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TIIE MICHIGAN DAILY
FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 21 1930
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of quietly working toward an im-
provement of methods, without
precipitate or drastic change, to
look askance and even resent the
action of a more radical faculty.
But if Chicago's action is radical,
it is also well-considered and based
upon the researches of some years
duration. The chief lesson for
Michigan, at which virtually all of]
the ideas set forth in the Chicago'
project, is the example of specific
and consumate action. Perhaps
this is the difference between those
who rely upon the trial and error
method of accomplishment and
those who survey a slow-moving
evolutionary progression.
AN INTERNATIONAL hOUSE
The Student Christian associa-
tion's recent proposal to make of
Lane hall an international house is
an action warmly to be commend-
ed. As a solution for one of the
campus' acute, thought not always
apparent, problems it stands out in
clean-cut relief from the muddle of
dilitory activities with which this
organization has burdened itself
and the campus for some years.
The plan is to reconstruct Lane
hall, enlarging the dormitory space
and replanning the present foyer
and recreation rooms to conform
more nearly with the needs of the
foreign students. Engineers are at
present testing the p o t e n t i a 1
strength of the building and mak-
ing estimates of the project's cost.
The proposal has the active support
of the administration and in fact
precludes a need for any official
action toward making similr pro-
visions elsewhere.
Through the country and the
world, Michigan has been of high
repute for its cosmopolitanism and
encouragement to foreign students.
This move is definitely toward the
working out of the ideals of prac-
tical internationalism. In harmony
with fellow students from fifty na-
tions, a dweller in this house could
well lay claim to the title, Citizen
of the World.
Following the success of similar
projects at Columbia and at the
University of California, we earn-
estly hope that this enterprise will
be completely realized for the ad-
vancement of a more tolerant and
liberal campus spirit toward inter-
national amity.
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SOPHISTICATION
(From The Daily Princetonian.)
A retrospect of the last 20 years
or so of college life in the East
presents a series of rather startling,
changes. Before the War, colleget
(according to report) was a self-t
contained sort of place where un-1
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Cornelia Skinner brings her "com~ A Review by WJliam J. Gorman
plete theatre" to the Mendelssohn
Theatre tonight beginning prompt- One of the largest audiences of
ly at 8:15. John Mason Brown of the the year was enthralled last night
Theatre Arts magazine, writing at by some extraordinary singing. The
length of Miss Skinner, managed to choral technique at the command
define many qualities of her ert: of the diminuitive leader was
"She is star and company all in a ng There w
one breath, her stage crew and her a
costume mistress, to say nothing of variely of voice even within ranges,
her own playwright. But though aImost viciously accurate attack,
she works unaided, she does not sharp precise phrasing, and almost
work alone. Because when she steps unbelievably subtle grading of in-
from behind the curtains at the .V .
back, moves a chair a little to the tensities. The disciplined perfection
right or left, she not only becomes of this ensemble was stirred to very
in an instant, the central figure of vigorous conceptions by a lively,
the sketch, but peoples her stage h ten0eeleader. Failiarity with
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acters of her own imagining. Miss
Skinner's is so shrewd and magni-
icent a talent that she does away'
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A BAERYMORE V1S. THlE GAITES
A Review.
For if anyone plans a week-end
° eir musical. en iirenment vs not
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comfort or self-adjustment. Robust
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show in Detroit the choice amounts vening. The result was an exciting,
to that. The dramatization and the intense evening. And the near-
Production of Julia Peterkin's Scar- I ysteria of the audience was the
let Sister Mary is a good deal of a normiaol reactixo. Only great artists
mess. A fairly happy family, father. can, after l d=sei fine of gaining
mother and child called Unex . . . iebhnic') j;i'r , r lieve original
is broken up by a wily wamp in xperimr of r'4usial comipositions
a red skirt, with whom father goes w it, seeQ Virous sintaue ty.
olf down the river on an excursion. If'ovc er, to cnni not h'mi1liar with
The mother is for some months either the imvsi or the idiom, there
hysterical with grief. Then she wvere acrtain dP eoncerting musical
feels the urgency of life and comes uhings faipu1g1 ewith consistency.
to identify herself with the Earth- The hi?>hly mImy rai alseos were
Spirit, Molly Bloom and the rest. sed to t" s, t of tediousness
The curtain drops for 13 years, and to be point 0 sentimentality.
