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THEA TRES Ann Arbor Deluged with the Aesthetic Impulse;
Uncle Tom's Cabin up to date, a war By ario Barlow up a coherent whole which is unique.
drams, and a iusical comedy head the Art as an avocation is prevalent in A portrait of Mrs. Eliel Saarinen
lists of theatre attractions in Detroit Ann Arbor. A few there are among by her husband, was the most finish-l
this week. ius who practice apointing the allied ed painting shown. Rich, mahoganyt
The Duncan sisters will be at the arts in a manner which is profession- tones,blended perfectly, conveyed the
New Detroit in "Topsy and Eva." An "&1. In this center of learning a con- spirit of the picture in a manner which,
entirely new conception of these two siderable number of persons surrepti- was outstanding. There were also
stage children is portrayed in Cath-j tiously humor their passion for self batiques of . delicate craftsmanship,
erine Chisholm Cushing's adaption of exprssion, and some of the results done by Mrs. Saarinen, and others
Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel. It is I were brought to light in an art ex- equally perfect in technique by Mr.
embellished with tunes and dances, hibit he1l in Alumni Memorial hall and Mrs. Chapin.
and comes with a record of unbroken the week of November 9. There were book plates by Halsey
success after running a year in Chica- Miss E. C. Perry, whose pastel Davidson, '25, drawn in his accurate,
go and a time in San Francisco, the landscapes are each distinctive, is one well defined styles with his inevitable,i
only two cities which have thus far of those persons whose avocation is fantastic gnomes playing about the'
seen the production. related in a peculiar manner to her musty books. A great variety of
"Simon Called Peter," a vivid dram- profession. Sketches of surgical work was shown, some of it good,t
atization of Robert Keable's sesa- operations may involve the same sort and some of it bad. Certainly morel
tional novel. comes to the Grrick of skill as a landscape, but the dif- was exhibited tlian one would suspectl
theatre the night of November 3. The Lerences are certainly obvious. They is. to be found in Ann Arbor.N
story was accepted at the time of its Lie so obvious, in fact, that they might I The first of the art exhibits, how-c
publication as the autobiographical b called incongruities 'were it not ever, which have followed each- otherc
adventure of its author who served that this versatility is a quality to be in rapid succession, was shown theI
as a war padre in a South African admired. week of November 2, in Memorialt
regiment. Its hero was a youthful A figure in plaster, conspicuous j hall. Self expression by Vienneset
clergyman who found his old time for its very smallness among the children was the general theme.
I religion uninteresting to the soldiers more flagrant works in the display, The thoughts which are uppermost
l in the trenches. He,too, became lax, indicated the most active iniagination in the minds of these children are ofI
and losing his grip of his higher represented in the exhibit. "Drama" picturesque Austrians, enjoyingE
motives, he meets a nurse who atI by Carleton W. Angell is wierd in quaint pastimes, or attending to the!
tracts him. In the 'end he gives up effect, original in technique. Lines simple things of life. To the . hil-x
the church to marr, her. Catherine sweeping in varied directions make dren, these things are real. They
Willard and Leonard Willey take the ---represent the life about them, which
parts of the padre and the nurse. as it is to-day? When have so many is beautiful because it is\ true. Tol
Sally, Irene, and Mary, the musical i giftcd individuals turned their at- us, the paintings embody the romance
comedy that has had Eddie Dawling teintiOin and energies to composition of a foreign country out of touch with
as a star from the outset and Louise and expression? all that which to us seems real. Their
rown as the featured player, will Here,however, we are forced to ad- work is also beautiful to us because
open at the Schubert Detroit Novem- mit that much of what is being writ-
her 30, and the Whitney will house ten is of little worth. Our issue is the caricatures are true enough in
Channing Pollock's "The Focl" Sat- that when an honest comparison is any time and place.
