THE MICHIGAN DAILY itT +T1'Afi13+.C+7'tX'V 11 Al.1i " :'!@ '9'Q4'f' -' .. ., _....... fr . . TT. .V Lvs~ ' zx~°r a WAWf1P Y- ..,.. #I 1931 - It Published every morning except Monday 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 In this paper and the local news pblished herein. Entered at the postoffice at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class matter. Special rate of postare'granted by Third Assistant Post- uia~teir General. Subscription by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.S0. Offices: Ann Arbor Press Building, Maynard Street. Phones: Editorial, 4925; Business, 21214. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR Chairman Editorial Board HENRY MERRY FxA E. CooPER, City Editeo Newt. Editor ................Gurney Williams Editorial Director..........Walter W. Wilds Sports Editor ..............Joseph A. Russell Women's Editor..........Mary L. Behymer Music, Drama, Books.........Wm. J. Gorman Assistant City Editor.......Harold 0. Warren Assistant News Editor......Charles R. Sprowl Telegraph Editor...........George A. Staute Copy Editor..................Wm. F. Pyper NIGHT EDITORS sub-committees appointed from the larger governing body. This in brief is the plan for mak- ing respectable and potent the ideal of student representation in the conduct of their affairs. Its obvious merits of simplicity, of fitness for the existing scheme of campus and individual needs, and of quiet efficiency need no elaboration. The Daily is further moved to suggest this plan because it will give stabil- ity and balance, in both member- ship and outlook to the student governing body. Quite naturally the present in- cumbents in the student council jwould hardly take to a plan de- signed to cut short their own ten- ure; perhaps they would be as slow tacitly to admit the unpleasant truth of their situation as they would be reluctant thus to commit political suicide. Yet, if they value more the shibboleth of intelligence and responsibility for their actions, they cannot dodge the implications of their present stricken position and refuse to admit at once the feasibility, to say nothing of the necessity, of accepting the general' principles of the plan submitted above. The Daily earnestly believes that a tradition cannot be saved any more than a ripe pear. A revised committee on student affairs fol- lowing the nature of the suggestion herewith submitted to the student body must ultimately prevail if we are to return respectability and common sense to student self-gov- ernment. On the way to the Coast, Mayor Jimmy Walker passed the Grand (Canyon. To date, however, no one zin ni t d that r ck tM him S. Beach Conger Carl S. Forsythe David M. Nichol John D. Reindel Charles R. Sprowl Richard L. Tobin Harold 0. Warrens SPORTS AssIsTANTs Sheldon C. Fullerton J. Ctlten Kennedy Charles A. Sanford REPORTERS Thomas M. Coole Wilbur J. Meyers Morton Frank Brainard W. Nies Saul Friedberg Robert L. Pierce Frank B. Gilbreth Richard Racine ack Goldsmith Jerry E. Rosenthal oland Goodmas Karl Seiffert Morton Helper George A. Stauter Bryan Jones John W. Thomas Denton C.-Kunse Tohn S. Townsend Powers Moulton Eileen Blunt Mary McCall Nanette Dembitz Cile Miller Elsie Feldman Margaret O'Brien Ruth Gallmeyer Eleanor Rairdon Emil G. Grimes Anne Margaret Tobin )ean Levy_ Margaret Thompson DorotnvMagee Claire Trussell Susan Manchester BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 21214 T. HOLLISTER MABLEY, Business Maogu. K"Pxx R. HALVERSON, Assistant Magager AderisngDEPARTMENT MANAGERS Advertising ............Charles T. Kline Advertising..............Thomas M. Davis Advertising........... William W. Warboys Service .... ,.........Norris J. Johnson Publication . ......... Robert W. Williamson Circulation.............Marvin S. Kobacker Accounts ......... .....homas S. Muir Business Secretary............Mary J. Kenaa Assistants Harry R. Begle, Erle Kightlinger Vernon Bishop Don W. Lyon William Brown William Morgan Robert Callahan Richard Stratemeer William W. Davi Keith Tter Richard H. Hiller Noel D. 'vrner Miles Hoisington Byron C. Vedder THE JUNIOR GIRL'S PLAY A Review By Dan Baxter Who Is Wishing He Hadn't Gone. Well, the girls expect me to do something to earn those lovely com- plimentary (not very when you know what they said when I asked for them) tickets, although almost anyone would think I had done enough just by sitting through the thing. Here goes, but I fear that in this much space I can't begin to do it justice. Never mind-I'll do it justice well as I can. PLAY BY PLAY To generalize a trifle, the plot is lousy. The climax comes' in the middle of the second act where the hero, who looks like a Play Production Pansy, says that he had thought the Hero- ine was square. The strangest thing about it all was that I thought she was somewhat that way myself-but nothing on most of the choruses, I assure. you. Helen Dooley was the girl they put in to dance. They put in some oth- ers but they must have forgotten their purpose in the sceme of things, if it really had one. Knock-kneed people should stay away from Ballets, but the wrestlers in that chorus were simply sublime-for wrestlers. There was rather less of the typical coed wit in it than I should have expected, but I am not kick- ing a bit. BOB CARSON earned the rosiest raspberry of the evening when, seeing that his old trick of messing up the time for the dances didn't disconcert the r chorusesdsufficiently, did