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Rose Publications ................George Hamilton Assistants History and literature of contem- poraneous times have never been dissociable, despite the age-old practice of offering separate cours- es in each of these subjects. In fact, the life narrative of a people and its literature are so inextrica- bly related, being offsprings of the same source, that one cannot deal with one singly without injustice to the other. In lieu of this bond, the need for a chair of historical literature, or of literature treated, on the historical method, has as- sumed worthy import. The subject matter of the chair would include the combined ma- terials of the literary effects of a specific period and of historical sources of that time. For example, if the field of civilization marked off for treatment should be the age of Louis XIV, not only would the institutions, political and social, and the temper of society in that day be studied in course, but also Racine, Corneille, the letters of Madame Denigne and the dramas of Moliere. This correlation could be counterparted in any other era of the world's history with even slight conjecture. Despite the rather obvious ad- vantages of synthesizing isolated scraps of knowledge which such a course would provide, certain tran- sient discomforts would doubtless be incurred by its introduction into the curricula. However, more im- portnts than the travail of demol- ishing or adjusting a small part of the academic machinery to allow place for the course, is a further, hindrance. This impediment lies in the attitude of many University There is something queer about advertising men. Our own staff propounded us this euestion: If two white-wings had been drink- ing, but one had,, had one more drink than the other, which would be the fuller brush man? I z I l 1 l 'l i t i j 10 AboutBooks jMusic And Drama I [NDIAN LOVE, TODAY: Tony Sarg's Marionettes SUBJECT OF NEW FANTASY present performances this after- Laughing Boy noon and tonight in the Lydia by Oliver La Farge Mendlssohn Theatre. Houghton Mifflin Company * * x Boston, Massachusetts "THE JEST" Price $2.50 A Pre-view by Robert WetzelI - Review Copy by Courtesy of Printdr and Book Shop The dramatic fare offered to the campus next week will be seasoned Oliver La Farge, who makes his with the spice of glamour; for at debut to the reading public with the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, "Laughing Boy," a novel of Navajo Comedy Club. oldest of local dra- Indian love, has succeeded so well matic organizations is presenting in this initial attempt that we may "The Jest," a colorful drama of compare his creation to the fan- mediaeval Florence by the Italian tastic literature of Wilder and poet Sem Benelli. The play ex-1 Hudson. He is romantic, and as udes the rich atmosphere of Celli- far as this type of writing goes, he ni's autobiography; in it Benelli has followed through. The sor- limns that vivid society which dis- ported itself beneath the windows row is that that one cannot go far of Raphael. "The Jest" is vibrant enough with fantasy. In the in- with the spirit of Florence in the troduction to this work, Mr. La lusty fifteenth century, when pas-I Farge says: "this story is meant sion, intrigue and revenge were neither to instruct nor to prove a merely the order of the day. I point, but to amuse. . . . the plc- Men did not write tragedies in those spacious times; they lived - ture is frankly onesided. But ,lit- thein; and so it was left for Eliz- erature at its greatest cannot do abethan England, half a continent this; it must be wide in its scope away, to record the fierce drama of and applicable to the solution f the times a half-century later. Still the problems of existence. later by some three centuries, we find the Italian Renaissance again The world is real, too real we are the subject of drama-this time wont to believe at times, 'but it is it is Sem Benelli who taps the rich not the strong who avoid its reality. sources of Webster, Kyd, and Mid- One can never get away from so- dleton. ,And from these sources he ciety as a matter of fact. It is gives us no solemn platitudes drawn from ancient days, no facile fate, and the only thing for us to do e is to accept. We can spin fantasy manner of John Erskine or Robert after fantasy, but they do not help Emmet Sherwood. us in the least to escape.' There is "The Jest" has something of the only one way to escape the reality richness of the ample dramas be- of life, that is through death; and loved' of Good Queen Bess; and in- of nobody has ever come back to deed as a 'piece for the theatre its expostulate, we are not certain that ructure is more taut and more this is the delightful sensation tit efficacious than those of the Eliz- abethan dramatists. As a dramatic appears to romanticists. poet Benelli has been compared to "Laughing Boy" deals with Na- Shakespeare; as a theatrical trick- vajo Indian life. A youtlh meets ster, to Sardou; and as a force in at a ceremonial dance an outcast modern drama, to D'Annunzio. The of The People, Slim Girl, who has last comparison alone is worth been educated in American schools. considering. For Benelli does have They fall in love, and go away to his countryman's sybaritic ele- a distant valley to make money gance, his untrammelled emotion, from tourists that they may return his frank sensuality, without pos- to the clan. Theirs is ideal love. sessing the taint of D'Annunzio's The catastrophe is the contact of self-conscious morbidity or his de this love with civilization. Love cadent world-weariness. conquers, but Slim Girl is killed by' Next to his opera, "The Love o a scamp on their return to the Three Kings," "The Jest" is the tribe. best known of Benelli's works. As r Mr. La Farge is well acquainted "Las Cene delle Beffn" it has long -with his subject having graduated been in the repertoire of every I from Harvard with a degree in an- prominent actor in Italy. In 1910 thropology. He has been present on ernhardt played Jean Richepin's many archaeological expeditions translation of the play in Paris through Central American coun- where it met with a reception akin tries, and has lived for years to that of Rostand's "Cyrano." Ar- with the Navajos. But for his' thur Hopkin's notable production knowledge, the author has not giv- of "The Jest" in New York is one en his work any suggestion of of the cornerstones of his reputa- bookishness. He has not tried in tion as a producer. It is his ver- the least to cram his profession tlon of the play, a translation by down our throats, and we can hope Edward Sheldon, that Comedy Club that Paul de Kruif will catch up is employing in the'forth coming some of this spirit before he tackles production. This colorful version another volume. There is an ease by the author of "Romance" at- of style in the author which re- tempts to realize Benelli's own po- sembles Wilder. It makes a great etiq ideal of picturesqueness with- 1 impression upon us while reading out artificiality, of drama in verse the book, but we' cannot forgive the that still preserves a close contact purpose in writing. Although there with life; and for this purpose is somewhat of interest in reading Sheldon employs a cadenced prose of primitive life, we cannot return which is poetically rich but not to its ideality, no more than the I monotonously rhythmic. Indians of La Farge's story can re- For the direction of "The Jest" sist Americanization. There are Comedy Club has been fortunate evils of civilization, but we cannot enough to secure the seasoned serv- overcome them "by returning to 'fees of Miss Bertha Creighton, a nature." The problem can only be veteran actress who has "trouped" coped with by attack. extensively with such actors as R. E. M. Richard Mansfield, Sol Smith Rus- * * * sell, Henry Miller, Frank Keenan, RECENT NOVEL and the vitaphonic Walter Huston. OF JOHN MASEFIELD The cast of "The Jest" is a large one, the three main parts being in John Masefield im his new novel the hands of Kenneth White, of "The Hawbucks," turns to the coun- "The Queen's Husband" and "In 'tryside of mid-Victorian England the Next Room." and Mildred Todd and depicts with poetic charm the and Richard Kohl, both remem- mode of life and thought of a gen- bered for a number of able per- eration which lived according to formances in the Play Production the ancient code of a country gen- shows.. tleman. The book may. fairly be . , described as "jolly English"- for it is filled with the smell and sound and feeling of English country, En- Detroit Civic: This theatre is en- lish weather, and English sports. joying unusual success with Willard It is Mr. Masefield's 'first novel in Mack's dramatization of H. H. Van ithree years. 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Davis Norman Eliezer Donald Ewing J ames Hoffer orris Johnson Charles Kline Marvin Kobacker Lawrenee Lucey Thomas Muir G~eorge iPatterson Charles Sanford Lee Slayton Robert Sutton Roger C. rhurpe Joseih Van Riper Rolertl Williamsun William R. Worboys .0 At the Michigan: Pathe presents BABIES produced Japanese cameraman. Review by our Laura Codling Arce McCmdly bernice Glaser 8' IvIa AMiller H. rtenseG oodi g ' len E. Musselwhite! Anna Goldberg -ileawor Wadkinshaw Diorothea Waterman Night Editor-FRANK COOPER FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1929 COLLEGE "RIOTS"J Almost any tussle between en- thusiastic collegians, in which a few tomatoes and perhaps an over- ripe egg or two area hurled, is front page news for most of the papers throughout the country. As a rule, any particularly bad features are played up in the headlines and lead of the story, while the facts are buried somewhere toward the end. Anent the recent "riot" at