PAGE FOUR, THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1930 Published every morning except Mondaye during the Tlniversity year by the Board in Control of Student Publications. Member of Western Conference Editorial Association.' The Associated Press is exclusively entitledt to the use for republication of all news dis- patches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and the local news published herein. Entered at the postoffice at Ann Arbor,{ Michigan, as second class matter. Special rate of postage granted by Third Assistant Post- master General.. Subscription by carrier, $4.o; by mail, 4.ffices: Ann Arbor Press Building, May- nard Street. Phones: Editorial, 4925; Business, 21214. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 I MANAGING EDITOR ELLIS B. MERRY Editorial Chairman........George C. Tilley City Editor..............Pierce Rosenberg News Editor..............Donald J. Kline orts Editor......Edward L. Warner, Jr. Women's Editor........... Marjorie Folmer 'Telegraph Editor ........ Cassam A, Wilson~ Music and Drama........ William J. Gorman Literary Editor........Lawrence R. Klein Assistant City Editor.... Robert J. Feldman Night Editor-Editorial Board Members Frank E. Cooper Henry J. Merry William C. Gentry Robert L. Sloss I harles R. Kavnffnian Walter W. Wilds Gurney Williams Reporters can be done to remedy fraternity) taxation, the council should direct 1 every effort toward such action. About Books 1 Anti-Saloon leaguers expounding THUS the evils of drink can make capital SPAKE ANNE. out of a recent incident in New- ark. A citizen of that metropolis, The Encounter, by Anne Douglas trying to commit suicide while un- Sedgwick; Houghton Mifflin Co., der the influence, was so unsteady Boston, Mass. Price $2.50. that he killed his cousin in the next room. "The Encounter" is the sort 1 I Music And Drama TYPEWRITER REPAIRING All makres. of ma- chines. Our equip- ment and person- nel' am' considered among the best in result of twenty building. I of -n We are given to understand that the Book of the Month Club is backing the new 13-month calendar to the limit. "Hell Week," in the throes of which some 500 freshmen are now struggling, serves as a somewhat potent reminder to them that the wrath of God (at least this phase of it) as well as the peace of God passeth all understanding. novel people - and particularly Anne Sedgwick-wrote about Ger- many in those drowsy, pleasant, Baden-Baden, UFA-less days be-, fore the war. The band plays in the Kur-Garten, idyllic lovers wan- der on the, Eichen Promenade, sun- TONIGHT: In Hill Auditorium beginning promptly at 8:15, The Festival of Eldorado, a presenta- tion of the Cosmopolitan Club on seventh International night. SERGE PROKOFIEFF. A Review by William J. Gorman. A rather extensive glance at the creative activity of Serge Proko- fieff was given the Detroit Chap- ter of Pro Musica, international or- ganization sponsoring modern mu- sic, Sunday night. The program in- cluded a long group of piano pieces, played by himself, three melodies, for violin and piano, several of his) songs, and an overture on Yiddish themes for four strings, clarinet and piano. The idealism (and the finance) involved in making such a program possible are highly com- mendable things and the organiza- tion may well ask Ann Arbor pa- trons of music if they are int'erest- ed in its work. the State. Thy years' caref iu4 EUROPE $365 SIX COUNTRIES- PASSION PLAY One of 250 College Travel Tours Nearly 4,000 members in 1929 1st Class Hotels More Motor Travel. Get the Book from E. G. KUEBLER 601 East Huron Street Ann Arbor, Mich. Phone 6412 I 'II I Q. D. M1'ORRILL 314 South State St. Phone 6615 I .. i i 1;1 LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poet and Critic Lectures on 'Modern American Poetry' THURSDAY MARCH 6 III I light and sentimentality showered on each page. are NATURAL SCIENCE AUDITORIUM I I. Admission 50 Cents at the Door 0 Anne Sedgwick-who, in private life, rejoices in the imposing name of Mrs. Basil de Selincourt-has a rhetorical mode singularly well ad- apted to this peaceful material. Her words flow with a smoothly artif- cial effect that is neither strength nor weakness, like the pretty ob- viousness of a Burne-Jones. Furs and Fur Coats Makeup, Repaired, Re- modelled and Relined Prices Reasonable E. L. Greenbaum 448 Spring Street Phone 9625 i I Auspices Hillel Foundation Bertram Askwith Lester May Helen Barc Margaret