PAGE TWO
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1923
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ROBERT
BARTRON
HENDERSON
THE UNION MAKES $20,000 these promenades in themse
There is no point in this wailing every revueOnust have them,
and gnashing of teeth over the success management really should at
ci the Union Opera. It is perfectly that these anuatoneed, b
true that as the most expensive dra-t
grtesques are at 1-st teny
matc venture on the campus it repire-g
ents, in part, only the obvious and hind the times In: the place
unoriginal elements of a Broadway siuppseiy hIrtorical cr nast
leg show. Nevertheless, the fact re- possri ly symboi night-go
mains: the Opera is a success, not -mot roder drect'os hav
only here but in the largest and i-most .o ' RusIan pr'irrive des'
critical cities of the country, it makes e iore p-cc tp
a small fortune annually, and it i . d tccr a Jarrec Rer
here to stay.O. I 'he recr"'Vi iaFllies
Of course, this talk of representing ast lwoa i ld Fol ies.
the university is miere box-office piffle On the other hcan, agains
The main function of this year's Operalous first act Cotton Stocki
is .to present Lionel E. Ames to the ,a corinrg second acr-and, cc
vaudeville managers of Necw York| the only wordto describe it.
city, and with this in mind he is being ioff wito an interiude that
pushed to the limit. There is no ques snappy and suggestive as a
tion that Ames is uniquely talented. ped show, the next four nu
He has form, beautiful ankles, grace- the pony ballet carried the t
ful arms, a stunning back, and if he a remarkable clinax. The r
can overcome certain cutey manner of tris group, in fact, were
isms be ought to be highly successfu hit of the performance. Th
in his chosen field. well-trained, awkward, and f
As for the Opera itself, it is a e- 'lid more than any other sing
culiar combination of the very goc to give the audience their
and the very bad. To save the best orth
for. the last, it is proper to get the 'Anon the principals, Ha
atrocitiesout of the way at the ot sthe v.spre w seven bet
set, First and foremost, was the' Dnad Ephlin of last year-
plot. Not only was it a re-hash of saying alot -andEdward
"In and Out," "Sally," "Cinders," and in a very minor part wasrd
a hundred others, but it was also Through "The Cloister," "(
dragged to such interminable lengths Fame and the Poet," and fi
as to almost ruin the opening act. I operas he has been so 'uniforr
may be wrong, and I probably am, but that one can picture him ar
if the first half 'of the present show perfect in the lead of the in
as produced last Tuesday evening gets "taain'Applejack."
across in New York, I will give up the :e
gentle game of prophecying entirely. Another virtue was the cons
It drags, which is the utterly unpar--Imthementhelsat
donable sin of a musical comedy. improvemfnt of the settings
The next disappointment was Dres- airithser ay of last yes
bach. Again it may have been the fature was the pe
fault of the lines, but he seemed to curtailmentof encores. T
me just about two notches above Pall answer to the past excess h
and Mall-or whatever last year that an audience would not a
low comedians were called. Dresbach oshow tocontine withouta
when he pantomimes, is a true artist four repetitions ,of each
and as funny as Bert Savoy used to which has been definitely refs
be but when he starts to pull that year to the immense improve
hoary bathroom stuff . . well, it the production.
may make the wife of a faculty mem-- Finally, a great deal of
ber roar, but it leaves everyone in should go to the ,beautiful I
their right minds cold and dripping. number of the finale. Here
A final complaint lies in the fashion modern type .of costume m
4parades. There is no quarrel with above as well as the. very moa
vice of painting with ligh
ought to take in New York,
F. L. Tilden..........Editor nothing else does.
Donald E. L. Snyder...... Books 1 Of course, the Opera is n
Normand Lockwood......Music what it used to be-and tha
Robert Bartron Henderson... ama necessarily uncomplimentary
Gordon Wier.............DArt completely evolved from the
Lisle Rose, Halsey Davidson, igawky giants in petticoats,
Newell Bebout, Samuel Moore, its campus burlesque on its ro
Jr., Maxwell Nowles, Philip Wag- It now frankly. invites care
ner, Dorothy Sanders. parison with. the most e
The Sunday Magazine solicits ( Broadway extravaganzas.,W
manuscripts from all persons af- as .a standard "Cotton Stock
fiiated with the University. Man- bct the realization of the id
uscripts must be typewritten, . it is, on the other hand, mucl
triple spaced and written on one ( to it than the offering last y
side only. * * * * with a decent book, more
The Sunday Magazine acknowl =1parades, and younger humor
edges The American Secular Un-
ion review service for "The Un- ter should be able to turn oun
official Observer" department. * remarkable production next
"Nothing breaks a man:
Ibrag about his misfortunes a
Its the policy of this magazine to as abouthis successes."
publish articles of opinion by both Barbellion, "Enjoying Life, E
st,,dents and faculty members if, in
ths judgment of the editor, these arti-
cles are of intrinsic value and iniorost. "Love must always remain
yhis does -not mean that manuscripts
solicited or voluntarily ofered are cination, a witchery, if the e
necessarily in accord with editorial woman Is o endure."
opinion either in principle or formmn Fi e ,ure.
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