Section Two tY .Ae 4 4 D aiIl Section Two i VOL. XXXIV. No. 86 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, JANUARY 20, 1924 PRICE, FIVE CEN REVIEWERS SHOWER~ New York Papers Adndre "Sparkling Show" and "Dazzling Fashion Revue" CRITICS RATE PRODUCTION AMONG BEST PLAYS OF YEAR ."Cotton Stockings," the eighteenthz annual Union opera, swung through the east and middle west and estab- lished itself as "the greatest college opera ever produced," if criticisms written by dramatic critics viewing the performance can be believed. Ex-f tracts from the reviews have been pouring into the office of Homer Heath, manager of the Union, for the past two weeks. Toledo was enthusiastic in its praise. "Tricked out in the trappings of a Ziegfeld revue and displaying professional perfection in the aston- ishing variety and novelty of its nu- merous dance numbers, 'Cotton Stock- ings' revealed itself to a packed house in Keith's theater Friday night as the most beautiful and elaborate college show ever seen in Toledo," says V. K. R. in the Toledo Blade. Dick Meade, 'writing for the Toledo News Bee, goes even farther than this and says that "there hasn't been a show in To- ledo this winter that was as brilliant as 'Cotton Stockings' in a dancing way." The same critic also adds, "In our experience Vs fan observer of Michigan entertainments, the present" effort is far beyond anything that has come before." Lauds Chorus Work The choruses of the show were judged well nigh fit for the profes- sional stage by these same critics. "Except for the fact that there is no artifice of makeup which can make a, gnarled and knotted male leg look like anything else in the world, the entire display might be one of the lux- urious girl and music shows sent out by Broadway's leading producers," ist V. K. R.'s comment. Dick Meade be- lieves that: "Individual stepping anda team and chorus movements were' done remarkably well, so good, in fact, that iost of these boys, strange as it may seem, might jump into the chorus of a standard poduction and1 get away with it." . The Cleveland Plain Dealer an-E nounced in the headline over their re- view that the "Boys in 'Cotton Stock-1 ings' wear everything but" and went on to call the performance an "Il- lusion in the n'th degree. Costumes of rich brocade, dazzlingdsilks, ostrich feather headdresses and baby Louis3 heels turned college dancers into but- terflies, jumping jacks, and sleigh bells." James Dresbach, '24, is hailed with: "The only pink hair in town, so far, appeared on the skull of James Dres-t bach. who furnished considrable com-t edy," by the same critic.,. Calls Production Elaborate < In Buffalo the opera scored a "unique and unparalleled success" int the words of the Buffalo Courier. "Thef audience burst into thunderous ap- plause," he says, "when at the finale the company, stepping out of its parts, male chorus girls included, roared outj the strains of Michigan's famous foot- ball song, dear to the hearts of all alumni." Originality was the thing that made' the show score the success that it did, in the opinion of the Buffalo Ex- press critic, who says that "in cos-t tumes, stage settings, and in the danc- ing of the choruses the students were# continually surprising the audience1 with effects that won enthusiastic en- , cores." The Buffalo News classes c "Cotton Stockings" as "something ; - (Continued on Page Eleven) Crests Of Oxford Put On Exhibition Seals and arms of Oxford college, are on exhibition in the main hall of the Engineering school. The crests were purchased by Henry S. Booth, '24A, from Ryan & Co., of High street, Oxford, England. The seals are the work of Nelson Dawson, of London,, who is considered one of the two most prominent British enamellers of to- I day.. Booth obtained the crests while traveling in Europe. Mr. Dawson ex- I ecuted eight different college arms. and duplicated one of them. No other man has done the Oxford crests in' enamel such as the ones on display are finished in, this fact making the arms unique.. The crests will be given to the! University college of Architecture. Exeter, Oriel, New, Trinity, St. Johns,' Magdalene, and Brasenose colleges1 are represented by the shields now ont display. INVESTIGATION SHOWS Democrats To Meet In Madison Square; Convention Activities Now Under Way f ii $ }? i r s 3 Professor Snends M4,OO In Gather- I in Data ForReprtr SDa a eotHow the Madison Square Garden wl:l look when the remodeling for the convention begins. The