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On a single one of the days in the year 1787-the year of 'Don Giovanni"-Mozart wrote 'this little evening music'. 'A few years before, he had written his father that the Salzburg musicians planned to play several serenades 'by torchlight in the squares of the city. These four little pieces, then, are 'social' art-written with the intention of pleasing, of pleas- ing immediately. As such, they are 'illustrative of the external demands which conditioned the use of music in the Haydn-Mozart period even when the intentions in composing were more complex-if they ever were. Evidently the people of Salzburg liked neatness and balance. The opening allegro is gay (because Mozart achieves continuity Jkith such incredible ease). But the melodies-the material which flows so smoothly-are all stated in temporal spans which were fixed and familiar (which reans that the gaiety. can never be tumultuous, irreptessible or insistent). The gaiety is, so to speak, adjudicated. Similarly, in the Romance, there is a pleasant, good-natured, in- telligent approach to the problem of 'sentiment'. Sweet melodies testify honestly that 'sentiment' is present in Salzburg; but the simplicity of statement and development prevent sentiment' from 'thicken- ing' into undue prominence in the lives of the peoa ple of Salzburg. The sentiment is, so to speak, ad- udicated. In such ways does this 'little night mu- sic' suggest a period when the 'taste of the people' ws good taste. WAGNER THE HUSBAND WAGNER: Siegfried Idyll: played by Bruno Walter and Symphony Orchestra: on Columbia Records 68011-68012. This composition, in which Wagner took an in- terlude from his cosmic pretentions to express a do- mtstic devotion to his wife and son, is one of the happiest of his orchestral compositions. All the the- matic material comes from various pprtions of his Nibelungen music but it is all presented with refer- ence to the central emotion - a very lovely, quite honestly sentimental, German tenderness for the sleeping Cosima. Bruno Walter-lately guest conductor of the New York Philharmonic-gives it a very good reading, ha'rdly differing from the recent performance by Karl Muck for Victor records. They both try to give' it in one long line-so sensitively modulated that it will not become tedious. MUSIC FOR THE STADIUM HONEGGER:Rugby: Symphonic movement for Or- chestra: played by Arthur Honegger and Symphony Orchestra on Columbia Records no. 68018. Arthur Honegger had already shown in 'Pacific 231' an ability to use a piece of mechanism as a pre- text and support for lyricism. Circumstances con- spired to make him similarly use the old English middle-class game. As the story went, Honegger, after attending a game of Rugby, remarked to a friend that the musical -equivalent of the sporting emotions ought to make an interesting composition. The friend happened to be a journalist. He published the news that Honegger was working on a new com- position dealing with 'sportirig emotions'. Honegger received offers from symphony orchestras for the work in progress. So he wrote "Rugby", which is a sort of symphonic scherzo.' With its abrupt, broken rhythms and its generally precipitate texture, it may or may niot express such 'sporting emotions' as pride in agility. firce annoyance at unexpected frustration. at least, it is a good scherzo. W. J. G. (Editor's note: This is the eleven- th of a series of articles on out- standing members of the Univer- sity faculty. Another in the series will appear next week.) By E. Jerome Pettit The Board of Regents of the Uni- versity decided in 1926 that in- creased activities of the institution called for the establishment of a new office. A clearing house for academic problems from the Uni- versity point of view, the academic needs as reflected in the budget, was desired. So Dr. Alexander Grant Ruthven became the University's first Dean of Administration. Three y e a r s later, when President Little 'esign- ed, he was elected chief exeputive of the University, a rather obvious step on the part of the Regents, since, by their direction, Dr. Ruth- ven had more than ably represent- ed the University before the ledis- lature for six months and had Brac- tically discharged the duties of the presidency throughout the summer of 1929. Dr. Ruthven was not, primarily, an administrator. He was a zoolog- ist. And, according to the recogni- tion of fellow-scientists, one of the best. In the twenty-three years he was affiliated with the zoology depart- ment of the University he traveled Alexander G. RuthvenjIIi "« OrviltAronson Gilbert B. Bursley Allen Clark Robert Finn Donna Becker Martl'a Jane Cissel Genevieve Field Maxine Fischgrund Ann Gallmeyer° Mary Harriman Assistants John Keyser Arthur F. Kohn James Lowe Ann Harsha Katherine Jackson Dorothy Layin , Virginia McComb Carolin Hosher Helen Olsen Graf ton W. Sharp Donald A. Johnson, II Don Lyon Bernard H. Good May Seefried Minnie Seng Helen Spencer Kathryn Stork Clare Unger Mary Elizabeth Watts Night Editor-KARL SEIFFERT THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1932' The Press and Prohibition . HE Minnesota Anti-Saloon league recently' j adopted resolutions condemning anti-prohibi- tion papers for "coloring the news" and also the "great news-gathering agencies" for "over-empha- sizing, events calculated to prejudice the public against prohibition." From this report, one would gathearthat the League has the same slant on the news angle that Senator Wheeler has, when he recently denounced American newspapers for what he 'believed to be an anti-prohibition conspiracy. These resolutions would give the impression that the large news services are paid to issue anti- prohibition propaganda. Perhaps the trouble is more that the League is so prejudiced that it can- not- even tolerate freedom of. public expression against this law. The large press associations, and the; leading ones are conceded to be the Associated Press and the United Press, have to serve such large and different interests that they cannot afford to take a partisan viewpoint in any of the nevfrs they send out. No; the trouble is not, with the news'services, but with the viewpoints of the members of the League themselves. Melville E. Stone, whose