PARE F'Ot TMT 1 IC H AN D ATT17EV 7W1"FNT VAY . TO~sER 23, 1929- ._.r_ ..rrw a. ... a. v v t +r+.r+'ru. s.v vv v * change are gumed up in this vi- cinity by the Great Lakes. If'that's Published every morning except Monday the case, we say drain 'em dry, during the University year by the Board in dt Control of Student Publications. and use the water to give Chicago Member of Western Conference Editorial a really good drainage canal. From Association. the reports of things Chicago needs The Associated Press is exclusively entitled some sort of a good draining any- to the, use for republication of all news dis-ho. patches credited to it or not otherwise credited how in this paper and the localtnews published How true the poet sang: "We'll herein, 'ne'er forget our college days, those Entered at the posto..ce at Ann Arbor, dear old rainy college days." Michigan, as second class matter. Special rate d yg y of, postage granted by Third Assistant Post- - Raster General.t Subscription by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.50. Offices: Ann Arbor'Press Building, May __ __Sreet.____s Opinion1 Phones: Editorial, 4925; Business, 21214. iEContributors are asked to he brief, EDITORIAL STAFF 1 1 confining themselves to less than 300 *0n - About Books Music And Drama 0 o0 YOUR CRAZE THE DALIES FRANTZ RECITAL ABOUT FINE EDITIONS A Review by Herbert Schwartz The hobby of soliciting book cat- Some twenty-five years ago there' alogues and of ranting about was in Vienna, among a group of downtown stalls to find the latest young men who have since become ;- news of fine and limited editions is a fascinating one, but it many famous in the pianistic world, one! times offers much hazard. Every who was looked upon as a strange publishing house in the country has creature-extremely gifted but who it in for you: all their years of would never reach anything .be- mailing lists though never a pur-cw chase. Every book seller in your ud town would like to close his blinds and the critics ripped, or, it might when he sees you coming up. In as truthfully be said that he him- plain, you are a pest; but it does self ripped. What the critics did not detract from your enjoyment. doesn't matter. People wondered, After a time you can read the new why anyone was so foolish as to pamphlet and finger the books with i a little heeding to the mongrel eyes invest money in so hopeless a pro- of printer and merchant which al- ject-but money continued to be ways press upon you. invested. The recitals recurred with Today HUSTON BROS. Billiards for competi- tion IOU Pi-. I V' Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR ELLIS B. MERRY Editor......................George C. Tilley City Editor................Pierce Rosenberg News Editor............... orge E. Simons Sports Editor........Edward B. Warner, Jr. Women's Editor ............:Marjorie Folimer Telegraph Editorr..........eorge Stauter Music and Dramna........William f. Gormian Literary Editor. ......Lawrence R. Klein Assistant City Editor....-Robert J. Feldman! NightI Frank E. Cooper I William C. Gentry Henrxy J. Merry Charles R Rep Charles A. Askren Helen Barc Louisa Behymer Thomas M. Cooley W. H. Crane; Ledru E. Davis hlelen Domine Margaret Eckels Katherine Ferrin Carl Forsythe Sheldon C. Fullerton Ruth Geddes Ginevra Ginn I Edmund Glavin laek Goldsmith 17. B. H empstead, Jr.I James C. Rendley Richard T. Hurley ean H. Levy Russell E. McCracken Lester M. May Editors Robert L. Sloss Gurney Williams, Jr Walter Wilds . Kaufman orters William Page (.ustav R. Reich Violin D. Reindel Jeannie Roberts Joe Russell. Joseph F. Ruwitch William P. Salzarulo Gjeorge Stauter Cadwell Swanson Jane Thayer Margaret Thompson Richard L. Tobin Beth Valentine Harold 0. Warren Charles S. White C,. Lionel Willens Lionel G. Willens J. E. Willoughby Barbara Wright SVivian Zimit words ii possible. Anonymous com- munications will be disregarded. The names of communicants will, however, be regarded as confidential, upon re- quest. Letters published should not be construed as expressing the editorial opinion of. the Daily. CONVOCATION SUGGESTIONS To The Editor: In an attempt to make the pro- grams at the student convocations more worthwhile and interesting to the undergraduate body, the Con- vocations committee, recently em- powered by the Student council to arrange for all convocations, is asking the students to express their ideas and suggestions concerning the convocations through the Cam- pus Opinion in The Daily. The committee believes that it can make the convocations more interesting by engaging speakers now for the spring series and for the following year. The speakers already have been obtained for the fall convocations, and final nego-' tiations are being considered