P " THE MICHIGAN DAILY Published every morning except Ionday during the University year by the Board in Control of Student Publications. Member of the Western Conference Editorial Association. The AssociateL P1rCss is exclusively entitled to the use for re- pubIication of all news dispatches creiited to it or not otherwisel credited in this paper and the local news published hehein. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan. as second class matter. Special rate of postage granted by Third Assistant Postmaster General. Subscription by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.50_ Offices: Ann Arbor Press Building, Maynard Street, Am Arbor, Michigan. Phones: Editorial, 4925; Business, 21214. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR FRANK- B. GILBRETH LIT i t ................ ........1[; I.SEI'I' ER' Spor ts 1ditor.....................johnWNV. 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Maples Marie Metzger BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 21214 J sph \\. eniihan I. j1 erone Pettit .Albert Newmnn rlexander I irchile d WVal ter F .Morrison Ward I.Al or ton Robert Ruwitch, Alvin Schleifer C. Edwin shlhrick Robert W. Thorne George Van Vleck Ca'neron Walker Robert S. Ward Guy Al. Whipple, jr NV. Stoddard White Marie J. Murphy Margaret C. Phalan Sarah 1K. Rucker Marion Shepard Beverly Stark Alma Wadsworth Marjorie Western Josephine woodhanj, evidence of thorough training which promises well for tomorrow, but as seems inevitable the sopranos D SA G O NA eclipsed the rest in all tutti passages. Mr. Earl V. D A OL Moore conducted with a firm beat, a valuable avoid- ance of rubato, and every mark of pleasure. Stan-ge-laus The Rachmaninoff was much more satisfying, and Free Beer probably seemed more than satisfying to listeners better pleased with the idiom than I. The work is Done in Oils a worthy sample of ripe and partially decayed ro- manticism: the classical forms are -tortured, but they By Barton Kane are recognizable; the classical chords are aberrent, but they resolve. As might be expected, it is emin- ently pianistic. Jack Slater, Michigan's negro Both Miss Gradova and the orchestra brought to boxer, was christened Stanglaws this work the intensity, the seriousness, and thei command of.medium that it requires. Miss Gradova, Sidney, Siater. He pronounces his who is no stranger to Ann Arbor toldtimer Ratner frst name as Stan-ge-laus and woe tells me she played at the Union in 1925) is as good be unto the person who calls him as she was advertised. A masculine touch, great Sidney. Incidently, his ribs are firmness in arpeggio-playing, thorough understand-cg ing. ai.?d a perfect accord with the orchestra were a' few of her virtues. For the latter a fair share of says that he will be back in the ring credit is due to the unaging Frederick Stock. The in about six weeks. large and well-dressed audience was enthusiastic. NOTE'ON STRAVINSKY The co-eds at Mosher Jordan coy- It could not be deduced, either from the advance ly call the north wing of the hall notices of these concerts or from its quiet position the "sick end" and the south wing, in tomorrow's program, that Stravinsky's Symphonie the "dead end," because of their des Psaumes (needlessly called "Symphonic Psalms") respective proximities to the Hos- is the most important of all the works to be presented pital and the Cemetery. this week; yet I assert this without the faintest twinge of exaggeration. . The Symphonie is a setting for truncated orches- Among the many who frequented tra (no violins) and chorus of three texts from the the Third Annual Exhibition of Psalms: "Hear My Prayer," "I Waited Patiently," and Sculpture, held way up on the "Praise Ye the Lord." It has this status: it is ao major (perhaps the major) work of the best composer one of those dear old ladies ,vho alive; and it is the only successor in the male line stood entranced before Helen Bai- of devotional music to Bach's Matthew and Beethov- bey's portrait of Robert Hefferan, en's Mass in D. If the whole structure is too big and Michigan's best-dressed man. After too plain to be easily grasped, the work offers even gazing many minutes at it in rapt to a first serious hearing moments as strong, good, admiration, she was heard to sigh, and exciting as any. "I wish I could adopt a son like It has been asserted that contemporary music that." lacks foundation;'in particular Stravinsky's composi- tions have embarrassed those critics who in the * * * presence of fireworks can see nothing but fireworks. Howaid Gould is one of the finest Others, though dazzled, have perceived behind this gentlemen in the senior class and shifting brilliance a familiar darkness, and the solid probably the finest on the Student shadows of a world. The Symphonie des Psaumes Council, but his biggest drawback lays bare, in the plain language of faith, some land- is that he loves publicity. His idea scapes of this world. I should advise my readers to of the meanest trick that The Daily listen for all they are worth. ever played on him was when it mispelled his last name. Since then THE 'HEATRE RETURNS TO FESTIVAL ;he has often given news stories to by Oliver M. Sayler reporters and told them to print his Editor's Note: The following article, printed by name ten times and spell it a dif- permission of the author, is to appear next week iferent way each time. CHARLES T. KLINE ........................ Business Manager NORRIS P. JOHNSON .....................Assistant Manager Department Managers Advertising......................................Vernon Bishop Advertising Coptracts ..........................Harry R. Begley Advertising Service............................FByron C. Vedde Publications.................................. William T. Brown Accounts ....................................Ribhard Stratemeit Women's Business Manager ......................Ann W, Vernot Trvil Aronson Gilbert E. Bu"sley Allen Clark Robert Finn Arthur E. Kohn Bernard Schnacke Grafton W. Sharp Donald A. Tohnson, bean Turner Assistants D~onllIyon B~ernard I-. Good Donna Becker Maxine Fischgrund \nn Gallmeyer Katherine Jackson D)orothy Laylin II\'irginia AleCromb Caroline Aloslier H elen Olson helen Schmude May Seefried Helen Spencer Kathryn Spencer Kathryn Stork C hare Unger M:ary Elizabeth Watts THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1932 Night Editor-E. JEROME PETTIT Our Institutions H ORRIBLE enough on its very face is the mur- der of the Lindbergh baby. But the whole affair-from the kidnapping two months ago to the discovery of the body the other day-has an importance which far outweighs that of the loss of a single life, no matter how touching such a loss may be or how much sympathy one extends to the parents of the child. For the Lindbergh kidnapping is the symbol of the uncertainty and the insecurity of the whole country at this time. And the failure of the organ- ized governmental officials to solve the mystery and regain the child is the symbol of the utter hopelessness in which American society finds itself. All over the country, parents are wonder- ing how safe are their children; people are asking whether the government will be able to find again for them their former security and safety. So it is only proper and fitting at this time to ask ourselves the question: "Is there not some need for a change of some kind?" The answer is inevitably, yes. But the rub comes when we try discover just what kind of a change is needed, and can be successfully applied. And when we inquire into the nature of any suggested change, we find that at the present moment there seems to be no one thing that can be done to relieve the entire situation. But we have this consolation: out of times as difficult and problems as unsolvable as our present ones, the organizations and institutions which we now use carried us. And there is no reason to believe that they cannot again serve us. It should therefore be our purpose to utilize the existing institutions to the fullest extent, to strengthen them so they can,serve better, and finally to try in every manner to adjust ourselves and our actions to the existing circumstances. MU C and DRAMA FIRST FESTIVAL CONCERT A Review by F. Brandeis The opening concert of the 37th May Festival was given last night in Hill Auditorium. The program offered two works: Haydn's Oratorio the Creation (the first two parts), and Rachmaninoff's piano con- certo in C minor. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra collaborated in both performances: first with Ruth Rodgers, Frederic Jagel, Chase Baromeo, and the 'ehoral Union; afterwards with Giuta Gradova. The Creation is a . radical case of mischosen medium. It is difficult to believe that the composer of this vacuous work was Papa Haydn, who wrote the Surprise Symphony and 124 others, of which any I have heard is pleasant and most of them charming. The Creation is not pleasant music, though it tries to be; it is sweet, simple, and wonderfully uninterest- ing. Haydn's fruitful dexterity is worn here to a barren compete:nce; his imagination, which moves cn nivh1u in the tio'ht harness nf instrumental forms I I in the Sunday Dramatic Page of the New York Herald-Tribune. Oliver Sayler, distinguished as a critic of the theatre, is the author of "Behind the Doors of the Moscoe Art Theatre" and "Re- volt in the Arts." A friend of mine who knows enough about the theatre to be a dramatic critic and enough about how to achieve peace of mind not to be one, stoutly maintains that there is nothing new in the so-called new theatre and new stagecraft-and new "move- ments" in general. All else, he asserts, is re-discovery, retrieval, remembrance of things past. I suppose, therefore, we would have to agree that the present trend toward Dramatic Festival in this country, typified by Robert Henderson's season which is just opening for the third consecutive yaer in the Lydia