his best for the glory of the male (almost) by having two per- fectly awful soloists climb lan- guidly to their feet and give excellent, imitations of some- what damaged Kazoos. * * * 1 } 1 } E . r MuC XD MA STEPPING INTO A M ODERN WOMRLD ,as a r i~u eC La u u a U 111. f -THE DETROIT NEWS. ]Editorial Comment o-o DR. FLEXNER'S UNIVERSITY (The New Republic) Ann W. Verner Marian Atran Helen Bailey Tosephine ConvisseO Maxine Fishgrund Dorothy LeMire Dorothy Laylin Sylvia Miller Helen Olsen Mildred Postal Marjorie Rough Mary E. Watts Johanna Wiese Those who feel that critics ought to be made to practice what they preach will be interested to know that Dr. Abraham Flexner, author of the recent widely discussed book on universities, is to be the director of an unusual institution of higher learning. Its probable location will be somewhere in the vicinity of WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18,, 1931 Night Editor, CHARLES R. SPROWL REQUIESCAT For some time the student coun- cil has been sounding its death- knell; during the past few years it has done nothing meritorious or worthy of serious regard; during the present regime it has ceased to function at all. We submit that, in the interests of economy in cam- pus organization, of preserving an ideal of what student government should be, and above all of clearing the field for a more honest, effi- cient and less pretentious agency, the obsequies should quickly be said and the remains decently disposed of. Newark, New Jersey, and it is made possible through the generosity of Louis Bamberger and Mrs. Felix Fuld. The recently published pros- pectus of this "Institute for Ad- vanced Study," is one of the most exciting educational documents to appear in recent years. Only post-graduate students will be received, and the institute will bestow "the Ph.D. degree, or pro- fessional degrees of equal value." A startling, and in our judgment, wholly admirable, declaration of policy is made in the discreet words that "in the appointments to the staff and faculty, as well as in the admission of workers and students, no account wil be taken, directly or indirectly, of race, religion or sex." To this might have been Then, when this campus has a added, "or economic status": ample clean bill of health, the way will funds will be available for scholar- be open for adopting the practical ships, so that no promising person plan of reorganization, the general need be turned away because of principles of which are outlined be- poverty. There will be a Board of low. To take over the main func- Trustees-such a board is a tech- tion of a student governing body, nical legal necessity - but every namely representing student needs precaution will be taken against its and views to the administration, we interfering in any way with the would recommend a revision of the freedom of the faculty and students present Senate committee on stu- to work along whatever lines, and dent'affairs. In place of the sevenI in whatever way, seems best. faculty members and five students The faculty will consist of the 'appointed ex officio, the committee best men available, and of nobody as reorganizedawould consist of else: if in some department a first- seven faculty and seven student cass man or woman is not im- members. Three of the student mediately available, the subject will members would be ex officio: a simply be omitted until such a per- woman to represent the various son appears on the horizon. What is women's organizations, the manag- particularly important is that Ing editor of The Daily and the gifted research men will not be president of the Union. The four arbitrarily required to teach classes Temaining student positions would if they had rather spend their time be filled by campus election. In in laboratory or library. Salaries order to reduce the evils of political will be exceptionally high, in order maneuvering, the committee on to attract and hold individuals of student affairs would receive the the quality desired, and to free petitions and statements of views them from the necessity of doing of those seeking nomination. Of any sort of hack work by whichj the nominees thus provided, four to supplement their incomes. The t would be selected by the campus. absurd awarding of honorary de- The dean of students would remain, ;rees to Thomas, Richard and as at present, chairman of the com- Harold for political or financial mnittee. r .,n snnPnir yn rvcn i THE HIT OF THE EVENING was the Graduate Seminar Chorus. I 'particularly enjoyed the one in the nice red shirt. She was nice and tall and sang alto,-watch for her. And allow me to mention again that Helen Dooley was very fine. She can't sing, but neither could anyone else ex- cept the duet in the dormitory scene and they were afraid to. y Y, The Hungarian scene or whatnot took a lot of working up to and seemed scarcely worth the trouble lexcept that the girls did look very fetching in those Austrian cos- tumes, and I'm willing to bet that the lady that sang the song really sang it in Hungarian. As a matter of fact, I rather suspect that all the songs were either sung in Hun- garian or rather out-of-date Can- tonese from what I could hear of them. And to think that they had to work up that whole scene just because somebody kned a Hungarian song . . . . Highty Tighty! ... Supposing some one had known a Hawaian song. I shudder to think. * * The waiter's chorus was very' lovely