TH E MICHIGCAN DAILY every morning except Monday dur- ersity year by the Board i ContruJ 'ubl ications. Western Conference Editorial Asso jated Press is exclusively entitled to republication of all news dispatches it or not otherwise credited in this e local news published herein. the postoffice at Ann Arbor, Michi- and class matter. Special rate of ted by Third Assistant Postmaster on by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.50. nn Arbor Press Building, Maynard es: Editorial, 4925; Business, 21214. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR hairman Editorial Board HENRY MERRY NK E. COOPER, City Editor ...........Gurney Williams ector ............Walter W. Wilds ty Editor........Hlarold 0. Warren jr............Joseph A. Russell itor ..............ary L. Behmyer a, Books......... Win. J. Gorman ctions..........Bertram J. Askwith etas Editor.......harles at. Sprowl lditor............ George A. Stauter ...............Wm. E. Pyper NIGHT EDITORS iger Charles R. Sprowl ythe Richard L. Tobin hol Darold 0. Warren del Sports Assistants ullerton J. Cullen Kennedy Charles A. Sanford REPORTERS Jooley Robert f,. Pierce ik Richard Racine lbreth Earl Seiffert rg Jerry E. Rosenthal Imnan George A. Stauter )er Johin \V. rhoma.4 John S. Townsend eyerl t~M a ry McCall nbits yile Miller yn Margaret O'Brien ye? Eleanor IRairdon !me Anne Margaret Tobin ree MargaretThompson WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1 STEPPING INTO A MO DERN WORLD announcement that everyone must be dealt with fairly, and that honest opinions are in order concerning the candidates. Immediately the various forces will swing into action. Whether by the blackball or the vote system, the see-sawing will go on. A compromise effort is generally effected with apparent results. The worthwhile qualifications are usual- ly overlooked, and with the matter at a deadlock, it is quite possible for the skilled politician to slide in some "dark-horse," who hardly de- serves consideration. Such a state of affairs is highly unsatisfactory but the solution is still awaited. The only apparent antidote can. come solely 'with the general real- ization among the electors that their choices must be deserving and that justice should stamp their selections. Unquestionably, higher campus societies have suffered in the past few years. Cases of indi- vidual discrimination have been flagrant. Such practices should not be continued--it is unfair to the richness of Michigan tradition.- 0 El SEditorial, Comment | Music and Drama ' ' TONIGHT: The first concert in the thirty-eighth Festival with Mme. Lily Pons, soprano, and the Chi- cago Symphony Orchestra under Frederick Stock. I. A. RICHARDSI CERCLE FRANCAIS PLAYS A Review by Prof. Jean Ehrhard BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 21214 P. HoLLISTER hMABLhE, Business Manager RASPER H. ALVERON, Assistant Manager Deartmient Managers Advertising... ...harles T. Kline Advertising..............Thomas M. Davis Avrtsing............. William W. Warboys Service................... Norris J. Johnson iteation ..:::: ..Robert W. Williamson Ccuatiaon. Marin S. iobacker Acounts ...... ..... ......Thomas S. Mui Businers Secretaryi.....J.... y.Kean Assistants harry M. Begle .;, ol l). Turner Vernon Bishop Don. W. Lyon William Brown William Morgan Robert Callahan Richard Stratme er William W. Davis Keith Tyler Mies Hoisington Richard 11. Hiller Erie Kightlinger Byron o. Vedder Ann cW. Verer Sylvia Miller Maian Atran elen Osen Helen Bailey Mil1dred Postal Josephine oonvisser Marjorie Rough Maxine Fishgrund Mary B. Watts iorothy LeMire Johanna Wiese Dlorothy Laylin WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1931 Night Editor, CHARLES R. SPROWL PRIDE 1N THE YARD With National Cleanup week well under way, perhaps this is a good time too call attention to our own campus needs along this line. Few students realize the real beauty of the University campus, that is, if the careless scattering of trash over the yard is any criteria. Certainly the campus would offer. a much better appearance if this littering were discontinued. The University maintains a large build- ings and grounds staff to condition lawns, set out shrubs, and in gen- eral care for the campus. But in spite of all the effort spent by this department, the campus cannot offer an appealing sight if it is con- tinually covered with stray bits of paper or empty cigarette cartons. Perhaps this situation is due to carelessness, perhaps to lack of pride on the part of