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MANACING EDITOR
RICHARD) L. TOBRN
City Editor .....................................Carl Forsythe
EafltariaS i rector .............................Be~ach Conger, Jr.
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Loitn vw dtr.. .......... ..........R2oj:t 1L. fierce
until they started to turn out their comedies on a
production basis, and "Peach O'Reno" looks very
much like the beginning of the end. They certainly
are anything but bad, and there is nothing particu-
larly wrong with this show, except that it is exactly
like all the rest they have made. If one likes Woolsey
and Wheeler this show will be a delight, because it
has everything that previous hits of their brand have
had.
But it has nothing more. And it looks to us as if}
those two gentlemen were about due to wear them-
selves out. This story is ab 7ut a couple of antic law-
yers in the decree capital, who do everything on a
grand scale, including their clients. The only direct
adverse criticism that this show deserves is that vir-
tually all. the wise-cracks are very dirty without
being particularly funny. In spite of the fact that
Woolsey and Wheeler somehow have the ability to
make anything sound funny, their stuff gets a little
tiresome after a while.
As usual Dorothy Lee takes an active part in the
festivities, but as usual also she is given little to do
aside from smiling her baby smile. As a matter of
fact Miss Lee is considerably better than a fair dan-
cer, which she proved as far back as the original
stage version of "Rio Rita," as well as in some of her
later appearances. -K. S.
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NIGHT EDITOR-GEORGE A. STAUTER
TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1932
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Rd eion
NIVERSITY registration blanks reveal the
rather unexpected . fact that out of the nine
usand students here enrolled about thirty-three
ndred have little or no religious fervor. Sixteen
adred have gone down on record as not attend-
church at all and a slightly greater number have
orted that they were not regular wobrshippers
t they did have a religion which they preferred.
These students, in a rather general way, do
ve their own religion, that is they are not athe-'
s, but they claim to be better able to worship,
d in' their'own way without outside assistance
I at their own discretion. Too often iowever,
se individuals think little ,or nothing of their
udo-religion during the week and when Sunday
rning comes around they have no incentive to
rship and offer up the day to extra hours of)
ep and big breakfasts eaten as they scan Sun-
y supplements and comic strips. Under ordin-
T conditions then God -does not enter into their
and in spite of good intentions they are liter-
y without religion.
At first glance this may not seem to be a serf-
s matter especially to those whose ego-religions
isfy them even in their shortcomings, but
ually there is no one on earth who has a more
1uin~e need for consistent religious practices
in the college -student. Undergraduates are at
tage of life when for the first tine they have,
ir own ideas about it and college furnishes
m the time and place to try them. Freed from
observation ofi parents and actuated by youth-
impulses they are more than likely to lose what
Igment they possess unless they can fall back
lizing their responsiblity to the Creator.
'I'o contend that all students or even a majority,
at present in danger of wasting undergraduate
irs in an irresponsible manner would be foolish
tiby their own admission we have-an official an-
uncement that thirty-three hundred have little
erest in God, and are leaving themselves open to
possibility of forgetting Him entirely-at a
ae when they will understand that the unsteadi-
s of human nature, particularly at this period
ist be supported by some intelligent and planned
idance, and he will seek and find this assistance
regular church attendance.
uary 15, I would like to inquire whether or not it is
a tradition on the Michigan campus for the upper
classes to run the Freshman class? Not so long ago
The Daily ran an editorial complimenting the fresh -
mai class on showing such remarkable class spirit.
This spirit has been carried on by members of the
class in trying to make their fellow-classmates wear
pots and observe other campus traditions. In the
matter of collecting class dues the Freshmen have
encountered upper class precedent which makes col-
lection almost impossible. Many upper classmen
boast of never having paid their dues and this en-
courages the Freshmen to refuse payment of dues.
In my opinion the only way for traditions to exist
are to have them handed down from class to class
by example and precedent. If each class observed
the Michigan customs it would be more natural for
each succeeding class to fall in line and carry on
the Michigan spirit. If each class would look to itself
and try to set an example worthy of following there
Would be little cause for jamming traditions down the
Freshman's throat. A Thirty-Fiver.
To The Editor:
One does not have to be in politics in order to
believe that Governor Ritchie is right in what he
said in a recent speech in Baltimore on the subject
of prohibition: "Just now there is hardly a phase of
your life from the cradle to the grave, from the cellar.
of your home to the contents of your pocket, into,
which Federal officers cannot pry...
"The high watermark of all this is national prohi-
bition. Do not let us forget that, when we talk about
the evils of centralized power.
"Our greatest progress toward temperance, which
ought to be the goal of everybody, was made before
we mixed morals, politics and legislation all up to-
gether, and tried to do by centralized force and con-
stitutional fiat what can only be done by education
and popular sanction and consent. Our real progress
came while we' were leaving the question of prohibi-
tion to the states, where it ought to be, and Jefore
we put it' in the Consti-tGtion, were it ought not to be.
I think it should be turned back to the states, so that
each state may settle it in accordance with the needs
and conditions of its own people. and be protected by
the Federal government against interstate shipments
which would contravene its laws."
M. Levi,
Profesor Emeritus.
BACH AND GRAINGER
BACH: Transcriptions for Piano:
played by Percy Grainger for Co-
lunmbia Masterworks Set No.' 166.
The names don't sound well t6-
gether. The rather inconsequen-
tial gaiety of Percy would seem
to yield him no point of approach
to t h e intellectual severity of
Johann Sebastian. One immed-
iately infers that Columbia has
made a bad mistake (especially
when Grainger is called in to play
compositions of the Weimar period
in which Bach met and surpassed
on their own ground the Northern
Virtuoso school of organists). It
was a mistake all right (for Co-
lumbia has on its roster among
others, W a 1 t e r Gieseking). But
Grainger's playing is more accept-
able than one would 'suppose.
