THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, MARCH. 20, 1931 THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1931 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 notaotherwise 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. mate: General.' Subscription by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.50. Offices. Ann Arbor Press Building, Maynard Street. Phones: Editorial, 4925; Business, 21214. EDITORIAL STAPP Denton C. Kus Powers Moultosi Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR Chairman Editorial Board HENRY MERRY F"Nz E. Cooma, City Editor News Editor..............Gurney Williams Editorial Director ..........Walter W. Wilds Sports Editor .............Joseph A. 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To the Editor: It is almost inconceivable to ap- preciate how anyone living within the enlightened and intellectual aurora of a great university such as ours, could be possessed of such narrowed and limited powers of perception and understanding as are evidenced by that individual who signs himself as "Outraged Citizen." In his bitter denunciation and condemnation of those three students guilty of the heinous of- fense of mistaking a house address, "Mr. Outraged Citizen" is to be commended for the masterly man- ner in which he presents the situ- ation and his opinions upon the subject. His frequent mention of such epithets as "dastardly repre- hensible social menaces, ogres, and criminals," and his long rhapsody into the inadequacies of the con- ventional modes of punishment as compared to the more expeditious process of "boiling in oil," etc., etc., were certainly as highly revealing as they were refreshing. In short, "Mr. Outraged Citizen's" master- piece would do credit to the literary aspirations of any high school "freshman." It must indeed be a sad blow to the accepted sociologi- cal theory in regards to the condi- tioning powers of "environment;" however, we feel duty-bound to suggest that perhaps "Mr. Outraged Citizen" has been deprived of that aforementioned atmosphere of en- lightenment through the highly admirable pursuit of an agricultural existence. In that event, we salute him for his enterprise if not for his judgment. Assuming the oppo- site to be the case for the sake of argument, let us look into "Mr. Outraged Citizen's" query as to whether or not the three students in question are to be allowed to escape with "only" an explanation and an apology for their actions. May We inquire of "Mr. Citizen" what else is to be expected? Per- haps, he would suggest the addition of five dollars to the apology and explanation. It is quite evident to anyone adopting a "common sense" atti- tude that, while the incident is most regretable, the intent was not malicious. Such being the case, we feel that the vast majority of the citizens of Ann Arbor will exercise their usual good sense; see the whole matter in its true light, and judge accordingly. This, in spite of the protestations of those few mis- guided individuals who would make of themselves "lions" in their re- spective communities, and cry out lustily for blood. In parting, may we impart a drop of wisdom to "Mr. Outraged Citi- zen" and suggest that perhaps his community spirit and zeal are a bit misdirected? Why not try Pro- hibition? There's a real field for justified criticism. '33. j Editorial Comment From The Chicago Tribune Foreign Students in American Universities are increasing in num- About Books" I R. Beglev ai Bishop m Brown Callahan m W. Davis rd H. Hiller Hoisipgton Assistants Erie Kightlinger Don W. Lyron William Morgan Richard Stratemeisf E Keith T7-rer Nyoel D. ner Byron C. Vedder an W. Verner arian Atran :elen Bailey sephine Convisser? [ane Fishgrund. rothy Le ire orothy Laylin Sylvia Miller Helen Olsen Mildred Postal Marjorie Rough Mary E. Watts Iohanna Wiese FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1931 Night Editor - HAROLD WARREN SOFT IEARTD AMERICA Recent uprisings at Joliet, Illi- nois state prison, have cost that state nearly $700,000 in buildings' and equipment:I erected only six months ago. Not only has the loss of money invested been heavy, but prestige of the state's prison board, the warden and his staff, and the entire state have been lowered in face of hundreds of columns of sentimental journalism which in- variably follows such outbreaks. "The convicts were mistreated; they were not fed properly; their housing was poor; paroles were denied them." These are among the many statements which appeared the day after the first uprisings at Joliet. They were nothing more than "sob-sister" stories, written