students; in any event, it is a condition which could easily be remedied if every- one took a more earnest and appro- priate interest in the appearance of Michigan's campus. HONOR TO WHOM HONOR IS DUE Within the next few weeks an- other set of campus leaders . wi:. be ostensibly established with the annual spring elections of the honor societies; the Michigamua, Sphinx. Druids, Vulcans, Triangles, and others. Tradition framing much that is worthwhile in college life in the University dictates these elec- tions. Student opinion in general, fra- ternal hat-waving groups, grudges and cases of individual accomplish- ment combine to force the hands of the outgoing members of these societies, to whose care is entrusted the duty of electing a deserving group to the coveted positions of recognition. All the frailties of human nature enter into these elec- tions and the campus speculates freely on the possibilities of this or that candidate "making the grade." The members of campus honor societies are supposed to be men hat have done things for Michigan -those who have contributed to1 he glory of their Alma Mater and have assisted unstintingly in main- tainino' the TTnivrsit in hr high' TIE VIRUS OF RADICALISM (The Daily Cardinal) "The best testimonial our colleges and universities have had in a long time," says The Nation, "comes from the lips of that sterling patriot and spender of special party funds- RobertH. Lucas, executive director of the Republican National com- mittee, who finds' it well-nigh im- possible to make good traditional Republicans out of young person infected with the heresies of uni- versity theorists." Mr. Lucas' statement has been much publicized. Most of the na- tion's newspapers have commented on it one -way or another; in gen- eral, the attitude has been one of mild amusement at his frankness. The Chicago Tribune, although commending his distaste for "text- books which teach free trade, inter- nationalism, public ownership of private industry, etc., andsat the same time adding its own word on the unrealistic heresies of cloistered economists and political scientists seemed to feel that he had been just a bit precipitate, just a little too outspoken. Other papers have censured him violently for his re- actionism, and a few have chimed in with him with even less reluct- ance than the Tribune manifested. For ourselves, we are inclined to agree with The Nation, which says that "after all, Mr. Lucas is unduly disturbed. The percentage of ignor- ance among our graduates is high enough to maintain a good working Republican majority. Thought is not very catching, even in the colleges, and a high proportion of the population is wholly immune. Let the Republican sage not de- spair." The Nation is sadly right. Most of the well-educated, professors in iarticular, have too much distaste for the puerility and compromise and stupidity of politics-any style -to have much interest in the fate of politicians either minor or major; and the less educated, i. e., 95 per ,ent of college graduates, are as good Republicans or as conscien- tious and unthinking Democrats as their fathers were before them. The virus of radical thinking is a much attentuated germ; its effects .are weak and of short duration, and it it not a little embarrassed in its action by, the unfortunate mortal weaknesses, the disgusting stupid- ity, bad taste, undisciplined emo- tionalism, lack of information, pet- tiness, and demagoguery shared by conservative and radical politicians alike. Those who are too healthy financially and socially to be influ- enced by radicalism in college, throw it off shortly after gradua- tion; those who are more suscept- ible are immunized by its non- comitants. Indeed, Mr. Lucas need not despair. "When a big tarpon leaped into the boat I threw it back in the water because I don't believe it sportsmanlike to catch fish that way," says Rex Beach, whose ro- mances have entertained the mil- lions.-Detroit News. The provisional government in Madrid rushed Alfonso a number of royal limousines at his request. It had become humiliating, this thumbing a ride from Fontaine- bleau in Paris.