THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRID2 j ________}______ .- ______ - - - - - - - - THEATERJ BOOKS MUSIC TONIGHT: Play Production presents Ferenec Molnar's "The Play's The Thing" in Mimes thea. ter at 8:30. THIS AFTERNOON: At 2:30 in Hill auditoriumi, the final con- cert of the High School Music contest, GLEE CLUB CONCERT The University Girls' Glee club has arranged its program for its only ap- pearance of the year here. The pro- gram consists of the Stanley-Nevin combination of musical literature in- terspersed with a few of Brahms songs. Color is added to the program= by the inclusion of Beasly's "Second Minuet" a song in costume. The Girls' Glee club is one of the largest or- ganizations of its kind in the middle West; a fact which promises power and volume to be their forte rather than polish, though the method of choosing the singers insures some good voices. The program follows: 1. Laudes atque Carmina ... Stanley Wynken, Blynken and Nod..Nevin Glee Club Soprano Obligato, Marjorie Chavenelle 11. Snow Flakes............Rogers Aloha ..... arranged by Sherwood The Two Clocks......... Rogers Quartet Marjorie Chavenelle, Amna Cope ,Dorothy Marshman, Ruth Ale III. Love Songs............Brahms Like the Evening Glow A Lofty Mansion Invocation to Saint Cecelia -Harris Glee Club IV. Numbers from "Eight 'Till Eight" and "For the Love of Pete" Members of the casts V. A College Sing Union Opera and Junior Girls' Play favorites Glee Club VI. Song in Costume The Second Minuet ......Beasly Helen Gould VII. Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes -Crist What the Old Cow Said Lady: Bug Good Night Beloved ......Pinsuti The Yellow and Blue ......Balfe Glee Club * * * "THE PLAY'S THE THING" A review by Philip C. Brooks "-A tooth for a tooth, and a peach for a white cherry." So Play Pro- dution gives us a brilliant perform- ane of an outstanding play instead of the somewhat limpid production which is usually expected from them. Obvi- ously, Play Production profits freely from the excellence of an all-campus cast, the most prominent of whose members have made their names else- where. The vehicle has been justifiably praised previously. Suffice it to say that not only does it fulfill the quali- fications of "a wit, a hit, and a happy ending," but it demonstrates a marve- lous combination of clever scheme, suspense, and really good lines. "The critic," says Sandor Turai, "doesn't like melodrama." So every tendency toward melodrama is broken just in time by a fascinating if sometimes compromising bit of reality. Storming out on the stage in those striking pajamas, chagrined but nev- ertheless resolute in the disclosal of her treachery-rather of her "damned idiotic sentimentality'-and delight- fully convincing in carrying out her old friend's redemption scheme, Minna Miller plays the part of Ilona Szabo in a truly remarkable manner. Her show of dramatic sense, ability of in- terpretation, and freedom marks her' as one of Michigan's very best ac- tresses of recent years. Two years ago I reviewed a modest affair of Play Production-"The Goose Hangs High"-in which one actor of note made his campus debut, Richard Woellhaf. Since that time, and I say this in face of the stormy campus opinion, if any, he has been the best actor in undergraduate m productions. His performance of Sandor Turai, much feared for by the connoisseurs (?) bears out that classification. Although the exaggerated humor in the last act threatens to drag in 11 length, George Johnson, as its fun- niest figure, shows a decidedly com- mendable completeness of interpre- tation. This is probably the last dramatic review of the year, and the last for good of a three years' string for me. The most consistent fault of campus ttlllllt11ll tltfililll i1| 11: 111t01 lI t 111 11tttlll1111 1111 01 li 111101;11t111111l1101111111t1t llIIIl 1tUItill tl ll ttll ttll ttl ittl 10!t The Place to eget- those Refreshing w ..* ]Drinks w also Light Lunches Betsy Ross Shop 13-15 NICKELS ARCADE iltltltl 1 lill111 111 Illl11111101111 1111111 1111111lllll lillf 1 1 1 1 IItlltll 1111101111 11111111111111111111111 11111 I