photo was On Beverage 1taken while preparati'ns were being made for a recent bout Prof. Samuel C. Prescott of Massa- . Madison Square Garden, turned decorated and remodeled once more convention comn:ittee over San Fran-' chusetts Institute of Technology has into a flowery bower for auto shows, for the Democratic National conven- cisco when Chicagoans withdrew their announced the results of three years' speed track for athletic events andT intendive investigation, costing $40,- arena for boxing shows, will be re- tion. New York was chosen by the bid in favor of New York. 000, on coffee as a beverage. Profes- sor Prescott does not deny that coffee Will Try Cairo T[Interurban Fares is ijurious to a small minority ofn Students Create PDAA ( irr ri Masks On DisplayIIIU IIV LLLU I "Dried faces" which have been dis- played during the past week in the _IINII window of one of the State street book stores, are not the property of "Primavera," By Respighi, and "S the anatomy laboratory, as some pas- Drifts," By Delius to Be Sun sers-by have thought, but are the At Ia Festival work of Harry Burnett, '23, and An- gus Babcock, '26. These masks are made by a composition of flour, wa- OTHER CONCERT ARTISTS ter and wet newspapers being applied TO BE ANNOUNCED LATE to a plaster cast of the modelled face and left to harden. When painted,' "Primavera," a lyric poem by Rei these masks are thin enough to be pigli, and Delius' "Sea Drifts" will 1 worn while acting. worn hileactig. Ithe outstanding choral works to b The object in displaying these gro- giventsyadhegChoral non t t tesque faces is to introduce the pos- sibilities of wearing them at plays coming May festival. These two con1 given by the dramatic societies on positions are being presented i the campus. New York became ac- America for the first time, at th qainted with masked players when i Festival. No full evening work wil "The Spooks Sonata," by August bei Stringburg, was produced at the e given, comparable to the opera Providencetown theater last week. presented in former years. Kenneth MacGowan has an article in Respigli's "Primavera," which wi: the January "Century Magazine" en- be sung at the Saturday night con titled "Masks" in which he urges cert, has recently been completed the return of the use of masks in and bears the copyright date, 1923. I plays. is written in the fluent Italian styl and employs somewhat modern or chestration. The work calls for sc i C rmuinEPARnM[NT prano, tenor, baritone anr bass so loists, and, this, wtih" its unusuaE gle number on the Festival progran ,Wier Makes Translation. Pyrex System 1Plesents New Method Respigli is a member of the mod ForConcentratingOrangeern. Italian school of composers. H JFicatig range first came into prominence at th publication and performance of hi lyric, "The Fountains of Rome." Prof Apparatus for boiling down liquids M. C. Wier, of the rhetoric depart which are to enterhinto foodcproducts ment, is making the English trans in such a way that they come into! lation of the "Primavera," and he wil contact only with Pyrex glass, or hold the copyright. earthenware known to the layman in The performance of Delius' "Sea the form of baking dishes, is the Drifts" will be given at the Thursda' latest development of the chemistry night concert. Delius' work, which department. The difficulty previously calls for baritone soloist and chorus encountered in designing equipment is set to the words of Walt Whitman in which liquids could be evaporated This performance has been arranged has ben solved by a machine which through the Universal Editing ani is now in operation in the laborato-'publishing company. Though neve ries in the East Engineering building. given in this country, this work is a This work was begun on the sug- favorite in England and on the con gstion of the manufacturers of con- tinent. centrated orange juice, who asked for Chicago Symphony to Play this equipment because orange juice In addition to this, the Choral Union contains an acid which attacks any will sing several choruses from the ordinary metal from which an evap- I Bach B minor Mass, on Thursday orator could be made, and because evening, while the Introduction and they wished an apparatus which could Hymn to the Sun, from Mascagni's be kept spotlessly clean, since it is "Iris," will be given on Saturday in connection with a food product. with the "Primavera." Pyrex glass has fulfilled both these Artists for the Festival will be an requirements. nounced in the near future. The re In operation, the orange juice to maining' concerts of the series wil be concentrated is fed as a thin be given by visiting artists and the liquid into a spiral of Pyrex tubes Chicago Symphony orchestra. contained in a steam chamber. In i i people whose health is below normal;I To London Flight but he has swept aside the idea that drinking coffee is a slow, method of London, Jan. 20.