-Detroit News. It was during Be Kind to Animals Week that a drunk nicked un in Mr. I. A. Richards of the Univer- sity of Cambridge England lastT night addressed a large audience that had moved from Angell Hall to the Natural Science auditorium for seating room. Mr. Richards spoke on the work of five contemporary poets, Walter De. LaMare, Thomas* Hardy, D. H. Lawrence, W. B. Yeats, and T. S. Eliot. In a short hour he made so many cogent illuminating: statements so lucidly that the now nearly established opinion of him] as a very great critic (suggested by] and strengthened locally by the practice of Prof. Peter M. Jack, one %f his students) was pleasantly fortified. Mr. Richards confined himself mainly to the remarks on Hardy, De La Mare, Lawrence and Yeats which can be found in more or less the same form in the section "Some Contemporary Poets" in his Science and Poetry. But he closed his lec- ture with an exposition of T. S. Eliot's "The Cooking Egg": that type of exposition (in its clear form more or less originated by him) in which his personal experience of the poem is made perfectly explicit in the course of a discussion of the poet's technique (that is, of the poet's poem). The method is an extremely skillful way of solving the main problem in criticism of poetry: the problem set by the fact that one is forced to be talking about one's own mind which is :eading the poem though the fund- ,mental desire is to talk only about the poem. Mr. Richard's method of discussing a poem, if widely adapt- -ed, promises to make criticism con- siderably more definite and conse- quently, considerably more influen- tial. Many in the very clearly en- thusiastic audience had been pre- pared for Mr. Richards by the prac- tice of Professor Jack. For these, Mr. Richard's excellent lecture con- firmed Professor Jack, as Professor Jack's excellent seminars had pre- viously confirmed Mr. Richards THE TATTERMAN MARIONETTES A Review by Cile Miller. What could be more effective than parody expressed through wooden puppets? A take off on the tendencies of our present forms of light entertainment in the theater, as given by the Tatterman Marion- ettes last evening in the revue Stringing Broadway was sufficierrt evidence of the success of this method of satire. Not only did th jointed actors put across their jabs at the theater but they also brought to light some of the many idiosyn- crasies of American life, The evening's entertainment was a rare cross section of Broadway, a rather clever hash of the theater's innovations and permanent char- acteristics. And the choice of the puppets to carry out this plan was as effective as Swift's Lilliputians in their more serious satire. . The cleverness of the skits were necessarily dependent on the man- euvering of the puppeteers; and the execution of their tasks was most effectively carried out. The program included everything and anything from a modern society sketch which aimed its laugh at the recent series of plays with names similar to "The Last Mrs. This" and "The First Mrs. That," in their produc- tion, The Penultimate Mrs. Whortle- bury, to an exploitation of theater "isms." With a drawling Algernon and the overconfident Mrs. Whor- tlebury discussing the pro's and con's of London social circles we have in the former a delightfully absurd perversion of Oscar Wilde. And Christopher Morley's revival of After Dark, the small actors car- ried off with shrieking melodra- matic heroines and loathsome vil- lains, in their own improvisation, Way Down in East Lynne. At an equal pitch of gentle sarcasm, their miniature production of The Cloak and Suit Case made stabs in the dark at the popular S. S. Van Dine mygteries in a style worthy of the farcical book, John Riddel's Murder Case. Nor did the producers neglect the more modernistic tendencies of the drama and the more serious inno- vations, when they took off the current psychological drama in the. skit, Emancipation From Thought. As the nrogram stated the nlay The French Cercle gavei ts last I performance of the year last night in the Laboratory Theatre. The program was composed of two plays: "Il faut_ qu'une porte soit. ouverte ou fermee" by Alfred de Musset and "La souriante Me. Beudet" by Denys Amiel and An- (lre Obey. . The title of Musset's Proverbe means ."A Door must be either open or closed": a lover must not beat about the bush in making his proposal. The play dates back to 1845 and the setting was composed of oldish sentimental (and quite bourgeois) furnishings in the Louis- Philippe style. The actors, Miss Mary Karpinski and Mr. James O'Neill, gave ample evidence of their feeling for French culture and the genuine spirit of Musset. "La souriante Madame Beudet" is a more recent play, first pre- sented in Paris in 1921. The au- thors were then quite young and unknown and after many difficul- ties in finding a producer, finally obtained an enormous