FOUIt THE MICAIGAN DAILY TUESDA
Y, OCTOBER 14
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are those who say, that drinking is
confined to an insignificant minority.
Whether or not this be true, this class,
of students bring general condemna-
tion on the majority and damnation
for the whole University, the faculty,
the administration. The student has
more to consider than himself or his
reputation when he permits himself
to lose his mental balance through the
use of intoxicants in public. His con-
duct is a reflection on the community
of which he is a part and the uni-
versity which is celebrating its home-
coming.
But all this discussion has brought
forth no, remedy. What action will
Michigan take in response to Illinois'
request?, First, The Daily will givQ
adequate publicity in its columns to
the request and to any opinions which
may be expressed by faculty or stu-
dents. In this publicity there is no
wish to interfere with individual lib-
erty, but a desire that the student
body form its best principles. Second,
the Student council will appeal to the
students to aid in the. campaign. Fra-
ternities and other societies will do
their part by bringing the matter be-
fore their members. It remains only
for all students, including that in-
significant minority, to cooperate that
the University may be as well repre-
sented at Illinois by its students as'
it will be by the football team.
good and great do you expect a Michi-
gan Alumnus to hereafter subscribe
to any Michigan undertaking; or how
in good grace you can expect any
Michigan Alumnus who has heretofore
subscribed to any Michigan undertak-
ing to keep his pledge with anything
like a feeling of pride?
In my estimation it is high time that
this matter of football tickets be in-
vestigated by the Alumni and the stu-
dent body of the University of Michi-
gan, the matter given full , publicity
not only in the student newspapers
but in the Alumni publication and the
press at large, and the people respon,
sible for this situation brought to
time. Without fear of contradiction
and on the facts as I have them, 1
do not hesitate to state that there is
something' wrong. Either the Athletic
association itself or someone in con-
nection with it is guilty of mismanage-
ment or else there has been some-
where some actual fraud of some
kind.
When a university denies its stu-
dents and its Alumni the right to oc-
casionally witness a football game it
is engendering in its students and in
its Alumni a feeling and a spirit of
hostility.
The Michigan university cannot ex-
AND
DRAMAt
THE CURTAIN GOES UP
Comedy Club has the rather hurried
privilege of presenting the first pro-
gram in what everyone so quaintly
calls "our season." The production, as
announced, say, three times beforo
will include "The Man With The Bow-
ler Hat" by A. A .Milne, "A Matter of
Husbands" by Ferenc Molnar, and
"The Woman Who Was Acquitted" by
Andre de Lorde and will be presented
tomorrow evening in Sarah Caswell
Angell Hall at eight-fifteen, veryt
promptly.
"The Woman Who Was Acquitted"
is pure and simple drama with a
hypotism scene, murder, hysterics, and
all the ghastly, -hi vering palpitation-
that make a Grand Guignol thriller
like nothing else this side of the foot-
lights. A woman-the Margaret Anglin
type with a baby complex-has been
accused and subsequently acquitted
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1924
Night Editor-THOS. P. HENRY, JR.
DRY OR D1UNK?
Homecoming games are annual oc-
casions for miscellaneous celebration
ANATOLE FRANCE
Anatole France is dead, and with
him passes the 'France legend whieb
for years has dominated all in Frenca
art; more than any other man, he
stands for the full flowering of French
genius, the spirit of France will live
incarnate in his works. He was the
greatest literary figure of his age,
in his death, he will remain the ulti-
mate manifestation of the perfection
of French art. Since the death of
Joseph Conrad, no man will be mourn-
ed in the literary world as he.
Born in 1844, he has for eighty
years looked out on the world with a
gentle and mild cynicism which found
its way into his works, more in the
form of pity which reverberates
throughout everything which he un-
I dertook, than in the cold pessimism
pect help from Michigan Alumni who of strangling divers infants in their[
are practically denied and flatly re- trundle-beds, although the Doctor ana
fused opportunity to use the facilities the Judge in question are certain she
for which they are asked to pay. is logically guilty. The play proper,
I respectfully request that you give thereafter, concerns itself with the ' -
this letter any publicity you see fit diverting visualization of the highei
in Ann Arbor and that the Michigan technique in refined choking. S
Union refrain from asking me to con- As a relaxative the companion play--
tribute to its undertakings until its a delightful Milne burlesque. In a 12
and other prominent bodies in con- way it is a parody of the preceedlnh 19
nection with the university have un- melodrama: again there are villains, 26
dergone an investigation of the foot- the lovely heroine and her manly
ball ticket situation at Michigan, hero, there is a frightful mix up, the -
Yours very truly, Rajah's ruby is lost, found, and lost
L. W. Hull, '17. again, until in the end the Man on the
side-lines with the Bowler Hat ends
everything by as clever a curtain-line
as we have heard very probably in ala
our theater-trotting days.
