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oCatherineOf Russia. While "Peter tbbetson" spins
is sentiment in the heroic mould of the 1870's about DIA GO NA L
1 ~ ~ IPeter and the beautiful Duchess, and their dream-_Cid e ,M m y a d G -o
.children, Mimsy and Qo-go.
Published every morning except Monday during the University Gold Quits Poli-s
ear by the Board in Control of Student Publications. "Great Catherine" has a considerable sentimentalMb oh sn f cE rs.n
The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for re- history of its own, sheerly in connection with its Union Hours Yoakum.
ublication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise many Ann Arbor performances-65 in all, when the
redited.in this paper and the local news published hehein.
present revival is completed. As should be known Stacks of Books.
Entered at ete Post officeat Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second by now, it has achieved the longest run of any play
ass matter. Special rate of postage granted by Third Assistant'gypy
ostmaster General. ever to be presented here, and doubtless it has played By Barton Kane
+ Subscription by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.50 I to more people than any other single play. It also
Offices: Ann Arbor Press Building, Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, stands-in the opinion of many-as the company's No soonerwere seniori invittions
Michigan. Phones: Editorial, 4925; Business, 21214. finest production; finest, in the sense that it.: is-the placed in circulation than Alexan-
gayest, the most spontaneous and hearty. - de Gn Ru th aecAleca-
EDITORIAL STAFF The present revival includes four of the members GrantRuthven,snake-colle-
Telephone 49265h rsntrvvlicldsfu f h ebr tor, received an urgent phone call
of the original cast (when it was first presented in from distracted p parent s. Miss
MANAGING EDITOR the Mimes theatre one winter night in January in DrotyD i cedp rsdent os
FRANK B. GILBRETH 1925), including Amy Loomis in the title .role ofD Y, -
UIT oEDITOR..........................KARL, SEIFFERT Catherine II of Russia; Lillian Bronson as Varinka' the senior CaSS, had had her name
Sprts Editor.......................... John W. Thomas' spelled Danils. Could Snake-col-
omen's Editor............................Margaret O'Brien William Bishop, rescued from the Harvard Law
ssistant Women's Editor..........E1sie Feldman ' lector Ruthven do anything about
eelegraph E~tor ..........................George A. Stauter drhkeld part ofarys a ydrms as this.atrocious &imo? Museums-
11the drunken Prince Patiomkin, It was "Great Cath- mnRtvnpoie otk m
NIGHT EDITORS ImeitRuheprmsdoaki-
ohn W. Pritchard Glenn R. Winters Joseph W. Renihan erine, whether fortunately or no, that definitely mediate action, ailed Chairman of
Brackley Shaw Thomas Connellan E. Jerome Pettit started the so-called "dramatic renaissaned" on the Iniation cmtee Hardaft
C. Hart Schaaf campus. And it has the further sentimental attrac- Invitations committee Howard Taft
Sports Assistants tion of never having been played without Miss Gould eto his office, bawled him
Fred A. Huber Roland Martin Albert Newman Loomis as the Russian Queen, who was reall a utand reprimanded him for the
heinous error
REPORTERS German, who had the figure of a Juno and the Smoothest Politician Gould has
tanley W. Arnheim Theodore k/ Cohen Alexander Hirschfeld manners of a fish-fag.
Edward Andrews Robert S. Deutsch Walter E. Morrison spent many weary hours bolting
.yman . Aronstam Donald Elder Ward D. Morton Since each production of "Great Catherine"-in classes to take orders for samein-
A. Ellis Ball Robert Engel Robert Ruwitch
Charles G. Barndt Albert Friedman Alvin Schleifer our own minds-should be an improvemen over the vitations, and many more hours in
FAmes Bauchat Edward A. Genz G. Edwin Shedrick former revival-special care is being taken in the room 4 distributingte.Hi e
Donald R. Bird Harold Gross Robert W. Thorne4them. His re-
Donald F. Plankertz Eric Hall George Van Vieck current performance to give an added glamour to the muneration for the only post in
WillardE. Blaser John C. ealey Cameron .Walker settings and costumes (the performances themselves, the senior committees that involves
Charles B. Brownson Robert B. Hewett Robert S. WardthSeirom testatnV1e
C. Garritt Bunting M. D. Higgins Guy M Whipple, Jr. in our own modest opinion, are just about all they work is two invitations. Gould, dis-
Arthur W. Car~tens W. Stoddard White can be). Miss Loomis is to wear the rather breath- gusted with paternalism, says he is
Eea o Bart . PrudenAcerlbert Margaret CPhalan taking costumes which were originally worn by Doris through w i t h politics. I don't
Jane H. Brucker Carol J. Hannan Sarah K. Rucker Keane in ~The Czarina"; while Stewart Chaney, I blame him but
Miram Carver Therese R. Herman Marion Shepard feel, has done his most distinguished work of the So was Ben Fishman three years
Beatrice Collins Frances Manchester Beverly Starke a e iha he er
Mary J. Copeman Ejjzabeth Mann --Alma Wadsworth season in his designs for the settings-with their ago.