for the credulous, denying the true 'facts in the case, and appealing to a sentimental nation on the basis of equality among mankind. Had the real facts been faced, as they were in several dispatches, by every paper covering the events, nothing but sympathy for the warden and, his fellows would have resulted which, in view of the conditions at Joliet, would have been much fairer A FIRST NOVEL THREE STEEPLES: by LeRoy MacLeod: Covici, Friede: Cour- tesy Slaters Book Store. Aside from a conscious awkward- ness and straining for poetic effect, Mr. MacLeod has written a very powerful first novel. It is a loud "American" story with a style deriving from D. H. Lawrence and a philosophy modified from Hardy. Bruce Durken come home to the pulpit of the Methodist church full of the desire to uplift man. A long succession of spiritual disasters finally leads to a tremendous ex- perience in which he denies faith, God and religion and decides to preach the oneness of all nature. "Burn the churches" he shouts in a poetic ecstacy. The church is Fired by the town idiot and Bruce is burned to death trying to save from the flames the idiot who is not there.' I should like to discuss the style first. Very elaborate rythms are sought and achieved admirably in some cases. But the necessity oi this rythm leads sometimes to ridiculous figures. I can open the book at random and find passages such as this: "There was one (a laugh) in the man's chest-bellows now if the eye was not lying, if that tremor along the cheek-stub- ble was what it looked to be." These figures seem to me to be affecta- tions, errors. They do not succeed in awakening the vivid imagery that must be their purpose (al- though they also fit the heavy rythms), but rather they confuse it. However there are many fine passages: "But overhead the stars released his spirit to the vague limits of their reach. And under him the snow gave a dim freedom to his feet. And here he walked-a shadow in the shadow of the earth. -the cold and obscurity were like an awful displeasure between him and the stars, as if God had withdrawn from his weakness, leaving it alone behind the earth among the dreads of his boyhood." Compare this with the somewhat similar passage from "Sons and Lovers:" "From his breast, from his mouth, sprang the endless space, and it was there be- hind him, everywhere.--Little stars shone high up; little stars spread far away in the flood waters, a Firmament below. Everywhere the vastness and terror of the immense night-." Mr. MacLeod is first of all a poet, and a young poet whose feelings are sometimes awkward in words. This prose style, these rythmic and poetic effects, this heaviness and struggle, must of course have a great deal to do with the message of the book; as must also the unmathematical coincidences, the dramatization of characters, the very evident symbolism, the undi- verted direction of all the events in this novel. And yet in a short forword Mr. MacLeod makes such statements: "a book with no axe to grind-less concerned with ideas than with humanity-I hope no one will find in 'Three Steeples' a profession of my beliefs." If we are to pay any attention to such non- sense "Three Steeples" is immedi- ately damned. The whole invention would be meaningless. But I think they are the result of a misplaced fear or of a misunderstanding of the place of a morality in art. S. S. F. PORTRAIT BY CAROLINE: by Sylvia Thompson. Strangely unfeminine is Sylvia Thompson's outlook in "Portrait by Caroline." Not only does her attitude violate many of the hoary traditions which usually encircle feminine logic, but her method of expression has a directness which is startling at times. The novel is more a portrait of,, than by, Caroline. She makes an unusual heroine with her alternat- ing dull and luminous beauty, and tall awkwardness. She seems coldly superficial, and even after she has probed the depths of emotions her impassiveness in the face of a cas- ually sensual affair makes one won- der whether she is really more than a creature of passions with no real regard for worth while things. Caroline is in love with her hus- band, and clings desperately to her affection for him throughout the .ntire story. She meets Peter Stan- ley, and loves him blindly, for she ,never seems capable of seeing his actions in a rational manner. What does not seem to be compatible with her character is her brief and sultry interlude with a mere ac- quaintance. f Me5 mnThmmn' n . o c inc+ to m pr MUSIC ANDDRA TWO EXHIBITIONS A Review by Cile Miller Not even the usual note of hope marks the exhibition of water col- ors