with outstanding men for the spring season. Any suggestions for speak- ers will be appreciated by the com- mittee. There are to be four lay- men and four ministers chosen for the year. Arrangements are being made to change the type of programs so that the audience will take a great- er part in the service. A sub-com- mittee in charge of obtaining worth-while musical talent will welcome any suggestions along that line. The committee is anxious that the student body will respond to its plea. It will insure that the most careful attention will be given any suggestions designed to make con- vocation an enjoyable and worth- while Sunday morning affair. Secretary of the Convocations Committee ----0-- -- BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 21214 BUSINESS MANAGER A. J. JORDAN, JR. Assistant Manager ALEX K. SCHERER Department Managers Advertising ..............Hollister Mald :y Advertisint.......... .Kasper H.Halverson Advertisingh.................erwood Upton Service............George Spater Circulation................J. Vernor Davis Accounts............... .... ....Jack Rose Publications................George Hamilton Assistants Raymond Campbell Lawrence Lucey Janmes E. Cartwright Thomas Muir, obert 'Crawford Gieorge Patterson Harry -B. Culver Charles Sanford Thomas M. Davis Lee Slayton Norman Eliezer Robert Sutton Donald Eng Roger C. Thorpe James Hoffer J1oseph Van Riper Norris Johnson Robert Williamson Charles Klne William R. Worbnys Marvin Kobacker' Today, Publisher McKee has sent 1 metronomic regularity. There was a copy of his newly listed. It is another person who was confident a new firm, this, agents for twelve-that was Mr. Leschetizky himself. English houses; probably here is j- .the reason why the book list came. For him the wildness indicated that The McKee Incorporated does not there was something to be tamed- know what a weak customer you something would come of it. Some- are as yet. They have sent you thing did come of it-one of the a list of English printed books world's greatest pianists. ranging in price from thirty to a Dalies Frantz has something to hundred and ninety in price. The ; be tamed. In its untamed state it price scare you? Not a bit of it! is nevertheless (for the most part) Does it detract any from the nov- rhythmic utterance-which indi- elty to know that Theocritos is sell- cates that it has a future. The im- ing for twenty-five-not at all. It pulses of musical feeling are there. is a pleasure to know that the crit- The wildness is that these impuls- ical Swift has found his way be- es have too little to do with each tween handsome Roman vellum other and that they are too often coverings. And there is a thrill in ignored in blind, rhythmic going finding that The Ancient Mariner on. But 'last night there was too is being done on Batchelor Kelm- much evidence (especially in the scot paper and that A Sentimental ( Bacn Fugue where the form itself Journey is bound in Batik. restrained) to leave any doubts of There was right in your being their vital existence. angry when Middleton Murry said More superficially it might be you loved the covers more than the said that the pianist, over too long thought. Of course you treasure extended distances, appeared to be your experience with the harmony not at home with the music he was of words in Francis Thompson's playing. For those who have ex- Shelley. But why should beautiful perienced the emotional evocative- thoughts not be bound together ness of music that is all too easy with morocco covers and the like? to understand. The s e n s i t i v e If the content is supposed to be awareness of one's emotional state art, let you treat the books as such. (when it is intensely aroused) and Fine editions are a breath of the the sensitive discretion necessary past-of medieval days- when a for articulation are not to be ex- book was dearest possession. You pected from this kind of talent in cannot buy them, but this does not its youth. It is not a talent of stop your loving them. So you easy grace-not Mozartian, if you press your nose to shop windows will. It is a talent of chaos strug- and delight at the rare bindings. gling to be understood to itself, of :k7c* emotional drive that does not stop Sto treat itself tenderly and consid- Seven Iron Men erately; When it knows more about by Paul De Kruif itself ,itvill-- Beethoven learned Harcourt Brace and Company to do "in"the reflective introversion Price 3.00 of his last period. Pianistically there was much im- t (Review Copy by Courtesy of The I f The Hatter Says Everybody knows that something for nothing is always a fake. . The clean- ing of a hat is the smallest part, the hat must be prop- erly blocked to retain its shape and finish. Cheap blocking ruins the finish on a good hat, which is the thing you pay the most for in a new hat. We retain the original finish, which cheap cleaners cannot do. Our prices are reasonable for the kind of work we do. 