THE MICHIGAN DAIL;Y TUESDAY, MAY ~, 19~ Published every. morning except Monday during the University by the Board in Contro! of Student Publications. Member of the Western Conference Editorial Association,. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for re- Ication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise ited in this paper and the local news published herein,. Enatered at the. Post &fllce at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second Smatter.> Special rate of postage granted by Third Aspistant maater Geperal. / , Subscription by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.50 fies: Ann Arbor Press Building, Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, iigan. Phones: EditorIal, 4925; Buiness, 22214. . EDITORIAL STAFF Telephonp .425 MANAGING EDITOR -. RICHARD L. TOBIN Etor .............. .......... David M. Nichol rna) Director .'...''.'...'....... Bea''''ch Conge, Jr. I JEditor............ . Sheldo C. Fule o en's Editor...... ...'. .'...Mkirgaret M. Thomps>on :ant News F~ditor......................... Robert L. Pierce N1I~T EDITORS ' B. Gilreh G Jda. Cullen Kennedy Jaoenmes Ingis Karl SeifferA George A. Stauter still others think they are putrid. We have always gotten a laugh out of R'bbt. and Bert, and we believe that*'Girl Crazy" is as good as any and better than most of their series of pictures. You ought to have a pretty good opinion of the picture formed by now but we'll go ahead and give you a sort of resume pf what's in it. "Girl Crazy" has a lot of new jokes and a lot of old ones dressed up in new clothing. The music' is good for the m-ost part, although we didn't care much for the way Kate Foster sang "I Got Rythm." Doro- thy Lee, Robert Woolsey, and Mitzi Green do a tap dance together that wohld be a lot better if they would get out from behind all those beams and well- ropes. There is some good satire on the "spirit of the Old West that was," Mitzi Green is the hit of the show when she imit~ates Bing Crosby, George Arliss, Roscoe Ates, and Edna May Oliver, in a way that ought'to nmake you want to cheer. She may be a precocious child and all that, but she surely can act. Something else that we didn't get enough of was the equestrian quartet rendering "Bidin' My Time."... . . .If you don't like "Girl Crazy' you needn't take it too much to heart. Its probably because you are the serious aijinded sort who wants everything to mean something. To get the best results out of Wheeler and Woolsey you ought to swallow a few feathers or get tight, and we hope you do. J.S.M. THE DANCE IN AMERICA d .a r m e i Sports Assistants a W. Jones John W. Thomas REPORTERS .ey W. Arnheim Harold F. Klute Lid F. lBlankertz John S. Marshall ard C. Campbell Roland Martin las Connellan H{enry Meyer rt S. Deutechi. Albert H. Newman A. Euber E. Jerome Pettit ern Carver Phrudenu.e Foster -ice Coiling Alice G;ilbert it Cadall EFracesh anchester John W. 'Pritchard Joseph Rezihan C. Hart Schaaf Brackiey Shaw Parker Snydier Glenn R. Winters Margaret 0 riea Beverly Stank Jophine Woodhans Charles A. Sanford Miri~ Beats I4oui~ Elsie BUSINESS sTAFF Telephone 21214 NORRaI P. 'JOHNSONE ........... As an Manager Advertising.....................a......... Vernon Bishop Advertising Contracts......................... Harry R. Begley Publiationgs...r.c........... ................Wiliam T. Brown Accounts ..- .............................. .Richard Stratemeir Women's Bunness Manager ..................... Ann W. Vernor I Aronson ert E. Bura1ey ii Ciark ert Finn. na Becker :me Fischgrund serne Jackon Assistants SArthur F. Kohn Bernard Schnacke G~raf ton W. Sharp Virginia McComb Caroline Mosher Heen Semude Donald 'A. Johnson, II Dean Turner Don Lyon Bernard H. Good Helen Spencer Kathryn Spencer Clare Urngerr - iuorothly Layrin May SeeiriedI Mary Elizabeth Watt NIGHT EDITOR-KARL SEIFFERT TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1932 s Let's File Dr. A S the Socialist club so very euphemnistically Smaintains, "reform hi the relationship be- tween the University and the legislative body .of the state so that cuts in the University appropria- tions and cuts in dalaries of faculty members would not be possible" is the remedy which will ~ecure abolition of tuition at the University as welt as pay e~xpen~ses of students financially unalide to obtain an education. (See page 1 of Sunday's Daily.). This >program, coming at a time when the University is being hard pressed to reduce its expenditures by some $700,000, deserves the close attention of President Ruthven and Secretary Smith. Indeed they could probably receive valu- able advice in the matter of financial policy. In addition to finding out how to eliminate the al- ready established cut i~n revenue for the following scholastic .year, they ,could find out how to drop 'another million or so in revenue and still maintain a first rate institution. Of course the fact that President Ruthven has been in closest touch with the financial problems of the University for three years, and Secretary Smith ,for many many more than that, han hardly count in the balance. We approach a new era in University financial policy, with the first step in the pt-ograzn the election of a Socialist member to that policy-determining body, the Student Council! Whee! .