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VOL. XXXV. No. 111
ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 1925
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Annual International Night Entertainment, Sponsored By The University Cosmopolitan Club,
Will Be Presented
Thursday Night At Hill Auditorium
Students Of Many Nations Join With Outside Artists
In Offering Acts Typical Of Native Countries
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By Smith H. Cady, Jr.
International night, comprising artistic glimpses
of cosmopolitan Michigan and produced annually by
the Cosmopolitan club of the University, will be pre-
sented at 8 o'clock next Thursday evening in Hill
auditorium. Artists representing Russia, Hawaii,
China, Arabia, Spain, Scotland, Poland and the
United States, will take part in the production,
which is being coached by Prof. A. D. Moore, of the
electrical engineering department, and Mrs. Moore.
Campus and outside artists combine to offer exam-
ples of the talents of many nations available at Ann
Arbor. The acts are incorporated in the action of
a play, depicting the efforts of two suitors to win
the hand of the Princess, the daughter of the Sultan
Duland Bakht, ruler of Stghin Naibara. The manu-
scfipt was "lifted, added to, and Padded," as the
authors admit, by Professor and Mrs. Moore, with
prof. Brand Blanshard, of the philosophy depart-
'ient.
.The part of the Dream Lover who woos and wins
the Princess with his songs, and who later turns
out to be Prince Alexis, heir to His Majesty of
Russia, is taken by Stefan P. Kozakevich, the Rus-
*sian baritone who held the audience with the speel of
his voice at the International night entertainment
last spring. Kozakevitch is fast winning recog-
nition as one of the most promising of Detroit's
young artists..
Professor Alfred Blackmon, of Detroit, who is
well-known as a teacher,.has taken over the instruc-
tion of the young Russian, and is enthusiastic in
the praise of his voice. During his tour of the
West last fall, Henry Harrison Danforth, music
critic of the Oakland (California) Tribune, wrote
that "His voice is three-dimensional-wide, deep
and extensive. His singing is poignant, vital, neces-
sary. It has the drive of the wind on his native
Steppes." The Michigan Daily, in reviewing his
performance at the last International night, declar-
ed that "Kozakevich, the Russian baritone, was the
undisputed star of the evening. He has a wide
range and a voice of excellent timbre and tone
quality. As a triumphant conclusion to the per-
formance, M. Kozakevitch's singing came as the
one truly professional note of the evening."
The curtain rises upon a scene in the garden of
the Princess in the Sultan's palace in the land of
'Stghin Naibara. The almost unpronounceable name
of the country is simply the result of spelling Arab-
]an Nights backwards. The overture will be render-
ed by an orchestra under the direction of Lucile
Bellamy, '25, consisting of: Violins, Lucile Bellamy,
'25, Pauline Kaiser, spec.; Piano, Donna H. Essel-
tyn, '27; Flute, Mrs. Snyder; Cello, Mrs. Lester M.
Wieder.
The introduction consists of a Spirit Prologue,
with Vera Johnston, '28 Ed, playing the part of the
Spirit. She is assisted by Ai-Mei Giang, '27M, Doro-
thy Gumpper, '28, Helen Wells, grad., and Blanche
Hull, '25. The Princess Akhtar Rozina ("Star of
the Roses"), played by Minna Miller, '27, enters, ac-
companied by her two confidantes, Amron and Hu-
isna (Helen Kocher, '28 and Helen Bourman), sev-
feral maiden attendants and eight Sthgin Naibaran
uards.
The scene changes to the highway by the garden
vall. Willard Spanagel, '25E, the Tu Yung of
'Tickled to Death," takes the part of the poet, H3.
Lyman Bright, '25, also of the Union Opera, is the
painter, Lionel G. Crocker, grad., is His Majesty,
Sultan Buland Bakht, father of the Princess, and
Bright appears again as Kalim Azack, the Grand
Visler's son and favorite of the Sultan, who desires
to wed the Princess. Other members of the cast
appear as gift bearers of Kalim Azack.