except for the fact that Car- son and his band of cacophonists managed to play loud enough to drown out the sound of their tap- dancing and left all the work of putting it "over on the capable shoulders of the little girl on the left end who succeeded in working the old stunt of missing her exit into something really good to be- hold. I didn't hear any real good tunes, but with the great Car- son there to disguise them, I couldn't very well say there weren't any. I do know, how- ever, that the lyrics were just barely mediocre. They had some good ideas, but displayed an utter lack of rhyming in- genuity that put Gilbert's songs and poems over in srnilar sit- uations-God forgive me forf that 'similar'! S* * And let me say right here that I was vastly disappointed by my failure to catch anyone lilting in his chair. Maybe they'd all given it up for lent. And in conclusion let me sum up by saying that if you don't write that letter to your repre- sentative pretty darn soon it STRANGE INTERLUDE A Review. There is no denying the force- fulness of O'Neill's play. The De- troit production which I saw last year made it tremendous; and even the rather casual, occasionally slop- py, production given it by one of I the lesser Guild companies Mon- day night in the Whitney did not disguise its strength. But for all that, I think the ques- tion of the success of the play must be decided in formal terms. O'Neill has defied the conception of the drama that found its master in Ib- sen; and yet he has used it as the basis of his play. He is content to use the realistic frame-that is, to use life-characters and life-situa- tions as symbols-but he has con- trived an idiom for mixing the soli- loquoy and the aside with dialogue for the more complete presentation of character. He presents a scene quite in the manner of Ibsen, using realism as a frame. But he wishes to make all phases and implications of the scene not only intelligible but actually "audible." Hence, the new idiom and the length of the pBut the point to be made, I think, is that in spelling everything into the ear he has quite perverted the peculiar appeal of the drama as an art-form-which is that of sugges- tion and invitation to the audience to exercise intelligence in grasping the implications of the situation presented. This device of O'Neill's of probing the secrets of the mind and then blurting them all out is the legitimate property of the novelist; in fact, its use constitutes the novel's reason for existences and its claim to a real art-purpose. In claiming the wholesale omnis- cience of the novelist, O'Neill is not being a dramatist; for the drama- tist has always prided himself that his formalizations have been so subtle that they suggested "all" without needing to state it. O'Neill has robbed me of the pleas- ure of independent perception which robbery, I think, denies what the aesthetic experience of drama should be. Of course, some will immediate- ly complain: "But O'Neill's mater- ial demanded this open-hearted, blurting-out treatment because of its complexity." If he believes that, then he will perhaps be justified in thinking "Strange Interlude" a great drama. I can't believe that the necessity for blurting-out exist- ed. Undoubtedly, the suppressions of opinion necessitated by the de- inands of polite social intercourse make ordinary conversation quite unrevealing of all the subtleies of the Freudian underworld of consci- ousness. But it seems to me that it is the job of the dramatist to so re- work his ordinary dialogue as to make this modern reticence dram- atically sufficient (that is, suffici- ently revelatory) by the ingenious use of hints and silences, by clever selection, and by calling out the art of the actor. Others have done it. A contemporary novel touches on this question. In his "The Sun Also Rises," Ernest Hemingway, who is essentially a dramatist, handles an intricate psychological situation throughout the pages of a novel without employing any but the tricks of the dramatist. All the words his characters speak are "mere rubble on the side of a vol- cano"; the excitement of reading is the excitement of intuiting the volcano from the rubble. Jake, sad- ly incomplete if you remember, strolls through the book saying "I feel pretty bad." That is probably under-writing from a novelist; he should have made clear just how bad Jake feels and should not have pushed the burden on us. But Mr. O'Neill as a dramatist would write: "I feel pretty bad (God! I feel like hell-I am physically incomplete- therefore I feel like hell)." From a dramatist, that is inartistic, for O'Neill seems to be writing out the actor's part. O'Neill's situation, as I see it, is no more intricate than Heming- way's or than Ibsen's many. He certainly thought it was, for his main virtue as a craftsman has al- ways been honesty. But we don't have to agree with him, even though he realized his conviction with strength. His story was bound to impress no matter what its form. But I think that he erred in think- ing that it demanded the resuscia- ,tion of the "aside." His simple sort of intelligence-the intelligence of a child who wants to tell every- thing-has perverted the drama as BELL SYS'T'EM b fp S Q '3 o syo Hwy fA7ED ' Bell System service is custom-made. Each of the 65,000,000 telephone calls handled in the average day must meet the exact wishes of the person making the call. 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