W9 FA~OrF omI H ~ ICHMAN 0 A L ' 'TUESDAY, October 8, 1921 i Published every morning except Monjay during the University year by the Board in; Control of Student Publications. Member of Western Conference Editorial Association. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dis- Patches credited to it or not otherwise credited tn this paper and the local news published herein. Entered at the posto..ce at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class matter. Special rate of postage granted by Third Assistant Post- master General. Subscription by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.50. Offices: Ann Arbor Press Building, May- nard Street. Phones: Editorial, 4925; Business, 21214. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR ELLIS B. MERRY Editor. ..................George C. Tilley City Editor........ ....... Pierce Rosenberg News Editor....... George E. Simons 'ports Editor........Edward B. Warner, Jr. Women's Editor ............Marjorie Follmer Telegraph Editor.............George Stauter Music and Drama ........William J. Gorman Literary Editor..........Lawrence R. Klein Assistant City Editor....--Robert J. Feldmani USEFUL GIFTS. Every college and university numbering among the most public- spirited of its alumni those whose bequests and donations increase the financial resources of their l alma mater. Such gifts do not come from persons to whom a university; is merely a place for week-end parties during the football season, but from persons endowed with the foresight to vistualize an oppor- tunity for service both to the pres- ent and to the future in making possible the education of deserving' students who are in straightened financial circumstances. The University in recent years become more and more the recip- ient of such gifts both from alumni and from other citizens, until at the present time nearly one-third of the University's permantnt as- sets can be traced to bequests from private individuals. Some of these gifts were made many years ago, and many of them can, by terms of the original grant, be used only for narrowly limited purposes. This usefulness of many of the earlier gifts (and some of the later ones) has been seriously curtailed because circumstances which could not be forseen have arisen to obviate the need of funds in exact ASTED ROLLS FI Music And Drama , rnrrm rfl -. it i 't -r, : "ROMANCE BURNS BEST ON A WOODED CAMPUS" Don Herold, now writing for Col-j lege Humor, proves in the follow- ing article what the august Uni- versity of Indiana can do for one in the way of sentiment. The piece was really sent to the liter-1 ary editor, but we thought we could use it to much better advantage. DON HEROLD SENTIMENTALIZES OVER INDIANA UNIVERSITY "I went to Indiana University be- cause it was thirty-five miles from home," writes Don Herold, "but I would have gone to the farthest university in the world if it had had Charley Sembower on its Eng- lish staff. And I would have, gone to the smallest university in the world if it had had William Lowe Bryan for president. And that's the whole story. It's the story of the paradox of the proximity and me- diocrity and of the glory of Indi- ana for most of us. It's the old story of Rasselas and the Blue Bird and all the other yarns of i t TONIGHT: At the Whitney, Genevieve Hamper and her company present "Macbeth." DETROIT THIS WEEK: Cass: Irene Bordoni in the musi-comedy "Paris." Wilson: Theatre Guild pre- sents "Wings Over Europe," a brilliant play of ideas by Ro- bert Nichols and Maurice Browne. Civic Theatre: "Meet the Prince," one of A. A. Milne's delightfully insignificant come- dies. Shubert-Lafayette: "My Girl Friday," a p'ay of loud merri- ment about show-girls and business men. , : ! "THE MERCHANT OF VENICE." The kindest thing that can be said of the downtown production of the bard's romance is that it is very modest. The approach to the main problem of the play-that of weaving that bold, vivid trip of characterization which is the Shylock part, tossed in generously by Shakespeare to feed the race prejudices of his public, into the soft, romantic, glowing tapestry of the play-is modest. In fact, there is little attempt at solution. The scenery is, to say the least, modest. In fact, it is stupidly bad, meaning that it could have been better with I Ing flower +a 609 E.WILUIAM ST., PHON£if 41 1106 E. WASHING~TON ST P/t0N9650 Have you tried our photo finishing?, We cater to discriminating people. SPARKLE TONE