- SUNDY', MAY 19, 192w' PAGE FOUR 1T~ ~ TT~7A YrTY 1 ilEj !ylI%: "A%-I L-% 1 .._ . 1 Ly 4-1 ,S, . Published every morning except Monday durinjg the University year by the Board in Control of Studeat Publications. I'!- INNOVATION In announcing that suggestions for next year's lecture series will be gladly received the Oratorical association is inaugurating a plan that should make the program even more popular than those of the past. Strings .. Supplies Music and Drama ..Repairs ." "..t for all Musical Instruments Member of Westera Conference Editorial Association. The Associated Press is exclusively en- titled to the isse for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and the local news pub- lished herein.k Entered at tke postoffice at Ana Arbor, Michigan, us second class matter. Special rate of postagr granted by Third Assistant Post- nmster General. Subsiption by earrier, $4.oo; by mail, $4.,S0. Offices: Ann Arbor Press Building, May-, eard Street. Phones: Editorial, 4925; Business, 21214. EDITORIAL STA"T Telephone 4925 i MANAGING EDITOR KENNETH G. PATRICK' Sditor......... ......Nelson ;. Smiti City Editor.......... . Stewart Hooker Mnw Editor............... Richard C. Kurvink S prts Editor.....,.....W. Morris Quinn Women's , .ditor. ..... ...Slvia S. St one Tele.raphW Eitor............George Stauter Music and Drama.........R. L. Askren Assistant City Editor.........Robert Silbar Night Editors Heretofore the lecture committee has exercised its own judgment in making up the list, and while the speakersuhave as a whole been highly entertaining, in one or two cases the audience left Hill audi- torium with the feeling that the lecturer was not all he was crack- ed .up to be. This was particularly true in regard to one speaker who sang baritone solos during the greater part of the time he was on the stage. This, of course, was not the fault of the Oratorical officials, who are to be highly commended for the consistently good program of, this year, but the point to be made is that the patrons in sug- gesting. lecturers, will be getting what they want, which will make far more satisfactory programs. If, then, the speaker they choose proves to be somewhat under par the Oratorical officials cannot be entirely blamed. Perhaps the plan will not prove successful, but at least it is worth a trial. TOMORROW: Wm. Archer's critic confounding melodrama, "The Green Goddess," opens in Lydia Mendelssohn Theater, begin- ning at 8:15, with the curtain at 8:30 o'clock. VOLUME ONE Reviewed by Prof. Erich A. Walter DON'T DELAY LONGER Ordering your CARDS and PERSOAL , STATIONERY-Newest styles on display 1111 South University / Block from Ca10!0s I I Schaeberle & Son MUSIC HOUSE 11. M. ain St. C eph E. Howell onald J. Kline Lawrence R. Klein George I, Charles S. Monroe Picree Rosenberg George E. Simon* C. 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Hereby has Harvard, with a rep- utation for doing consistently right by its faculty, set a precedent that the rest of the universities on the Carnegie list must follow. Com- paratively low salaries, painfully slow promotion, and constant de- mands for more and more esoteric research have already brought the teaching profession into bad enough repute without adding the prospect of a penniless old age. Some financial provision must be made for the retirement of devot- ed servants who have divided their activity between expounding the learned book and worrying over the account book. The necessity and humanity of this old-age provision for men who have given their best to education without sufficient pecuniary re- muneration to provide for their own retirements scarcely needs further exposition. Nor do we need to dwell on the inconvenience, not to mention the cruelty, of making professors with their families change their standards of living as soon as released from the active payroll. The fact, as has! been accused, that professors live like nabobs, travel all over the' world, and die without leaving a cent should not be invoked to show they could, if more provident, re- tire in comparative luxury without assistance. If a teacher is to in- spire the admiration, respect, and coperation of his students in this material, age, besides fulfill the so- cial obligations of a university community and preserve the ex- ternal tranquility that precedes Mental efficiency, he must hold to ahigher standard of living than the day laborer, the artisan, or even the average merchant. At least part of this plea for ensionnthat will nreserve the Campus Opinion1 Contributors are asked to be brief, confining themselves to less than 300 words i possible. Anonymous com- munications will be disregarded. The names of communicants will, however, be regarded as confidential, upon re- quest. Letters published should nut be construed as expressing the editorial opinion of the Daily. AND ON THE OTHER HAND To the Editor: It may be that I am too easily pleased, but I confess that Michi- gan student performances, both in Mimes and in Play Production, do not seem to show "an emphatic lack of good actors and actresses on this years' campus" On the con- trary, as a confirmed playgoer who 4ived seventeen years in New York City, I can testify that if there is any appreciable difference between I a Mimes or a Play Production per- formance and a Broadway pro- fessional performance I can bare- ly detect it. Each year I am more amazed and delighted at the skill which Michigan students show in dramatic technique. As to the choice of plays, there will always be difference of opin- ion but I for one cannot see the inferiority of a keen piece of po- litical satire like "The Queen's l Husband" to a similar satire of marriage like "The Constant Wife,' Both are keen, bright, workman- like sketches in the Shavian man- ner. I concede, of course, that "The Beggar On Horseback" and "The Green Goddess" have mor originality and power. And equally of course, Ibsen or Barrie (why not Shakespeare, for thai matter?) are better known thar any of these. But each play mus be judged after its own kind Granting that "In the Next Room' and "The Spider" are only melo- drama, they may be justified i good of the kind. Not every limer ick can. hope to grow up and be- come an epic, but there is room in the world for both epics and limericks! And at least once thi season we have had .Ibsen and the clavilux. If the students of Mich igan are poorly served dramatical ly, is there any American com munity outside Gotham which can be said to be served well? The excellence of student dram seems to show that it is the natura medium of expression for th American student of today, especi ally as it contrasts rather pain fully with the neglect of other in tellectual self-expression. Th disappearance of The Chimes an the Sunday literary edition of th Daily leaves almost no channel fo: the expression of student opinor or aspiration. One almost long for a return of the good days o that "bad boy" G. D. Eaton! Eator rarely told the truth but at leas he had something to say. The In lander is good enough to deserv more popular favor; one has a uneasy feeling that It makes' n contact with nine-tenths of th campus. The Gargoyle may b a financial success but it produce the cheapest, dullest, most me chanical sort of humor possible t imagine never having the sparkl of the local topical hits in "Toast ed Rolls"-the only real wit tha our over-serious students seen capable of producing.' Debating has became a dull and stiff exercis in legal technicalities; set speeche; and "the burden of proof is now o my oDonent" and that sort o: University of Michigan Plays (with an Intro- are unmistakably a part of the duction by Prof. Louis A. Strauss). Edited byjplay. They carry it forward, they Kenneth Thorpe Rowe.. Ann Arbor. Michigan. pycryI owrte George Wahr i69 pages. 1are worth reading for themselves. The usual procedure is to read a I"For a moment they both tie up play and then go to the theater to oose ends of thought; then, the see it. My experience with the Uni- lgoees of " versity of Michigan Plays (with the play goes on." exception of the puppet play) has "John (As if he wer throwing exactly reversed the practice. "John's apartment, the sort of saw the plays on March 15an place where a man can be a gen- 'read them two months later. I tleman without having to insist shall therefore consider the ex- upon it." ception to the rule first. I am sure that all playwrights Miss Adler's Puppet attempts not should give much more attention only a puppet show but uses the to the writing of stage directions. puppet stage as a part of the set- The ones in this volume are defi- ting of a large stage. The pup- nitely a study in contrasts. peteers are as important in their When I attended the perform- acting as are the puppets. The dif- ance of "Outside This Room" by ficulty of syncronizing the move- Dorothy Lyon Ackerman, the con- ments of the five-foot actor, the clusion came as a surprise. I did three-foot actor, and the one-foot not feel the inevitability of Betty's actor can be imagined when one death. When I reviewed the per- remembers how the spell of a pup- formance, I still felt certain that pet show is destroyed by the sudden there must be an insufficient num- appearance of the manipulator ber of preparatory lines. I know who cries "Ladies and gentlemen, now that. I was wrong. There are here I am." Granted even that nearly a dozen preparatory lines. the audience would accept the gro- But I also realize now that the tesque scale there is still another Betty of the performance looked difficulty and that shows itself inm much too strong and well to be the the problem of presenting many "ghost" that Madame Blackman tiny figures (almost a chorus) con- mentions. If I should see the play vincingly on a puppet stage. Could again, I am quite certain that un- even the most skillful technicians less Betty's physical weakness were effect an acceptable production? definitely emphasized I should These obstacles of course face again feel that something was only the director and producer. The about to happen rather than the