It is here that Kozakevich, the Dream Lover,
makes his first appearance. He sings the Volga
Boatman~s Song ("Ay Ukhnyem"), adapted by F.
Kennemann, the famous chant of the Russian boat-
men. He sings in Russian and will be accompanied
in all his numbers by Mrs. Charles H. Bennett, of
:Detroit.
Marian Miller, '25, comes in as Jamna, an Arab-
an dancer, and dances a native Arabian number,
accompanied by the orchestra under Lucile Bellamy.
Miss Miller performed in "Thank You, Madam", the
Junior Girls' Play of last year. Tang and Tavares,
who are well known on the campus for their haunt-
ng Hawaiian melodies, appear as wandering Ha-
Vaiian minstrels and entertain the group.
Kalim Azack is determined to win the favor of
the Princess, who is already infatuated with the
serenading of the Prince, and searches the world
for entertainers to amuse her and break the, spell
'woven by the silver voice of the Russian. First
to appear are two little Spanish dancers, Peggy
dykes and Frederick Zemke, both aged nine, under
the direction of Mr. George C. Payne, of the Ter-
ace Garden dancing studio. They dance an Argen-
hair covered with Indian-patterned kerchiefs, tied
low over their foreheads. The scarlet and rose vel-
vet jacket, sewn all over with embroidery, serves as
a corsage. Strings of colored beads hang around
the neck. A short skirt of cretonne covers partly
the maginficent top boots, reaching to the knee.
The combination of vermillion-rose with vivid scar-
let-pink colors of dress used in these folk dances
has a delightful effect, due largely to the purity of
the tints.
With the conclusion of these offerings of the var-
ious nations, enlisted in the couse of Kalim Azack,
Prince Alexis reappears, and sings once more to his
beloved, who is finally won. He will sing three num-
bers, "Stillness of the Night" by Kashevarov, "The
Drooping Corn" by Rachmaninoff, and "The Snow
Storm" by V. Sokolov. The latter is a love song of
Russia, sung by a youth, sturdily plunging forward
through the raging snow storm of a Russian winter
night, buoyed up with the thought of his beloved
waiting for him, ready with a warm and tender wel-
come. It thrills with the passion of love, and is
calculated to settle all doubt in the mind of the
wavering Princess.
"The Drooping Corn," one of the greatest com-
positions of the great Rachmaninoff, includes in its
melodies the traditional themes of the Russion peas-
ants, which have remained unchanged for the last
two or three centuries. "Stillness of the Night,"
Kashevarov's masterpiece, may well be contrasted
with the more vigorous "Snow Storm," as it possess-
es a descriptive-poetical melody, expressing the
beauty, the serenity, the perfect peace, of a spring-
time night in Russia. Kozakevich appears in the
full magnificence of the costume of a Russian Prince,
befitting the son of the Czar.
As its finale, the orchestra will return to a theme
of Spanish origin, playing the Cadiz Spanish march.
The program will be more unified this year than
ever before, the numbers being more closely inter-
woven in the plot than has been customary in the
semi-vaudeville shows of the past. Scenery has also
been improved this year; several of the acts are
quite elaborate in their stage settings. Members of
the faculty and other friends of the Cosmopolitan
Club have furnished a profusion of Oriental rugs,
and other properties. The costumes are all replicas
of those worn in the countries represented, many of
them, especially those worn by the Polish dancers
and Kozakevich, being unusually rich in texture and
color.
