur-
day, December 15, under the direction
of the Messrs. Lee and J. J. Shubert.
ie' has had a remarkable triumph
everywhere it has played, running in
New York for two years.
Dorothy Donnelly indicated her
splendid capacity is adaptor by the
re-writing of the book and the supply-
ing of a new set of lyrics. In the or-
iginal this musical play was by A. M.
Willner and R. Reichert, The score is
made up of music from the melodies
of Franz Shubert, new Viennese mus-
ic by H. Berte, and a new score adapt-
ed by Sigmund Romberg.
Among the important members of
the cast will be Joseph Mendelsohn,
Elizabeth Gergely, Madja St. Clair,
Ethel Spaulding, Aba Howard,. Eliza-
beth Marvin, Marie Dantes, John
Fields, Patrick Kelley, and Elsie
'Duffield.
"Did Hi Pi k Hik1WQok Or Hitchcock Hi?"
Query A s President Maker Joins Johnson
Washington, Dec. 8-In writing of
the teaming up of Frank H. Hitchcock
and Hiram Johnson in the furtherancej
i of M. Johnson's White House hopes,1
one can't be absolutely certain of ac-
curacy in saying "Hiram Johnson se-
lected Frank H. Hitchcock as his man-
ager," because Frank H. Hitchcock
may'have selected- Hiram Johnson as!
his candidate.
You just can't keep Hitchcock out
,of presidential campaigns. He has
hitched his wagon to the stars of
Roosevelt, Taft, Hughes, and Wood.
Now it's Johnson.
-Was, Roosevelt Advance Man
It 'was as a member of the Roose-j
velt official family that Hitchcock
first displayed his genius for organiza-
tion. Frank, then assistant postmas-
ter-general, was the man called in to
do the preliminary advance-man work
notably below the Masbn and Dixon
line, when Theodore Roosevelt decid-
ed that William Howard Taft would
be a strong candidate to succeed him
in the White House.
There is a story going the rounds ]
in Washington that Hitchcock had to I
do and undo his work that time. He
had already toured' the states for
Cortelyou when the news came that
Taft was the man, so he had to re-
cover his ground.
However, the important thing was
that his toiling was not in vain.
He had charge of the forces in the
national convention that checked the
Roosevelt stampede and finally suc-
ceeded in nominating Taft.
His marvelous management of the
Taft campaign is political history. His
reward was the post of postmaster-
general in the Taft cabinet.
Paved Way for Hughes
Again in 1915 he was the man who
made the preliminary survey of the
country in the interests of Charlis
Evans Hughes, and he wasn't surpris-
ed in the least when Hughes was
nominated. He was a member of the
national executive committee in that
campaign.
In .1920 he was called in to turn the
convention tide in favor of Wood, an
attempt that almost-succeeded.
Frank Harris' Hitchcock-that's his
full name-was nurtured by good old
Ohio, mother of presidents and most
of Washington at 'present, but he
votes in New York now. He was
born in Amherst, 0., in1869. He has
a string of college degrees: A. B.
(Harvard), LL.B. and ;LL.M. (George
Washington( Universiy), perhaps a
few honorary ones, too.
His first government position was
that of chief of the division of forpign
markets in the Department of Agri-
culture. That was in 1897. He has
been in politics more or less ever
since.
Further, he's a bachelor.
Garriek
x "The Cat and the Canary" will be-
4in a second week at the Garrick
theatre tonight. It has set a pace for
-excitement and is a proof of the
.theory that the public loves to have
Its pulses stirred with a sense of
manger and then enjoy the tingle of a
_appy escape.
Through 'a maze of perils move a
boy and girl whose every step is fol-
4owed with tense interest by the aud-
ience while as danger piles on danger
pvery other character in the story is
under suspicion as the perpetuator
of the creppy things going on.
A T THE THEA TERS
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grown in the year since they last ap-
peared in Ann Arbor to be one of the
foremost orchestras in the country,
will: be the current stage attraction
this week. Starting Thursday, the bill
is ehtirely changed' with Waring's
Pennsylvanians in a different pro-
gram and with "The Net", a play of
iystery and thrills, as the screen
feature. 'The usual comedy and news
,is added.
Arcade
e "In Search of a Thrill", featuring
Viola Dana, appears at the Arcade
.oday through Thursday.
