THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1925. Published every morning except Monday during the University year by the Board in Control of Student Publications. Member of Western Coaferenee Editorial Association. The Associated Press is exclusively en- titled 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 herein. Entered at the postoffice at Ann Arbor Michigan, as second class matter. Special rate of postage granted by Third Assistant Pest master General. Subscription by sarrier, $4.00; by mail, 14.50. Offices: Ann Arbor Press Building, May- nard Street. Phones:Editorial, 4925; Business 21214. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR JO H. CHAMBERLIN editor........ .... Ellis P. Merry F&d r Michigan Weekly.., Charles E. Behymer News Vditor.............Philip C. Brooks City i.aitor ........ . ,Courtland C. Smith Women's Editor.........Marian L. Welles Sports Editor. ......Herbert E. Vedder Theater, Books and Music.Vincent C. Wall, Jr. Assistant City Editor....Richard C. Kurvink Night Editors Robert E. Finch G. Thomas McKean Stewart Hooker Kenneth G. Patrick Paul J. Kern Nelson J. Smith, Jr. Milton Kirtat,,aum Reportera Esther Anderson Sally Knox Margaret Arthur Tohn H. Maloney Alex A. Bochnowaki Marion McDonald T ean Campbell Charles S. Monroe essie Church Catherine Price Blanchard W. Cleland Harold L. Passman Clarence N. Edelson Morris W. Quinn Margaret Gross Rita Rosenthal Valborg' Egeland Pierce Rose.berg Marjorie Follmer Eleanor Scribner ames B. Freeman Corinne Schwarz Roert _J. Gessner Robert G. Silbar aine E Gruber Howard F. Simon Alice Hagelshaw George E- Simons Joseph E rHowell. Rowena Stillman J.Wallace Hushenr Sylvia Stone harles R. Kaufman George Tilly William F. Kerby Bert. K. Tritsche ler Lawrence R. Klein Edward IL. Warner, Jr. Donald J. Kline Benjamin S. Washer .Jack L. Lait, Jr. Joseph Zwerdling BUSINESS STAFF' Telephone 21214 - BUSINESS MANAGER WILLIAM C. PUSCH Assistant Manager... George H. Annable, :Jr. Advertising..............Richard A. Meyr Advertising............Edward L. Hulse Advertising...........John W. Ruswinckel Accounts................Raymond Wachter Circulation.............George B. Ahn, Jr. Publication...................Harvey Talcott Assistants George Bradley Ray Hofelich Marie Brummeler Hal A. Jaehn James Carpenter James Jordan Charles K. Correll Marion Kerr Barbara Cromell Thales N. Lenington Mary fively Catherine McKinven Bessie V. Egeland Dlorothby Lyons Ona Felker Alex K. Scherer Katherine Frohne George Spater Douglass Fuller Ruth Thompson Beatrice Greenberg Herbert E. Varnum Helen Gross Lawrence Walkley E.J Hammer Hannah Wallen Car W. Hammer THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1928. Night Editor-CLARENCE EDELSON VOTE TONIGHT serves to distort the picture of jus- tice somewhat, while it effectually achieves the ends desired. But the 1928 Swing-out is passed. The responsibility now rests with the student and faculty committees, with the class of 1929, to reinstate the in- stitution in the respect of the Uni- versity community. Discipline, as it rules by fear, is at times effective; but a predominant student sentiment, overwhelming in its demand for a re- versed tradition and a respectable in- stitution, is much more honorable and worthy in the end. HOOVER FOR COOLIDGE Herbert Hoover's recent offer to withdraw as a candidate for the Re- publican nomination for President if President Coolidge will consent to a renomination seems to those who feel Mr. Hoover is the plausible Republi- can candidate for President as a mis- take on his part. In the first place, his offer to with- draw, apparently the direct result of Secretary Mellon's intimations that Hoover, as far as he (Mellon) is con- cerned with Pennsylvania's 79 dele- gates' votes, is merely a second choice, subject entirely to Coolidge's unwill- ingness to becone a candidate again, appears to be unnecessary loyalty to the administration in a case where Hoover plainly has recognized strength all over the country. His ability demonstrated through a clean record of long, hard endeavor in the service of the nation has convinced the publics of many states of his being the logical candidate for the presi- dency, and his standing aside for Coo- lidge should the latter decide to be- come a candidate again would not ap. pear to be for the best interests of all concerned. Furthermore