PAGE OUI THE MICHIGAN DAILY, SUNDAY,_APRIL 27, 1930 r Published every norning except Mosaday during the T niversity year by the Board in Control of Student Publications, Member of Western Conference Editordal Association. The, Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dig. Iatclhes credited to it or not otherwise credited n this paper and the local news published herein. Entered at the postoffce at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class matter. Special rate of postage granted by Third Assistant Post- taaster General. Subscription by carrier, $4.0.; by mail, Offces:Ann Arbor Press Building. May- aard Street. Phones:Editorial, 4925; Business, 2zaz4. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGINGEDITOR ELLIS B. MERRY Editorial Chairman.........George C. Tilley City Editor.............Pierce Rosenberg News Editor........ ,,,.... Donald J. Kline f t r c 1 4 . foot the more staid measures of the conservatives. nEl Such a program cannot but give a healthier tone to the life of the / e/ University. There will be fewer THESE ARE murmuring malcontents, fewerBUSY conservatives panic-stricken at the DAYS. thought of risking a change for Not to be outdone by the School- the better. o masters' convention the A. C. A. C. THE LORD'S TITHE. W. girls have been whooping it up at the League. I've made several When ministers of churches per- inquiries but so far have been un- form the duties of after-dinner successful in finding out just whatI speakers, it is customary for them all those letters stand for. to tell the old one about the man * * * who stopped in a drug store on We'll now have a guessing con- Sunday morning and asked the test. It may mean A Collection of druggist to give him change for a Awfully Cute Women, or it may; dime. The druggist replied, "Sure- not. What is your idea on the sub, ly, and I hope you enjoy the ser- ject? mon." University students on their way STEVE FARRELL PLEASE COPY. to Sunday convocations can be dis-Js tinguished the same way, it is in- Dear Joe: Just to show you what dicated by the receipts from the that powerful Milwaukee brew will collections taken up there. So lit- do, see the front page of yester- tle money has been collected as to day's Daily: "The Milwaukee run- leave the Student Christian asso- ners had a hard battle with Michi- ciation a convocations committee gan State Normal, Butler College, and Indiana, but Jack Walters was facing a formidable deficit. too strong on the anchor mile and When students are willing to pay drew away to win by ten miles." 50 cents for a 90-minute movie Boy!!aSteeall bttermlay show, and to pay ten cents (by n a fw caSeFarrell had beeersay. buying a blue book) for the privi- 1n f cs p i nnrcfn dnifir tin n Music And Drama THIS AFTERNOON: Stanley Fletcher, a pupil of Guy Maier ap- pears in Hill Auditorium at 4:15 in a program of compositions by Chopin and Liszt. STREET SCENE. A Review by William J. Gorman. Mr. Rice's journalism is admir- able. He has taken his camera to a vivid scene, simple, lucid (per- haps unimportant) in its dramatic implications, yet inclusive enough of engaging colors from the melt- ing pot 'and curious incidents to justify dramatic reproduction. His realism is quite without the de- termined dullness of writers who wish to insist on it. He is capable of very-genuine economy of por- traiture. And he has such a good ear for the swiftly-characterizing cliches that in the first act he is able to make a mere medley of gos- sipy platitudes quite amusing. The material he takes from life is thor- oughly tractable dramatically; that is, dramatic production can realize all its values. It is a good play; obviously not a great play because its pretensions are mere- ly photographic. The production had many inter- Sports Ei~otor.... Edoward L. Warner, Jr. I Women's Editor..........Marjorie Foilmer Telegraph Editor........Cassam A. Wilson Music and Drama......William J. Gornan Literary Editor ......... Lawrence 'R. 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Jane Kenah Dorothy loomgarden Virginia M n Comb Laura Codling Alice McCully Ethel Constas Sylvia Miller Josephine Convisser Ann Verner Bernice Glaser * I'orothea Waterman Anna Goldberger Joan Wiese Hortense Gooding SUNDAY, APRIL 27, 1930 NIGHT EDITOR-HENRY MERRY PROGRESSIVE ADMINISTRATION President Ruthven's exposition of his cabinet form of government is another sign, if more are needed, of the soundness of his administra- tion. It definitely discredits that group of malcontent progressives who have criticized him for sitting tivht and letting nature take care lege of taking a final examination, there certainly should be no reluc-' tance about paying at least twenty- five cents to aid the S. C. A. in financing the convocations, which have been without exception very well attended.j If speakers of the high calibre of those who have appeared