Princeton, most journals featured the fact that two students were in- jured in a "clash with police after riotous cane spree." The students were but slightly injured, and the traditional fight, which takes place after every cane spree between the Princeton sophomores and fresh- men, would have ended peaceably had not a lone guardian of the law attempted to break it up. His ef- forts ended in his own completeI humiliation. In an attempt to retaliate, the policeman got into a car with an- other officer and charged into the crowd. In this manner were the two students injured. Naturally, this action aroused the mob spirit, set the. crowd parading down the street, and ultimately caused the damage to traffic lights, windows-of the Governor's automobile, and sundry other items about town. In commenting on the affair, the Daily Princetonian says: "With the class traditions of -Princeton fading as they are, we would al- most say that a good mob fighti such as that of last night is a hopeful sign. There are those, of course, who consider any such ex- hibition beneath the dignity of the college man, and who bemoan the latent rowdyness which always springs up on such occasions. But the time has come when tradition, a priceless' heritage, (take what form it may), has descended to such depths that the lowly fresh-1 Campus Opinion Contributors are asked to be brief, confining themselves to less than 300 'words ii' pos,:ihle. Anonymous corn. munications will be disregarded. The namnes of communicants will, however, S be. regarded as confidential, ulon re- quest. Letters published should nut be construed as expre sing the editorial opinion of the Daily. WE'RE NOT SO BAD 1 To the editor: Was amongst the fortunates priv-I ileged to read the rather diverting comment of the 1928 Alumnus as contained in the editorial columns of The Daily, recently. Upon reading the article, one learns straightway that 'tis but two years since the writer left the uni- versity, "then in fine reputation." Follows, a somewhat extensive list of the individual's accomplish- ments. The assertion that the university was left in fine shape is a felling one. This excessive display of mod- esty is peculiarly becoming. The tragic inability of the cur- rent crop of embryos to maintain the erstwhile existant ultimate in campus morals and school spirit is subsequently bewailed with much gusto and enthusiasm. This latter cannot but redound to the lasting and utmost shame of I the present day student. It should react as a spur toward moral re-; demption when the full impact of the idea seeps through. In the in- terim, let all good students hang their respective heads in humility and contrition. One becomes afflicted with the thought that it was a bad day for Michigan when the writer graduat- ed. Indeed, it was a grievous error to permit him to depart. Retention as an aid to the perpetuation of idealism, and bona fide school spirit would have been more in keeping, with the progressive policy of the university. The attendant sketch reveals a most deplorable and revolting state of affairs on the campus, today. The university, it would seem, bids I fair to become a paradise for moral I degenerates. The only activities in-. dulged in extensively by the pres- ent day Michigan student are pet- ting, poker and ticket scalping.l Truly an alarming condition. j r 3 4 All-in a day's vork fo- 'telcphonc men I * * *' WEEK'S BEST SEbLERS Fiction: "A Farewell to Arms," Ernest Hemingway, Scribner, $2.50; "Didi-Queen of Hearts," Gertrude Atherton, Horace Liveright, $2.50; "Sincerity," John Erskine, Bobbs Merrill, $2.50; "Fugitive's Return," Susan Glaspell, Stokes, $2.50; "Laughing Boy," Oliver La Farge, Houghton Mifflin, $2.50; "Way of . Ecben," James Branch Cabell, Mc- holding -'t- overnext week. Willard Mack hasnt been heard from lately, but this one of his reveals clearlyI that he has lost none of his cun- ning in fashioning successful mel- odrama. Taking a best-seller he t has brought forth three acts with all the melodramatic fare richly distributed. Mack has always man- aged to steer his way with reason- able success through the two ex- tremes of the melodramatic path, the strict logic of plausibility and the nir,, ,rill A specimen of construction work 'in the Bell System is t;he new catenary- span carrying telephone Wires' across the Gila River, Arizona. The "natural" obstacle is no longer ar 'obstacle while there are tele- phone men to find a way through it or over it. This is but one example in a general ex- pansioi 'program. O thers arc such widely varied projects as linking New York to Atlanta by cable, erecting 200 telephone buildiigs i ill1929,developi nga, .$ 5g,oooooo factory at Baltimore. The telephone habit is growing apace, and the Bell System will continue to keep a step ahead of the needs of the nation. BELL SYSTEM eA nation-wide ystein of inter-connecting telephones I r