urday night, December £. made with that which has gone im- JIn connection with the conventionI
mediately before, it will be found that of architects held here last week,
a greater amount of to-day's material small exhibits of pencil drawings by
- fithe. late Louis Sullivan of Chicago
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Spain Comes to Ann Arbor
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By Judlih Breiienbach
When Masques dramatic society;
presents "Bonds of Interest" by Jacin-
to' Benavente on December 3, Ann
Arbor will forget for a few hours the
approaching winter, for they will be
transported into the 'sunny atmos-
phere of Spain.,
Bright smiles, flashing eyes, trip-+
ping toes, the clack of castenets, the
sound of string instruments far-off,
charming senoritas will feature the I
garden party given by Dona Sierena,
where for the first time the sober,
serious-minded, quiet Leander is
jolted from his reserve by the sight of
the charming heiress, Sylvia, flower
of the nobility of Spain. Leander is
accompanied at this fete by his crafty,
wily, jovial, happy-go-lucky, unprin-
cipled servant . Crispin, whose avo-
cation is chicanery. This clever fel-
low has succeeded in putting his mks-'
ter on a 1 edestal in the eyes of the
townspeople. Penniless and withont
any worldly possessions Leander and
Crispin come to the town which fur-'
nishes the setting for the play. The
clever schemes of Crispin involving
all the interests of the town to pro-
mote the happiness of Leander form a
good background for this fantasticj
comedy, which may be also described
as a keen satire on the qualities of
human nature.
The father of Sylvia furnishes for
the principal players- the obstaclesI
which must be oversome. He has his
heart set on having his beautiful
daughter marry a certain man of his
own choice whose wealth is enor-
mnous. Sylvia feels that she has sqme-
thing to say in her own affairs and
opposes her father's wishes. She has
a mind of her own.
Costumes more elaboratq than any
ever used before in a production of
this type, beautiful Spanish gowns
fashioned after those worn by the
senoritas of the early seventeenth
century will give to the setting the
atmosphere of romantic Spain. These
costumes, that is some of them, are
lying brought from Chicago; others
are being made especially for this
perf9rmance. The latter are for the
principal characters.
The scenery designed by Prof. H.
A. Kenyon, of the Romance Language
department, director of the play, will
fairly convince the audience that they
'are in sunny Spain. Cornell and
f Davis, the builders of the scenery will
play no small part in making the
setting truly Spanish.
What more variety could a audi-
ence want in a play than a fascinat-
ing, charming, young girl in attrac-
tive and beautiful gowns, a crafty,
skillful fixer; a sober, reserved young
gentleman; a overly wealthy father
who gives his daughter everything
her heart desires but his consent to
her marrying the man *of her choice;
real Spanish dances to the accomnpani-
ment of soft, fantastic music of
guitars and other stringed instrif-
ments, beautiful scenery,
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specia.l local interest due to the ap- n"Mi.oian f r"""n w^o "a" iVUSC4 IVI U 1 1wiil SuIvive than of yesterdays. Of
pearance of this organization Tues- enn the oara garmem, mimeday course, it little behoves the writer to were shown. Besides being the auth-
day evening, November 25, in Hill the outraged goddess, mimed to ass judgments of a final or of his own biography, in words as
t mu rhjoint auspices piritely and with sympathy. Again Is there a musical famine today, is nature, yet he is convinced of the fact oehl as n action, Mr. Sullivan is
of the University Glee club and.the Miss. Miriam delineated Undine, sow- there a great. shortage of brilliant that the present day is producing a Tetitl of o ofs
oy thesedUniversityig teaGleeo F Teuttlandoe theisdrtint
Ann Arbor branch of the American ly crushed in the writhing tenacles of performers and composers? if so, is type of musical art that is so en-,ATwnud beg
Association of University Women. an octopus, with a fluidity and rhythm this due to the fact that they are not tirely distinctive, so individualistic A Geometric Playground" would he
Assciaio ofUuierieyWwon.thiher audience. ant-teyareno
* * * I being born, or if they are being born in its appeal and mode, and at the t appropriate name for the whole.