Mendelssohn theatre of the University of, Michigan, is likewise a reincarnation of an idea as old as the theatre itself. For it was in dramatic festivals in a cupped slope; of the Acropolis--the Lenaea in January, devoted largely to comedy; and the City Dionysia in April, reserved chiefly for tragedy-that the drama of West- ern Europe, our drama, was born and bred. Sometimes I think we would have been much wiser and happier if we had kept our drama and theatre as a seasonal pastime instead of spreading Last week, Howard was running around the Press building with a new 'Ensian asking whomever he saw which one of his 14 pictures that appear in the book was the best likeness. *5 * * Maestro Albert Lockwood, piano teacher at the music school, was ac- cused by some co-ed of being a great virtuoso. Professor Lockwood bowed and explained, "Ah no, I am merely a virtue-so-so." * * * The Varsity Lunch, that restaur- ant on Liberty street that is sup- posed to be open all night but real- ly closes at 2:30 o'clock, has this sign in the window: "Ice cold free beer served with sandwiches and orders." But who wants to walk way down there? i l l i I ait incessantly around the year and around the clock. In spite of the raving and rant- iting heads of organizations do about Imagine the thrill of expectation with which Mhe Athenian must have looked forward twice a year to the importance of their particular his dramatic festivals! groups, I believe no one is interest- To wish for a complete return to the now-and- ,ed in student government on the then nature of the theatre in the age of Pericles campus. Last night, the Interfra- would be as futile as to long for the day when news- ternity Council planned on passing papers would be published only when there was news. for the second time its new rushing But it is not futile to try to recapture the festival.:lan which, if approved by the sen- spirit inherent in the presentation of a coherent pro- ate committee, is expected to be the gram of plays by a coherent group of actors for a financial saviour of the fraternities. limited period of time. For passing an amendment to the The metropolis is no place for such a festival, for constitution, as is necessary in this rivalry is death to festival. Instead, take your mod- case, three-fifths of all the houses ern dramatic festival to a small community, not too ! in the Council must approve of the distant from main-travelled roads. Make your play- plan. Only thirty houses answered going a bit difficult, and it will become alluring. It the roll call when thirty-five werc is that psychological truth which has actuated young needed. It was only after a prolong- Henderson at Ann Arbor just as it did the pioneers ed recess during which time all of the festival movement in modern Europe. absent houses were called that the Henderson frankly acknowledges his debt to con- five additional delegates arrived tinental pioneers. "There is, I feel, a very exciting and saved the situation. If the idea behind the Ann Arbor Dramatic Season," he fraternities aren't going to look aft- says. "Basically, of course, it is built upon the plan ! er their welfare, who will? Quis of the European festivals; its aim is to gather at the custodet ipsos custodes?I end of the season the finest representative talent of the professional theatre and present it in the most! exciting standard of plays. For the benefit of those students "Now, why Ann Arbor?" he continues, "In the first planning on coming to summer place, Ann Arbor is the seat of the University of school, there was a course in Canoe- Michigan, and provides with its student body and ing in last summer's catalogue for faculty a very cosmopolitan and appreciative aud- one half credit. ience. When you bring-for example-Glenn Hunter * * * or Martha Graham or Violet Heming, they do not look at you blankly in wonder; they know who these Charles Rush, the cynic of the artists are, their position in the New York theatre. Phi Psi house, at the present time is their most recent successes. Similarly, when you being done in oils by some very bring them plays that are still running in New York good looking girl from the archi- tecture school. It isn't what you -before they have been presented in any other city think, sholy itin h had. in the country-they appreciate such a distinction. thmk, she is only paintig his head. They enjoy the rather thrilling sense of being sophis- s n. ticated theatre patrons.; "Again, Ann Arbor possesses a new and beautifully This year's graduates are not so equipped theatre, and the patronage and interest- hard up as they think themselves however unofficial-of various important civic and to be. I was talking to a business1 University organizations. Such an interest regards man yesterday who said that dur- the theatre n sn imnnrtant nultural addition to its ng the past two years he had takenI READ THE DAILY CLASSIFIEDS! 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