SUPERSTITION Finally, to blend the bitter and the and
bitter-sweet, the Molnar satire rounda hav
and
the program into a finished whole. Itand
is very sophisticated, nearly as clevei
Superstition, born in the dark ages as bits of Schnitzler, and concerns
of long ago, developed in ignorance, the ver' grand actress and the only 6 17
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of hatred that lacerates the art of supported by fear, is not dead. In fact,
Thomas Hardy. A wit as Keen as it isn't even weakening! It flourishes
Voltaire, an rt as divinely free as tht in educational Ann Arbor, right under
noblest Greek, emancipated from the the nose of 20th century learning.
trammels of the conventional, he is * * *
as much a humorist as a wit. There Of course, it's all a joke. When a
is the clear, cold, passionless, insight superstition to its greatest pitch of
ordinary earnest young woman. The
actress has stolen the lady's husband,
a rather usual occurence in' Vienna,
so they say, and as the curtain falls
the actress keeps on stealing hin.
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THE ORGAN RECITAL
The third organ recital of the year
at most colleges and universities.
They are looked upon by the indis-s
criminate mob as opportunities for the
display of its propensity for maudlin
conduct. Recourse to Bacchus for in-,
spiration is all too frequent for the
comfort of those who come back for
the purpose of witnessing and not
mierely attending the game.
Saturday, Illinois will celebrate its
homecoming by a game with Michigan
which will dedicate its new $2,000,000
stadium. It will be a momentous oc-
casion for the adherents of both uni-
versities no matter who is the victor
in the game. The unusual feature of
the homecoming and game, however,
is the fact that The Daily Illini, the
Student council, and. the honorary
societies of the University of Illinois
are unanimously united in an effort to
insure that the celebration will be
dry, that the flow of artifical stimu-
lants will be as low as possible. In
this they have asked the cooperation
of Michigan.
Here is found a significant chal-
lenge for University students. The
leaders of activities at Illinois are
willing to pledge themselves to furthn
or this cause by abstinence on their
part and by the use of their positn.
to influence others. And in this they
have been practically assured of the
support of the mass of the student body
At Michigan the majority of promi-
nent students will take a similar at-
titude, there being some of course who
,v"'1el no responsibility in the mat-
ter. The student body will have very
:ittie opportunity to express its senti-
rnent on the matter, but the right
course of action should be clear. Uni-
versity students must feel that they
have a definite responsibility in thf,
fact that their host has made a re-+
quest for gentlemanly action and
in the added fact that the good name
of the Michigan man is at stake. ,
In the past there have been many1
occasions when persons in attend-I
ance at the University have beconer
sufficiently stewed at public affairs
such as the coming game with Illinois1
as to have made themselves a nui-I
sance and a disgrace. This is not con- I
fined to Michigan-similar light-head-
ed individuals are present at everyc
institution of learning in the Eastt
West, and South. Their condition has I
in it no element of humor, no grain
of manly character-it represents thed
into life and its tricks which consti-
tutes wit; there is the warm, glowing
humaniness which is the essence of'
humor. Both find a place in the in-
imitable and graceful work of Anatole
France, both must find a place in the
art of any man if it is to be great, for the
man of humor can create and develop
the souls of men, a man of wit can
crush them.
James :funeker, whose critical
works have brought him to the fore-
front of American literature, thus es-
timates the position of France, "An
art, ironical, easy, fugitive, divinely
u n t r a m e l l e d, divinely artificial
which like a pure flame, blazes forth
in an unclouded heaven. . . ; light
feet; wit; fire; grace; the dance of
the stars; the tremor of southern light;
the smooth sea-these Nietzschean
phrases might serve as a epigraph for
the work of that apostle of innocence
and experience, Anatole France."
