I PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, MAVCII 4, 1931 PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1931 Published every morning except Monday during the University year by the Board in ontrol 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 in this paper and the local news published herein. Entered at the postoflice at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class matter. Special rate of. -postage granted by Third Assistant Post- niazter General. Subscription by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.so. Offices: Anti Arbor Press Building, Maynard Street. Phones: Editorial, 4925; Business, 1214. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR Chairman Editorial Board HENRY MERRY FRANK E. CoopEm, City Editor News. Editor .............Gurney Williams Editorial Director'..........Walter V. Wilds Sports Editor...............Joseph A. Russell Women's Editor............Mary L. Behymer Music, Drama, Books........Win. J. Gorman Assistant City Editor.......Harold O. Warren Assistant News Editor......Charles R. Sprowl Telegraph Editor ..........George A. Stauter Copy Editor ..................Wm. F. Pypet NIGHT EDITORS ada or the United States there be no equality or fairness in executive body in charge. can the S. Beach Conger Carl S. Forsythe David M. Nichol John D. Reindel Charles R. Sprowl Richard L. Tobin Harold 0. Warren SPORTS ASSISTANTS Sheldon C. Fullerton J. Cullen Kennedy Charles A. Sanford REPORTERS Thomas M. Cooley Morton Frank SAul Friedberg Frank B. Gilbreth ic k Goldsmith oland Goodmaa Morton Helper Sames Johinson ryan Jones Denton C. Kunze Sileen Blunt Naneette Dembits ElIsie lFeldman uth Galliieyer Emily G. Grimes scan Levy t orotllv Magee Susan Manchestcr Powers Moulton Wilbur J. Meyers Blrainard W. N ics Robert L. Pierce Richard Racine Jerry I. Rosenthal Karl Seiffert George A. Stauter Tohn W. Thomas Johni3.Townsend Mary McCall Cie Miller Margaret O'B~rien Eleanor Rairdon Anne Margaret Toblu Margaret Thompson Claire Trussell HIGHER EDUCATION Trends in universities during the past ten years have revealed in- creased interest among professional men and women in higher educa- tion. No longer is it merely the re- cent high school graduate who is enrolled at Michigan and similar institutions, but frequently those who for some time have been ident- ified with the business and pro- fessional world. This situation is emphasized by University registration figures for the 1930 Summer Session. Of the 4,200 registered 2,000 were teachers, half of the number being junior and senior high school instructors, while 150 were superintendents, and 350 were college and univer- sity instructors. Michigan is taking a lead in the new trend to carry education be- yond the bachelor degrees. Last summer for the first time a con- ference for graduates in education was held. Ninety-six school execu- tives were attracted here who oth- erwise would not have returned. Dean Kraus has recently announc- ed that definite plans are being made for a similar program this summer. Further proof that the number seeking higher degrees is on the increase is revealed by the fact that in 1930, twenty-one per cent of the summer students had college degrees. In 1930, seventy-five per cent had college degrees. Moreover, the attendance in the graduate school has shown an increase from 312 in 1920 to an enrollment last summer of 1,700. With higher edu- cation and specialization on the in- crease the University has kept step with the parade, and has furnished experienced faculty men for the summer sessions. More varied ex- perimentation has been conducted during this period than in the reg- ular session, an exchange of ideas has been effected through aug- mented faculties from other insti- tutions, and complete plans for making the work in Ann Arbor during the summer months enjoy- able have been worked out in ad- vance in the office of Dean Kraus where excursions, lectures, plays a n d special entertainments ar planned many months before the flood of students arrive for the summer term. The Prince of Wales is visiting Argentina. We understand that horse-back riding is one of the principal sports there. o - - Editorial Comment PROFESSIONALIZED SPECTATORS jMUJSIC AND DRAM ] "MRS. PARTRIDGE PRESENTS" Comments The substitution of "comments" for the more ordinary " a review" means that in the opinion of him who was to review the production of "Mrs. Partridge Presents" by somebody or other which opened a three-night run at the Labora- tory Theatre last night is not worth detailed reviewing. First comment: just about a year ago, Play Production was doing "The Wild Duck." That was a "lab- oratory" production too. It was in that place...University Hall. It was the best student production that year, the year before, and the year after. Now Play Production is doing "Mrs. Partridge Presents": a jolly, sweet-tempered, pleasant, 1 a u g h- able, and thoroughly silly play. Let me write the play. There is a mil- lionaire from Boston who is horri- fied that his young love is trying to be an actress. He wants to marry that actress but only if she'll leave the stage. But her mother is de- termined that she be an actress; an artist