M-~ I I a 41 PRINTS I Get them at the NightI Frank E. Cooper William C. Gentry t Henry J. Merryae Charles R. Repo Charles A. Askren Helen Barc Louise Behymer Thomas M. Cooley W. H. Crane Ledru E. Davis Helen Domine Margaret Eckels Katherine Ferrin Carl Forsythe Sheldon C. Fullerton Ruth Geddes Ginevra' Ginn 3. Edmund Glavin jack Goldsmith D. B. Hempstead, Jr.I J ames C. liendley ichard T. Hurley j ean H. Levy ussell E. McCracken Lester M. May Editors Robert L. Sloss Gurney Williams, Jr Walter Wilds ZKaufman orters William Page Gustav R. Reich John D. Reindel Jeannie Roberts Joe Russell Joseph F. Ruwitch William P. Salzarulo George Starter Cadwell Swanson Jane Thayer Margaret Thompson Richard L. Tobin Beth Valentine Harold O. Warren Charles S. White G. Lionel Willens Lionel G. Willens Babaa Wright iVivian Zimit I FRANCISCO-BOYCE PHOTO Co. 719 N. UNIVERSITY AVE. '- -'I-' I l V -,--'--. SubscribeT TDaily I .4 :. BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 21214 BUSINESS MANAGER A. J. JORDAN, JR. Assistant Manager ALEX K. SCHERER Department Managers Advertising............Hollister Mabl.y A'dvertising........... Kasper ii. Halverson Advertising............. Sherwood Upton Service.................... George Sparer Circulation.................J. Vernor Davis Accounts.................. ...... Jack Rose' Publicationse................George Hamilton Assistants accordance with the terms of the good things being near at hand, grant. close to home. An example of this siuation was "Farmer boys' and girls, and shown in the conditions which the University committee on student small town boys and girls, and a loans faced a few days ago, when few from Indianapolis and other very little money was available to I larger Indiana towns, all go to In- loan needy seniors in the law and diana because it is near and com- medicine-a group who in general paratively inexpensive, or because perhaps the most deserving of t ensive, or be e financial aid. their high school chum went there The committee was forced to ex- -an easy, lazy way to choose a pend almost all of the funds on, univerity, but maybe about as good hand in loans to literary students, I as any in the long run. If you although in some cases applica- find a Sembower or a Dr. Bryan tions from seniors in the twQ above nd I use these in somewrhat of mentioned professional schools (andha seemed far and away the more a symbolical sense), you have worthy of reward. found about all that any university Such a situation, which is paral- can offer; and if you don't find lelled many times when no funds them, you might as well go to col- are available for some of the most teh at a Sears, Roebuck ware- pressing needs of the University, lege points clearly to the wisdom of Re- house. And your chances of find- gents' recent request that all gifts ing them are perhaps a shade bet- to, the University contain a clause ter in a small time university thar ,l ' _ _. f. just as little effort. Our fancies . I l 1 e Y -I n C S Howard W. Baldock Raymond .Campbell James E. Cartwright Robert Crawford Harry B. Culver Thomas NM.Davis mes Hoffer Norris Johnson Cullen Kennedy Charles Kline Marvin Kobacker Lawrence Lucey George Patterson Norman Eliezer Anson Hoex Robert Williamson Thomas .Muir Charles Sanford Lee Slayton Roger C. Thorpe William R. Worboys j eanette Dale Bessie V. Egeland Bernice Glaser Helen E. Musselwbite Hortense Gooding Eleanor Walkinshaw Alice McCully { Dorothy Stonehouse Dorothea Waterman Marie Wellstead Night Editor-HENRY MERRY TUESDAY, October 8, 1929 jl xi II, 4 t HOOVER BITESI Prime Minister Ramsay MacDon- aid has snapped a finger at hoary traditions and crossed the Atlantic to the lair of the United States' President Hoover. It was a sinifi- cant step, all the more significant because the purpose was that of naval parity. However, the break- ing of tradition was more due to MacDonald's craft than to his be- lief in the immediate importance of the disarmament question.. MacDonald came with great con- sideration for England's relations with the United States, but, is ap- pears, with even a keened eye on her relationswith European coun- tries. He visited America to obtain an agreement between the two English speaging world powers. A pact, informal and somewhat se- cret, with the United States would be a very sound footing on which he could conquer France and Italyl at the pending naval conference at London. That MacDonald, and perhaps Hoover, too, had the London con- ference