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NIGHT EDITORS
Frank B. Gilbreth J. Cullen Kennedy
Roland Goodman Denton C. Kunze Jerry E. Rosenthal
Karl Seiffert George A. Stauter
a handsome hero in Neil Hamilton and a persist-
ently' well-lubricated wild-oat-sower in Monroe
Owlsley. Joan, of course, is the beautiful daughter
from the U. S. A., and does well enough by a
difficult role. "This Modern Age" rates a B, while
Langdon's act and a good two-reel comedy and
newsreel raise the show's average to B+.
UP IN THE AIR
Jack Holt and Ralph Graves turn to dirigibles
and the South Pole as the scene of their latest of
a series which has just about covered every phase
of the country's defense weapons. A number of
the scenes are exceptionally realistic and the gen-
eral idea of this Majestic feature is excellent. Only
the inclusion of a weak and illogical love plot in
which Holt again loses out to Graves mars "Diri-
gible." Fay Wray makes an attractive heroine,
while both the male stars do well by their roles
and uniforms. B- for this.
I US and DRAI
THE CHORAL UNION SERIES
By Jerry E. Rosenthal
This year's Choral Union concert series which
OASED 0LL
FRESHMEN!
INFORMATION,
NOT ADVICE!
The Rolls Friendly Society has
taken this column in hand this
week for the purpose of acclimat-
ing the fresh and hearty boys and
girls of the Class of '36 (or is it
'35? How would we know?) and
for the remainder of that period
we don't expect to get much of a
hand into the operation of the
column, and there will probably be
so much attention paid to Fresh-
men that we will lose all of our
more mature readers. Oh well, its
only a matter of time anyway.
* * *
Uncle Rolls: "Now Freddie, the
time has come for you to go off to
the big University and there are
some things you should know be-
fore you go."
* * *
FOR FRESHMEN ONLY
A SEX TALK: OH BOY!
W1ilber .Myers
Brian Jonies
Stanley Arnhelm
Sam Bagley
Lawson E. Becker
Thomas Connellan
Ralph R. Cooper,
Lester M. Harrison
Morton Helper
Joseph Hoffman
Josephine Woodhams
Annette Cummings
Dorothy JBrockman
Alma Wadsworth
Marjorie Thomson
Georgia Geisman
Sports Assistants
John W. Thomas
REPORTERS
James Krotozyner
Robert Merritt
Henry Meyer
Marion Milczewski
Albert Newman
Jerome Pettit
John Pritchard
Joseph Renihan
Beatrice Collins
Ethel Arehart
Barbara Hall
Susan Manchester
Margaret O'Brien
Louise Crandall
John S. Townsend
Charles A. Sanford
Alfred Stresen-Reuter
William Thal
G. R. Winters
Charles, Woolner
Brackley Shaw
Ford Spikerinan
Parker Snyder
Cile Miller
Elsie Feldman;
Eileen Blunt
Eleanor Rairdon
Martha Littleton
prudence roster
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NIGHT EDITOR -GEORGE A. STAUTER
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1931
The Sophomores
Begin to Graduate
HE first Monday of the school year invariably
sees the inevitable outbreak of the alleged
school spirit in the form of freshman hazing.
Twenty-five or thirty sophomores appoint them-
selves to initiate the freshmen into the mysteries
of the campus, provide a little of what they think
constitutes amusement for bystanders, and in gen-
eral make the freshmen understand that one year,
on the campus has given the former such a supe-
rior outlook on life that they may indulge in this
sort of activity.
Records show that the average freshman today
is more mature and usually older than his prede-
cessor of ten or twenty years ago. And, to be
perfectly frank, he appears to be mature than his
tormentors, who seem to have passed through
some magic transformation by virtue of a year of
freshman rhetoric and history. The freshman who
does not wear his pot, who slinks through back
streets the first Monday is inevitably the one who
finds it incumbent upon himself to go collegiate
his second year.
But the past four years, fortunately, have seen
a passing of this so-called class or school spirit.
Where formerly the sophomores gathered at the
Arcade and library at 8 o'clock in the morning and
continued their activities until late in the after-
noon, yesterday's; outbreak did not occur until late
in the day and then was confined to less than an
hour. Pessimists who see in this an indication of
the passing of the good old school spirit are mis-
taken. School spirit can be manifested in many
other forms, and more to the credit of the student.
The recent tendency away from hazing, both the
first week and also in fraternities, shows that
Michigan is graduating from the childish rah-rah
stage, for which it has at times been looked down
upon by its more "dignified" Eastern contempo-
raries, into the adult stage.
marks the fifty-third annual season sponsored by
the University Musical society promises one of
the finest and varied years of musical presentation
yet seen in Ann Arbor. Always looked upon by
critics and music lovers all over the country as
one of the outstanding spots for the finest in the
musical world, the concerts announced by Charles
A. Sink, president of the organizaton and Earl V.
Moore, director, will bring even more prestige
than ever, if past performances of the artists and
organizations taking part mean anything.
Past Choral Union series have always featured
at least one star and the remainder of the ten
appearances were built up around this feature
presentation in an effort to finish out a well-
balanced schedule. Not that the ambitious society
never succeeded but there have been artists, who
though popular and well-received in this locality,
could have been replaced by others more deserving
of the recognition which an appearance on the
brilliant programs merits. The comely Claire
Clairbert well advertised and press-ageted (from
the Pacific Coast). who appeared last year in a
rather bad program, which wasn't aided much by
her none-too-finished voice, might have been left
out for all the importance her name (after the con-
cert) brought to Ann Arbor music. Of course, the
Ann Arbor audience was enthusiastic and her
applause really was quite surprising, but judging
from the three. years during which I have observed
the series in Ann Arbor, I have found that the
culture-hungry populace of this city is enthusiastic
and encouraging to almost anything.