Derek Van Osenbruggen, '25E, is general chair-
man of International night and has handled all the
arrangements except the writing and producing of
the show, which is being done by Professor and
Mrs. Moore. Serving under him are the following
committees:
Programs, Thomas D. Olmstead, Jr., '27;
Properties, Mildred Boyce, '25Ed., and Albert
J. Logan; Speakers, Nur M. Malik, '27M; Treasurer,
Herbert Lee, '26; Posters, A. N. Joukowsky, '28;
Publicity, Carlton Wells; Assistant to Directors,
Dorothy Gumppert, '28; Costumes, Marie Van Osen-
bruggen, '26; Tickets, Rensis Likert, '26E; Music,
Lucile Bellamy, '25. Ticket Sales: Anne Seeley, '26,
of the Women's League, W. C. Wang, '25E, of the
Chinese club, T. Higuchi, '25, of the Nippon club,
and B. S. Sindhu, '26E, of the Hindustan club.
All the receipts derived from International night
this year will be devoted to the fund for building the
Women's League building. In a statement, the Cos-
mopolitan club, which is putting on the program,
declared, "The Cosmopolitan club is sincerely glad
to devote the proceeds of the entertainment, beyond
a small amount for the club's 1925 activities, to the
Women's League Building Fund. Once the build-
ing for women becomes a reality, the comradarie
and firm friendships fostered among Michigan wo-
men there will- add incalculably to the rishness of
their college life at Ann Arbor. Such an edifice will
encourage, too, natural, easy give-and-take between
women students from foreign shores, and the Amer-
ican members of the League. In the achievement of
their aims, the League carries the good wishes of
the Cosmopolitan club."
Rensis Likert, '26E, is president of the Cosmo-
politan club, Cynthia Smith, '26, is serving as vice-
president, Yoshiyash Kumazawa, '26 is secretary, and
Lionel G. Crocker, grad., is treasurer. More than
100 students from all parts of the world, including
25 Americans, make up the present membership.
Their purpose is to promote friendship and exchange
of ideas on the Michigan campus, to bring foreign
students into friendly relationship with America, to
focus activities aimed to bring the foreign student
into more natural and intimate touch with repre-
'sentative American life, to develop, through their
own membership, an enlightened, vital spirit of in-
ternational good will, and to fulfilluthe aspiring and
challenging implications of the club motto, "Above
All Nations is Humanity." International night is
but one of their many efforts to fulfill these pur-
poses.
Photo by Rentscher Photo by Spedding
ABOVE MEMBERS of the Polish "Wirazysci" society, of Detroit, who will dance traditional Polish folk dances still widely popular
in Poland. Below, left, Prof. A. D. Moore, of the electrical engineering department, who, with Mrs. Moore (lower right) is directing the
International Night program. Lower center, Miss Marian Miller, '25, who will dance an Arabian number.
The University Girls' Mandolin club, under the
direction of Mr. Reginald Eastlake, will play two
numbers, "Serenata Veneviana", by A. Sarcoli, and
"Golden Spain," by Henry Hadley. Since the Glee
Club does not appear on the International night
program this year this will be the only act offered
by a regular University organization.
Scotland will be represented through the dances.
of Miss Helen Allan, grad., accompanied on the
bagpipes by J. M. Inverarity, a native bagpiper. She
will dance the famous highland fling, and, for her
club. He will give two numbers, first singing popu-
lar Russian songs, accompanying himself on the
balalaika, a three-stringed instrument resembling a
guitar, much used in eastern Europe, and secondly,
dancing the folk dances of his native Moscow prov-
ince. In this number he will wear the national cos-
tume of Russia.
Poland furnishes the last of acts designed to win
the favor of the Princess. Two old Polish folk
dances, the Mazur and the Kujaurak, still widely
fOlah I in Poila,,nd. wil1 ,. l h d nA byhi, rs tt0-11+
are full of action and color, the former being an
intricate and graceful circle dance.
The colorful costumes worn by the Polish peasant
in the olden times, although obsolete today, are
used to create an atmosphere of gaiety and laugh-
ter, which is typical of the dance. The costumes
are characterized by the saches (bands around the
waist) woven of silk, gold and silver tissue. They
are immensely long and broad, and have two de-
signs and two colors running lengthwise down each