When it goes up mother has had Th m 2hert wa he h:bit of quick,
so many illegitimate children that ;tartli~nf >itis o volum e. One
when one of the grocery-store lean- jends to Lel I ,s a reflection of
ers asks her "I.-ow many now Si- . rc -n e's' <i c:ienlly Rus-
Maye?", she doesn't even have t :ian: the P1 u--co mothon very
tell the number. She just says very seldlri ' r Tut he point
proudly "Plenty, brother, Plenty." is thet "1 r, " cjo s" should
Meanwhile the original father- -lav logir. Whn a erformnance re--
husband comes back. He is spurned ife I ai' O by such-
by Si-Maye, who gets very reoigious nni l% us M . Jarofsfs
as her oidest son dies in her arms i inmr Tmte;e, one either
and her oldest daughter goes off ats fals SmOt IOl habits (result-
to the city bearing her own little ing in thi' view of music as legiti-
Unex. nmate i[toxication1) or in defense
The plot, in that summary, is of cries "sheer sensiu-lism." Often
course distorted. But it begins to 'ast nigl, 1 t aik, Mr. Jar)T was
look that way in the light of i[hel iindulging e 1,hniue of his
Barrymore's numerous press state-.- , horus; the rsult "sheer sensa-
ments that "she wishes to show th. tionalismi." In the group of religious
public the great spirilual forces off songs, there seemed to be certain
the Negro." Julia Peterkin, the au- xiusical "efjects" tonttaoicting the
thor of the novel, is known to hav- rligious emaeo s " f th usie.
wired everybody coincted w i This again apeared to be true in
the production except Ethel: ". Y-several of the simple folk songs,
God, can this be stopped now; - -ery elaborately arranged.
never realized." Indeed the chorus seemed most
The production is choked with perfectly integrated in "An Old
atmosphere that never gets con~ 7olka" "An Old ossack Song" and
vincing with the white cast, speak- several Cossack songs sung as en-
ing several dialects, only one o ores. In. those compositions, mus-
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In contrast to Michigan's avow- aergraauates centered their entire
ed policy of making ' academic interest on the school itself in its
changes by a circumspect evolu- various phases. Studies, to an un-
tionary process, the trustees and certain degree, and, of course, ex-
faculty of the University of Chi- tra-curricular activities-both ath-
cago have junked the "antiquated letic and non-athletic-were stress-'
machinery of fixed and formal edu- ed. There was an element of vig-
cation" and set up in its place a or in the student's application to
new type of college. Discarding his university, its traditions and
the old graduate school and in manners. Singing and cheering
place of this and the present un- were taken seriously, and the dig-
dergraduate courses, the non-pro_ nty which the present undergrad-
fessional training will be divided uate considers lost by participa-
into five main sections each with tion in them was a trait which
a dean. After preliminary study, few had, or cared to have.
usually in lecture courses, the most From this we pass to the post-
successful students will be admit- War period of collegiatism, with
ted to the upper divisions where its baggy trousers, fur coats, Fords
the classes will be smaller and the besmeared with witticisms, and
teachers will be on closer terms other similar evidences of the noisy
with the students. All advance- spirit of the times. Such a reac-
ment will be by comprehensive ex- tion to an extreme could not last.
aminations which may be taken In due course the pendulum swung
whenever the student feels he can back, and we found ourselves in
pass them. the period which a Princetonian
While in substance this new de- correspondent was pleased recently
parture in pedagogic method ap- to term "pseudo-sophisticated"s
pears to be an innovation, many .In this period of "sudo-soprhis-
of its salient ideas have been un- cai"th mst biushr-
der review by educators for several acteristic was shallow worldliness.
