PACE - MDR T H E MICHIGAN DAILY FRIAY, MAY 9 ,1130 3 ,. _ 314t £irhijan Ba9ttg Published every morning exest Monday during the TJniversity year by ths Board in Contiol of Student Publications. Member of Western Conference Editorial Association. The Associated Pres, is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dis- atches credited to it or not otherwise credited1 In this paper and the local news published herein. Entered at the postoffice at Ann Arbor,' Michigan, a stcfmd class matter. Special rate; of postage granted by Third Assistant Post- master General Subscription by carrier, $4.o; by sall, Ofices: Ann Arbor Press Building, May- iard Street. Phones:.Editorial, 4925; Business, 31514. EDITORIAL STAFF, Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR ELLIS B. MERRY Vditorial Chairman........George C. Tllley City, Editor..............Pierce Rosenberg News Editor............Donald J. Kline Sports Editor......Edwar' L. 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Tobin Morris Crovemasi Robert Townsend Margaret Harris Elizabeth Valentino fus. Cullen Kennedy Harold 0. Warren, Jr. ean Levy G. Lionel Willens sel o E. McCracken Barbara Wright Dorothy Magee Vivian Zimtij .T bility of nominating to the Supreme Court a genuinely intelligent and] liberal jurist. -0- FATHERS AND SONS. The ties existing between fathers and sons are among the most inti- mate of human relationships. When , the tottering infant first walks across the room to Papa, when the short-trousered youngster plays baseball with Dad, when the near-j adult son smokes and talks with, Gov'nor, and when the middle-aged son pays visits to his old father, there is a certain closeness of in- terests and affection which is not easy to duplicate elsewhere. If anything happens to break the intimate tie between a father and his son, it is tragic. Whateverl influences that tend to loosen the ties are to be combated. Such a view of the matter speaks its own commendation of the Father and Son week-end which is being held here today and tomor- row. College students are for four years deprived of the intimate con- tact with their fathers, which has existed before college days. As the sons acquire the new interests, there is an ever-present danger, I i .1 Iii IL ArnwI% II Ivi usic' 4and .DiramaI IRISH PLAYS, PLAYWRIGHTS, AND PRODUCERS (1". Note: T/ he following article is a smartnn ry aul/ine of lr. Robinson's lec iire- ves! crdav' aJ/,rnoon ) There were conflicting aspirations in the minds of William Butler Yeats, Edward Martyn, and George Moore, the founders of the Irish Literary Theatre, that made it impossible for the Abbey Theatre to, completely fulfill their ideals. = Yeats was primarily interested in a renascence of poetic drama. Martyn, a devoted Ibsenite, planned a continuation of the tradition of psychological drama begun by Ibsen. George Moore was primarily interested in repeating in Ireland the Antoine experiments in technique of production he had seen in Paris. Because each ideal seemed impossible in the commercial theatre of London, they formed the Irish Literary Society. The Abbey Theatre, which grew out of that movement some years later, has given an outlet to the poetic plays of Yeats and Synge, sponsored a long realistic tradition in the drama with its foundations firm in the Irish situation, and developed a theory and technique of acting that fitted its drama "like skin does a hand." Yeas i to ap tobeThe Dramatists Yeats is too apt to be Tgarded as a remarkable poet but a poor dramatist. His early work in poetic drama was entirely successful. When the trend in drama turned away from the type of work he was capable of, he generously stepped aside and sponsored the new traditions. Mr. Robinson has it that "Mr. Yeats put the first nail in his own coffin when he discovered Synge in Paris and induced him to come back to Ireland." For it was Synge that successfully realized the poetic possibilities of some of the Irish dialects and, as Montague has it, "disengaged the essence, the differentiating virtue of the native t BI M-S E IT-AI IT-- MAKE RESERVATIONS 0NOW BIGMAYSALE___A__ SUROPE,.ORIENT @3 20% DISCOUNT ON NOT a floating or a drifting but a travel ANYWHER university for limited group. Around the i" r FRATERNITY JEWELRY I World. leaving New York September 27. MU NPLINE Burr, Patterson & Auld "1930. Tissured.nMen and aomenCASS 603 Chuchsea. 150 on shore. 'Traveled faculty. TRAVELERS CNEQUES, Mit 603 Church j eferences reautreWrtY C. "tnli I!THE TRAVERSITY. INC. E.G. REESemhqAs, -.--.--.-.- - Wodstock Tower. 320 East 42nd St., N. Y. s o" (8I l.uSWQP. A u ba Remember Mother- 4 i WITH LIGGETT'S ART-STYLE HIGH GRADE CHOCOLATES FOR See these beautiful packages. 