--To Cairo in one poisoning. day, and to India The report of the authority brands y in four days, is the coffee as a servant rather than a de- aim of the new Imperial Transport stroyer of civilization. Properly pre- i Company. The company, says the pared and rightly used, he finds that Evening News, seeks tenders for coffee acts as a mild stimulant, but planes with twin or triple engines, without harmful reaction. It aug- capable of cruising at 105 per miles Iments the activities of brain and per hour with a top speed of 125 miles muscle. It aids mental concentration and being able to fly 1,000 miles with- and sustained brain work, and has out a stop. been an important factor in the pro- duction of masterpieces in art, letters and music. Coffee is not habit form-f ing. Its operation is somewhat com-W parable to that of oil upon machinery. A large amount of 'technical litera- ture on coffee was collected. A digest ! of more than 700 articles, books and ! papers, covering a period of many Chester H. Lang, '15, has been ap- years, was made. The survey included pointed one of the two assistant man- most of the reports published in En- agers of the newly organized pub- glish, French, German, Spanish and licity department of the General Italian. Abstracts made from theseEy artcle exeeda tousndtypewrit- Electric company at Schenectady,1 articles exceed a thousand tpwi-New York,, which was recently formed' ten pages and form a valuable his-' torical contribution to the subject. by the merger of the publication and It was proved that the quantity of advertisig departments of the com- caffein normally used by a coffee pany. drinker has no injurious or deprecia- Mr. Lang was an associate editor Cory effect. It would require an of The Daily and baseball manager amount of caffein equivalent to that in his senior year, and an associate 'editor of the Michiganensian. He is contained in 150-200 cups of ordinary a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon strong coffee taken at one time tob kill a man weighing 154 pounds, it~ and Michigamnua. was estimatedafter a seriesofaHe is one of the most active mem- wasetimate afterse-hers of the Schenectady chapter of riments on rabbits. I the Michigan Alumni association, and BURNETT, 917, WINS PROMOTION takes a leading part in the affairs of Schenectady Post, American Legion, Verne E. Burnett, '17, is now direct- ! of which he is an ex-vice commander. ing advertising copy for General Mo-' tors corporation, Detroit. Burnett, who has been advertising manager for Bu sey Commends the Cadillac Motor Company since Sigma 1921, has been named as a member ___ of the Institutional Advertising Coin- A Alpha Chi Sigma chemical engi- mittee of the General Motors torpor-' Firin r 11111 FAn i,: r ~ ------C r 1 ,. ,}r Y j rI , Y .) JL I IUI I LI11IlU11 D8RAWSAUTO FANS i t a ) +1 I I f# { i Thousands Crowd Building to Latest Arrhils In Car Designs View i To A dvance Soon , Under authorization of the Michi- gan Public Utilities commission, in-! terurban fare on the Detroit, JacksonI and Chicago railway will advance to; two and three-eights cents per mile3 January 15. However, for the benefit of regular patrons, the company will inaugurate; a 60 day trial period with a series oft commuter's tickets that will permitt riders to travel between two given points at practically the same aver- age rate as has existed before. PRICES Q FDISPLAYS RANGE FROM $265 TO $14,500 SEDAN Detroit, Jan. 20.