THE MI'C IGAN , DA-ILY SUMAY, MAUWH 10, 1929 ' F!' should be remembered that out of "..Y- -"--A "--Y .""t ."-.-it-"# tA.Y *i.{.t 6 .. ........." i...".t-.-.- the groups who participate in ath- a duirg the University year by the Board in lets carnivals of one kind or an- Control of Student Publications. other in Ann Arbor, will come Member of Western Conference Editorial many of Michigan's most promi- 1 Associatien ahltesofth ftue.S rh .l...............r a...a.nu....,r....u...................... The Associated Press is exclusively n ent athletes of the future. Such """ """ "" " """ """ "- " ""' """ "" " titled to the use for republication of all news times offer an opportunity to show THIS AFTERNOON: The University Band will give a symphonic dispatches credited to it oranot otherwise Michigan at its best to prospective program in Hill Auditorium, beginning at 4:15 o'clock. Mr. credited in this paper and the local news pub- college students. What they see Nicholas Falcone will conduct. jished herein.Colg stdns WhtaeyseNcoaFacnwilodu. Entered at the postoffice at Ann Arbor, and how they are treated now will ONE ACT PLAY CONTEST JUDGES Michigan, . s secord class matter. Special rate determine in many cases, whether' of postag, granted by Third Assistant Post-I master Generalt a desirable man will come to Mich- With the finals of the one act theatre; and his name completes Subscription by Carrie r, .4q.00; by, mail,- s450. igan or will go to some other play contest scheduled for this Fri- the three judges who are an assur- Offosme ieet. Ann Arbor P"ress Building, May- nard Street. AndiArirPe Buins, 3 ay- school. day, it is worth noting that the ance that the contest will be care- Phones:Tditr al,'4925 -Business224 Next -'Week, and again in May, Division of English has been most fully and understandingly judged. when the call for help is sent out successful in obtaining judges for The production of the plays this EDITORIAL STAfF by the athletic association, it is to the contest of recognised ability, week on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Telephone 4925 be lopei .tlat full cooperation will and outstanding merit in drama- Thursday nights is open to the MANAGING EDITOR be given. it will be for the bene- tics. This, of course, is essential for public, tickets being procurable by KENNETH G. PATRICK fits of the men who do the enter- an event -of such importance, lead- sending a request to Director ditor...................Neson J. Smith taming, the meng who are being en- ing, as it does, toward the campus Windt. The Friday night presenta- City Editor...........J. Stewart IHooker tertained, and of Michigan, to look taking a more .active part in News Editor.........Richard C. Kurvink fi aie atlltioni, at which time the8 plays will Sports Editor.. .'.. ...W. Morris Quinn prospective students over carefully, dramatics. be judged, is by special invitation. Women's Editor.............. Sylvia S. Stone TelegraphEditor..............George stauter and give them a chance to get the Miss Jessie Bonstelle, well known Mention of this is made owing to Mskitant CityEditor.......Roet Siar right slant on college. as the director of the now Detroit a certain confusion as to which AsigntCs Eioe... ..y.sowere ueu ig i t Night Editors Joseph E. Howell. Charles S. Monroe Donald J. Kline Pierce Rosenberg Lawrence R. Klein George E. Simons. George C. Tilley Reporters Paul L. Adams Donald E. Layman Morris Alexandet harles A. Lewis C. A. Askren Al arian McDonald Bertram Askwif Ilnry Merry Louise'Behymew Elizabeth Quaife Arthur Bernste'u Victor Rabinowitz Seton C. Boye Josepli A. Russell Isabel Charles AnnSchelle 1>,. R. Chubb Rce hae Prank E. Cooper I-oward Simon Helen Domine Robert L. Sloss Margaret I!ckels. Ruth Steadman Douglas Ewards A. Stewart Valborg el mand Cadwell Swanson Robert J. Feldman Jane Thayer Marjorie Follmer Edith Thomas William Gentry Beth. Valentine Ruth Geddes Gurney Williams David B. Hempstead Jr. Welter Wilds Richard Jung George E. Wohlgemuth Charles R. Kaufman Edward L. Warner Jr-. Ruth Kelsey Cleland Wyllie i 1 17 BUSINESS STAFF , Telephone 21214 BUSINESS MANAGER EDWARD L. HULSE Assistant Manager-RAYMOND WACHTER ~dvrtiingDepartment Managers dvertising........Alex K. Scherer Advertising....... .......A. James Gordan Advertising...............Carl W. Hammer Service...................Herbert E. Varnum irculation..... .....George S. Bradley Accounts....... awrence E. Walkley Publications......Ray. M. Hofelih Assistants Mary Chase tarton Kerr Jeanette Dale Lillian Kovinsky Vernor Davis Bernard Larson Bessie Egeland Ho lster Mabley Sally Faster 1. A. Newman Anna Goldberg Jack Rose Kasper Halverson Carl F. Schemm George Hamilton George Spater Jack Norwich Sherwood Upton Dix Humphrey Marie Wellstead SUNDY MARCH 10, 1929 Night Editf-DONALD J. KLINE THENE DE BATING CLUBS. The pluperfect campus organi- zationhrthLibrary- system, is now face d btg test opposition that it has had since a group of literati joined together to try to have books published within the past ten years put into circulation for the students. The librarians are now faced with direct opposi- tion and disregard for .their signs "Silence and Order Are Requested." The past months have seen blatant outrages against the silence of the various libraries on the campus. In some of the more popular li- braries, it has become almost im- possible for anyone to study. A long cold winter has driven even the fur-coated collegian indoors, and as there is no provision for loafing places in the campus buildings, the