work was an essential part in the building up of the /Associated Press, himself recounts that during, a presidential campaign the Democrats accused his correspondents of giving the Republicans all the breaks. Shortly after the Democratic convention, the Republicans accused the same set of reporters of giving all the breaks to the Democrats. And actually, of course, the writers tried .their best to present the news as fairly and impartially as they possibly could. Probably the same sort of reasoning prompting both Democrats and Republicans to proitest in former years has led tie Anti-Saloon League to this condemnation. Merely because their interests are not featured consistently on the front pages of all newspapers, they, feel, as Senator Wheeler does, that the news is being colored to their dis- advantage. Undoubtedly anti-prohibition forces in some sectors feel the same way. Yet statistics compiled by the Crusaders show that as far as newspaper lineage .is concerned, the prohibition cause during the past few years has received much more space in newspapers than their opponents., We do not believe the large press associations are at fault. It is solely a matter of personal pre- judice and viewpoint, and the. fact that both sides have sometimes the same complaint shows this assumption to be correct. I /SCREEN RLECIONS I +r i s ir iiriur1ra. +w.. w w i r rf I AT THE WHITNEY Lavish stage sets and tricky camera shots make "Die vom Rummelplatz" an exceptional example of the technique of the German cinema studios. It is a rollicking comedy of European stage life based on the adventures of a family of side-show actors who do a Cinderella to the boards of a first run vaudeville house through the talents of the lovely golden- !-aired daughter-rand is she talented! Anny Ondra-blond and all that-is the heroine of the piece. Her ability to exhibit her graces to best *dvantage is unusual. Aptly assisting the lead is Seigfried Arno, who, though actually little more than z comic, differs from Jimmy Durante mainly in that lie has something to offer beside a nose. Physically the two are very much alike. The tragic element of the story is upheld by Mar- farete Kupfer, as the kleptomaniac carnival per- former, and Viktor Schwannecke, as her husband ind the father of the girl. Beside Miss Ondra and 14r. Arno the chief interest in the show is kept up by an extremely good musical score and the above-mentioned stage sets, which in- "lude several interesting theatre shots and scenes back-stage. "Die vom Rummelplatz" is eminently worth seeing. AT THE MAJESTIC A number of very important people pool their talents for the production of "No One Man," but even Carole Lombard, Paul Lukas, and Ricardo Cortez fail to prevent the occurence of a very n tural circum- stane: a bad story very obviously often makes a bad movie. The best work in the show is done by George Barbier, who seems to be threatening the very secure position Frederick Kerr has earned in the field of character acting. Barbier does a fine performance as the illusionless millionaire father. 'The story is all about the adventures of a woman who can't find just what she wants in any one man and there are a lot of triangles and other geometric figures, eternal and otherwise. K. S. Allo f the freshmen at the University of Maryland are required to work on the student newspaper one day out of each week. We wonder how the paper ever gets to press at all. i l r 1 over the greater portion of the western hemisphere, collecting fau- na for classification. Among those collected he named five new genera and thirty-four new species, all new to science. Michigan's president has a uni- que sense of humor. Last year, on the day he celebrated his 49th birthday and his 25th anniversary as a member of the University Mu- seum staff, he announced the pub- lication of a new scientific work, dedicated to the zoology staff. The day w a s April first, commonly known as Fool's Day. But President Ruthven is no fool- er. The publication referred to is >nly one of 128 scientific articles he has published during his career. A, graduate of Morningside Col- lege, Iowa, (where he was awarded an honorary law degree last year) he came to Michigan's faculty as an instructor in zoology and cura- tor of the zoological museum, the same year that Michigan gave him his Ph. D. degree. For some time he traveled about the United States during spare mo- ments, studying the prairie animals of the mid-west, the reptiles of Ari- zona, and the amphibians of Mich- igan. Then, in 1910, he began his work in the American tropics with an ex- pedition to Mexico to investigate the fauna of the great savannahs in the state of Vera Cruz. He fol- lowed this with subsequent work in South and Central America. Four years after his first tropical venture he went to British Guiana for four months to study the fauna of the sandy beaches which run through the lowland tropical jun- gle more than four miles from the present ocean edge. There he col- lected many reptiles and amphi- bians. Two years .later he was in the Davis Mountain district 'of Texas, then in Tennessee, then in Colum- bia (a long, hard trip by mule and primitive sailing v e s s e 1, entirely around the Sierra Nevada de San- ta Marta). swift pace of Ame In 1924 and 1925 he spent the tackle many an ab summer months in Utah, his last an ingenious solu adventures in the field. In theseg3 years of travel he studied thousands For instance, of specimens of reptiles and amphi- cious seconds cou bians, both living and dead, in his long-estallished laboratory and in the fielg. In addition to his specialty of operator used to reptiles and amphibians, he has by the subscribe) published articles on molluscs, in- sects,, birds, fishes, and mammals. Dr. Ruthven has always adiscour- aged all talk of danger in regard to his work with poisonous reptiles __INUSIC and D'AA PERCY GRANGER Percy Grainger, Australian-American pianist, will give the ninth concert in the season's Choral Union Series Friday evening, offering the following pro- grai: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. .Bach-Tausig-Busoni Parttain B flat.......................... Bach Prelude Allemande Sarabande Minuets I and II Gigue Sonata in F Minor. O . 5................Brahms l ! E I