since the country will have had six years of the Coolidge administration it might be well to change and give the man who is being consistently demanded by many interests all over the coun- try a term as president. Hoover has steadily grown in popularity through his service for public welfare and it would seem wise to give him the op- portunity which he has earned. Moreover the view taken by many that Coolidge would run only to head off any possible anti-administration candidate in case Hoover should slump after the first few ballots seems sound and if Hoover senses such a situation, his stand may be judicious for the protection afforded in that after a possible waning of his power. he might still throw support to Cool- idge and thereby help in heading off any candidate not in sympathy with the administration. But at any rate, it would be extremely unfortunate if Hoover would under any consideration withdraw in favor of Coolidge for the former appears in every light of con- ; . .... .. .r7 i~ r~s - i i ~ww~ TH U iRDAY, MAY 24. 1928rwr . About BOOKS THEATER MUSIC MEN MAKING MERRY "Poems in Praise of Practically Noth- ing'"by Samuel Hoffenstein. 1928. Boni and Liveright $2.00. The penchant for light verse which was started not so long ago by Doro- thy Parker with her "Enough Rope" has swept "Poems In Praise of Prac- tically Nothing" into the favor which1 it is enjoying at the present- By which we imply that Hoffenstein has yet a long way to go before he can equal the light and flippant 'nothings' which flow so glibly, and yet with such force from the pen of Miss Parker (if she is a miss). Yet this book is ideal entertainment for a rainy evening or even to be read between the steak and shortcake. Our favorite little touch in the book is the piece on the wind: When the wind is in the tree, It makes a noise just like the sea, As if there were not noise enough To bother one, without that stuff. The volume abounds with just such remarks-quotable, laughable, remem- berable. Probably the chief issue to be taken with Hoffenstein (and the place where he fails to equal Miss Parker) is his use of inverted language and of 'in- vented' phrases for the mere purpose of making a rhyme. To break the sense of one line with freakish words and combinations simply to make a' rhyme with the next line, which mayl be excellent, is a bad practice if one would have smoothness in the result and if one would achieve a natural,. easy sweep. All in all this is a good book to own. If you can't laugh at it you are the kind of person who deserves to be cast on a desert island with only Os- wald Spengler's "Decline of the West" for light reading. -N. J. S. SEVENTEENTH CENTURY GLAMOR "A Mirror for Witches." By Esther Forbes; Houghton Mifflin Company. $2.50. 1928. (Courtesy of the Print and Book Shop) It behooves us to understand that "A Mirror for Witches" is not the en- tire title of this book. Rather, accord- ing to Miss Forbes, it should be stat- ed: "A Mirror for Witches, in which is reflected the life, machinations and death of famous Doll Bilby, who, with more than feminine perversity, pre- ferred a Demon to a mortal love. Here is also told why a righteous and most awful judgment befell her, destroy- ing both corporeal body and immortal soul-" In this novel is offered much of the austerity of Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter. L Tonight the male student body will have its chance to vote on the pro- posed amendments to the Union con- stitution which will remove the presi- dency and secretary's position in that organization from all-campus elec- tion. On page one of this issue the proposition is completely set forth. 600 students must be present at the meeting tonight or the proposal will fail for lack of interest. The securing of this number to constitute a quor- um is no mean task, and should be taken as a personal responsibility by those who are interested in promoting the best interests of their men's or- ganization. AFTERMATH OF SWING-OUT With the suspension of one man who was admittedly intoxicated on the day of Swing-out, with the appoint- ment of a student committee to un- dertake revision of the attitude toward the event next year, and finally with the appointment of a faculty body to study the problem connected with Swing-out with a view to restoring it to its former place of reverence among Michigan