Louise Crandall -Mith E. Maples Marjorie Western twisted towers, their leering Madonnas and paunchy* ,
cherubs and, above all, the litter and mess and the Robert Kidder, a freshman in the
BUSINESS STAFF SMELL of Patiomkin's cellar-chamber.
Telephone 21214 Engineering school has the record
ARLES T. KIN .................... Business Manager When Miss Gertrude Kingston, who created the for persistence. He asked a girl
N RRIS P. JOHNSON ..................... Assistant Manager role of Catherine in the original performance, was from Detroit, his home town, to the
Department Managers irehearsing her part she was deluged with notes from J-Hop this year. She came. Last
detaing.... .... ....................Vernon Bishop Shaw himself. I have at hand the copy of two week he wrote her and asked her
Advetising Contracts ...................... Harry R. Begley
Advertising Service.......................... Byron C. Vedder letters--one from Mr. Shaw himself, written to her to come out for the next three J-
Publcations ............................. ..,.William T. Brown for performance in London; and one from the
Accounts ....k....,,,............ ......Richard Stratemeir M ops. She accepted. Ile doesn't go
Women's Business Manager .................... Ann W, Vernow actress-n anager herself about his ways with her steadily with her in Detroit.
Assistants - . during rehearsals. Both are amusing and the second * - *
Irvil Aronson Don Lyon Caroline Mosher is uncommonly interesting in the glimpses of Mr. At 2:30 o'clock Saturday morning,
Gilbert E. Bursley Bernard H, Good Helen Olson Shaw as a producing playwright. Hi. own note, in
Allen Clark Donna Becker Helen Schmude ' police saw a negro lurking'around
Robert Finn Maxine Fischgrund May Seefried his familiar fine and precise hand upon one of his Mosher-Jordan hal. They decided
Arthur E. Kohn - Ann ,Gallneyer Helen Spencer familiar gray post-cards, goes: "Where are you justJY
Bernard Schnacke Iatherine Jackson Kathryn Spencer to arrest him for being around the
Grafton W. Sharp Dorothy Laylin .Kathryn Stork at present? I return to London tomorrow on my dormitory at that time. They cas-
Donald A. Johnson, IIVirginia McCromb Clare Unger way to the North;. but I may be able to pause longdohm iy thad car.andyfhn-
Dean Turner Mary Elizabeth Watts y C ed him in the squad car and fin-
Wtsenough to give you a notion of what Catherine will al ikdhmu nte10
be like. It is in four scenes, of three and a half are ally picked him up on the 1200
gactually in black and white in the rough; and when The negro said he was out walking.
Night Editor-C. HART SCHAAF the shorthand is transcribed I can read enough of ' d k
them to prepare you for the worst. The men's parts
SUNDAY, JUNE 5, 1932 - are very good, Catherine's very poor; nothing but The smartest bit of politicianing
dress and undress (Gaby Deslys fashion). Also, the for the year goes to Edward J. Mc-
A men will be expensive: we must have McKinnel for Cormick, Student Council tycoon.