that is; a free woman as she (the mother) herself wanted to be but wasn't. That motive, then, is clear. It's the main motive. (We have all seen the conflict treated with intelligence in "The Royal Family" where there was sense to it and where it was only one among many motives). There is also a son to that mother. She wants himt to be a painter for the same rea- sons (freedom etc.). Near the final curtain, he confesses he'd rather help build a bridge in Spain than be an artist. He doesn't want to 1be a free man. He wants to be an engineer. Right after that, alittle nearer the final curtain, the daugh- ter (who in the early part of the act had said: "I want my chance at life and love") comes in married to the honest simpleton millionaire. The mother braves it through. She has to turn her back a little though. *When they are gone, she says: "Losing them has killed me." All good honest sentiment, you see. Good honest sentiment, gener- : ally available at anyone of the Butterfield laboratories (though not so often either now). There was nothing particularl wrong with the production. It was pretty well sustained at a vivacious t tempo; and, on the whole, the eve- ning passed. Josephine Timberlake and Lillian Martin gave excellent performances. Ruth Gordon (o "Serena Blandish" fame) is sup- posed to have stolen the show when it was done in New York by play- o ing the minor part of Katherin Everett in a low, very slow voic and with a vague dullness and pa thos in her manner. Cecile Porte: About Booksr FLIPPANCY READER, I MARRIED HIM: by Anne Green: E. P. Dutton Co., N. Y. C.: Review Copy courtesy of Slater's Book Store. Airily thumbing her nose at her distinguished but gloomy brother Julian, Anne Green contributes an- other gay and scintillating novel to take its place along with the inimi- table "The Selbys." In "Reader, I Married Him," there is the same light-hearted worldliness, the same abandon, the same shrewd charac- terization which stamped the earli- er novel as one of the oustanding literary contributions of the past I year. It is indeed difficult to believe that Anne and Julian are even re- motely related, for their outlooks on life are radically different, and their methods of expressing their viewpoints are also widely at vari-' ance. Miss Green takes nothing seriously, or rather she takes seri- ous things so flippantly that one wonders if they are serious at all. In her latest work, no ponderous probler are settled, no weighty treatise are made, but one feels that the sophisticated Miss Green is as adept a wrestler with Life as any who present melancholy psy- chology to the wary reader. IIn "Reader, I Married Him," the scene is again laid in the whirl- wind atmosphere of the Anglo- French colony in Paris. The mad- cap Douglass family, consisting of Andrew, and his two irresponsible children, Hugh the Jew and Cath- erine tear breathlessly from one freakish episode to another; but Miss Green's adroitness makes each situation so plausible that the read- er can nevervdoubt for.a mom nt that 'such events actually trans- pired. Catherine; the heroine, is not at all the strong-minded heroine of fiction or of the movies. She con- stantly vacillates between the ex- tremes of affection and acute dis- like for the more or less insipidl Gilbert. The final solution of her problem seems to be that any wo- man can get her man, but what good is he when she does get him? Hugh the, Jew is a rather gentle parody on the morose Julian. Hugh shuts himself up in his room to rid his soul of the gloomy burdens which it carries. by penning equally gloomy manuscripts. No ray cif light breaks across the unalloyed dispair of his existence, but he takes a strange pleasure in his fore- f bodings. M. O'B. 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The University of Toronto's re- cent suspension of the publicationI of the school's undergraduate news- paper, "The Varsity," because of an editorial which stated that a great many of the students enrolled at the institution were "practical athe- -i r 7 1 ists" has created an intense feeling (From Daily Princetonian) was directed by Mr. Allen in just of indignation throughout the col- A development even more sinister the opposite interpretation: high- legiate world. Contemporary edi- than the external aspects of com- pitched, swift-speaking, loud and toial writers have been fierce in mercialism in intercollegiate sport, silly. Her stupid garrulity was sup- their condemnation of such actions and at the same time an apparent posed to be funny; nothing else on the part of the University au- offshoot of them, is the gradual was attempted. Charles Monroe and thorities to squelch the publication. change in the psychological atti- Ray Suffrin just walked on and A. E. F. Allen, editor-in-chief of the tude of the undergraduate toward off the stage. But, as I have said, publication, has assumed full re- those mores that once were consid- the production was on the whole sponsibility for the editorial and Bred the essentials of good sports- all right. continued to reiterate his stand manship. If this phenomenon were What I should really like to print that atheism is prevalent in the evidenced only at Princeton in such