-Thousands of auto enthusiasts crowded the new conven-l tion hall at Woodward and Cass ave-. nues to usher in the twenty-third an- nual show of the Detroit Auto Deal- ers' association last night. Last night's was the largest crowd ever to attend an auto show in this city. The brilliantly lighted hall withp its immense floor space of 180,000 square feet was massed with 20,000 auto fans, who taxed the building to its capacity. The throng was a va- ried one, all kinds and conditions of people seeming interested in the new models, many of which recently ar- rived from the New York show. Four orchestras played in different parts of the building. Interest in the new models was keen. No display was without its little knot of people surrounding the beautifully finished coaches, listening to the salesmen tell of new or imp proved features, clambering in and1 out of the luxurious sedans and talk- ing excitedly among themselves. Sev- eral new makes of passenger cars,i never before exhibited in Detroit. at-( tracted particular attention.I Altogether, there were 329 passen-1 ger cars exhibited and 87 displays of commercial vehicles. An unprece- dented number of exhibits of automo- tive equipment were also shown. There is something of humor to be found in the arrangement of exhibits. The highest priced car on the floor, a Rolls-Royce, priced at the modest figur-e of $14,500, stands next to Ford's latest creation, a roadster at $265.t The annual interest displayed in this year's show has been predicted by automobile dealers in Detroit forl some time. The much improved facil- ities for showing in this city, together with the remarkable improvement in' passenger car construction during the past year are given as the rea- sons for the striking success of last night's opening. FRENCH HOLDS PLACE AS POPULARLAGUAGE French is still the most popular{ language in the University, accord-I ing to figures given out by Registrar Hall. The figures show, however,, that the number of students taking that language has decreased fro 1,596 in 1920 to 1,296 a year ago. Ger-- man, on the other hand, has increased in popularity, the number of students in that department having increased from 537 in 1921-22 to 616. The re-instatement of German in the high schools and its extensive use in scientific works are given as rea- sons for its increased popularity.' 11 Men Initiated By Musical Society Alpha Epsilon Mu, honorary musi- cal fraternity, initiated the following1 members at a recent meeting of the chapter. The new members are: John K. Altland, Bruce G. Booth, Detroit; Quentin M. Klein, H. S. Osmun, George Oscar Bowen, Paul B. H71. Pike, S. C. Wilkening, Ann Arbor; Lawrence A. Gleason, Lansing; Frank H. L~. Van- natta. Erie, Pa.; Harold M. Stephen, Vassar, and Charles I. Campbell, Po- land, Ohio. :ryI - rimr not n the present evaporator the liquid has to pass through 55 feet of this coil before it escapes. A high vacuum is carried in the space inside . the pipe, so that the liquid boils with a very moderate amount of heat, and therefore the flavor of the food prod- uct handled is changed as little as possible. At the end of this coil of Pyrex pipe the boiling liquid flows into atpot of acid-proof earthenware, from the bottom of which the liquiti'l is withdrawn into glass receivers. \ This development has been carried out 'by two students in the Depart- ment of Chemical Engineering, work-f ing under the direction of Prof. Bad- ger, and the cost of the equipment has been -met by the Swenson Evap- orator Company, of Harvey, Illinois, who suggested the problem. THEATERS Arcade KODAK RESEAR ,CH HEAD SEEKS SUMMER. WORKERil / - Mr. Erle M. Billings, head of th research work of the Eastman Koda company of Rochester, N. Y., was Ann Arbor Thursday for the purpos of enlisting two or three gradua students in physics or chemistry fo summer work and possibly perm nently with the Kodak concern. M; Billings in making the rounds of th campus lauded the New Engineerin building. The Eastman Kodak company ha been supplying many institution throughout the country with organ chemicals for research work. M. Billings said that the latest contr bution that the Eastman resear laboratory has made is the panchr matic film. This is a film used airplane photography and helps eliminate the atmospheric haze. ation. - -- Today In The Chure Congregational ChurchC President Paul Voelker of Olivet College will be the visiting preacher' at the Congregational 10:45 o'clock service this morning. He will speak on "The Need of Christian Educa- tion." Slupper for the University stu- dents will be served at 530 o'clock, and will be followed by a "Theologi- cal Parley: Why So Many Creeds?" First Presbyterian Church held at 5 o'clock. ble will talk on "O at the student sup served at 6 o'clock Church of Ch Prof. Lynn Fro Bible classes, whirl o'clock this morni of Christ Disciples cation" has beenc mon text for the 10 neering fraternity, recently received! a letter of congratulation from J. A. Bursley, dean of students, commend- ing the fraternity on its high stand- I h .es --- ard of scholarship. In 