A nn A rbor s Patiomkin and Loraine for the English captain who Bs comkhdteCucl
gets around Catherine. She, alas! is a mere dupe constitution aended so that mnem-
and feeder; you will have to give her a great air-the' of this year's body can serve
Dramiatc Festivl old, weary game of bricks without straw." next :etaron th Council-If they are
Miss Kingston's own note xuns: '"Shaw writes let- inUral uiate school. The Senate
NN ARBOR is becoming conscious of the ters constantly while wbirking on a play. During (o ittee on Student Affairs ap-
metropolitan theatre if the interest evinced in 'Catherine' he wrote me incesantly, his correspond- proved the change. McCormick en-
interest evinced in the 1932 edition of the Drama- ence ranging from long letters to post-cards with ters graduate school next year,
tic festival is reliable evidence. According to Rob- absurd tinselled pictures of women on them, and *-
ert Henderson, manager of the festival, 'There's would label them : 'This is the latest portrait of Vice-President Clarence S. Yoak-
Always Juliet" broke the financial and attendance Catherine!' It has seemed to me that Shaw finds a um, the man'who \ats to know
records for the theatre for the week that it was on. relief in writing these things; he discusbes his char- how much time the aculty spend
This interest began quite a few years ago when acters, his situations, his ideas with himself, in these on their work, has prepared an-
Robert Henderson began bringing the Rockford charming correspondences. He never spares himself, other questionnaire, according to
players to Ann Arbor with an occasional prom- Even in this post-card enclosed lie refers to Cather- rumors. Slave Driver Yoakum sent
inent New York star. Contrast this with the pre- ine slightingly. He considers his work unsatisfactory, out a similar queStionaire last fall
sent season with a different and distinguished star although in fact, he has never done a more charming and the faculty go pretty angry.
for each play. and living being than Catherine, and no actress Now he has re-wofled his sheet
Not only is the fe tival locally famous but it ,would do otherwise than love to portray her upon aid sent it to the' department
is gradually assuming. the same nati9fial promin- the boards of the thetre. heads. Unfdrtunately, the sheets
ence in the dramatic world that the May Festival "To me, Shaw reveals his true modesty in his were sent out too soon. The Presi-
has long 'owned in the world of music. Reviewers letters. To the world he often seems a man tremen- dent wanted a letter to go along
in many New York and Boston papers have begun dously conceited; but in his correspondence he shows with the blanks. The department
to comment on the Ann Arbor dramatic season and himself in a truer light, as a simple, unaffected, heads were notified; told to send
the prominence of the artists and plays which are modest person, even-as is the case with most great the blanks back to Mr. Yoakum.
being presented. - artists-having his moments of doubt and lack of * * *
Two plays have been presented'here this year self-confilence. The Pan Hellenic association,
before their production elsewhere outside of New "Shaw criticises unmercifully. This is wrong, and which is the Interfraternity Coun-
York. "There's Always Juliet" closed in New York that is wrong, and this scene is ruined because So- cil for co-eds, has decided that the
during the week that it was being presented here and-So does this or So-and-So does that; but his sororities are getting to elaborate
because both.of. the principal characters had been criticisms are always just and justified. He knows in their rushing. They past a rul-
offered very lucrative moving picture contracts, exactly what he wants, and every effect has been ing recently that there could be
and "The Animal Kingdom," which opes tomor- studied in the minutest detail. At one time, he wrote no more pirate dinners, cabarets, or
row, evening, is still packing 'em in on Broadway. to me in a playful way: 'You will persist in saying circusesyear
The artists who have appeared on the programs these words and patting Patiomkin on the cheeks the decorations are limited to flow-
this year are a'so a tribute to the fame of the sea- while saying it, when you ought to say the words and ers and candles.
son. Martha Graham is conceded to be the best then pat him!' Not a detail escapes him." Miss Lloyd didh't have anything
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Of "Peter Ibbetson," one has the most com
cated things to say-concerning sentiment, conc
ing romance on the heroic scale, concerning glam
and candles and lovers in moonlight and the m
drama that inevitably arises from a parting of
hero and heroine.
'the stage version of "Peter Ibbetson" preserve
an unexpected degree much of the glamour,
fragrance of one of the most charming romance
the English language. More than a quarter o
century after the tale was told, its dramatiza
came to New York to the Republic Theatre.
"Peter Ibbetson" was Du Maurier's first storya
like an early De Morgan, he was fast approach
sixty when he wrote it. He was then an artis
rare skill and humor, and as a 'somewhat eleg
successor to Leech, had for nearly five and twe
years filled the treasure-ladden pages of Punch v
his politely ironic drawings of English society,
a priceles record of their times, which may, howe
mislead future generations into the delusiont
the "tight little island" was inhabited late in
nineteenth century by a race of gods and goddes
BUt, as for any other use of his tireless pen, hel
done littlemore than write the jests his pict
As the story runs, he was strolling home from
club one night with the late Henry James, who va
admired Du Maurier and who must have had as
cial affection for him because of all that Pu
meant to him as a boy. To James that night
Maurier unfolded his scheme for the story of "T
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