PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1926 Publshed every morning except Monday duiri 1 he Unixeisity year by the Board in 1'unt -1 of Student Publications. Alendiers of Western Conference Editoial Association. The Associated Press is exclusively en- titlcd to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and the local news pub- lished therein. E-tcred at the postoffice at Ann Arbor, ,-ihiganeas second class matter. Special rate of p() ta :e gr an ted by Third Assistant Post- zuaster General. Subscription by carrier, $3.50; by mail, $4,00. Of ces:eAnn Arbor Press Building, May-' biard Strcet. Phones: Editorial, 4925; business, s1214. EDITORIAL STAFF Telepbon, 4925 MANAGING EDITOR GEORGE W. DAVIS Chairman, Editorial Board...Norman R. rhal City Editor..........Robert S. Mansfield News Editor..........Manning Houseworthl Women's Editor..........Helen S. Ramsay 'ports Editor............... Joseph Kruger Telegraph Editor........William Waltbour Music and Drama......Robert B. Henderson Night Editors' Smith H. Cady Leonard C. Hall Willard B. Crosby Thomas V. Koykka Robert T. DeVore W. Calvin Pattersen Assistant City Editors Irwin Olian Frederick H. Shillito Assistants vancement of science-perhaps usher-' ing in a generation producing an-, other Sylvester, another Morris, an- other Rowland, another Remsen. Johns Hopkins will, in her return to lir nIU IrUka Ud lir f e i i tIi h 111itl MUSIC DAMA DRi A M A is d i C rtrude V. ailey Tila . Barbour Chales 5Behymier Nilliam JBreyer Phi1ip C. Brooks 1-L. uckinghani Stra:tton Buck : rl Burger r Carter J,,-r,: t hamberlain ?1i..er Cohen ( tol Champe Euene I. (;utekunst Ji lougias Doubleday Malry I )uuuigan Andrew Goodman Smes ''. Herald \Iii es Kimball Marion Kubik Walter 11. Mack Louis R. Markus Ellis Merry Ielen Morrow Margaret Parker Stanford N. Phelps Simon Rosenbauin Ruth Rosenthal Wilton A. Simpson Janet Sinclair Courtland C. 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One cannot see, touch or hear a political tide but he can ferl it. Having felt it, one can i lyze it and findr eason for its existence, but if one fails to make a tide or feel it when it is one, he is lost. It is a commony accepted opinion that President Coolidge has remade the Republican party 9 - -an outstanding contribution to the political history of his time. Ile has so wisely formed his opin- ions upon public questions and so convincingly stated them that his words have come to be accepted by an overwhelming majority of the Republican party-and also it might be added of the Ameri- can people--as the expression of their opinion."-C. Bascom Slemp,I former secretary to President Coolidge, in his forthcoming book, "The Mind of the Presi- dent." JOhNS HOPKINS RETURNS J hns Hopkins, one of America's ctstanidlin educational institutions, if:,r wandering more or less aimless- ly about the field of learning in re- (-t decades, has, on its fiftieth birth- day ,renounced its purely undergrad-' vate departments and returned to its ciginal ideal-graduate education Sa research. Students of education j in America will hail with joy the re- eu:-hlibimont of the old Johns Hop- lki?, a real MAeca for Americans who ar? devotees of the sciences. 1English obServers are unanimous int heir opinion of America's educa- tional system--wide-spread, but su- periicial American colleges every-I where tIoday are faced by the problemj of handling thousands of young men . nd women who, although eligible forE College training and getting some- thing out of their work, are not real ;tuients Too much football, too many outside interests, too much love for commercial gain, and too little re- gard for knowledge for its own sake and for the betterment of the world- his is the almost insurmountable barrier to advanced learning in the V niIted States. To be sure, there are ner om rote, compare ravoraby wt 1e.. tr3 iaca the universities of the Old World, _ __i which are far beyond the average H American college of today. THIS AFTERNOON: The Matinee The problem is not yet settled, and WMusicale in the Mchigai Unionb all- the other centers of learning in room at 3:30 o'clock. America must continue to fight the TIllS AFTERNOON: The Organ battle ;they can all join in cheering Recital in Hill auditorium at 4:15 one of their number that has forsaken