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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
SUNDAY, JANUARY 18, 1931
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Night Editor-BEACH CONGER, Jr.
THE LAME-DUCK ARRAY
When the popular mind views
the modern undergraduate as a sort
of flag-waving radical, it undoubt-
edly fails to take into account the
manner with which he regards his
own affairs an. activities. For the
student moving in his own sphere,
dealing with his own sort is ordi-
narily the most hide-bound of con-
servatives.
Perhaps no greater monument to
this conservatism has arisen than
the antiquated, over-lapping and
cumbersome array of campus or-
ganizations. Groups once organized
to fill definite needs now carry on,
elect their officers who in turn
carry on by casting about for some-
thing to do -some program to
justify their existence. The castings
are barren, futile gesture for the
most part.
Such in recent years has been the
plight of the Student Christian
association, the Oratorical associa-
tion, the Intrafraternity council,
and the Student council. The Stu-
dent Christian association this year
has tried to enlarge its activities in
international directions, with some
success; but this is not what might
be expected of a religious agency.
The Oratorical associationpresumes
to sponsor a series of speeches, a
task which might occupy the atten-
tion of some member of the depart-
ment of speech in his off hours. The
Interfraternity council bears a rep-
utation which needs no elaboration;
it is notedly weak, unsupported by
its members, and has yet to prove
itself capable of manifesting suffi-
cient strength, initiative or courage
to warrant its keeping a straight
face when presuming to function.
The Student council has had its
fingers crossed for so long that its
meetings are Y un off under a
skimpy formula by an outfit of poli-
tical legacies.
Now this indictment is not in-
tended to be a cynical, off-hand
survey; but it is earnestly pointing
toward a day when those who allege
that they are leading the campus
will be willing to show enough cour-
age and intelligence to begin a little
spade-calling, to admit the insuffi-
whole era of political buffoonery
and chicancery, and the current
sort of trumped-up leadership which
consists solely in pawing the air,
ranting, drumming up a raison
d'etre, in the face of no genuine
need for such Quixotic behaviour.
When the windbags are dissociat-
ed from the windmills, and the
windmills torn down, there should
be rejoicing in the minds of every
Michigan student that the campus
at last has forsaken its puerile con-
servatism in favor of distinguishing
between what was once traditional
and what has since become a nui-
sance.
THE SENATE MARKS TIME.
For some time, there has been
considerable doubt as to the ability
of the Senate to conclude all the
urgent legislation vhich, at present,
is on the docket before the adjourn-
ment on March 4. The annual sup-
ply bills which must be passed have
been debated upon and urged about
until there is doubt if even these
will be finished before the session
ends.
The World Court is a pressing
issue, but the friends of the move-
ment refuse to fling it into the
present session because such a move
would make absolutely certain the
calling of an extra session of the
new Congress and would prove, as
Senator Vandenberg said, a "need-
less black eye" to the entire ques-
tion.
There have been sustained argu-
ments about the appointment of
the power commission and the
tariff commission. There have been
repeated stalls and circuitous routes
and, with the stage thus set, Sena-
tor Gerald P. (Snoopy) Nye has re-
sumed his clamorings to unseat
Senator Davis, former secretary of
labor, who Senator Nye alleges,
spent more than $1,200,000 in ob-
taining his election.
At the end of three years in the
Senate, Senator Nye is still lacking
in any great accomplishment. His
proposals have been voted down
time and again; Senator Davis was
permitted to take his seat in Con-
gress earlier in the year, and now
the august gentlemen from North
Dakota, with little else to attract
the public spotlight, has apparently
resorted to an hysterical waving of
his hands and frantic shouting.
The noise, however, was exceed-
ingly opportune for Senator Nye
for it revived the campaign funds
committee which was slowly drift-
ing towards absolute extinction and
procured an appropriation of $50,-
000 and a year's lease on life. It is
possible, however, to raise some
question about the timeliness of
this grant for the rest of the Amer-
ican public. It will mean the con-
tinuation, for another year, of the
deplorable ferreting out of insignifi-
cant incidents in the past life of
the members of the United States
Senate and another year of the
squawkings which might well be
compared with the cries of an
infant-in-arms, disappointed be-
cause of lack of attention.