But to return to this year's series -with nimie's
like John McCormack, Rosa Ponselle, Ossip Ga-
brilowitsch, Yehudi Menuhin and our old friend
Percy Grainger, we need not look for coming
geniuses - the aforementioned have already ar-
rived.
Then Gabrilowitsch, who of late has been inter-
ested in trying to build up a first rate symphony
orchestra in Detroit without much success, is on
the program for a piano recital. He, though not
ranked in the same class as Paderewski, Horowitz,
Rachmaninoff nor pssibly Iturbi, who, if you
will remember, startled us two years ago with a
program and technique unexcelled since, can al-
ways be relied upon for a distinguished and highly
meritorium presentation.
In a late announcement from Mr. Sink's office,
I note that John Charles Thomas, one of America's
first rank baritones, will be unable to appear and
the Revelers, who have managed to establish a
name for themselves, not only on the radio but
by brilliant recitals both in Europe and America,
will take his place. Of especial interest to Ann
Arbor patrons is the fact that Louis James, of
this city, is a member of the group.
Youthful Yehudi Menuhin, for two years
ranked as the best of the altogether too many boy
prodigies of the violin, is listed on the program and
unless he has grown tired\of his music and has
taken up his games, which I hear he is fond of-
unusual for most child music wonders, a presenta-
tion equal to some of the best artists three times
as old can produce should be heard.
Grainger, coming again after a fairly successful
recital last year, can also be relied upon for a nice
solid evening of musical entertainment while
Serge Koussevitsky and his really fine Boston
Symphony, which I heard in a brilliant concert
last year on the fiftieth anniversary of the organ-
ization's founding is finally scheduled. Kousse-
vitsky, a comparative newcomer to the ranks of
our first-rate conductors, has built up an organiza-
tion and a name which has caused not a few to
marvel at. This will be the first time Ann Arbor
will hear this..orchestra in over a decade and the
first time it will hear it with Koussevitsky con-
ducting.
As usual, the Detroit symphony will appear in
two programs, one of which will be with the guest
conductor, Dr. Rudolph Siegel, of Crefeld, Ger-
many. He will also lead the Detroit organization
in two concerts in that city. It is expected that
the orchestra, with him conducting, might rise to
the heights which Moussorgsky last year managed
to lift it. The Detroit organization is really a
splendid orchestra when a guest conductor is lead-
ing it but seems to lapse into a conservatism and
state Lf mediocrity when Gabrilowitsch is at the
head.
Uncle Rolls and
* * *
Cast of characters:
Uncle Rolls... .A
gent who knows just
thing about sex, you
Freddie......Of the class of
'36 (or is it '35?).
"Now Freddie, the time has come
for you to go off to the big Uni-
versity and there are some things
you should know before you go."
Freddie: "Do you mean things
like changing my socks every other
day? Ma already told me all
about-."
Uncle Rolls: "No Freddie that
isn't what I want to talk to you
about. This is a lot more import-
ant than socks. Oh I should say
it is!"
Freddie: "OK Uncle Rolls, shoot."
Uncle Rolls: "Well, uh, Freddie
did you ever see the flowers in the
fields in the springtime and- ."
Freddie: "Aw come on, Uncle
Rolls, lets not dally with formali-
ties."
Uncle Rolls: "Well, I suppose
you have observed in the spring-
time how the birds and the fish
lay eggs-."
Freddie: "No I can't say as I
ever have, Uncle Rolls; have you?"
Uncle Rolls:' "Well no, Freddie,
I haven't but I'm pretty sure that
that's what happens."
Freddie: "I don't believe that
story about the fish but go ahead.
What about the eggs?"
Uncle Rolls: "Now Freddy, that's
where God's great plan comes in."
Freddie: "God's Great Plan?
Never heard of it."
Uncle Rolls: "Freddie, do you
know how you came into the
world?"
Freddie: "Well, I never gave the
matter much thought, bu t it
sounds interesting. How did- I?"
Uncle Rolls: "Well, its all on ac-
count of God's Great Plan."
Freddie: Say, Uncle Rolls, don't
you think you're getting a bit mix-
ed up? Don't you think you'd bet-
ter go back and start over again."
Uncle Rolls: "No Freddie, I-."
Freddie: "Listen, you say all the
mama birds and fishes lay eggs be-
cause of God's Great Plan?"
Uncle Rolls: "Yes Freddie, and
Freddie: "And I got here all be-
cause of Gad's Great Plan?"
Uncle Rolls: "Well yes, but
Freddie: "Uncle Rolls, did my
mother ever lay eggs?"
Uncle Rolls: "Freddie, I never
knew your mother."
Freddie: "Well, I tell you, Uncle
Rolls, don't you think maybe you'd
better wait and tell me all about
this next spring when I get back?
Then you can get it all straighten-
ed out."
Uncle Rolls: "Yes Freddie, I be-
lieve that would be best, Good-
SCREEN REFLECTIINSI
Reverting to style after several mystery dram-
mers, Joan Crawford is currently adorning the
Michigan screen in an original story menacingly
titled "This Modern Age." No, Algernon, there's
no living models. But in spite of the misnomer,
the film proves to be a finished production, occa-
sionally trite and none too original, but usually
entertaining.
For that matter, the entire show clicks in fine
style as the result of a surprisingly good personal
appearance -act wherein Harry
Langdon reverses the usual or-
der and is actually more enter-
taining on the stage than he ever
has been in talking pictures.
Supported by a company of four,
the baby-faced comedian pre-
sents a lively twenty minutes of
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