PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1930 } } -__. i Published every mnorning except Monday Puring 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 thie 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- waster General. Subscription by carrier, $4.00; by mail, Offices: Ann Arbor Press Building, May Gard Street. Phones:Editorial, 4925; Business, 21214. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR Chairman Editorial Board HENRY MERRY City Editor Frank E. Cooper News Editor ...............Gurney Williams Editorial Director..........Walter W. Wilds Sports Editor.............. Joseph A. Russell Women's Editor............ Mary L. 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Remsen Ann Verner Porthea Waterman Alice McCully Dorothy Blooigarden Dorothy Laylin Sosephine Convisser ernice Glaser Hortense Gooding Laura Codling Ethel Constas Anna Goldberg Virginia McComb Joan Wiese Mary Watts Marian Atran Sylvia Miller this condition are true, to a greater or lesser extent. But we are irked re1"3 C t S by the large currency of clinic al Screen Reflections notes about our generation which are being circulated about by edu- cators, sociologists and the clergy. WOLVES AND WIDOWS It is sufficient for our purposes Reviewed by Bert Askwith. merely to know that a relatively small number of students are form- -at the Wuerth. ally interested in religious pursuits. Milton Sills, one-time instructor We have no intention of belittl- in philosophy at the University of ing either the nature or the worth Chicago, and second of the screen's of student convocations. On the contrary, we believe that they are great character actors to pass away valuable and most necessary assets this summer, is seen in his last to every college community pur- picture "The Sea Wolf" at the porting to be cultured and intelli- Wuerth through Tuesday. gent. For the most part, the speak- The film is a talking adaptation ers engaged to address the meet- of Jack London's novel of the same ings are highly endowed for their name concerning a half-crazed sea task of addressing student convo- skipewhemakonavyg cations; they afford a clearing skipper who embarks on a voyage with a shanghaied down-and-outer house of advanced . and incisive and an extremely attractive young sreligious thinking. We have, on the oth i g hav, mon- maiden. The sea locale is genuine- other hand, practically no mission-lypentdadusalyefc ary urge to drum up customers for ly presented and unusually effe- the convocations; without wishing tive-with a number of dramatic Sth e con otions; wktho ut wisiangtscenes leading up to a thrilling, tbe smug, our lack of Messianic tog obvious, climax. urge to create student response to though b Sill.mhxwa the meetings is due first to an ' instinct for decent individual free- one of the most dom and second to an aversion intelligent a n d toward the dictum which enjoins zapable sarsther that we "make bad Baptists out of screen good Chinese." tnown, u s u all y We would give our whole support vas cast in the to an organization which would strong he-n a n conduct convocations as attractive- ype of role. His ly as possible for such as are inter- ast performance ested. s characterized __by the same man- EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTING. ner of straight-forward and unas- s u m e d performance-undeniably Educational broadcasters in the sincere acting which rings true on past few years have come to real-I the talking screen. ize the handicaps against which Raymond Hackett a n d Jane they are laboring; namely, meager Keith, the latter making her pic- evidence of the effectiveness of ture debut, are satisfactory in the their endeavors, an inadequate lit- chief supporting roles. And should erature on radio education, and a it be of interest, the scenarist of lack of unanimity as to their pur- "The Sea Wolf" was none other poses. than Ralph Block, a Michigan However, several state universi- graduate who made good in Holly- ties, including Michigan, are mak- wood with "The Arizona Kid," and ing a greater effort this year than has also been responsible for "Pow- ever before to raise the standards er," "The Spieler," and "Knock-Out of taste, increase the listener's Reilly." Note the cultural univer- range of valuable information, and sity influence! to stimulate him to undertake a-at the Majestic. worthwhile activities. A rejuvenated Gloria Swanson, Along this line those in charge of minus the affected and boring airs the University radio programs are of silent days, romps, faints, and sending out more than 600 letters titters through t h e all-talking this week requesting elementary "What A Widow." And despite the and secondary schools to use the low level of much of the comedy, programs in their daily assemblies, often bordering on farce, the pic- However, the University faces ture is probably the most perfect of numerous difficulties in attaining its kind from a technical stand- success in radio education in ele- point. mentary schools. First the diffi- Sound and effects are excellent, culty of fitting the radio lesson in- the actin'g and direction