libraries have been chosen as dis- cussion rooms. Instead of a scene with students busy with their books, the library is now filled with women students discussing rushees or dates, and men students discuss- ing all sorts of things from sports to fraternity management. About the only valuable information traded is on "pipe courses, and often this is unreliable. With thesis and bluebook time at hand, the library' organization should immediately put ,a stop to this new and widespread debating society. Librarians should be in- structed to ask any time-wasters and members of the army of un- employed 1ither to get busy or leave the library. It may cause some trouble, but it is the only way in which the libraries may be put to their proper use. At pres- ent; the University might as well heat the buildings with their "Si- lence" signs. PRE-COLLEGE ENTERTAINMENT Next Friday and Saturday the Athletic association will stage its annual invitational interscholastic track meet in Yost Field house. As has been the case during the past two days, fraternities will be asked by the sponsors of the meet to house and feed from two to six boys while they are participating in a University function. In the past, the interscholastic department has found it compara- tiulv el nsv to find houses willing O- ----- A VIOLENT DEATH Diagnosed as death by filibuster, the bill for reapportionment of the House of Representatives, as re- quired by the Constitution of the United States, died with the Seventieth Congress. Four consecutive Congresses now have failed to perform one of their most imperative duties. The House continues to represent the various states unequally and when it next convenes, it will do so illegally. Two imporant difficulties came up in*connection with the passage of any sort of bill whatever for re- districting the House. Foremost of these is the fact that the present representatives, not wishing to force from their positions any of their colleagues, have been. reluctant to consider such proposals, perhaps for sentimental reasons. Moreover, the present large membership is prohibitive to any increase. The Seventieth Congress, in many respects, was extremely solicitous for strict enrforcement of the Con- stitution. The drastic lawpenaliz- ing violaters of the Eighteenth Amendment $10,000 and five years in the penitentiary is illustrative of this ardent desire for upholding, "law and order." But is not each Congressman who attended the last meeting of the country's au- gust law-making -body as much a violator of the Constitution as is a person with a flask of liquor in his hip-pocket? Is not each Congress- man foreswearing his oath of office by refusing to heed the mandates of the\ Constitution? 0-- A New York lady is reported to be seeking damages from her den- tist for pulling out 1'7 of her teeth without getting the right one. Speaking off hand we would say that it looks like a case of mis- placed enthusiasm. Civic Theatre formerly known as the Bonstelle Playhouse, is excel- lently qualified to act as one of the judges. Her interest in the drama, and the splendid role she has played in Detroit in forming the Civic Theatre, are assurances that I her judgment of the four plays will be critically discerning, and sympathetic. Prof. Chester M. Wallace is prob- ably better known as the head of the Drama school at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. His many, years of experience with the drama as an art form, and his work at Carnegie have made him a capable judge of the practical in drama. Mr. Daniel L. Quirk, Jr. is prob- ably well known to Ann Arbor as the director of Ypsilanti Players. His work in the production of rep- ertoire plays as well as some stu- dent written ones has given him nights the plays were bieing given for the general public. The four student written plays will be given with elaborate sets, carefully selected casts, and under the personal direction of Valen- tine Windt, as in contrast to the rather limited means which were available in the elimination con- test, P. L. Adams, "REDEMPTION" Play Production will produce Leo Tolstoi's "Redemption" or "The Living Corpse" on the evenings of March 29, 30, and April 2, 3, and 4. A very large cast is being used for the play, including a chorus for the tavern scenes. The Moissi script, as translated into English in the Oxford University Edition will be used for the production. The cast for the play has not been announced as yet. UU EEEEEE EUUN EWU EE E EEUUE.UE UUUWU.UUUU.UWU.WUUUU.iallg11g What is new for'Sprinlg7 Variety of style is very noticeable. Three buttons, two buttons, patch pockets, notched and peaked lapels, all are in evidence,I Tweeds and homespuns are the outstanding fabrics. The soft tan maixtures ex- cite instant admiration. Hickey-Freeman, of course. MW.OGR&COMP jbr me1n Jyi2Snce l1s'4 { a thorough understanding for the SYMPHONY BAND CONCERT Following the customof present- and orchestral ing an annual program on the and clarinets. Faculty Concert Series, the Uni- Mr. Leonard ist, will play versity Band will play this after- euphoniu, a noon at 4:15 o'clock in Hill Audi- Patton will sin torium. Since the close of the opera "Tosca," football season, the band, under ranged for bar the direction of Nicholas Falcone, -cone. No admis has been practicing for indoor for the concer programs, using the symphonic public is invite band concert idea as the basis of The program their efforts. Overture to "C The symphonic idea for a band Prelude in C s is one which. has only during the .. . . past