in the past are to be brought here for fu- ture Convocations, it behooves the student body to put quarters, not nickels, in the collection basin. APATHETIC EFFORTS. Yours or mw ca I J i . The Beachcomber. J. C. X. see me at Note to J. let you in? you'd stop would you Snotlight? remarks that she didn't the Honors Convocation. C. X.: How come they . ... And besides, I wish calling me Rolls. How like it if I called you Yesterday was Lark's birthday, and he tells me he'll soon be old enough to join the Boy Scouts. After that, Lark, you can apply for It is gratifying -to note that the that job of Scoutmaster, as adver- police department has at last be- tised in the D. O. B. gun to enforce the sixty-minute * parking rule which up to this time I has been grossly violated in the DISGRUNTLED CONTRIBUTOR. campus section of the city. To the Editor: I recently was Even without the potential traf- forced to undergo the very humil- fic jam which a lifting of the duto iating experience of seeing one of ban would create, Ann Arbor has a my contributions ruthlessly thrown serious parking problem and the into the wastebasket. You've ig- police department should keep up nored me for the last time. I have the good work they instituted yes- decided to enter upon a campaign terday when they tagged several to unionize all Rolls contributors. cars for overtime parking on May- If you dare to cross our tracks nard street where traffic is always once, we'll leave you stranded and sluggish. then what'll you do? Ah ha, you'll If the parking law is to be obey- pay and pay and pay. ed it must be constantly enforced. The Big Shot. f P The spasmodic efforts of the locali department have not been effec- tive and lead one to suspect that enforcement activity is brought on only by a shrinkage in the cityI coffers. May we suggest to Chief O'Brien that the parking problem on Washington Heights is *acute and would undoubtedly show immedi- ate improvement at the hands of a spare officer? 0 It looks as though I'll have to burn all unsuitable manuscripts secretely after this. But here's luck to your campaign, Big Shot. I hope it turns out to be more suc- cessful than my seal campaign. * * * JUST A BIT OF EVERYTHING. Dear Joe: I see that they're erecting a series of props for the Romance Language building, and Iabout time too savs I I do think of the University in, her own un- progressive way. , It is no secret, either here or abroad, that Michigan just at pres- ent is not at the height of her rep-{ utation. On the part of some Uni- versity's officers, however, there has been a marked reluctance to acknowledge this fact; and lest the skeletons be heard rattling in the closet they have set up a great cry of "traitor" whenever less com- placent people have suggested that the house be set in order. Some- how' their jingoism has risen su- perior even to their five senses. When President Ruthven was elevated to the White House, those who saw the weaknesses and the1 shortcomings of the University were afraid he too might deny the fallen estate of Michigan's prestige and decide to let well enough alone. This fear has vanished. After sev- eral months of careful examina- tion he has expressed the opinion, well substantiated, that much of our administrative machinery is rusty and antiquated, and he has set about the task of restoring it to an efficiency consistent with the enormous task it must perform. By eliminating administrative red- tape he would make it easier to ef- fect necessary and desirable changes. His own job, he believes, is not to pressagent the Univer- sity or to mold it in accordance with his will, but to listen to his faculties, weigh their opinions on the state of the University, and execute the policies dictated; by their judgments combined with his. rr," 1--n11JF f +1 rv a or7 r --nn "J UU 1A4 UJ ,, Y . AJVAAA that it might be more economical Ean to let it fall down, though. It would (FromtheChcagmake a lovely rock garden, where- Chcago as the less said about its value as Knox and Lombard,,old and re- spected colleges in Galesburg, Ill., a building the less said. will merge, and their hitherto di- Yesterday's canvass of the Li-{ will ernteirohitet dibrary in a noble attempt to make vided efforts to get good students the campus seal-conscious resulted and good teachers and to raise in the astounding discovery that funds and buildings for adlmin 99 per cent of the student who tering to their needs will be joined didn't step on it didn't do so be- intelligently in one small college cause of your campaign. (He came project. By polling resources they in the door and turned around and will find, no doubt, that two colleges went out before he got to it.) can live almost as cheaply as one In conclusion: Their joint strength will be much There was a young man from greater than the sum of the sep- Mobileu arate two. WhMobl artetw. Who trod on