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In the present case, however, Judge Parker has much less sanctified ground upon which to rest his case, with the re- sult that the fight against imbedded conservatism in the Court drew its first vital blood.I The objection to Parker was not on legal ground, though his legal learning and intellectual distinc- tion have both been frankly ques- tioned. In the storm of protest which prevailed after his selection had" been announced, two issues were stressed as principal objec- tions-the Negro objection based on Parker's anti-Negro utterances, and the labor objection due to 'his ac- tion in upholding the so-called "yellow dog".contracts, under which workers pledge themselves not to join a union. The defense and coun- ter-defense of these questioned phases in Judge Parker's career produced so much flaying of the air and the display of such a mass1 of evidence on both sides, as to1 render the issues entirely mooted, even to the most intelligent ob- server. It is sufficient to point out,l however, that the salient stand which the Senate made against the stupid and reactionary position Parker took on the Negro question and the Labor question evinces that body's indietment of anti-social practices in judicial review. It may be, therefore, that the QA-aa in -nnina nrkrpr fn that their warm intimacy with their imagination in Irish country folk." With a sensitive, sure ear and a fathers will cool. The visit of the striking selective imagination, Synge took the plums from the conversa- fathers at the annual Father and tion of Irish folk and forged a marvellously rhythmic speech, the Son weekend should overcome thiI despair of imitators. tendency. Robinson hazarded the opinion that this achievement of Synge's Moreover, the occasion of the should have some pertinence to American drama. It was his argument visit will enable fathers to see the that in the numerous portions of America where an undigested foreign work their sons are doing and the element has corrupted the English language into an interesting and environment in which they live, fantastic wildness, an American Synge should rise who would poetically Such familiarity will enable them recreate the exuberant remains. to appreciate the problem their Yeats' second nail, according to Robinson, was the discovery of Lady sons are forced to meet, and should Gregory's genius-an amazingly original comic genius. She writes, serve to increase the father-and said Robinson, "very, very high comedy," building a marvelous construction of fanciful absurdities with great skill and great delicious- on Intimacy. ness. She writes of fraudulent, lying cheats that she may the more on sponsoring this eventevividly indulge her kindly attitude. There is another aspect to her work-a feeling for the defeated hero that has been responsible for some o fine historical plays. Throughout the theatre's history Lady Gregory 0 0 has gone on writing finely, sensitively and nobly. Editorial Comment Robinson said that sometimes he thinks it unfortunate that so o early in its history the Abbey Theatre should have discovered two geniuses. For, he said, the surpassing, quality of Synge's non-realistic, TO SURVEY THE NEWSPAPERS poetic, peasant plays has made imitation of that genre seem futile to younger dramatists and they were driven, among them himself, into (From the Christian Science the establishment of a realistic, "merciless" tradition. Monitor). This tradition, headed he said by T. C. Murray, by himself all In view of the great part played other critics say, flourished from 1910 to 1920. It made . the Abbey by the newspaper press in shaping Theatre more definitely a national theatrey grounding its plays deeply and directing public opinion in the in Irish incident, Irish locale and Irish politics. United States, it is perhaps re- Sean O'Casey, who began writing abbut 1920, he takes to be truly markables that so little really sci- a genius. Up to his time the Abbey had never had a play about entific attention has been given to Dublin slum life. The poor people in Dublin, he explained,;'live in the methods and ideals of Ameri- physical misery but seem to delight in it. Their lives have an Elizabethan can journalism. Many universities, exuberance, excitement and glory. O'Casy was born into that life, it is true, maintain schools or de- received little or. no schooling, and became a bricklayer's hodman. partments of journalism. These in About 1920 he began sending up plays to Mr. Robinson at the theatre- the main, however, are intended to bad plays in which all workingmen were noble and all employers were fit young men for embarking upon cruel and vindictive. the newspaper business and do not Because of the few gleams of genius in thes bad plays, the concern themselves with scientific Theatre encouraged O'Casey. Finally, Yeats wrote him a furious tirade surveys of what might readily be telling him to stop writing propaganda *nd write about the life he conceded to be the most important knew. Taking his advice, O'Casey produceb\ three great dramas in a factor in the formation of public short space of time--The Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock, opinion. and The Plough and the Stars. Robinson is confident of his genius and Paul Block, well known as the sees in O'Casey an affinity with Synge in "his fine ear for a rich owner of several newspapers, has, exuberant tang in speech and his