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YOU CAN BUY this fine new Kohler & Campbell full sized Walnut Upright Piano with bench to match For Only PERSONAL STATIONERY Including NaII imd Address; 100 Sheets and 100 Envelopes 1200 1111 South University O e Half Block East of Campus a I - - - - II 'r Be your age $345.00;- Its Real Value Is $525,00; Saving Is $180.00 Your Easiest Terms! 10% down; balance in monthly installments for period up to THIRTY MONTHS. Trade in your old out-of-date piano for this Lovely New Piano. Save $180.00 Today! .. Laura Codling Bernice Glaser Hortense Gooding Anna Goldberg Alice McCully Slvia Miller IHelen E. Musselwhite Eleanor Walkinshaw Dorothea Waterman Editorial Comment' II Night Editor-WILLIAM GENTRY WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER. 23, 19291 JACKS THE GIANT KILLERS No one who saw it will soon for- get the spectacle of Michigan's down-and-out tail-enders turning the tables on the touted Illini elev- en last year. Licked by Ohio Wes- leyan, Indiana, Ohio, and Wiscon- sin, they fought down the field, kicked a field goal, and hung on to their advantage with everything they had. Like a handful of in-, furiated Jacks they killed the giant,I while something like 80,000 loyal rooters roared and roared and roar- ed. This year the situation is some- what similar. Without a chance for the title, Michigan's eleven must win their spurs by slaying the conference giants. The business is not without honor and glory. But in the first crucial clash 'with the men of Zuppke they will not have the inspiration of a familiar field and a friendly crowd. The least that most of us can do is to cheer them on their way to- morrow night. Let the squad feel that our confidence and our loyal- ty are as unwavering as last year. CAMPUS HEELERS (Grand Rapids Press) It is hard to think of anything which wastes students' time at our universities and colleges quite as much as the everlasting -political maneuvering and chicanery going on for the various undergraduate offices. At the University of Illi- nois ten students have just been removed from office after a reg- ular torch light campaign with a headquarters raid reminiscent of Chicago's Nineteenth ward. At the University of Michigan the "State street party"-or, better, gang - regularly connives to beat the "Washtenaw avenue party" and vice versa. This division into fra- ternity "blocs" is comparatively re- cent so far as campus politics goes, but there has been a great waste of student energies along this line for many years. Students set out deliberately up- on a career of officeholding; one student at Ann Arbor who wound up with a senior class presidency after a steady procession of other offices actually set up a political headquawters in his fraternity room .with a private telephone for use in "laying wires" and trading votes with other houses; underclassmen are often. turned into campus ward heelers; and it is doubtful whether, all this petty and more or lessI E Prn ndB- So) tprovement over ast year s recitai, Print and Book Shop) I The chord and octave passages Paul De Kruif made his approach were even better than before. The to the public several years ago scale passages were sharper but not when he popularized scientific re- as they might be. It should be search with' a fine book, Microbe called to Mr. Frantz' attention that Hunters. This new volume, Seven there is a rhythm of key release as Iron Men, is the third of his works, well as key attack, and that al=i Hunger Fighters being liablished though the wrist is a convenient last year. It is an epic story of a tool for octaves, it is also useful pioneer family in northern Minne- elsewhere. These physical matters sota, but in its larger scope it re- are not too easily divorced from flects the whole frontier spirit after musical effectuality. the Civil war, and explains pioneer For the reviewer at least, these conflict down to present day in- things are to be more completely dustrialism. mastered before Mr. Frantz can do Leonidas Merritt and his broth- justice to himself. What he has er and nephews are the Seven Iron already achieved makes it extreme- Men. They are hardy and temper-' ly worth while doing. In the ate men of the outposts of civiliza- meantime we can only wait to see tion who are rigid Methodists and if he will do it. strong on clan spirit. The Merritts " * * discovered the famoi3 Mis-sa-ba "NINA ROSA" Iron Range and three years after A Review, by Charles Monroe the finding were almost penniless. This is being written