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
(Bach-Tausig-Busoni).
It would be difficult enough for
a pianist like Horowitz to make the
mighty Toccata sound more or less
as it should sound, for the piano-
forte's slight power and slight tone-
duration are real handicaps. The
dazzling bravura passages are only
amusing when Grainger plays. The
Fugue lacks strength as well; and
large portions of it are just "play-
ed," that is, in no sense compre-
hended. This is the worst perfor-
mance; but even at that it may be
a more satisfactory "transcription"
than the flamboyant record Sto-
kowski has made.1
Prelude and Fugue in A Minor
(Bach-Liszt).
Grainr is more at home in this
music- gentle and equable in its
flow. His performance is very good.
He has a comprehending grasp of
the long fugue; everything is put in
the right perspective; the music
"keeps going" (this is more import-
ant than it sounds) from begin-
ning to end.
Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor
(Bach-Liszt).
Bach raised the quasi-improvisa-
tory style of an early school to full
magnificence; this Fantasia must
certainly be one of the richest com-
oositions in Bach's whole output.
The profundity of Grainger's per-
formance will surprise even his ad-
mirers. The performance of the
Fugue (though it has the merit of
being a clear projection of the
notes) is based on a radical misun-
-lerstanding of the music. He de-
scribes it in an introductory note
ass full of "an irresistible, rollicking
liveliness." He plays as much of it
as he can with a deplorable rollick-
ing liveliness; the rest is just mean-
ingless to him. He might have been
warned by Spitta who says of the
Fugue: "Its lofty gravity and deep
contentment strike awe into the
hearer" (surely a far better de-
scription than his).
Blithe Bells (Bach-Grainger).
Grainger describes this as "a free
ramble by me on Bach's aria 'Sheep
May Graze in Safety When a Good-
y Shepherd Watches O'er Them,'
2olored by the thought that Bach
was aiming at giving some sugges-
tion of the sound of sheep-bells."
And that is enough said about
'Blithe Bells."
Grainger h as obviously taken
this album seriously. Th at he
should think it proper to close it
with a bit of his own cuteness is
evidence that constitutionally he
isn't intelligent enough to be ser-
ious enough. . W. 3.4 G.
THE DETROIT STRING
QUARTET
The second concert in the series
sponsored by the Chamber Music
Society of Ann Arbor will be given
in the Mendelssohn Theatre tonight
by the Detroit String Quartet. This
organization closed the local ser-
ies last year with a splendid concert
that included the Third Brahms
Quartet, Waldo Warner Fantasy.
and Schonberg "VerklaerteNacht."
Tpieconcert that they are to give
this evening is arranged along sim-
ilar lines. The program follows:
I. Quartet in E Flat Major, Op.
74 ....................Beethoven
H. "The Pixy-Ring" Suite ,
.H. Waldo Warner
The Chamber music of H. Waldo
Warner, violist of the London String
Quartet, is well known in this coun-
try, having been given frequent
performance since Mr. Warner won
a large Coolidge prize in 1921. The
Detroit String Quartet played his
"Berkshire Fantasy" last year and
tonight is performing this Suite,
composed in 1921 as a result of a
holiday spent in North Cornwall,
where the composer found a whole
j community counting the activity of
the local pixies as the exciting
thing in its life. The work-with
four miniature movements-was a
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lETIIl3AIL COM~MENT
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PRESERVE TIE ILLUSION
(The Daily Northwestern)
America's college students have become sophisti-I
cates. Not real, honest-to-gosh sophisticates because1
championship football teams still awaken an urge to
cheer at least a little bit, but the day of "plus twelve"
knickers, ties in the college colors, collegiate flivvers.
and the like has pretty generally passed.
However, the collegiate newspaperdom has been
lately bemoaning the fact that the outside world has
not as yet realized the change, and that the college
student of musical comedy, magazine, and screen,
SCJEEN IELCTIIN
AT THE MAJESTIC
"Tonight or Never," is both very good and very
ad: it starts out with reels and reels of the most
iresome stuff ever foisted .on an unsuspecting audi-
nce, but it finally gets there-almost too late, for no
.udience is going to sit and see Swanson being pen-
ive and lonely through about five reels just for the
well scene at the end. Because there is a swell scene;
'et, indeed, and it's all to the credit of Miss Gloria.
ust as bad as she is throughout the early scenes of
he show, just so good is she in later shots.
The story is of an opera star thirsting for love;
he finds it in the arms of a man she has talken to
>e a gigolo, and he turns out to be the impresario
vhose notice she has been trying to attract, and he
;fives her a contract, and they are in love, and she
>ecomes a great artist.
fame remains the "rah-rah" boy of five+
uation classes ago.
or six grad-I
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Perhaps it is too bad that the college student of
popular fancy is not the same as the well-dressed,
dapper young gentleman or the poised young lady
that college students like to feel themselves, but
nevertheless we may take it as a compliment to col-
legedom that the college student is idolized at all.
The college student is in a class by himself as far
as popular portrayal goes. He is characterized as a
more or less indolent individual, but he is immensely
popular with the Americarn public.
In fact higher education as a whole is pretty
popular with John Public of these United States.
While many is the pooh-pooh at the value of books
and theory, yet the glamour of the American college
has an appealing quality that has found favor with
pretty much everybody. It is this feeling of good
natured, approval for the college student that is one
of the mainstays of otir education factories.
Collegians will do well if they do not bemoan too
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