1920 this fra- ternity held second place among all fraternities, and the following year1 held the top position among fraterm-I Mrs. Charles Dib-t pening the Oyster" In 1922 repetition of 1920 took per, which will be place, while last year it was first . again. Out of the thirty-five mem- rst) Disciples hers, twenty are entirely self- sup- lt will lead the porting and nine are partly self- hi will meet at 9:30 I ng at the Church supporting. The average for last "g ayear was close to eighty-one per cent. As the heroine who is elevated by marriage from the conventional uni- form of a serving maid to the bewil- 3+3 I . -Christian EdiU- chosen as the ser-( :30 o'clock service. "Seeming Unreality of Spirituality" The Men's Service Club, led by Dr. will be the subject of discussion at Stouffer, will assemble at 9:30 this, the 10:30 o'clock morning worship at morning instead of the usual hour. the First Presbyterian Church. Bible Christian Endeavor meeting will be classes for all will be conducted by held at noon. Miss Mary Ross, Father Iden and First Bavtl1st Church Prof. W. D. Henderson at noon. Open Mr. Sayles will address this con- House will be held at 5:30 o'clock gregation on "The Peacock Spirit" and followed at 6:30 by the usual this morning at 10:30 o'clock. Sun- Christian Endeavor meeting, at which !day school and Bible classes will Alex Burr will speak on "How Would meet at noon in the Guild House. The the Application of Christianity Affect Friendship Hour is to be held from Social Conditions?" 5:30 until 6:30 in the Guild House,! St. Andrew's Episcopal Church and at 6 the B Y. P. U. society will Record Collector Now In Existence; MUSIC AND -- ' MUSICIANS I 4 ! r i. N tI dering luxury of a society favorite's I Lnexhaustable wardrobe. Marie Pre- Iann- vost stars in her latest picture: "The Wanters," which features at the Ar- STUENT _ bcade today through Tuesday. Poor all her life, Marie Prevost, it Hundreds of students call at the the role of Myra, is a "wanter" of the Health service weekly, a good per- most confirmed sort. In order to be centage of these secure remedies at near the luxuries she craves, she ob-, the Realth service pharmacy, but tains a position as maid in the home scarcely one stops to think what he of the Worthingtons. Young Worth- is saving by not getting his prescrip- ington falls in love with her and tion filled at the "corner drug store." when, following her discharge, he It is estimated by those in charge of brings her back home with him as the pharmacy that approximately his wife, she is met with snobbish dis- ninety prescriptions are made each dain. It is through the near tragedy. day. With each prescription selling I which follows that she learns that at 75 cents, this would mean that true happiness is never found through close to $65 is saved daily by stu- empty wanting. dents, making a weekly total of $455. Blanche Ingram, the heroine of As for the type of medicine disposed "Her Temporary Hsuband," to be of, those remedies relieving colds and shown the last four days of this week like ailments are used mostly. The at, the Arcade, was to receive a for- - - ---A1 - , 1__- __ . -1 _ .-- - Traveler Stops Steamer At SF Pernambuco, Brazil, Jan. 20.-Fr erick J. West, a member of the 1 York Coffee Exchange, claims he the champion long distance commu of the world. Mr. West's busin makes necessary frequent trips Brazif, each round trip being a 10 mile "commute," as he puts it. has made so many of these trips be has forgotten the number, and tIo mileage is a matter of hig mathematics. Making a flying visit to this city a coasting steamer and being i hurry to get back to New York, no American ship touching this p Mr. West recently showed a coma ter's resourcefulness when he w out to sea in a small sailboat to c the Lamport and Halt liner Added to the already long list of} collectors, a new kind has come into existence in the form of the phono-1 graph record collector. Michigan's campus record collector is Hamann Lyon, '24, of Ann Arbor. Lyon has accumulated more than 1,100 records, of many different makes, and from abroad as well as in this country. The collection con-, tains no jazz or ragtime in any form, One of the most brilliant debuts' in the history of the Metropolitan Opera house took place in the fall of 1900 when Madame (or, as she prefers to be called) Mrs. Louise homer made her first New York appearance after her European triumphs the year pre-' vious. Ever since that time, she has I 0