on the St. But the mines were pouring money John Ervinesque design: one day into the purses of Wall Street in- to cogitate about the show and see vestors, and the product was build- what the others had to say. ing the huge iron shafts of Amer- After much cogitation and pur- ican civilization. chasing of Detroit papers, this re- The author is an eminent geol- viewer has come to the conclusion ogist, but as a whole the book is that he was right in the first place. free from the suggestion that the The Shubert brothers have a good author is trying to fictionize sci- show in "Nina Rosa" which saw its ence. Rather Mr. De Kruif looks world premiere Sunday night at the at his subject from a romantic Shubert-Detroit, due to some good point of view, and he has used his- tunes and a fine cast, which almost torical geology to play an inter- makes one forget a weak book, and esting setting for many of the which will probably be rewritten scenes. However, the writer has before Broadway sees it. not created a great piece of liter- The operetta has a loose story ature, it is merely a good story. He laid in Peru wherein an American is not a stylist, and his construc- mining engineer seeks to find rich- tions and choice of words are of- es in a mine owned by a good- ten mediocre. R. E. M. looking Spanish girl, named, * * * strangely enough, Nina Rosa. Aft- Thames Williamson, author of I er fighting his, way through gau- "Hunky," a recent Book-of-the- chos, half-breeds, Incas, and other Month Club selection, has come to' local color, he finds wealth and Ann Arbor to live, ending a long wins the girl, not much to any- search for the "right spot" we are one's surprise but to their satis- told. ' faction. Incidentally this brings up a The cast is excellent,' with Guy question. Williamson, a Phi Beta Robertson in the bigger lights, but Kappa and Master of Arts from having Leonard Ceeley as the gau- Harvard, learned to write (or at cho, Nina Gordoni, as a native com- least began to write) within "'clas- plication, Harriet Bennet in the sic halls" and Hunky, his first great title role, and the two comics, Jack success is a tough, earthy, strictly Sheehan and Don Barclay just a unconventional tale. Similarly watt or two behind. Peggy and Eugene O'Neill "learned" to write Cortez dance, and' are better than I gj t( f , s! l' S t f i 1 THERE is no dignity in dash- ing wetly from one class to the next, and arriving breathless and dripping like a wet dog. Slip into a comfortable Fish Brand "Varsity" Slicker and saunter at your ease. Pockets big and strong enough to hold your books. Buckle-; or but- tons in front, as you choose, and a corduroy-faced collar, with or without a strap. Just ask for Tower's Fish Brand, -"The Rainy Day Pal." A. J. Tower Company, Boston, Massachusetts. -OWvim k. When the Seven Days are gone and these seven lovely brand -new Kohler & Camnbell Pianos are sold, this amazing offer will be withdrawn. Come in; see it; buy it! Unversity Music Homuse, Devoted to Music 601 E. William St. (Hinshaw & Son) Phone 7515 11, r : ---~ - o 'clandestine activity rates as of anya THOSE DEAR OLD RAINY value whatever. COLLEGE DAYS It detracts from scholarship Ann Arborites have a grievance without any of the balancing gains in their weather. Somewhere back which attend other extra-curricu- in geological time the communities lar activities such as athletics, dra- of America must have played a sort ma and publications. As it is of no of cosmic poker game with weather great import who is class presi- as the stakes, and we lost-lost dent or secretary, moral derelic- everything. tions such as ballot box stuffing Crops, of course, need rain,. and I and deliberate miscounting may be rain's a good thing to lay the dust. ; regarded too lightly. These prac- It also helps keep the lakes full tices are of no benefit 'either to and the rivers running. In fact no character or education. Unfortu-, one has any objection to a splash- nately some jobs which should be ing good downpour that goes right I filled on merit, such as team man- through a slicker and makes you agerships, are thrown into politics leave your watch at home. But a and the boy who has worked hard- reward is hereby offered, to the est as an assistant, blown up man, woman, or child vho can dis- enough basketballs to float a Zep- cover an excuse for the three days pelin and faithfully squired the of damp drizzle that have just been team may lose out to the laziest ruining our shoes, hats, and dis- assistant on the staff if the latter positions, or any of the similar con- has made the right political tieup. catenations of drizzles that have Perhaps the best way to reduce A... M cHIGosooAOnN T. EL] /0 --- - rt 4/ ~~,xfAr 100'-2 if Ead I, t a s 2 . 1. , ,