faultless, to the daily school program. See- camera angles and photography ond, the difficulty of assisting the original without being extremely teacher in proper utilization of futuristic or boring. The entire pro- broadcasts, and third the weakness duction has an air of finality which of a teaching method that must de- lifts it above the average hurried pend in large measure on a single cinema-while its entertainment sense avenue. value may best be attested to by its It will only be with the full co- ability to keep a fdotball audience operation of high schools through- attentive last night. out the state, faculty, and others The cast does nobly, probably connected with the studio here providing more humor than the that the University broadcasting story-the latter dealing with the programs will meet with success. seaboard and Parisian adventures This year increased interest has of a young divorcee with five mil- been shown by both high schools lion dollars as a cash asset. Miss and University faculty, and as a re- Swanson in the title role displays a sult those in charge of the work new talent for comedy never even have been able to offer a larger suspicioned by previous performan- and more varied number of pro- ces. Lew Cody, while failing to ap- grams. These programs, if carried proach the lubricated perfection of out properly, will not only serve as Charles Ruggles, affords much a- an advantage to high school stu- musement as the perennial drunk- dents, but will also maintain the ard. Playing the male lead as the standing of the University as a widow's lawyer-suitor is Owen leader in educational endeavor. Moore, both competent and like- able., _ W~ Spicy to a moderate degree and COfarcial without being boisterous, amp s pi o"What A Widow" is excellent fare Contributors aie asked to be brief, for a comedy appetite. confining *,themseles to less than Soo words if possible. Anonymous comn. munications will he disregarded. The ADDENDA names of communicants will, however, he regarded as conidential, upon re- quest. Letters published should not be "Top Speed" with Joe E. Brown construed as expressing the editorial is curent at h Michian, d i opinion of The Daily.i urn tteMCi;aadi you missed "Rio Rita." the two features can both be seen at the Move Apart Harvardism. I )wl show tomor- To the Editor: Not long since, an 'ow night. editorial appeared in The Daily F i f i D'Orsay; upon the subject of "The Harvard ;he Detroit pub- of the Middle West," citing as our ic's petite paris- claims to this title the freedom of an peril, is ap- the Michigan student, the lack of pearing in person the 'Pah Rah spirit,' and, in gener- zt the Fox there al, our sophistication of attitude. for a second week. I believe this to be a misrepresen- This French mus- tation both of Harvard and of our- ical comedy star, selves, w h o scored r . In the first place, it is necessary W ill Rogers ' to agree to our lack of Rah Rah 'They Had to SE spirit. We are most noticeably lack- Paris" is being ,6ifi1 ceORSA ing in this respect on Saturday af- starred, her first ternoons, particularly so when the shining effort to be released shortly, team is, behind. This, however, On the Fox scren is Warner Baxter s could hardly be counted a likeness "Renegades," concerning the ad- to Harvard when we consider that ventures of four members of the not long ago several Harvardites I French Foreign Legion-the other were seen to abscond with the three being Noah Beery, Gregory Cambridge Fire Company's hook Gaye, and George Cooper. Myrna and ladder wagon and go joy-rid- Loy has the feminine lead. ing through the streets in firemen's And then there is Amos 'n' Andy hats. There is also the episode of of radio fame in their first much- I' About Books FOLLY'S ECHO THE DILEMMA OF THE LIBER- ATED: by Gorham Munson: pub- lished by Coward-McCann, Inc: Price $300' Review copy by cour- tesy of Wahr's Book Store. A Review. "Humanism 'is not yet a body of Doctrine; and if its champions present it as such, so much the worse forit and them . . u an- ism is, first of all, a resultant situation"- R amon Fernandez in The Criterion. i I I SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1930 Night Editor-RICHARD L. TOBIN A NOTE ON CONVOCATIONS For a long time we have felt that Ann Arbor's religious activities have been both loosely and over- organized. But this feeling has be- come a conviction as we survey the plight of those interested in pre- senting to the campus a series of student Convocations. Every prin- cipal denomination has a repre- sentative parish, conducting three or four services Sundays, and furn- ishing opportunities for student s o c i a 1 activities on sanctified grounds throughout the w e e k. Then there is the Student Christian association which has devoted the last few years of its existence to fitting its ill-sorted heritage of traditional enterprises to a campus bearing slight semblance to those which inspired and created these activities. It is little wonder, then, that convocations of years past have re- ceiyed scant student support. They are one of many agencies bidding simultaneously for such