As a device to attract public at-
tention, Senator Nye's insistent de-
mands are rather foolish but, un-
fortunately, s u c c e s s f u 1. He has
chosen an excellent time to renew
his assertions, for the Senate will
concede many points while there
is still hope of averting the dreaded
special session.pProbably the grant
of the appropriation for another
year was such a concession, but let
us hope that it was made with the
idea of keeping Senator Nye out of
the Congressional buildings and on
his journeys through the country.
Perhaps it will act as a teething
ring and, after another year, he will
conquer his inane wanderlust and
settle down to the respectable busi-
ness of legislating for the country.
Campus Opinion
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construed as expressing the editorial
op)iiion of The Daily.
WILL DURANT'S LECTURE.
To the Editor:
TED SHAWN AND DENISHAWN
DANCERS.
A Note
In the light of last night's pro-
gram I think it fairly clear why
dancers of every creed so vehement-
ly deplore the Denishawn Dancers
and bewail their popularity.
By their hopelessly c o n f u s e d
mingling of various trends in
the dance, they are endangering
(by a process of cheapening) actual
progress in the dance. The Dance
as an art has had a history whose
outline is, I think, fairly lucid. In
the ballet it was an expression of
a restricted and rather fertile vir-
tuosity. Next it came to be accepted
as graphic imagery, pictorial or
sentimental. Lately the modernist
impulse (largely traceable it seems
to Mary Wigman) has forced us to
receive the dance as an intensify-
ing medium for conveying ideas, as
a means to penetrating and expres-
sive characterization. We have seen
the results of these more exacting
demands of the dance as an art-
medium in the two local recitals of
Kreutzberg and Georgi: in which
an unbelievable suppleness of mo-
tion was in constant touch with
mind, in which single dances had
more than a diffuse decorative ap-
peal an imaginative unity. The
Dance has obviously increased its
resources: with gains in diversity,
subtlety and profundity.
Absolute integrity about the me-
dium is particularly necessary in
all dancers before the public, then;
that this particular crisis in the
history of the dance may yield its
full significance to as wide an audi-
ence as possible. Such integrity last
night's program completely lacked.
An outstanding example is Ted
Shawn's grand style dancing to the
thoroughly banal rhythmic thrusts
of the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
In foisting that dance on us, Shawn,
who nearly always "dances" well in
the more technical sense of that
term, is either very stupid or de-
plorably insincere. Again in the
very first Ensemble to some music
of Brahms there were the badly
combined intentions of decorative
flowing-motion appeal, a b s t r a c t
romposition, and esoteric interpre-
tatio1. Shawn's dancing to the mu-
sic of Scriabin - on the whole an
interesting conception with refer-
ence to the Platonic myth of the
Cave - was spoiled by an insistence
on popular sentimental poses and
gestures. The only dance of Mr.
Shawn's that didn't show traces of
this bad taste was the bold, simple
"Mevlevi Dervish" which in its in-
sistent whirling had the effect of
"Bolero"--the nervousness of ex-
treme concentration. M i s s D a y
seems to be practically negligible as
I a dancer. The ensemble was techni-
cally quite talented.
If one doesn't take the Dance as
an art-form too seriously, one prob-
ably got considerable enjoyment
from the program. Just there lay
its insidiousness, I think.
W. J. G.
THE DETROIT THEATRES
It's a Wise Child.
Detroit has taken to the Belasco
production of "It's a Wise Child" and
the production is staying its third
week at the Shubert-Lafayette un-
der the new reduced Shubert rates.
This little farce is precipitated by
the heroine's desperate and some-
what untactful confession: the sort
of confession Lorelei Lee made in
"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" when
she entered a Paris taxicab and
wanted to go some place in a hurry.
After that confession, everyone in
a small community becomes suspect
and the farce follows the rhythm of
accusations.
Death Takes a Holiday.
One of the most provocative com-
edies of the season in New York last
year comes to the Cass Theatre
Monday night. Walter Ferris' adap-
tation of an Italian original by
Alberto Casella called "Death Takes
a Holiday" was called everything
from the best to the worst play in
New York last year. It consequently
was exceedingly popular. The one
thing all agreed about was the sur-
passing excellence of Philip Meri-
vale's performance in the role of
Death, visiting Earth's society.
In a fantastic comedy, D e a t h
puzzled by mankind's extraordinary
fear of him decides to make an
attempt at understanding and in
the guise of a foreign prince he
mingles in the social activities of a
gay, thoughtless coterie. Love he
finds to be their only satisfactory
emotion, so for three days he gayly
indulges in it himself and then re-
turns to his previous security as
just Death. One notable aspect of
the New York production was Rollo
WHAT AND WHERE.