Mix Maxwell Bauer David M. Nichol Mary L: Behymer William Page Alla H.Berman Howard H. Peckhaw" AlthurH. Berkman ugh Pierce S.arth Cnersen Victor Rabinowitz S. Beach Conger John D. Reindel Thomas M. Cooley Jeannie Roberts Helen Domine Joseph A. Russell Margaret Eckels J oseph Ruwitch Catherine Ferrin Ralph R. Sachs Carl F. Forsythe Cecelia Shriver Sheldon C.sFullerton Charles R. Sprowl ~Ruth Gallmeyer Ndsit Stewart Ruth Geddes S. Cadwel Swanson Ginevra Ginn Jane Thayer Jack Goldsmith MargaretyThompson Emily Grimes Richard L. Tobin Morris roverman Robert Townsend Margaret Harris Elizabeth Valentine J. Cullen Kennedy Harold 0. Warren, Jr. Tean Levy G.. Lionel Willens usyell E. McCracken Barbara Wright Dorothy Magee Vivian Zimit Bruce ,3. Manley Carpus Opinion Contributors are asked to be brief, confining themselves to less than o0 words of possible. Anonymous com- munications will be disregarded. The names of cominunicants will, however, be regarded as confidential, upon re- quest. Letters published should not he construed as excpressing the editorial opinion of The Daily. ANENT OUR PROHIBITION EDITORIAL. I I I I To the editor: BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 21214 BUSINESS MANAGER A. J. JORDAN, JR. Assistant Manager ALEX K. SCHERER Department Managers Advertising...........T. Hollister Mabley Advertising... . .......Kasper II. Halverson Advertising............Sherwood A. Upton Service.................George A. Spater Circulation..............J. Vernor Davis Accounts............. .....John R. Rose Publications..........eorge R. Hamilton Business Secretary-1M1ary Chase Assistants Byrne M. Badenoch Marvin Kobacker . James E. Cartwright Lawrence Lucey- 1Robert. Crawford Thomas' Muir Harry B. Culver George R. Patterson Thomas M. Davis Charles Sanford p Norman Eliezer Lee Slayton James Hoffer Joseph Van Riper Norris Johnson J2obert Williamson Charles Kline William R. Worboy Dorothy Bloomgardner Aice McCully Laura Codling Sylvia Miller Agnes Davis Helen E. Musselwhite Bernice Glaser Eleanor' Walkinishaw Hortense Gooding Dorothea Waterman TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1930 Night Editor- WALTER WILDS What is the matter with the U. of M. that it has a such a raging. thirst, such a lawless disposition, and such a lack of veracity in its' statements? Presidents Lowell of Harvard, Hibben of Princeton, and Angell of Yale all state that their students drink much less liquor than they did before Prohibition., Do you not believe that these men have access to reliable data, and that they would not publish statements. that they did not know to be true? You publish as facts what are simply your own personal impressions, and injure your Uni- versity by doing so. Who is going to take the impres- sions of a school-boy against the word of college men of many years of experience? C ah . J. . Avery. tCleveland, Ohio. Y S: 17 S d I C X C ti c C t st a l 1 j ' A CHANCE FOR ACTION. For years-it, is difficult to say definitely just how many-the In- terfraternity council has been passing resolutions, appointing committees, and collecting dues from fraternities. The council's latest project, tax exemption, v hich was actually pushed with a certain zeal for a short time, seems to have expired together with many of the issues which have fired the council's spiritin the past. The examples of that body's in- ertia are numerous and pathetic. Two months ago a committee was appointed to investigate the hell- week and make suggestions to remedy it. Although the initiation season will soon be over, the com- mittee has still to meet. Another committee was to investigate fra- ternity dances and to present con- siderations for their improvement, but soon the social season will be over with the report still unmade. The council's drive for fraternity tax exemption, or reassessment at least, was an honest attempt to rectify conditions in Ann Arbor which are admittedly unjustifiable. But with the failure of the first ef- fort to bring about tax exemption, the council lost interest. Naturally enough, the fight for complete exemption failed because support from Ann Arbor legislators was lacking and a hostile senti- ment against such action had crystallized. Yet there seems to be absolutely no reason why the coun- cil should not consider seeking a reassessment of the wax values on fraternity property. As the matter now stands, this problem has been left up to the individual fraterni- ties