well in mind before the present Washington meeting, is a certainty. Such ideas are not thought out, and adopted within a day. MacDonald is now drawing United States closer to England, and, if he continues, the two coun- tries will be able to throw a con- certed front against the other in- vited nations: Japan, France, and Italy, at the London conference. Consequently, they will have a bet- ter control of the situation. Eng- land, especially, will gain, for her interest in the naval power of France and Italy is considerable, while that of the United States is small. It is his relations with these countries that MacDonald is going to gain by his American trip. "Nar- row the Atlantic" is his motto, but it was prompted by a widening of the channel, a matter over which he had little to say. That was the work of France, with Briand's providing thlat tneRegentsmayt hey are at a four ring circus of a alter the exact application of any unive gift, with the idea of permittingu rsity where there may be so most useful continuance of the much going on that all you get is benefaction in general accord with dandemonium. the purpose of the donor. "What I am getting at is that, to a great degree, all this comparing INTERFRATERNITY COUNCIL. The criticism has been frequent-' of universities is pure apple sauce. ly offered that the local campus You take potluck at any of them, is overorganized into a multitude of and it is partly accident whether groups with emblems, meetings, or not you come into contact with pages in the Michiganesnsian, and faculty men who set you aflame. no particular reason for their ex- "It is hard not to get soft about istence. The critics are undoubt- t ianot I so ot edly justified, and in no instance the Indiana campus. I know of more decidedly that when they at- none in America which surpasses it tack the raispn d'etre of the Inter- in beauty. I am glad I did not fraternity council. This impuissant have to go to college in a skyscrap- body has been in the habit of wast- er or on a sunbaked subdivision. ing a lot of time to draw up unread Romance burns best on a wooded resolutions-or of adjourning with-R out a quorum. campus. Unfortunately for the campus "Co-education? And how! As it1 our hundred-odd fraternities pro- exists at Indiana, I think it is a duce each year a number of bit- I tigfrteby n elo deur mooeyd susnumerculdit-fine thing for the boys and hell on terly mooted issues that could be the girls. Tough, however, as co- advanatageously settled by a real education is on the girls, it is un- Interfraternity council. Each fall doubtedly civilizing on the boys. It there is needed some sort of a rush-o teaches them to wash behind their ing referee to decide when the ears and inculcates other import- bounds of fair rivalry have been ant niceties and graces. At Pur- transgressed and a judicial body toadueimayasd es.wAr put teeth in the rushing rules. due, many a student wears the Sutbteqetlmthe rushingrues.same shirt without changing for Subsequently there are numerous four years; at Indiana, nobody fraternity functions, notably dances, j wears one shirt over a year, and dances, after which it would be this comes off for a clean one for helpful to the dean's office, as well the dances. I should hate to think as fair to the fraternities, if disci- what would become of fraternity plinary recommendations were for- jhouses if it were not for week end warded by a council of all parties dances. whose good name might be cate- "Of one thing I am sure, and gorically involved, that is that Indiana does not pro- Antother likely field of useful- duce an Indiana type. I do notr ness can be seen in a live organi- think that Indiana shellacs any zation's leadership of movements sensibilities. If anything, Indiana calculated to make the existence of opens the pores. Sometimes I wish all fraternities easier. We would I had a Harvard mustache and a suggest its taking up first the tax- Yale swagger, if there are such exemption battle, the cooperative things, but, again, I am glad I buying problem, and the extension went to a school which left me a of the fraternity zoining limit, little raw and red. Maybe I catch Why the Interfraternity council more with some of my pores left£ has failed so dismally to attack unsealed." these problems on its own initiative, * * * and what must be done to restore Vachel Lindsay, troubador poet, its vigor are difficult questions to who last year you will recall gave answer. The