- ART Hillel Art Exhibit SA Review by Professor Slusser - It was an excellent idea to have such an exhibit at the Hilfel Foundation. There are some excellent artists represented. There is some special racial characteristic existing in their works, but what it 4s is hard to say. Something in the coloring is rather special. A richness in the school and a display of a good deal of feeling are evident. A good trait is evinced in the interest shown in modernism by these artists. They are quite willing to experiment and do not fall into stereotyped ways of painting. They are very open to new ideas and suggestions. As to the specific works, "The Negress," by Mr. Bayinson of New York is very good in coloring. It is a mature piece of work and beautifully developed in planes. The prize-winning portrait of Mr. Glicken- ~stein modelling a bust of Mr. William Schwartz of Chicago as painted by the latter Is very strong and dramatic. It also has a. good deal of feeling in it. Mr. Enrico Glickenstein's drypoints are very good. Mr. Willi~am Auerbach-Levy is a fine etcher. Mr. Rader, Mr.Lavinger, Miss Gurvitch and Miss Rosenw- thal are all fine representative artists of Detroit. Mr. Rader has a new style of painting. Mr. Q. Raymond Katz of Chicago has an excellent original idea in using Hebraic letters for the background of his pic- tut'es. I anm rather well-acquainted with some of these. works as several of the artists have been pupils by Martha Graham S.(Editor's Note: The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship has -for the first time recognized the dance as an art by granting a fellowship to Miss Graham for the study of native forms and materials in Mexico and Yucatan this spring. Oh her way to Mexico, she will give two dance recitals on June 2 and 3 in the Dramatic Season. The following article was written pspecially for The Michi- gan Daily by Miss Graham.) . To many, America stands among the arts as a tower of Babel, and they are bewildered by the con- fusion, of tongues; to others the varied rhythms of these tongues are exciting, .and their clamor consti- tutes a vital portent. That these rhythms may generate the prodigious energy latent\in them we must become aware-we must learn that we shall perceive thorn by looking up and down and not abroad. It'1is with the question of these very rhythms that the dancer-by dancer we mean the dancer as creator-should be concerned; and the \first an- swer, perhaps the final and only answer, will come from the land itself. It is with the manifestation of an old art in a land newly growing aware that we should be con- cerned, and not with the personalities of those who represent the dance as an art in America today. The eye of the beholdet is apt to becomne so focused upon personalities as to lose sight of the potentialities and trend of the art itself. Dance in its var-ied forms and styles is directly affected by the country in which it manifests itself, but the physical principles, the body, itself, which is the dancer's medium, is eternally subject to certain' laws of rhythm definitely its own. Manner, however, is borg of the climatic, social' and religious conditions of the land in which the dance finds itself. This is the reason why a dance form, whether it be Spanish, Russian, Oriental, or even modern European, when trangplanrted or grafted on a completely alien culture loses its creative energy and becomes decadent or, at best, merely decorative. I Any dance, however formal and stylized its mani- l festation, which does not stem from life itself will I become decadent. It is not possible for One people to 'understand another people' entirely, or to feel with the soul of another. How then is it possible to adopt a dance form which is the revelation of a people's soul? Dance& is movement made divinely significant, and movement is the one speech which cannot lie. In |movement all that is false, too obviously learned becomes glaringly apparent. This is' important inl considering the modern dance, for it is with move- ment, rather -thantwith stieps, that it is con~cerned. America's great gift to the arts is rhythm; rich, full, unabashed, virile. Our two forms of indigenous