success. At- mosphere of a French provincial town. A badly matched couple. Mr. Beudet is well-intended towards his wife; but he is dull and what is worse in a husband? He likes to display his money, to see old- fashioned operas, to speak mono- logues, etc; he is touchy about where his furniture is placed; he has ridiculous habits such as pre- tending to kill himself with an un- loaded revolver. What a jokester! Madame Beudet, in contrast, is a very delicate and sensitive soul. Her taste runs to modernistic music, estheticism in the household. She is less a dreamer than Madame Bov- ary, she is a shrewd judge of all those around her and finds no at- traction in the loves of the local galants. Although her husband seems vul- -gar to her, with his low jokes, and his ready-made good sense, she tries to play her part bravely; she is the Smiling Mrs. Beudet. But one day she notices her white hair, and feels there is no time to lose. She flips a bullet in Beudet's revolver: this may be -her liberation: an acci- dent, just a little accident . . . you know... But remorse comes quickly! Beu- det takes up his foolish game again. She dares not stop him. He jokes: I "If you deceive me,.I'll kill myself isee? ..." And plays with the trig- "TH E THINKER" . .a telephone versi oi The name Electrical Thinker might be ap- plied to one unit of telephone apparatus. Technically it is known as a Sender and is brought into action each time a call is made in a panel dial central office. By means of electrical mechanism, it records or "remem- bers" the dialed number and routes the call to the proper line. . The steady expansion of the Bell System - in volume of calls, number of telephones and miles of wire - cannot be taken care of merely by an 'enlarged use of. existing types of apparatus. To serve the continually growing telephone needs of the nation, it will always be the task of Bell System men to devise, refine, perfect and manufacture new kinds of equipment such as The Thinker. BELL SYSTEM 1u. @ 4NNFr4 X A NATION-WIDE SYSTEM 'OF INTER-CONNECTING TELEPHONES ger. "It's you I'll kill!" he says and fires at her. Glass shatters behind her. Then Beudet, out of his senses, '"Poor darling, you wanted to kill yourself!" Up to the end, Mrs. Beu- det is misunderstood. Miss Bradley starred as Madame Beudet with distinction, reserve, and impeccable diction. Her stage- presence was truly exceptional. It was even better than her appear- ance in the "Ecole des belles- meres," at the preceeding French performance. George Meader, as the husband, a well-built man, per- Charles A. Sini sonified the exuberant French bus- Ann Arbor, Mi( iness man, impulsive and brutal- My dear Mr. S with a shade of exaggeration which brought out the comic side of the I have ju play and fitted in well with his and I want to c somewhat "meridional" accent. Miss program you ar Morley, full of poise as ever, with a I think of your clearer diction, and Mr. Richard what a marvel( Payne, very natural, are well known hear the very fir to the Cercle public. Miss Lacombe resident of Ann was true to life, with an inimitable programs has a way about her. Mr. Wilfred Sellars $6o.oo for one shows that he must have been in New York, besi Montparnasse. hours of time g The public of the Cercle Francais of Ann Arbor a is very much indebted to Prof. Tal- for a single fee amon who directed both produc- single program tions with his long proved knowl- where such a F edge of the stage. in any city wou stage effects than in the other cos- have offeredain tume work. Some how or other the The artists are figures seemd to have a more na-i little to be s tural anatomy -were less bulky is an outstandir and more real. If we are to compare these mari- You are onettes to those of Tony Sarg we singing has crez will find that in just this last re- season, where it spect, that of costuming, the Tat- coloratura sopr2 terman production compares less Patti and Melbz favorably. The Sarg Productions price of your wl show a much greater care in de- ski. This will r tail of the costuming. The -sets, for in America. Ar the small stage were sketchily ef- to hear him thi; fective. There was suggestion rath- has missed som er than completeness in the stage- who hear him craft, and the properties. existence. I co Another thing which was obvi- every one richly ously better in the execution of the I often wonder, dance features was the control of the tremendous the mechanism. The puppeteers can May Festiv had the strings completelv under are awake to w