who cannot possibly bring to bear enough concerted pressure to do any good. It would be wise, therefore, for the council to revive its former activity and send a delegation to the hearing of the State Tax com- mission on March 20 at the Capi- tol, at which time there will be a di.Qnmcrinn .off 4-n mC. nranl and nor-n AN ALL-STAR SEXTET.' To the Editor: After witnessing practically ev- ery game, the University hockey team has played on the local ice, two of us enthusiastic followers of the fastest game in the world de- cigled to select an all-star sextet. Both of -the selectors hail from) Canada and have been brought up around the Canadian national past-time, so we think we are at lease to some degree capable of se- lecting a team. For our all-star lineup we select the following: Tompkins (Mich.) .........Goal Peterson (Minn.) ....Left Defense Ruitta (Mich. Tech.) ...... . .................Right Defense D. McFayden (Marquette).... . ...................... Center Langen (Mich.).....Right Wing McKenzie (Marquette) .... .Left Wing Thompson (Wis.) Spare Forward Fenton (Minn.), Spare Forward Joseph (Mich.) .. .Spare Forward Hart (Mich.) ...... Spart Defense Metcalfe (Wis.)... Spare Defense Christie (Minn.).... Spare Goalie Without doubt the forward line of Donnie McFayden, Bill Langen,, and Pudge McKenzie is composed of the brainest and best all-around players that have performed be- fore the Michigan spectators this winter. Each one packs a terrific shot, and they all really know how to skate, and shine on the offen- sive and defensive play. One thing of importance is that the fans should remember that Langen, star Wolverine center, plays contin- uously which is a superhuman task in as fast a game as hockey. Had Langen an opportunity to rest for a few minutes he certainly would go a great deal better, though hef is always in the greatest portion of the play. The spare forwards give the first stringers a close run, but do not rank with the above trio. Tompkins of Michigan wins by a slight advantage over Christie, the flashy Gopher net-minder. Both are clever in the nets. Tompkins deserves a great deal of credit for Michigan's victories. Peterson and Ruitta are given first call for the defense berths, though Hart and Metcalfe are close in the running. All four are stiff #1 The tale is of the love affair of Judging only by this single pro- seitzsche -- disguised under the gram, Prokofieff would not seem to name Ludwig Wenlitz - and the be an extremely important compos- - young American globe-trotter, Per- er. Much of his work is mere dal- sis Fennamy. The atmosphere is lying with conceits in the form of nuch better than the story, or per- past age. He is trading on the mu- Laps the story is spoiled by atmo- sical lawlessness and fearless use sphere. Passion progresses at a of sounds by now acceptable to the :istinctly leisurely pace with dear contemporary audience. He in-I Ludwig alternately becoming ab- geniously versifies and harmonises ject and tender, then quoting page the vaguely familiar thematic ma- after page from "Thus Spake Zara terial of a past musical age. thustra" until Persis ultimately de- The result is something like a, cides she will not marry him and lawless comment on formerly law- moves on, with dear mama, to the restricted material. This exploit-d next watering-place. No one of the ation of the newly discovered musi-_ characters ever becomes more than cal freedom makes for a good deal a faint shadow, so the reader is of fragmentary brilliance and spared and vicarious pangs con- much amusement; but the per- cerning Ludwig's breaking heart- manent impression is one of vacu- described by himself in great de- ity. One is indifferent to the mu- tail, sic. Prokofieff's lyricism fails of If you like the old noels-this spontaneity because of the unor- was written in 1914 and reprinted iginality of the basic material. on the strength of "The Little This is, of course, true in vary- French Girl" and "Dark Hester"- ing degrees. But I had particular- if you think William Dean Howells ly in mind the third of the violin the peer of American stylists, if you pieces which we would immediately admire the purity and sentiment label annoyingly sentimental but of the Elizabeth of then German i for the novelty of the idea's set- Garden-then undoubtedly you are ting; the Gavotte Op. 25, familiar simply dying to read "The En- sentiment familiarly expressed; counter." and possibly the well-known