in this column, instead of a review university, recent unpleasant flurries of boo- or comments, is the honest opinions Meanwhile, however, the "Var- ing as at the Yale hockey game of the students cast as to the value sity" has closed its doors, pulled land the Penn basketball game, we of the time they put into these canvas over its press, and denied might possibly have regarded it as trivial parts. Do they have a sense its editor any chance to prove his a momentary and localized lapse of accomplishment? Do they feel contention. The board of gover-!from gentlemanly conduct which they have gained an dsight into nors of the University of Toronto would not soon recur. But with dis- thein tricacies of a body-transla- have taken no action on the mat- turbing remembrance of similar tion of "significant" words (act- ter except to issue a statement that demonstrations at baseball games ing)? If they answer these and the editorial was based on false as- last spring suddenly came a show- similar questions the way I suspect sertions. The entire action has been er of editorial comment from our they would, then they are essen- conducted by powers below the contemporaries, which aroused us tially being duped by the presence board of, governors, whose apathy to a realization that this "lapse" s mewhere in the organization of in the, matter indicates the poten- is widespread. At Oregon Univer- an absurdly low-pitched estimate tialities of the "truths" so thor- sity, Yale, Brown, Columbia and mehat serious work in the drama oughly denounced. numerous o t h e r s, undergraduate When in one year, Play Produc- Whether Toronto is or is not an and alumni editors are "viewing tion slumps from Mr. Wetzel's Ibsen institution of atheism and religious with alarm." So far, they too seem to Mr. Windt's "Rollo's Wild Oat" animosity is not to be argued, nor to have considered the bad man- and Mr. Allen's "Mrs. Partridge is it to the point. The proposition ners to be mere passing clouds, but Presents," then in my opinion it to be considered is whether or not we are inclined to wonder. is time the organizations took stock therl urit tyautoeas haventhe Another factor in the new atti- of itself and its aims. tial apublication as the "Varsity" tude has been the sweeping under- Mr. Wetzel had for years wanted immediately after the printing of graduate reaction which has fol- to do a production of "The Wild what five men believe to be a false lowed on the heels of the "rah-rah Duck"; and under circumstances editorial. Through the power - collegiatism" produced in the mid- rather less favorable than exist vested in them, the board of gov- dle of the post-war decade. Be- this year, he did one; and, all wil ernors and the officials of the uni- cause sentimentalists and publicists come to my rescue, a good one. versity are legally in the right to seized and exploited the traditional Surely, there is something equally remove any publication distastefulI forms of sportsmanship, it too has significant that Mr. Windt and Mr. to them. The newspaper, being an been driven to cover by the current Allen have long wanted to do. Why organ of the university, reflecting restraint that the word "collegiate" they don't do it is the great unan- the thought of the university as a now implies. swered question which is inspiring whole, must submit to such regula- That this r e a c t i o n a r y flood these passionate rhetorical ques- tion. should have swept away the old tions: Is it a question of finance? The consideration, however, is I sportsmanship is to be deplored, (Did Mr. Wetzel's production cost not one of legality, but of right and but because it is an extreme swing anything?) Is it a case of cater- wrnnQ j, ic4in. -v ivnic-r.T Tf c-,-. of then ycnovcn1it'nP mtr ive t-,.tn- -r~n' 4- i a-. n Ai +- _ i..- A MAGAZINE Ezra Pound is at it again. This time he didn't start it however. He didn't even know about it until his appointment was announced in the newspapers. But he could never re- sist a magazine. So the first issue of The New Review, published at Paris in English, contains an arti- cle by its associate editor called "After Election," penetrating com- ments on literary topics in the fa- miliar Poundian style, each sen- tence subtly irrelevant to the one before it. Maxwell Bodenheim, who has just publicly defied anyone in America to prove that any passage r in his own "Naked on Roller skates" I is obscene, is another associate edi- tor and writes an essay on "Esthet- ics, Criticism, and Life." V. F. Cal- verton, editor of the Modern Quar- terly, writes on "Sinclair Lewis: An American Phenomenon," showing an identity of level between Lewis' novels and the people in them, Other notables in the first issue are Jean Cocteau and George Antheil, A mrican composer. The magazine is published at 42 bis, rue du Ples- sis, Fontenay aux Roses, Seine, France. 'l A NATION-WIDE GAS FOR HEAT WHEREVER HEAT SYSTEM OF INTER-CONNECTING TELEPHONES, IS NEEDED . . b 1 : a = .-> . . l .l ' Y i i _ t T a. R'%NDOM HOUSE which is sponsoring intelligent bookin-aking with more consistency than any house in America has just issued an edition of "The Selected ! 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