the Library seal, The strong small college is a trod on thi sel, persistent need in educational We asked why this should be ericn nHe replied, "Oh, I see, America that the growth of the So this is the Library seal, is it?" great universities never will over- Yrs. Trly, The Chink. come. As the great schools move f* * * towards the specialties and profes- Whoops! That wins all prizes sions, towards" extensive labora- { toesind bureaus, towards are- (first and booby) for limericks, and tories and bureaus, towards re- from now on I shall let The Chink search divisions and graduate de- write such ingles for this column. partIhents, their colleges of liberal w j f arts usually decline in value, if not ATTENTION, FRATERNITIES. in size, and the students handled Electric sign on E. Washington: there by massed and mechanistic STEIN methods lose the cultural interests CLEANERS. that the liberal arts should give. In *** the mechanism of classes, grades, Tobe writes in to say that if I ever credits and degrees they lose the (again (even jokingly) intimate generous enthusiasm of youth. that we should develop a Rudy Va- Their standards are externalized, lee to "plug" The Victors, he'll esting points. There was very in- telligent inter-playing. There seemed to be a predominance of casting to type; so that veracity was easily established and a com- pelling (perhaps, to some, impor- tunate) sense of the presence of life easily induced in the audience. But Miss Erin O'Brien-Moore, in the role of the daughter Rose Mauurant, was the only one in the cast interesting as an actress. She had a Very original style. Her pro- jection was achieved by intense calculation. Her merit was that she made no drawings on the full storehouse of conventional histron- ic cliches for the type of character she was playing. She very boldly exploited' various angularities of poise suggesting to m-c an interest- ing physical translation of the character's essential awkward in- articulateness. She attracted and added interest to her thoroughly commonplace lines by significant distributoh' of emphases and paus- es and a studied awkwardness of voice pulsations. At all times she comm nied ted; her own pesonal thrilled sense of the grave momen- tousness of the events happening to the chmba'ter. She created in a part ,tha.t might have been done with mere routine competence. ORCHESIS DANCE RECITAL. A Review by Mary Louise Bhymer. To one expecting to be enter- tained by delightful, if whimsical, fantasies of natural dancing such as have been presented by Orche- sis in former years, the dance re- cital Friday night could scarcely be said to fulfill anticipations. It was entertaining, to be sure, butI not particularly because of any outstanding natural dancing. Considering the size of the cast taking part in the program and the greatly varying sizes of the individual participants, good train- ing was evident in the mechanics of the performance. The opening number, the Triumphant Frieze, is to be commended for the attention to rythm and bodily control. The divisions of the frieze, the storm of battle, followed by victory with her attendants who trailed off in- to the bedraggled remnants of the vanquished, were very well inter- preted and portrayed. The more typically natural dances which followed the open- ing number were a bot too mech- anical. The variation between hysterics and stage fright detract- ed from the beauty of the designs and the technalities of the danc- ing, and made the dancers appear to be mere robots with the addi- tion of a certain human graceful- ness. Costumes, staging effects, and music were satisfactory through- out, but with the exception of the gnome-dance, the Marche by Pro- kofieff, there was nothing star- ling about them. The number just mentioned was, I believe, the best Ion the entire nryoyram for h h '' ....... .i n .i n m.. 0 a , W . - il 4 Take advantage of or agn and Cairry Discount Pa It will be of little inconvenience to you, gnd the saving is in more ways than one. Your garments receive the best of laundering methods, and there is always that pleasant self-assured feeling that you are Save g5 getting the very best. Dial 9495 I I They beeome time servers or grade come up here and squirt glue in hunters, and the meaning of the my typewriter. Answer to Tobe: If liberal arts is smothered in the I ever so much as breathe another rumble of the educational ma- word about developing a local chinery. Rudy Valee to plug The Victors or1 The small college or its equiva- any other musical selection what- lent remains the most successful ever, I hope you will inflict upon way to institutionalize the liberal {me all the tortures befitting the arts. Though the weak smaller col- crime. lege with its backward, overwork- h ed faculties, its dogmatic precepts , its low educational standards, is nnvthinr hut a cultural asset in liii AN AIP 11 I