March D. S. froxmthe Love of Three Oranges, harmonically a r d rhythmically amusing ,but otherwise merely an BOOKS BY ironic comment on the spirit of MICHIGAN MEN. Sousa and his kin. . The Overture on Yiddish themes Spring publications include sev- for strings, clarinet and piano is eral works by men at present or at another case in point, as it de- one time connected with the Uni- rives all its interest not from any versity. Professor William Herbert quality inherent in the thematic Hobbs' book on the University of material but merely from the in- Michigan Greenland expeditions is genous patterns cerebrally woven already off the press and on sale. from the material even within a It will be reviewed in this column. purposefully conventional sonata this week. An interesting if minor design. To repeat, this is Music feature of Dr. Hobbs' book is the not in the customary sense of re- fact that it is decorated by him- velation of quality and meaning self. His drawings of illuminated inherent in thematic material letters and tail-pieces show a defi- through controlled, significant de- nite artistry in themselves. velopment; but music as ingenious The Ides of March will bring variation and patterning of essen- Professor Slosson's book called tially meaningless material-which World War and Prosperity from is virtuosity of composition rather the shelves of the Macmillan com- than sincerity. And here, as ge- pany. The volume will b* the erally, virtuosity proves any thing twelfth of the History of American but profundity. Life series edited by A. M. Sclesin- Prokofieff's compositions for pi- ger and D. R. Fox: Professor Slos- ano seem able in the strictly pian- son; who is always interesting, istic aspects. He employs the ro- writes with an epigramatic, figur- mantid technique-accompanimen- ative style that combines scholar- tal variety and complication of in- ship with wit. . ner parts with ornamental develop- The wild month of March with, ment of recurring subsidiary the grace of the W. W. Norton com- phrases. There is the added mod- pany will usher to the campus the ern aspect in that much of his de- reported sensational book of for- velopment is on a basis of rhythm mer President Clarence Cook Lit- Prokofieiff plays these pieces with tle. Dr. Little's book is called The ample technique, tonal power and Awakening College and it will deal the requisite pulse. But the final: with, among many other things, impression is that despite his ver- the political system that deter- satility of composition, he lacks in- mines faculty appointments and ventive fertility and profundity. advancements in our modern col- One could say nothing of his leges, the situation regarding auto- songs because they were so hor- mobiles and liquor, fraternities, ribly mutilated by his wife who college entrance requirements, and may have been a soprano once, intercollegiate athletics.! OPTICAL DEPARTMENT Lenses and Frames Made to Order Optical Prescriptions Filled HALLER' STATE STREET JEWELERS f LetUs d ----o Let Us Do Your Shoe Repairing Highest Quality of Work A. T. COOCH &SON 1109 South University Half Block From Campus I'U I + I i BROOKS-NEWTON, Inc. REALTORS FOR SALE 401 Lenawee Drive 1926 Norway Road 2105 Wallingford Road 2008 Day Street 2117 Devonshire Road 1620 Baldwin Ave. Brooks Bldg. Tel. 22571 Eve. Tel, 6125, 5197, 4631, 22927 ! es.w. 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Cohan, is "Gambling," written, produced and acted by himself, coming to the Wilson this week after a successful New York run. The play is in a medium much! loved of late years- -ie world ot night clubs and gambling resorts where high hat and slouch cap merge. There is no attempt at1 rapid-fire succession of thrills;, merely faithful diligent sketching of this colorful area. On its New York opening, Hey- L River -towering on either side, the craggy spurs of the Great Smoky Mountains-dangling on a tiny skip traversing the thread-like aerial cable hundreds of feet up, was a McGraw- Hill editor, seeking first-hand news. The project was a new hydro-electric unit requiting the boring of a pressure tunnel under a mountain. Thousands of engineers were interested. The editor gave them the facts with photo- graphs . . . in the manner character- istic of all McGraw-Hill Publications. No wonder that the 600,000 men modern business world are regular readers of McGraw-Hill Publications! 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