o'clock. The undergraduate hubbub and re- TONIGHT: The Mimes present Hol- turned to the pursuit of the sciences berg's "Begganai," traslated by -not diluted with the "collegiate." Prof. 0. J. Campbell, in the Mimes theatre at 8:30 o'clock.c "Notwithstanding the rosy, re- TONIGHT: Verdi's "Traviata" In assuring statements put out by the Whitney theatre at 8:15 o'clock. Eastern bankers, there is no M * * doubt that a crisis exists among BEGGARMAN" Western and Central Western Westrn 'nd Cntra Wesern A review, by Kenneth Wickware. farmers. Are you surprised they are unsettled and dissatisfied? There is a folornness about Jeppel They say that by legislation the of the Hill that is significant of every condition of the manufacturer, man in the world, from clown to the mechanic ,the railroads and emperor. His wife, his abominable the railroad employees has been taste for red liquor, his sloth and improved, and they ask that re- straw-willed bowing to every whim of lief of some kind, through law, his physical self, the weird happen- be granted."-Senator William B. ings which befall him, are not pe- McKinley, an orthodox Republi- culitar to this peasant of the hills. can and in private life a wealthy His cry-"Was there ever a man as' banker, identied with the ex- unfortunate as I?"-has been echoed p eiondofnagicuthralhe ex- " from prelate to beggar, and to kings.1 pression of agiculturdispacho . Beggarman" by Holberg, the Dan-i ish playwright of some centuries ago,I the New York Tribune. -in the translation by Prof. Oscarv James Campbell-remains as excel- FORCE-IF NECESSARY lent comedy today as it must have Word that national guardsmen have been in the bygone days, when the been ordered into southwestern In- theatre was not quite all that it is to- I beenato d s w n day; but when, by the same token diana to prevent disorder in the life was a bit rougher, and one spoke opening of non-union mines will un- of things one does not speak of to- doubtedly bring with it a wave of day. "Beggarman" is the Elizabethan criticism from various sources, de- put into Denmark with results that crying the "use of troops to coerce one might expect. It is rollicking the workingman." If it is for coer- fun to watch; it is good drama; and cion that troops are sent to the min- it is almost faultless theatre-many ing area, then criticism is surely too successes have lacked any one or two mild a punishment s of these. Jeppe, the bestraught peasant hus- But in any controversy, there are band, played admirably by Robert certain rights which each side pos- Henderson, is alternately ludicrous sesses, and which must not be pre- and pathetic, buoyant and utterly judiced. Freedom from coercion is downcast, poverty-ridden and show- certainly one of the rights of the ered with wealth-as is almost every workingran. But in guaranteeing one of us He is not a figure to inspire this to him, the state also has the respect or to command admiration; duty of guaranteeing to mine opera but his carelessness wins us, and no tors protection for their property o against riotous disturbances. It is observations upon his own weak- rnesses . There is a suggestion of tra- proper that both the miners and the gedy in his raggedly bearded face, i operators should be assured full pro- tragedy that is finally averted or not, tection-if need be, by force. The as one choses to look at the matter,- miners in turn divci.de into two liar- the world putting one upon a throne, ties, both of which also have certain then knocking one sprawling in a privileges which must be maintained. straw heap,-these thngs which These are the rights of union and baffle the humian animal, these things non-union miners, and the are st with which he strives but cannot un- derstand. as sacred as the rights of any other Amy Loomis is delightfully shrew- group. ish as Nille, goode woman, the wife However, there is yet a third, and of Jeppe. She is not, however, given even greater party to the Indiana the opportunities in the play for controversy, and that is the party of which her excellent dramatic quali- the general public-that party which ties could make one wish. But then, 1usally plays the., rle of the innocent one learns to appreciate her appear- I nces bystander. At all costs this group {he gentry were done wIth a grace; must be