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sidewalk, there was no real necessity Iwill be given tomorrow afternoon at
of going around. Everybody laughed, four-fifteen o'clokk by Mr. Palmer
but approximately nineteen of every Christian, University organist. The
twenty students that passed took the audience is urged to be in their seats,
long, but assuredly safe, path along if possible, when the concert begins.
the curb. It made no difference, but. . The program will include the fol-
* * * lowing numbers:
Negroes and students have developed Allegro molto vivace (Symlphon'
superstition to its greatest pitch o) Pathetique..........Tschaikowsky.
efficiency. Find the college man who Prelude in D flat, Op. 28, NO. 15.....
will be the third person to light his ............ ........... Chopi:,
cigarette on one match, or who hails L'Arlequin ....................Nevin.
with delight the information that he Improvisation (basso ostinato e fugh-
has Seat 13, Row 13, in a lecture. It etta.................Karg-Elbert
simply isn't being done! Rhapsody....... ....... .Cole.
, * , "A young girl in theWend"....Marsh.
Laast year a professor was so fool "Evening Snow at Fuki Kawa".Marsh.
ยข ish as to assign a bluebook for Fri- Meditation, Thais........Massenet.
day, the 13th. The class was overcome Marche Religieuse..........uilmant,
with anxiety, and finally persuaded
the luckless man to change it untillCOBRECTION
the next day. And the fact that a large Through an unfortunate error, the
percentage of them flunked on the copy omitted to say that the review
14th did not alter their conviction of Geraldine Farrar in "Carmen,"
that they had escaped a terrible cal published in the Sunday Music and
{ amity. Drama column, was written by Robert
* * * Hamilton.
it necessary to put a ladder across the
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AN AGGRIEVED ALUMNUS
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"The five hundred tickets placed on
sale here were sold in forty minutes.
By getting un early, I managed to
get two, but that was all we could
secure, for they were sold out before
any of the other boys from the house
could work their way up to the booth.
"Five-hundred seems a niggardly
number of tickets for Yost to sena
Wisconsin, and there is a rage here!
as well as at Ann Arbor. There is cer-
tainly some rottenness somewhere. It
is mighty tough to be shut out afterj
you have contributed to make the
game possible, and we all feel sorry
for you, and hold resentment toward
those who are responsible for this
outrage.
If we can serve you in any other
way, don't fail to command us. Pro-
curing tickets is about the only way
we can materially serve our alumni,
and it makes us feel rather mean to
refuse them this slight service."
I do not know exactly how many
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f
Once upon a time there was a fra I:
ternity which counted its pledges at The first intercollegiate dramatic
the end of the rushing season, and contest, patterned somewhat on the
discovered the total was 13. Freshmen lines of the Belasco Little Theater
were rushed off their feet until the competion which is held each year in
14th pledge was secured and the fu- New York city, is being instituted by
ture of the fraternity safe from in- the School of Speech of Northwestern
terference from Old Man Superstition University. The Cumnock Silver Cup
once more. and a prize of two hundred and fifty
* * * dollars is offered to the American un-
The only case on record in which dergraduate group which presents the
the number 13 was actually unlucky most effective one-act play in the
was supplied by an unfortunate stu- campus theater at Evanston, Illinois,
dent who came into a quiz section 13 January 1, 1925.
minutes after the hour, instead of the Preliminary performances will be
lucky 7. The instructor was rather held December 30 and 31, and this
particular on the subject, and 13 I best of these will be assembled into
turned out to be extremely unlucky. a final program January 1. This final
* * * selection will be judged on the bashi
Four thousand representatives of the choice of the play, the direc-
from more than 800 gas companlev. tion, and the acting.
throughout the United States will The scenery to be 'used will 'be
meet next week in Atlantic City. This supplied by Northwestern University,
needs no comment. 'with the exception of such properties
as are necessary for the minute action
of the play, and the competition will
A news dispatch say that the estate be limited to nine groups, registration
of Count Szechenyi in Czechnoslova beginning November 1, and closing
kia has been confiscated. The name November 15. There is no limit to the
is pronounced Seldom. size of the cast, outside of the restric-
tion that all the players must meet
A New York man went to vote re- the eligibility rules of inter-collegiate
cently in a stretcher. How many sl. competition. The choice of plays, nat-
f n- n i o rlurally, is also unlimited.
persons the Michigan stadium accom-
modates at the present time. I an,
aware that it is a large number. I do
not know just how many students
attend the University of Michigan atf
the present time, but I believe that
the number is not far in excess of
8000. Making allowance for the stu
dent body, teaching staff, etc., at thel
restmen
J.yesterday
were carriead to the pos
by their comrades?
Vote by Absentee Ballot, on Campus.
Do Your Duty, Be Sure and Vote.
Unquestionably this is a marked
step forward, and it is hoped that
Michigan will be represented by at
least. one group this winter.
Valentine Davies.