Michigan.
Vaudeville will resound from the
Michigan stage again for a brief
period of four days during which
one Babe Egan and her smoulder-
ing band of Hollywood Redheads
. . (intermission while the
typewriter cools off) ....... will en-
tertain for the benefit of student
audiences suddenly become musi-
cally appreciative. If this aggrega-
tionlives up to name and reputa-
tion, a great opportunity awaits
some enterprising entrepreneur to
sell smoked glasses in the lobby.
Helen Twelvetrees, a much-publi-
cized young star, heads theucast of
the Michigan's screen feature, "The
Cat Creeps," with Raymond Hack-
ett, Neil Hamilton, and Jean Hers-
holt supporting. It's a mystery
drama, there's a haunted house--
and that's all we know about it.
Reinauguratio n of the Owl show
policy Monday evenings was an-
nounced by the Michigan - tomor-
row night's added feature being
Richard Arlen in "Burning Up,"
which concerns a race track and
not the stage band.
Majestic
The K's have it in William De
Mile's n ew production "Passion
Flower," K a y Francis and Kay
Johnson sharing the feminine hon-
ors equally and capably. The title
of the film seems to be its chief
drawback, having no conceivable
c o n n e c t i o n with the story-but
Kathleen Norris so named the book
from which it was adapted.
As might be expected, the picture
is replete with heart interest and
rather t e n s e situations, better
known as "hokum"-but so well
were they enacted and directed
that a none-too-original plot proves
suprisingly entertaining. Suspense
deftly handled, situations tending
toward the over-dramatic tactful-
ly toned down, and comedy relief
well-timed all contribute to the
general enjoyment.
Story action revolves around the
efforts of an alluring young woman
(Kay Francis) dampened by an ag-
ing husband (Lewis Stone) to win
the love of a younger he-man
(Charles Bickford) from his attrac-
t i v e hard-working spouse (Kay
Johnson). All the roles are fault-
lessly enacted by the unusually
competent cast, which also includes
Zasu Pitts in by far her best char-
acterization of a pessimistic maid
whose every speech brought forth
a volume of laughter from the au-
dience.
Dialogue is often extremely clev-
er as when Bickford returns to his
home for the first time in many
months. He picks up his little boy
who shouts to the baby "Look, sis-
ter, here's father!" And the little
tot queries "Our father who art in
heaven?" "No," the boy replies,
"This is a different father--he's
a friend of mother's!"
On the whole "Passion Flower"
provides an interesting hour of en-
tertainment, rating a B.
Wuerth
"A f r i c a Speaks," reputedly as
thrilling and sensational a jungle
epic as yet come out of the Afri-
can wilds, begins a four day run
at the Wuerth today. Paul Hoef-
ler filmed it for the Colorado Afri-
can Expedition.
-Bert.
What's -
Going
Onj
SUNDAY
THEATRES
Majestic-Kathleen Norris' "Pas-
sion Flower," with Kay Francis
and Johnson, Charles Bickford,
Lewis Stone, and Zasu Pitts.
Michigan-Helen Twelvetrees in
"The Cat Creeps"; stage show:
"Babe Egan and Her Hollywood
Redheads."
Wuerth-"Africa Speaks."
GENERAL
Reading-Prof. Howard M. Jones
will read from "Crock of Gold," by
James Stevens; 3:30 o'clock, Grand
Rapids room of Women's league.
International Oratorical Contest
-3:30 o'clock, Lane hall auditorium.
MONDAY
THEATRES
Majestic-Kathleen Norris' "Pas-
sion Flower," with Kay Francis and
Kay Johnson, Charles Bickford,
Lewis Stone, and Zasu Pitts.
Michigan-"The Cat Creeps" with
Helen Twelvetrees.
Wuerth-"Africa Speaks."
GENERAL
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This is written to
to hear Will Durant.
make a best-seller of
urge students
One who can
the words and
music of philosophy is an able man.
Concerning the topic of this lecture
he has first-hand information, posi-
tive convictions, burning zeal.
Within recent months the case
for India has been ably presented
in Ann Arbor by Sunderland, Fisher,
Andrews. It is conceivable that the
CASE OF BRITAIN should be pub-
licly presented on the campus. Per-
haps it will be.
It is requested that thinking peo-