dance, the Negro and the Indian, are as dramatically contrasted as the land in which they root. The Negro dance is a dance toward freedom, a dance to forget, fulness, often Dionysiac in its abandon and the raw splendor of its geniusc-it is a rhythm of disintegra- tion. The Indian dance, however, is not for freedom, or forgetfulness, or escape, but for awareness of life, complete relationship with that world in which he finds himself; it is a dance for power, a rhythm tf integration. These are primitive sources which, though they may be basically foreign to us, are nevertheless, akin to 1the forces which are at work in our life. :For we, as a nation, are primitive also-primitive i~n the sense that we are forming a new cultule. We are weaving a new fabric, and while it is true that we are weaving it from the threads of many old cultures, the whole cloth will be entirely indigenous. It has been said that the dance today is the un- spanked baby of the American theatre. Most cer- tainly it is the one lusty voice on the American stage. Many hear its voice as a prophecy of the possibility of a theatre of the future. History shows 'that the great theatre 'of the world, whether in Greece or the Orient, had its roots in Yhe dance, and that the the~atre of any culture is only as great as its dance. -Why should fiot all those so deeply concerned \with the modern dramna see that it is not possible for the order of progress to be different? The modern. American dance is characterized, like the true dance of any 'period in world history, by a simplicity of idea, an economy of means, a focus directly upon movement, which is the "stuff" of the dance art, and behind and above and around all, an awareness, a direct relationship to the blood flow of the time and country that nourishes it. To have an American dance we must take these character- istics as a starting* point, then from a cognizance of old forms we shal build a new order. If Gene Tunney should be elected Senator we can think nf enmo nthor Ronitcnre whn wxnii1M hta onrofii1 I EXPLAIN IT s,..,.aEITHER Perhaps you are wondering why that lousey paragraph about the confusion on South Ferry Field has run two or three times during the past week. Well so are we. As fa~r as we can figure it out this is the very same paragraph that we wrote on Tuesday for Wednesday's -col- umn, but got cut because someone wrote too long Campus Opinion. We mentioned the omission in Thurs- day's column and told the story all over again. Then yesterday morn- ing the original turned up, and the make-up man, as a special favor to us, jerked the picture of Dr. Ruthven and stuck this pairagraph on the bottom of the column. And on top of all this mess, we, who thought we had fifteen dollars in the bank, rectived notice this morn- ing that we were overdrawn two dollars. It certainly is discouraging. * * And here is a~ clipping from the "Bridgman Enterprise." Bridgman, as you probably don't know, is a small t o w n in Berrien County, Michigan, with a population of 200 at ieast. THE FUNNIEST THING I EVER WROTE By F. W. Baldwin The frill is goob Her boots am boob Burp lattiss geek She imus leek. (With apologies to Lewis Carol. Why not?) (Translated The girl is good Her boy is bad But that is why She is so glad. This poem isn't so hot but we had to have something in today about golf. We received a note this morning from. a member of the Sports Staff, who reports that he has at ]ast shown what a big bunch'of ninny- hammers there are on the Women's staff. This enterprising young man has always had an ambition to write a fashions artcle. He wr~ote one, put the name of a member of the Women's Staff on it, and put it in the dask with the rest of the Women's copy. Yestorday morn- ing his fashions article appeared in a prominent place on the Women's Page. The big advantage of this story ovet~ mnst othe style articles on the V/me's Pa ;e is that it doesn't mean a thing. A few char- acteristic phrases: "widely woven ~wools." "A twisted turban-effect ~hat set off her tlelicate features and lent a tone of du .monde." "Egg- shell satins have almost been prom- inent-." "The general trend of the fashion mart is toWards a model effect-.. " - Eggshell Satins. ON A WANING LOVE -. p p 0 (0 (0 ~j C) "< ~ 02 ,,~ ~. 0) ~, (0 c-'- p ~ (0 (0 ('4- p ~ ~Z~2 ~< 0 ~< ~ p ,-.. UCJ 02 ~ ~< P 42 p P 't ~ p ~ p c-*.~ o p 0 ~ P Ct ~ p ~ (0 C,') ~ _ '.~ ~-~< '~ I-I (0 .~ 0 ~ ~ p I~'~)~ ~ CO .. (0 .'~ ~1 ~ p (0 ,; P ~ "1 ~ (0 ~ ,0(0 p 02 (0 (0 ~ .~ (0 ~ ,.. ~ ~4- ~. (0 ,'.. C) 02 (0 i~~-. (0 P ('1- ie e~ :hibit will continue throughi May 16th, at The early fervor displayed by Sammy Jay in making a tryout for the Rolls Editorship, seems to be the sun and extentt of in- +a.no+ in+ 4 -lat n no -+a, wUa