delight in the fine, full-blooded phrase. therefore, done an admirable thing Method of Playing and Production. in giving to Yale University $100- The Abbey's theory of acting arose essentially by a reaction to 000 tonbetexpended in research the current English acting which was a 'ass of stage convention. work in connection with journal- It took, he said, a hint from the Comedie Francaise and developed an ism Dr James R. Angell, presi- economy of movement and' gesture in the direction of the natural dent of Yale, says that "the pur- rather than the theatric. As C. E. Montague puts it: "More than pose of the studies will be to per- others, the Irish players leave undone the things that ought not to mit an understanding of the press be done. Without infantilism they contrive to reach back past most mas anudersfatordinfhmanressof the futilities and inexpressive apparatus of expression to take a as a powerful factor in human a- fresh, clear, economical hold on their craft." terprise." The extent to which these Mr. Robinson was extremely revealing on the question of the two activities can be harmonized relation of the director to the actor. It is the belief in the Abbey Theatre without detriment either to the that the creation of an actor is a slow process, going on for years. The business success or the useful pub- director there is working with actors and atresses he completely lic influence of a newspaper will comprehends from years of intimacy. He conceives the actor as not make an important and interesting of marked individuality or brilliance. Personality he takes to be a field of special investigationnd particularly bad asset for the actor. He is rather more plastic than 1aman with personality could be. The director's task becomes merely It Is an interesting essay in edu- that of awakening instincts, of evoking units in that flexibility, of cation which might well be far stimulating comprehension, and then keeping movements simple. I more heavily financed than Mr. In closing Mr. Robinson made it quite clear that the Abbey Theatre Block has thus far found practi- has no intention of remaining hidebound by its past traditions. 'They cable. Particularly is there room; have added a Drama League which acquaints Dublin with continental for painstaking activity in research drama, an experimental theatre which the younger playwrights are into newspaper methods and ideals. allowed to use as an Arena; and perhaps more important, they are When the president of Yale has de-~ eagerly following Yeats' recent experiments in a synthetic art of the scribed the newspaper as a major theatre, which should combine music, poetry, and the dance. commercial enterprise, does he_ _ mean by it that, as in any other BACH ON THE ORGAN commercial enterprise, the element A Comment by Dalies Frantz of profit should be the one wholly Last Wednesday afternoon Palmer Christian played a recital of or chiefly regarded in manage- organ music in Hill Auditorium continuing his series of Twilight ment? To what extent is the own- Concerts. His program consisted of unfamiliar works by Weber, Stamitz, er of a newspaper, who regards his and Franck, and familiar ones by Handel, Schmitt, and Bach; there property as merely commercial in! were also others, less important. The piece by Bach was the now its nature, justified in arrogating well-known Passacaglia in C minor. to himself at the same time that! The recital was well played, Mr. Christian being the organist that he takes his profits the right to he is; except for the Passacaglia-that was superbly played. This advise, direct, or even coerce his work was originally written for a two-manual clavicembalo with pedals, readers on subjects of public im- but was later arranged for organ by the composer. In this form it has portance? How far are newspaper been played none too often, chiefly because of its really great difficulty, editors justified in subordinating its complexity of design, and a lack of adetuate organs for its to their very proper and creditable performance, and apt organists to play it. Recently Leopold Stokowsky zest for news, consideration of the transcribed the work for orchestra and in this form it has become part which unrestricted publication familiar; more recently Frederick Stock orchestrated the opus anew- of legitimate news may play in af- because of his dislike, I hear, of Stokowsky's work-and in the latter fecting the success of some great form it will be played in the May Festival. national or international enter- It was more interesting yesterday to hear the Passacaglia on the prise, as, for example, a conference organ as Bach wrote it. Ann Arbor is fortunate in having both the on the limitation of arms? The old adequate organ and apt organist, and so Wednesday's performance left partisan newspaper has in the most of the audience wholly satisfied and some of us almost upset by main disappeared. How interesting this rendition which was a thrilling musical experience. I m ei hao tho revilt of an inmirvO ne nunality which makes Stokowsky's arrangement interesting and