protectedl fronm violence. !Thgetywrcoewhagae{ It istbe presmed from staee- and sureness profoundly surprising It is to be presumed from state- in the annals of amateur productions. sets coming from the ofce of theI Perharpsthe most satisfactory was state's chief executive that troops the Baron Nus, lord of the country,! which were ordered to the troubled j and possessed of the grim power of area. are there merely a an auxiliary taking a peasant's life and then re- upon which civil autliorities may call storing it again, played by Dale Sha- in case they findthemiselves unable j fer. But the others were remarkable , in their respective ways. There were tceitt . . James Martin, as the secretary; Wil- action, then, is entirely within its lian Bishop, as the valet; William proper imits,-it is an act designed Diener, as the bailiff, and the divert- to protect the public from violence, ing Mr. Lutes as Eric. the lackey.- not only by acting as a deterrent to The staging was excellntly done any overt act ,but by checking it by throughout; the settings by Walker force of arms if the situation be- Everett were decorative, original. comes serious. But there is always the remember- ance of Jeppe, his all too human ways,- the man who was so remark- ably tender-hearted that he did not EDITORIAL COMMENT even wish that his wife were dead. "MADAME BUTTERFLY" j A CITY TO GOVERN A review, by Alan Hathaway. (The New York Times) A small but enthusiastic audience i One aspect of what good or bad received one of the best of recent municipal government may mean in presentations of the Whitney theatre New York City is illuminated in Con- { in Puccini's tragedy of Nippon, Ma- troller Berry's summary of the city's dame Butterfly. On the whole the finacia poitin. 'e crrya gossopera was pleasing both to the eye and financial position. We carry a gross I a i fetwleua! fudddbIfmreta w ilo I the ear. Lighting effects, well regulat- funded debt of more than two billion ed and fitting and +appropriate stage dollars, which is more than two-thirds settings enhanced the play, bringing of the national debt of the United out its undeniable drama with fa- States at the outbreak of the World cility. War. Subtracting sinking fund and Tamaki Miura as Cho-Cho-San the productive debts-water, docks and, tiny Madiame Butterfly laudably play- nominally, subways-we carry a net ed her lead, charming in her dainti-f debt of more than a billion dollars. ness and diminutiveness, true of voicet debtof oretha a illon ollrs.and expressive in a truly Oriental If the city's additional borrowing aneresse sna truly intal manner. Shme started modestly sing- capacity today is only forty-two mil- ing with a subtle quiet drama, rising lion dollars, it is because of the legal i in the second act to highly impas- determination of that capacity. Other- sioned arias as she violently rejected wise it is easy to imagine what one the suspicions of the maidservantI sort of municipal administration might Suzuki. In the third act she is more do to a community whose wealth composed, anticipating the final tra- bulks so large. Assessed real estate gedy by soft and melancholy solos xaluations in the city are slightly mingled with the brighter hopes under twelve billion dollars. If the I against the inevitable. The orchestration ending the sec- proportion of real property values to and aet breathes its subtle tragedy the total wealth be assumed to be the out to the hushed audience as night same in the city as for the nation at descends upon the motionless figures large, then the "national wealth" of of Clio-Cho-San, Suzuki and the child New York City is easily twenty billion silhouetted against the 'shosi.' Dawn' dollars-probably more than that. It open the third with the same three is equivalent to the national wealth: u s in the same positions accom- of Italy, to more than one-half of the panied by a lighter orchestration of the same theme. Aldo Franchetti, national wealth 'of France Ur er- I.nnio s ,s.