' The story concerns Ann Clemance
.who forsakes the stage and lives a
.1lfe of ease in Paris. Here she meets
Adrian Torrens, an author, and they
dina together. Adrian piques her van-
ity by ignoring her charms and so she
flirts with Rene de Farge, a pro-
fessional dancer, and leader of the
Apaches. She dances with Rene, and
incurs the enmity of Jeanne, his dan-
cing partner. Later she disguises
herself as an underworld character,
enters Adrian's rooms and is caught.
He befriends her and asks to accomp-
any him to the slums, where he seeks
local color for a book. Back in the
underworld haunts she is recognized
by Rene, who plans to kidnap her and
hold her for ransom. Adrian is the
rescuer in whom she later finds happi-
ness.
Owen Moorecomes to the Arcadein{
~"Thundergate", ah exciting oriantal
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Frank Ii. HtcHcock
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story, Wednesday through Saturday
of this week.
The story deals with an American,
who, 'through the duplicity of the girl
to whom he is engaged, abetted by
her love, sinks to degradation in
China. Through circumstances his is
forced to masquerade as a Chinese
over-lord and in this quise he meets
with romance in the shape of a white
girl, who has been reared as Chinese.
The girl is brought to him as a slave-
wife. He learns she is white and then
a conflict ensues to save her from
the Chinese and at the same time ex-
pose the duplicity of his former as-
sociates.
Wenley States War Retarded
Modern Advance In Philosophy
"The, time for a really constructive
philosophy has not yet come," said
Prof. Robert Wenley of the philosophy
department in an interview. "The
greatest living philosophers write in
the spirit of Hagel or Descartes. To
quote examples, Croce, the greatest
Italian 9h'ilosopher writes but in the
spirit of Hagel. So too, the greatest
French philosopher, Bergson, writes
in the spirit of Descartes as seen
through modern biology. I say this
bit a. . jtiA W -Ull 1f n IU t
the new knowledge causing the de-
flection. These he said,,ineWfirst,
the new physics or the theoryon en-
ergy; second, the new biolbgy'tnider
Darwin; third, the ieW construction
of society under the in lustrial revo-
lution; fourth, the revelation of early
history and society made by anthro-
.pology; fifth, sociology,: or the study
of society; and sixth, psychology. All
these are bekig developed in great de-
tail.
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OrpheuI construction. No one is looking for- ley, "l as made a tremendous effect.
Milton Sills plays the major role in ward. JTust at the moment when it broke out
"The Spoilers" which features at the "All modern thought dates from ithe men of my generation had 10
Orpheum today through Wednesday. Kant, 1871," stated Prof. Wenley when years to do their best work in. This
He makes a likeable character whose asked what he considered the causes work has not yet been done. Many
diplomacy, quickness, and final dis- of the present situation. "In the 50 of the youhiger-- men of whom much
play of physical courage is evidenced years 'following Kant's time the only might have befn xpeg e4;wr iilel.
against the fraudulent politicians who constructive effort made culminated in Three of the best s udents' in phl-'
try to jump his claim. Ann Q. Nilsson Hagel in 1831. Since then- construct- osophy at Oxford, now lie within 100
and Louise Fazenda play opposite ive thought has deflected into parts." yards of each other in France.
Sills. Thursday through Saturday, He then proceeded to summarize Talking upon an experience in the
Richard Talmadge appears in "Tak- -
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Austria Increases Bates
Vienna, Dec. 8-(By A.P.)-The -
government has put into effect an in-
crease of 100 percent in telephoneWE
rates, an increase of 40 percent in
domestic first class postal rates and TN HILL
7.A percent in second class mail rates.- A D O I
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Faculty Concert Seri.s
PROGRAM 'BY FACULTY
of the University School of Music
Mrs. William Wheeler, Soprano
Mrs. Maud Okkelberg, Pianist.
Mr. Albert Lockwood, Pianist. ~
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Children under 12 years of age not admitted unless they grst
obtain tickets at School of Music.
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duality ' ~ Wednesday, December 12, 8 P.M.
CHORAL UNION SERIES
represents your
EFREM ZIMBALIST,
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RENOWNED VIOLINIST."=
at brings forth A Few Tickets for Individual Concerts Available.
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l eSunday, December 16, 4:15 P.M.
leaves a lasting MESSIAH CONCERT
THE HIGH SCHOOL CHORUS
EWELR Y under the direction of George Oscar Bowen
SOLOISTS
Mrs. William Wheeler, Soprano
welry ShopMiss Doris Howe, Contralto.
Mr. William Wheeler, Tenor.:.
F. Bay 'R. Wjne!d Adams, Baritone.
No admission charge.
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For information or tickets call at the University School of
Music, Charles A. Sink, secretary.
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