years. But the action is exemplary Conversation was apt to be banal
certainly because of its drastic, al- and inconsequential, interest was
most ruthless treatment of ana- lacking in any but worldly things,
ch ronic educational machinery and a kind of blase egotism mark-
which has cluttered up the liberal ed the average undergraduate,
arts colleges since the war. who chose now, in contrast to the
arts collee incerthe war. t"collegiate" youth before him, to
Of further importance is the em- render himself inconspicuous be-
phasis which the plan places upon hind the conservative exterior of
individual abilities and study. The d Wetzel sx
use of comprehensive examinations, Tetendum
theavalablit ofinfrmaionin The pendulum has again started
the availability of information in swinging back. Most students per-
wide areas in contrast to arbitrary baps still wish to be considered so-
courses on unrelated subjects, the phisticated, but are beginning to
advancement of the more brilliant realize that the term can have no
student according to aptitude and
provision fg r psns f onm in complimentary significance unless
pro isi n f r p x-& nal fre do mgr u nde upon som e fact of indi-
the higher divisions, all contribute vioddua acmls en. Ciden
toward humanizing the literary vda copihet hlrn
college and making of it rathera playing with toys in a nursery kept
safe and warm by others do not-
suitable instrument for educating as Dean WICKS observed in yes-
the individual than a mill for creat-
ing A. B.'s. The aim expressed by terday's sermon-accomplish much.
President Hutchins that "in this Neither do social hounds and
new institution we hope to teach chronic weekenders who are piti-
the teacher how to teach as well fully bored with Campus life. They
a th dnt how to s t u d v" are not what their fond fancy
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more, herself, is very splendid. The
frequently appearing soliloquies she
renders, if not with the spiritual
force of the Negro, at least with adi
the intricate, if familiar, techniqtua
of a great actress. But the produc-
~ion is certainly a spurious pro-
duct. Critical reception of it ha,
been interesting. Cleveland critic s
evaded by being non-comittai r
approving in a. mild, conventionial
way. Columbus quite loudly declar-
ed disapproval which stimulated
Miss Barrymore to her pe iodic
sneer at all critics. Detroit critics,
of course, said everything was very
fire. New York sees it next week.
The Garrick Gaieties, in an edi-
tion that combines things from all
four previous editions, proves a
very rich evening. It is consistently
very funny. And yet, it consistentiy
addresses itself to intellectual ap-
proval and gets it. Albert Carrol's
imitations (of John Barrymore,
Ethel Barrymore, Mrs. Fiske, of
Haidee Wright, and of Lynne Fon-
tane in the opera scene of The
Guardsman) are as very subtle
things, workedc out with as r'muhi
inielligence and as moe] craft-
rnanship as Ethel displays in spur-
ous drama. 'They are perhaps thIc
highlight of the Gaieties. But there
is an extremely intelligent sketch.
Z take--off of "Journey's End, called
m'itlC's End," in which thre brok-
cr> siC very quietly in front of a
vuge board, which shows all stocks
alki ng desperate drops, having A.
A. Milne real to them by t lie older
one an(! nmuring ifromiy e nrto
ime "subtle fellow Miln." One
Toung American staggers in, sohi 1)-
uizesabout Ruin and shoots hirn-
elf. They all agree that he is a
Cad", and go on reading Milne.
English stoics. It is very funny and
eally very proper criticism of cr-
ain outrageous English sentiment
n "Journey's End."
production of effects, very excited-
ly projected the vigor, the good-
cheer and the rousing balance of
the soldier. In the Cossack songs
the chorus seemed to find expres-
eion for the emotions most char-
acteristic of it personally and to
find opportunity for frank exploi-
tation of technique. The result
was the very stirring climax of en-
cores to an interesting evening.
THiE DETROIT SYMPHONY
Monday night in the fth. con-
cert of the Choral Union Series,
Os:'p Garilowitsch and the Detroit
" inphony will appear in Hill Au-
litr ln. This will be the only ap-
pearance in AnO Arbor this year of
the nrst mical citzrn of the Mid-
die W Hsi. is orchestra is to make
another appearance later in the
:.erIsoiider the direction of
L:CrnardiBtno Molinari, distinguished
Italian g;uest cand'ctor.
It looms up large in their lives
The tcecp"IIonc has a big place in the daily lives
of most people today, but its place will be even
bigger tomorrow.
Its importance has been fostered by the work
of men in all phases of the telephone business
and no little part has been taken by those en-
gaged in selling. They have helped to effect
an increase of more than three and a half mil-
lion Bell telephones in the last five years. In
the same period they have been instrumental
in making the public realize more completely
the telephone's usefulness. Result: an in-
crease from 49,000,000 calls per day to
65,000,000.
For men with a leaning toward sales pro-
motion, the opportunity is Mtre!
BELL SYSTEM
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awitseii for Monday ntilh includes