religious interest as exists among the stud- ents. Because they are conducted sporadically and often with regard to competing interests, they receive only a part of the student attend- ance that might be enjoined. In the present series of convocations, competition between religious meet- ings is quite clearly indicated. Despite the fact that the Univers- ity convocations series has the sup- port, among others, of the Ann Ar- bor churches, the time for all of the meetings will be seven o'clock in the evening; at that time, these same churches are conducting serv- ices and meetings of a semi-reli- gious nature. It is admitted that morning convocations are more attractive to students than those in the evening; if the Student Christian association wishes to elicit student interest in its convo- cations. let it first settle its differ-' ences with the churches and hold the meetings at eleven o'clock Sunday mornings.3 With theseomnannratively simnp Gorham Munson's new book is just a long echo of the odd con- troversy which filled newspapers and journals for three months and finally got into Carnegie Hall. One can feel that the controversy was all very jolly: that it really was a healthy dissemination of ideas un- usually beneficial to America. A somewhat sounder view of the recent Humanist controversy, I think, would have it that it was an extremely untactful' corruption of valuable ideas by friends and ene- mies of those ideas. The feverish- ness of humanidm's becoming a journalistic item obscured its issues in the general focussing on person- alities (Tate-Schaffer struggle), in the vicious attacks on excerpts (Edmund Wilson's fastidiousness about translations from the Greek), etc. More damaging was the undue prominence given the more debat- able and tentative tenets of Hu- manism and the whole effort (son- sored by Norman Foerster's antho- logy) to codify into explicit dogma what is still, as Fernandez saw fit to remind us, only a resultant 'sit- uation, a tentative, experimental attitude, largely engaged in neces- sary destructive criticism (criticism of humanitarian excesses, of the pretensions of science, of impres- sionistic criticism, of a shallow educational s y s t e m). All the pamphleteering w a s bewildering because premature and superficial. Now Gorham Munson, an excel- lent journalist because capable of exposing himself to i.eas rather than thinking about them, repeats at length all the errors of the con- troversy. Except for the amusing attempt at thinking in the last fifty pages, this book strikes me as only a journalist's capitalizing on an intellectual flurry. All the short chapters begin with quotations from the early books of Babbit and More and attempt an easy elucidation of the content of those large books. The general air of Munson is 'how simple this all is; surely there is no reason why one should quibble; on this point iumanism simplysays this . . . and certainly this is acceptable, is it not?" In other words, Humanism is all bundled up. One should note the frequent use of the phrase "in the spring of 1930". Humanism is dated now. It was typical of Munson to do this. He can go on to another sxposure now. There will be some survival, of course; just as there are still remains of his adventure with the Oriental anti-intellectual- .sm of A. E. Orage, English journal- ist. Meanwhile, I think it important to suggest that those interested in the humanist experiment to re- issess the contemporary scene and o reassemble its values avoid this book which thinks of humanism as a movement in the spring of 1930." W. J.,G. q YOUNG MAN WRITES A NOVEL THIS PURE YOUNG MAN: by Irving Fineman: Longmans, Green nd Co., 1930: Price $2.00. This typical first novel won the .ongmans, Green prize of $7,500. It akes an artist - dreamer type through collegeand the first few fears of the world in some such insignificant and incompetent way as did "Rudderless." All the think- ng about character is conventional. The artist-dreamer is placed in ,ontrast with the successful in- sensitive vulgarian. The two youths 'ome to know sex in a convention- ally contrasted way. They like and dislike their fraternity in the much talked-about ways. They fit and fail to fit into the business world. Then one of them dies -and the other builds a successful skyscraper with the dead youth's plans. In other words, familiar material is reworked into a structure of auto- biography probably. The writing has no pretensions to experimentalism like the similar aovel "Obelisk" by William Rollins. It is bad in the conventional ways: continual overwriting and striking confusions of imagery. "If he was fortunate enough to get a dance with her (the stenographer who worked in the same office) the rvthmic communion with hennv ii ',j, I ' I V iii, ,,I J III II I THERE'S A REASON Why Goldman Bros- Gives You Miraclean! Goldman Bros. firmly believes that Mira- clean is the best dry cleaning on the market today. That is why they spent thousands of dollars to bring it to Ann Arbor and as long as it is the best, Goldman Bros. will continue to give Miraclean. 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