few years come into vogue. Fantasia di Co Mr. Falcone has endeavored to "Leona tone down the volume of the band Selections from which is rather necessary for the "E Lucevan le spirit of such occasions as a foot- "Tosca". ball game, and replace it with a Ottis C finer band art approximating a Waltz-"Espani symphony orchestra by more deli- Overture, "1812 cate use of color, tonal blending, i use of the trumpets Falcone, guest solo- a concerto on the ind Mr. Ottis Odra g an aria from the which has been ar- nd by Director Fal- sion will be charged t, and the general ed. follows: Oberon"....... Weber harp Minor..... .. ... Rachmaninoff ncerto.....Boccalari rd Falc'one n :i"Martha" ... FlotovI Stelle" from .Puccini Odra Patton o" ......Waldteufel 2" .....Tchaikowsky P. L. Adams. i I I Editorial Comment I WELL MR. SHAW . (New York Herald-Tribune) Undergraduates sometimes write foolish nonsense, but they hardly ever achieve the foolishness of the perpetual undergraduates among the alumni. "Columbia Spectator" published this week a long letter signed by a group of alumni re- cently prominent in undergraduate activities, who are concerned with the lack of undergraduate interest in athletics and with the fact that Columbia has a losing football team. ,They scold the present gen- eration of undergraduates for not .properly supporting teams. They scold the coaches for not enforc- ing the high and Spartan discipline which would produce winning ath- letic organizations. To read this letter (of which one could find analogues in every college alumni weekly in the country) one would never guess that the chief alleged business of the American college was the education of the mind and character through study and play. One would never imagine that in- ter-collegiate atheltics was a side- show to the really important busi- ness of general sport. It is an important and a hopeful fact that all over the country this type of rah-rah business is being confined to the alumni. Some months ago a Yale football coach grew publicily dolorous over the faint attendance and enthusiasm at a football rally. Intelligent undergraduates must wonder at men who three or four or twenty years out of college persist in act- ing like perennial freshmen. Alum- ni weeklies are generally filled with the trivial of college life. Almost none of them is concerned with presenting to the alumni what the college or university is seriously trying to do or what the under- graduate activities that really help the all-round development of the average student are accomnlishing. Thomas Wilfred-Troubadour And Impressario Thomas Wilfred, the personality! dominating the production of "The Vikings", is a startling mixture of talents; a mixture that only the theatre would be able to use com- pletely. The story of his life would, be an unbelievable romantic ad- venture if it were not for the Scandinavian tenacity of purpose and sincerity which keeps him, not a wandering mountebank, but an artist wandering a new path in theatrical productions. A spotlight would pick him up, when he graduated from the Uni- versity of Copenhagen. His own University called him back tos teach physics. At the same time play is built, out of nothing, dark- ness, and develops, unhindered by the static lighting of the present day stage, through a continuous flow of the media of actors, story, and set, until the final curtain. "The ._Vikings", now, is Wilfred after experiment has thrown him into dramatic directing, acting, scene designing, and into a pains- taking study of Ibsen which before this Wilfred had taken up in a way that a Continental would call a ,hobby, but -which we prefer to' identify, as scholarship, or a scholarly study. His apology for an interruption in the conversation was an em- barrassed; "You see, I'm also di- recting my laboratory from here." The st'ory of "The Vikings" as I Wilfred is interpreting it is one layed on a background of physical struggle and heroic warfare that is almost inconceivable in our mod- ern life, so tangled and twisted with minute personalities strug- gling in what Jim Tully would call the back bedroom of life. Ibsen is not the author of "Hedda Gabler" or "Ghosts" in this play, but an artist working with the heroic medium of the Icelandic Volsung sagas and with characters who have sublimated their natural sex lives into a passionate lust for war- fare. Hjordis, played by Kather- ine Wick Kelly, is the arch-type, a perverted Amazon whose happi- ness is greatest when she has stir- red up war. Critic Ashton Stevens, of the Chicago performance, naive- ly remarked that she madenLady Macbeth look like a pale ingenue. rAnd her protagonists, Sigurd and Ornulf and Gunnar, are of near- ly equal vitality. Henderson, -Rey- nolds Evans and Roman Bohnen carry the parts. Wilfred has been able to collect a splendid cast to interpret the play, and with the new effects he has perfected on his color organ, -There is Real, Encourag-ement -- when we find that most of our patrons are long time customers The excellence of Varsity - j ~service is not a mere .by - - word but proven by the continued growth of its - clientele.= W- HI Phone 4219 =W - W TI -J-4 f-I UW 91W Na W -IY I C -W Thomas Wilfred he was advancing with his studies in light. Then came the trouba- dour urge which resulted in a long series of tours through England, France and Scandinavia playing the 12-stringed lute and dramatic- ally interpreting songs to its medi- aeval accompaniment. A number of tours through this country fol- lowed, and the artistic accolade#