The dancing of the Marmein, sis- ! "A Puppet Tragedy" was another are they turning their genius to other isame time so majestic and so deli- It is to be assumed, however, that
ters at Symphony hall last evening piquant number mimed by the inser- i things? - cate,'that its presence will prove an when one plays in the fields of geom-.
ran faithfully and satisfyingly tion of aptly phrased asides to the The nd ho mortant land mar in the history of etry, he also philosophizes. Mr. Suli-
the ghmut of a dozen moods and man- audience. "The King, Queen, and tionse arecenty sarisen due tque evolutionary music. The writer isvanformed creed i e a
ners. In their mdim they are sin- Knave of Hearts" was also vivified by outspoken of lead- also convinced that the height of ourfo otes ho aretintredhich
sere nd _delihtfu artits i ther ;"7cec! " te drller wasdeft outsokenopinons f connectsad thecoabstract abtrealmsams of
cere and delightful artists in their speech; the drollery was deftly point- ers of good music in this country. present so-termed "modern music is geometry and architecture with the
presentation of the dance as a, pliant ct ancifully conceived, pertly cx- Guili Gatti-Casazza, impresario of yet considerably far off, say some abstract realms of philosophy. His
and straightforward art. ecutedte Metropolitan Opera, answers the twenty to thirty years. stract rear of posophy. is
thIigrs hr belief is clear and consoling, devoid of
.tIn their program they dis- One leaves properly for final men- above questions with a single sweep As to great opera singers, there that sentimentality which creeds so
played an astonishing if not a bril- tion "The First Kill" danced by the of the hand and a single unqualified are as many in our midst as ever often acquire.
liant versatility. Singly, two at once, Misses Miriam and Irene. For in this "yes." He is firmly convinced that there were at any one time. We are
or three together, they essayed humor, are gathered the finest shadings, the the famine exists, convinced of the prone to look .upon an artist who
pathos, whimsy, and-once or twice nicest intricacies of technique, and dearth of great opera singers and has passed out of the public eye as
with marked effect-tragedy. In clas- the exquisite delicacy of inspired great composers and convinced that if being of greater makeup than those
sical subjects, oriental imagery, or! rendering. Miss Miriam especially they are being born, they are turn- who remain, or than those who grad-
the daintiness of the ballet they seem- caught the spirit and gesture of the ing their talent elsewhere. If this is ually find their places among the
ed. equally at their ease. If at times graceful stag. She shaded and arti- true-and Gatti-Casazza is staunch in select. There is a sentimentality of
a certain sameness of presentation culated with the grace that enchants, his belief-then the situation that an unexplanable nature involved in WhITE SWAN
cropped out, it may be overlooked in the facile skill that draws the breath { confronts us is indeed a distressing this attitude of mind, and in this in-
view of the variety of setting and the of admiration. oe stance we are almost inclined to
unusual latitude of subject. T The animal pranced, leaped, now Tut happ y, and we speak advised_ accuse Gatti-Casazza of such senti-
For the first part of the program halted to preen his antlers, now ly, there is no such thing as the mu- mentality.
the sisters offered eight brief sketches bounded again in sheer exhuberance sical famine that the gentleman of I Music is finding itself in America,
together with the first of the "drama of living, until the wary huntsman the Metropolitan speaks of. When in and Europe, too, is marking fast
dances," "The Vengeance of Kwan lossed the fateful arrow. High in the the histqry of "music has the concert I time. While there will always be
Yin." Interpretations ranged from air, the creature sprang with an- stage been so filled with deserving some who believe that all the great
the figures on a Greerd vase or from guished muscle and agonizing form; artistry as in the prsent day? When, musicians and composers have already
a Japanese print to " the expected then from the antlered head came. a comparatively speaking, has the opera been, there will also be some (and
Egyptian dance well set to bars from shrill cry, the animal dropped to the flourished as it does to-day, or when thank God for them) who do not be-
Verdi's "Aida." - earth, quivering in a last feeble has it ever been so fully appreciated lieve so.
In the second group of the pro- throe. ---
Ina theaseod grou of the r- othr
gram appeared two of the most As one left the auditorium it was '
strkingly executed dances of the impossible to drive from one's mind fid5-3238
evenlng: "Undine," and the fiery appreciato ofrthe wrmth te en-
"Dance of Shiva." There was a grace, trusiasm, thon ot warmth, t en-
rhythm and bounding fervor in the ssk
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