first step toward re- . the best example of cheerleading juvination, however, is clearly in- 'ever witnessed in Hill auditorium, dicated: house presidents must ap- predicts that this is a Cavalier age point seniors as council represen- and that soon college students will tatives, not sophomores and fresh- be dancing around the may-pole. men. The resulting increase in in- That's fine, Vachel; and now we telligence should enable the council can make mav-nole dancing a var- can sometimes be stimulated by stark symbols but they are sinned against by a badly pained drop representing a whole seaport or by square cut trees. The scenic pro- duction would have been better had it attempted to be historically ac- curate. But more startling and far less modest was John Alexander's in- terpretation of Shylock. He seem- ingly flew right in the face of all previous Shylocks. Here was noth- ing of the frail, intrepid figure, rasped by the taunts of Christians until his nerves are bared and and bleeding. Here was no forlorn wretch wringing his hands in mis- ery and sheer despair. But lo! a hero. Shylock was tall and broad as a full back. Never once did he cringe, as the movies have it. He completely dominated every scene, making the Christians appear his victims rather than his tormentors. He strutted in the court scene. His fantastic vengeance was conceived of not as the logical result of a gradually rising hysteria but as a heroic gesture. His let-down came as a quite a surprise and we felt sorry for him as we do for a hero who momentarily loses his girl. That was all. The interpretation was neither modest nor successful. Miss Hamber had some difficulty in being the pert and gracious and coy Portia because her voice per- sisted in remaining on middle C. Frederic Hile as Bassanio was warm and pleasing. The extras were very bad. A youthful audience applauded vigorously. IRENE BORDONI There is a limited number of musical comedy stars who so far escape the stereotyped in manner as to deserve that over-used desig- nation 'inimitable.' Irene Bordoni, a vivacious little French star, is Europe's candidate for the title. She has an individuality her own; there is no one in America just like her in kind or degree. She is not merely a comedienne who sings, nor a singer who resorts to comedy. In the most ignoble vehicle she is an interpretative artist. She is a comedienne with an unerring, in- tuitive sense of the comic and in addition possesses a stage presence and personality that at once es- tablish rapport. It is this same personality that gives vivacity and charm to her singing. Her voice is not phenomenal; it is merely pleas- ing; force of personality makes it a really gracious instrument. Miss Bordoni has even attempted a marriage of music with comedy- which looks like a sin, for Ameri- ca seems to insist that the music should have little relation to the play. "Paris" is called a musi-com- edy, which supposedly means that the music and songs are not inter- polated but are an integral part of the play's dramatic action. Miss Bordoni has at her disposal in this A $ . $.$ $QPLY 4 : r 0 20% DISCOUNT On All CHRISTMAS CARDS If Purchased by November 1st Make Your Selections While the Stock is Fresh and Complete a. -.a ' '' .. .,.z The most Complete Stock of Greeting and Christmas Cards in the City. Do Not Miss Our Sale of Moore's Pens. >$ ti. .<;f".'" :.;::tiy.: "'_"' .,':; : :: i: : v ;:: !:;.. -... -.".-__-.:_-.-::rl,: . '_ ::s rr..r 7 s;; . ;:. 'r :::.:%$<¢%;; :;:i :.:^ :=:''{.:' .... , '-. ' ., :s,.:- +Sq::;i:..y .a+ :," i .y; .+. :. ''i S rCFY"'y' :: rat Bridge Sets LINE-A-DAY 305 Maynard Street Starting October 7 A $5.00 Pen for $2.50 Engraved Stationery Engraved Christmas Cards TRAVELOGSLEATHER PHOTO FRAMES OPPOSITE THE MAJESTIC $10 a e Thle Game that Gentl pa -1 on 0- F C* e in at any time~. BILLARDS Y OU'LL enjoy 1ellards for the reason that it elimi.- nates your troubas and gives you something else to thian about. Billiards is the finest sort of indoor recreation. It calls for concentration and good judgment combined with accuracy and poise. You come out of a billiard game feeling keen and fit, with a mind pleasantly stimulated, and muscles limbered up and nerves steady. j In billiards, as in practically every sport and recreation, equipment and environment mean much to the enjoy- ment of the gain. Our recreation rooms are equipped with Brunswick tables and accessories, assuring ly und~er the finest posible concditbons.01 l f