reader of Puppet naturally makes definite thing that does happen. all of the adjustments for him- Possibly if Steineslaus were to re- self. His pleasure in Pinocchio is ceive less attention Betty's death that Pinocchio knows a puppet would be more convincing. should be born as he is pleased to Certainly "My Man" by Jerome be born; in Hevihand that he is F. McCarthy and "The Joiners" by "Poor Independeice;" in the Soul- Arthur M. Hinkley are written to spinners that they are "slight and be seen rather than to be read. lovely and dim" and "have the The rate of movement in Mr. Mc- beauty of great emotion, and the Carthy's play .seems slow and sorrow) of broken dreams." The dragging to the reader but not to reader likes the fantasy. But need an audience. The conclusion is too that he his only source of pleasure? sentimental to be -accepted from _I think not. Miss. Adler's play the reader's point of view, but when could be fully and adequately one sees and hears the sincerity of staged through the flexible medium a Rose Varkle, the apparent weak- of the moving picture. Her play ness is translated into her kind of offers remarkable possibilities in strength. One must feel that "He that direction. (Look at Mr. Blas- was her man." - This need of see- er's illustration if you need a spe- ing the thing--toappreciate its cific suggestion.) Through the use value is even more evident in "The of skillfully constructed miniatures Joiners." To read about lodge de- and expert photography all of the grees is about as dull an entertain- potentialities of the piece could be ment as one could think of but to exhibited. And' why should this found a new fraternity and to wear not be done hereat Michigai? a 'flowing robe are important mat- Surely this is what moving pictures ters which Mr. Hinkley has used will eventually manage to do- to the best advantage. why should it not be done at our A word about the format of the University? volume is to the point. Professor From the reader's point of view Rowe has chosen a format of com- Mr. Askren's play, "Passion's Prog- fortable size which I hope will not ress" is the most readable of the be changed as future volumes are zpieces in the volume. It depends added to the series. The arrange- less upon the actual stage and real ment of type, text,, iiustrations, - actors for its success. That may and decorative material is thor- 'possibly mean that the play is not oughly pleasing. May this volume - built for the stage, in any case it be the first of a long list! f also means that there is splendid - imagination shown in the writing. It does not necessarily follow that - Certain points* which were noted students in the Architectural school z at the time of production are em- are getting a sketchy education. I phasized in the reading of the play. _rg__g_____h__uc___ s The marked unevenness in the A gentleman rushed to death re- e quality of the lines, the division in- gentlb acrhed to dank - to two scenes (the play is over at cently by a car he tried to crank the end of Scene I,the two min- while i gear can hardly be said to - ute intermission kills the unity), have died in comfortable circum- 1 and the quite deliberate digression stances.. for the sake of. a "wise" remark are- a weaknesses. Still I find the play Economic collapse is said to be J most readable. This is due I be- facing'the South Sea islands if can- e lieve very largely to the clever nibals continue to eat up their - handling of stage directions. They prophets. New York Listed Stocks Private wires to all Markets Conservative margin accounts solicited Telephone 22541 Brown-Cress & Co., Inc. Investment Securities 7th Floor First Nat'I Bank Bldg. Phone 7102 Sam C. Andre~s 215 E. 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He established himself as a scholar- ly critic of the drama; he wrote a book on dramatic writing, "Play- making"; he translated Ibsen and acted as godfather to him in in- troducing him to the English pub- lic; and then, he wrote "The Green Goddess." His critical colleagues in London went to it out of re- spect to "Dean" Arclher; they came out awed by the Rajah of Rukh, and the play has remained a classic in melodramatic writing. A thrill- er in every sense. of the word, it puts the cold-bath-and-a-brisk- walk Englishman into the vile clutches of a polished but doubly nefarious oriental on the outskirts of civilization. Priests, Villagers and Servants.. ..Joe Bates Smith, Donald Ved- der, George Priehs et al. {Every one who is acquainted with Kipling will recognize the ubiquitous Ayah as that delight- ful Indian prototype of the South- ern "Mammy,"' except in this case where all the servants in the place are beautiful. It is difficult to imagine anything but beauty in the magnificent palace of the Ra- j ah even though it is placed on the wild edges of Afghanistan. This delightful gentleman is a brilliant character in "thriller" literature. 'For all his' polish he is' not treatedi in the conventional "Yellow Peril" fashion; perhaps there is some Ibsen in him. Cer- i I i