~ ma.. sion -and expression as a clay model. His dramatization was sadly impotent during the entire performance being barely excusable by the volume and quality of his voice. Even at the suicide of Cho-Cho-San his facial muscles scarcely changed their origi- nal position. The outstanding characterization of the opera was Goro, the Marriage Broker, whose pantomime comedy pleasingly broke the seriousness of the plot. In this role Joseph Cavo- dore wittily imitated the Nipponese i and the bargain driver that he was. HiA voice was not outstanding, but he was not required to singsa great deal and all the time he was on the stage he was busied with his silent comedy . * * THE OPENING OF THE MASONIC TEMPLE A review, by Robert E. Carson. A new epoch in the cultural life of Detroit was ushered in Monday night with the opening of the New Masonic auditorium. The magnificent Gothic structure, the splendor of the great auditorium, thetdistinguished guests and above all, the Detroit Symphony orchestra and the American colora- tura soprano, Mme. Luella Melius all combined to make this dedication an! event. The dedicatory remarks of Ossip Gabrilowitch failed to express the tremendous undercurrent of feel- ing aroused by this occasion; rather, the solemn dignity and austerity of the music penetrated the very walls of the building, giving it a soul and consecrating it far more than mere words. Peculiarly significant is the fact that Mme. Luella Melius, an Ameri- can soprano, a pupil of the famous De Reszke, should take part in this opening. She augurs well for the future of American artists . She de- lighted the audience time and again with her remarkable voice. Mme. Melius compares favorably to Galli I Curci although there is an undefin- able something lacking to rank her with that artist. One's first impres- sion of Mine. Melius is of a songbird. In "La Rossignol et la Rose" by Saint- Sa-ens, she imitates realistically the I nightingale's pleading love song. Her voice is as golden as the gown she wore and two domitable characteris- tics intensify the charm of voice, ex- pression and dramatic presence, vary- ing her moods, now joyful, now pathe- tic, interpreting perfectly, swaying the audience like a leaf in the wind. In her duet with the flute the full brilliance of her voice was exempli- fied and after insistent applause she responded with several encores in a more populgr vein. It is also significant that the De- troit Symphony orchestra was ac- corded a place in the dedication cere- mony. This superb organization reached a distinctive position in its! career when it received an ovation that has hardly ever been equalled in American musical circles. The sym- phony included in its repertoire Wag- ner, Liszt, and Tschaikovsky. The mo- ment was auspicious and the presen- tation of its selections by the orches- tra showed the efforts of hard work on their part in preparation for the concert.Their share in the program was typical of a finish and unity never before realized by the organi- zation. Ossip Gabrilowitch had per- fect control of the orchestra and the response to his baton was 'instan- taneous. Their opening selection, Wagner's Prelude to the opera "Die Meister- singer von Nurnberg" slightly trans- cended the rest of the program but it is hard to say which were rendered the more beautifully. in the ac - companiment of Mine. Melius there was harmony and appreciation of the singer that is seldom achieved by an orchestra. The entire program of the evening was well balanced and in choosing the great composers their best works were selected . THE MATINEE MUSICALE j The following Program will be pre- sented at the February meeting of the Matinee Musicale this afternoon in the Michigan Union ball-room at 3:30 o'clock: a. Plasir d'amour .......... Martin b. Venez, agreable printemps.. ...........18th Century French e. Jeune Fillete.18th Century French d. L'Heure exquise ...........Hahn e. Beau Soir..............Debussy f. Au Printenps ..........Gounod Mrs. Annis Dexter Gray Frederick Alexander, accompanist Concerto, D major for piano. vio- lin, and string quartette.... .................... Chausson Decidej Sicilienne Grave Finale - Albert Lockwood, pianist. Mnrion Rtruble-Freenmtn, violinst The University String Quartet THE ORGAN RECITAL Palmer Christian. University or- MAKE SELL "A Wiser and Better Place to ury." New Spring Hats Are Ready. Hats Cleaned and Blocked. FACTORY HAT STORE $17 Packard Street. Phone 7415. (Where D. U. 1. Stops at State St.) PL ElmA :E m AK Paths on snow form ice and kill all grass roots beneath. 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