traditions, steps for preventing a repetition of this year's fiasco seem well under way. The first of these measures, the expulsion of a single student, seems rather ludicrous on the surface, and perhaps deserves a word of comment. It is true, of course, that large numbers, perhaps hundreds of stu- dents, were intoxicated .or on the verge of such a condition on Swing- out day. This fact, coldly viewed, malJes it seem as though a penalty to a single offender is entirely out of proportion to the magnitude of the general offense; and perhaps such a stand is supportable by adequate show of reason. . Nevertheless the fact that Swing-out this year was one of the most dis- graceful events ever held under the auspices of the University is a rather disagreeable fact that has .to be faced. One offender, if he happens to be the only one apprehended, is responsible for the situation to exactly the same degree as all others; yet the fact that the others escaped makes his misde- meanor no less contrary to the best interests of the university. It is extremely regrettable that only one man has been discovered from among the throng who drank on that day to bear the wrath of the disci- 1 -! t THE SUMMER THEATRICAL SEASON Last summer the Rockford Play- ers sweltered for the sake of art in Sarah Caswell Angell Hall; this sum- mer the performance is to be repeat- ed. With the exceptions of Robert Henderson and Helen Hughes, none of last summer's cast will return for the coming season. The new leading lady is to be Katherine Wick Kelly, leading lady of the Cleveland Play- house, Cleveland; Miss Kelly was well known some years ago in connection with dramatic activities in Ann Ar- bor; she will assume the place oc- cupied last year by Elsie Hearndon Kearns. The other women in the cast are to be Elberta Trowbridge, Lillian Bronson, Helen Hughes, and Alice Ho- gan. The leading man will, of course, be Robert Henderson; he will be aid- ed by Rikel Kent, Donald Keyes, and Paul Stephenson. The present schedule of plays, as recently announced by Robert Hender- son, has much more meaning for the prospective summer students than the announcement of the cast. The open- ing bill will be "Her Cardboard Lov- er," an interesting play and some- times clever one, and one which gave JeannerEagels an opportunity to have another one of her petulant battles with Actors' Equity. On the schedule are two very interesting and seldom performed plays: Anatole France's "The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife" and Henrik Ibsen's "The Vikings." "The Vikings" is to be presented with the aid of Thomas Wilfred and his Clavilux, or color organ, an instru- ment which gives much the same stage effects as we have all seen many times on the vaudeville stage when a woman in silk tights parades behind a screen on which a swimming array of pinks, flames, and muddy browns is being projected; the tableau, we were told, represented "Dawn Over the Ocean" "THE DESERT SONG" As advertised "direct from 9 months in Chicago and 15 months in New York-with the same notable cast," "The Desert Song" is now starting to add to its list of long runs, in the Cass theater in Detroit. "The Desert Song" while hard to classify on ac- count of its being neither musical com- edy nor straight operetta, is not hard to classify as to, quality, for it is one of the most excellent and notable of- ferings before the Detroit theater pub- lie this year. The play is laid in Morocco, about two years ago. The plot tells the story of the Red Shadow, a border rider who aids the poor and oppress- es the rich in the approved manner. and of his quest to win a girl, while appearing in a dual role. In one role, he is that of the original dumbdon; in the other, the hard-riding, dashing raider and outlaw. There's just lots and lots of chance for Alexander Gray to be heroic and he does it. Well, the trouble is the, girl falls in love with both, and then-what a to-do wher she cannot decide which to marry, with the poor fellow running off stage to change his costume to please her latest fancy. Then, to make 'the Riff war appear in light vein, the managers put this boy, Bernard Granville, in the part of a demon Paris society correspondent who is covering the war. Granville makes the humor appear in more quantity than the authors knew. He is clever. * * * A STUDENT RECITAL This evening in the Masonic temple at 8 o'clock E. N. Bilbie will, present his pupils in a recital. The following is the program to be presented: Air Varie, La Straniera...... Dancla Edward Bilbie Capriccio ................ Volkmann Douglass Hoard Romance et Bolero......... Dancla Miss Marie Wood Impromptu (for piano) ... Sinding Miss Violet Murray Humoresque ..............Dvorak Miss Angela Licari Jennesse Doree.........Waldtenfe Ensemble Concertino in E minor........Sitt (first movement) Miss Harriet Arnold Concerto No. 28 .............Viotti Andante Sostenuto, Allegretto Vivo Mrs. Emma Baker Concerto op. 10 ............ David First movement. Allegro con fuoco Miss Dorothy Tower Concerto No. 2.........Vieuxtemps First movement. Allegro Meldrum Bisnack Rakoczy March ............. Berlioz T'i amh1, hi 1= .. NOW HOOT GIBSON "Galloping Fury" Ye.s, it's western Opry --=- - ' -= Thtis Ad ii l1 l> Cent ~-HOURS-8 A. ,M. to 11 P. M. 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One feels her re- free moving picture is to be shown in search too heavily, and is left con- Hill auditorium through the courtesy vinced that the author should have at- of the Butterfield theater interests on tempted something of the motivatior Saturday night as a means of cele- of witchcraft. Miss Forbes has, how- brating the baseball championship re- ever, given us a new novel of Puritar cently won by Michigan. The showing New England which brings back to us of the movie, seemingly inconsequent- the age of stocks and "Increase Ma- ial in itself, is, however, of more than thers," an age in which evil could passing significance as it bespeaks only be explained by supernatural ac- a continued cooperation between Ann cusations. Arbor theaters and the University stu-- -A 'W. dents who are their chief patrons. It may well be predicted that the days A MANUAL FOR COLLEGIANS- of theater rushes and the regrettable "The Friend of Antaens" by Gerard incidents which often accompanied Hopkins. 1928 E. P. Dutton and them are over; and it may also be said Company. $2.50. that future Michigan championships A sophisticated view of sophisticat- will be celebrated in a new way and in ed persons during a period of their a manner more fitting, perhaps, than sophisticated existence is the theme is usually the custom in college towns. of Hopkins' novel. Glenner Passing- The foundation of this policy was ham, the central figure of the story laid more than a year ago, following is the type of man that all blase col- conferences between representatives lege boys would like to be when they of the Butterfield theaters, Universi- graduate - carefree, accomplished, ty authorities and city officials. These wealthy and sophisticated, traveling conferences had been occasioned as around the world. the result of a number of clashes be- The story revolves around him. Hav-= tween Ann Arbor police and groups of ing no desire in the world to meddle students seeking to celebrate major with other people's affairs, l1e is conference victories. Some feeling and drawn into a net of circumstances and a great deal of interest uns excited ,controls their destiny. He saves a, by the negotiations at the time but more or less young, lady from com- the opportunity to celebrate in ac- mitting suicide and immediately after cordance with the promise made by goes home and non-chalantly arrang- the theaters did not present itself es matters about the house to prove until the baseball team clinched the his sophistication. conference title last week end. As all modern novels, "The Friend As a group the student body ap- of Antaeus" has its bad woman, only preciates the attitude which the thea- she really isn't bad; and it has the ters have taken in the matter and the eternal triangle, which almost devel- willingness which they have shown ops into a quadrangle. in assisting in the holding of student And with all that the one lasting celebrations. A situation of this sort impression is that it is for shophisti- is indeed to be commended for in cated readers, by a shophisticated au- reality both students and )theaters thor, about shophi- have a common interest in the mov- -. J. E. B. ing picture field and it is one w hich - h e_ seniors_ w ent_ arou nd_ to P rei- - may well be acknowledged. The seniors went around to Presi-r dent Little's house last night after I- e e t _ i- F n n - , r d r e -l i v zl ,, r : r Y 1 _ ,