and oils now open in the North and South galleries of Alumnae Memorial hall under the sponsor- ship of the College Art Association. If this indicates the potentiality of Americans in the field of modern art, God help the Americans. Not that we ask perfection in the evolving artists, but if they must use drab colors, why can't we have some lyrical quality in the composi- tional design of the picture? But the artists of this present show seem to forget that our small aes- thetic appreciation must come in- to the consideration of their under- takings, and they let loose on their canvasses in washes of color, fling- ing harmony, rhythm, form, and all the other academic terms to the winds. The independence is admir- able, but this is more nearly license than liberty. Out of all of the pictures offered, only two stand out in my mind: Warrern Wheelock's Return From the Fields, and John Whorf's water color, Nigger Hut. The first com- bines a background hollowed out in Cubistic angles with figures of the virile simplicity of a Millet, which results in an unusual composition. The second splashes in shadows and lights of blue in the Monet fashion, only that his attack is much more careless and broad. Turning from this amalgamation of drabness we find in the West gallery an exhibition of y o u n g American Moderns from the Du- densing galleries of Chicago which is very reassuring. True there are many artists represented here who in their attempt to be free overstep their own bounds and produce freakish novelties, more like thea low relief of a salt map than the canvass of a painter. If only the few contributions of Nura were there the show would be justified. Her art introduces an! Egyptian stiffness which she sub- jects to her own interpretation in such a way that the result is not the usual sternness of Egyptian art, but a very charming and provoca- tive piquancy. Perhaps the most tantalizing of her contributions is the watercolor portraying the doll- like figures of two children and a saucy yellow poodle, and all of this! in a background of absurd trees with chintz-like flowers growing beneath their shade. Peppino Mangravite is represent- ed in the Dudensing exhibition in a much more commendable manner than in the other current show. Here we can appreciate the real strength of the artist in molding human forms into beautiful design curves. Here also we are assured that the artist's understanding of color relations is keen. The oil which portrays a girl reclining in a garden chair with a patternized background of falling leaves is subtle in its color quality of un- expected shades. Adolf Dehn is here too with his distorted caricatures, and his amus- ing jibes at the passing shows. Nor in passing through should we neg- lect the single contribution of Wil- liam S. Schwartz, a print called Impression. The strength of the print lies in its paucity of line and the revolution of lines and curves which intertwine to form a nude figure. Another artist represented by a single print is one who signs himself S. Simpson. This sketch represents a slender girl just awak- ening and the compositional ar- rangement is most satisfactory. THE FIRST MRS. FRASER Grace George, who probably has- n't been seen by people around here since she induced Hannibal to turn back in "The Road To Rome," is stopping in Ann Arbor Monday matinee and evening in the play which she has been using for over a year, St. John Ervine's "The First Mrs. Fraser." As the title indicates, St. John Ervine writes (in the typical Eng- lish drawing-room smart-chat tra- Idition) of divorce and re-marriage, with A. E. Matthews (the swell but- ler in "Serena Blandish") cast as the Scotchman who divorces Miss George. The play is by now a test- ed vehicle, having been in Chicago and New York for over a year. Rob- ert Littell of The World said of it, when it opened: "The First Mrs. Fraser has moments that verge on sadness and others that peek over the fence at melodrama but the performances of Miss George and k A. E. Matthews keen these moments Stockings of Superb Quality at Reasonable Prices The Exquisite New Colorings are very attractive i n t h e sheerest of chiffon I Friday and Saturday Special Show your appreciation to your Friends with Flowers - when Roses are $1.00 per doz. UNIVERSITY FLOWER SHOP Inc. MURIEL ZINK, Mgr. 229 S. State St. We Deliver Phone 6030 ' \o, N . , , I Easter Candy Chocolate Rabbits Easter Eggs THE SWEETLA Nn 212 So. Main WHERE SERVICE AND QUALITY REIGN BROWN-CRESS & Company, Ina INVESTMENT SECURITIES Orders executed on ao ex" changes. 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