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Grafton Sharp; Contracts, 0rvi Aronson; Advering Berv- No Tuner; AcBrntsBernardnE., Shnacke; Cir- ton, Gibert E. Bursley; Publications, Robert E. F OUR thousand Ann Arbor music lovers Tuesday night heard the opening presentation of the Choral Union series, which will bring nine more outstanding musical organizations and individual artists here before the famous May Festival week next spring. The Boston Symphony, led by Dr. Serge Koussevitzky, gave a great performance that amply justified the enthusiasm of the audience. The program was ar- ranged with remarkable care; the orchestra was -just what one of the greatest symphony organi- zations in the world should be. So again we offer our congratulations to the Choral Union; not only for the work of the or- chestra, but also on the success of the ambitious program of bringing the best in the musical world to Ann Arbor, while other small cities, in the belief] that good music is too great a luxury for this era of depression, are permitting interest in such events to lapse. And we congratulate those who heard the con- cert as well. It is through these discriminating listeners, who appreciate the finest talent and throng the auditorium to hear such artists as Dr.' Koussevitzky and the members of the orchestra, that the Choral Uniorr is able to make Ann Arbor a real musical center. ScrAeenReflections e s n~t1nrirM e Four stars means a super-picture; three stars very good; two stars good; one star just another picture; no stars keep away from it. AT THE MAJESTIC 'artean-and yet the unflagging rhythmical en- ergy, the clowning, almost coarsely vital humor, and the angular melodic outlines, give it a very different quality. It is a distinctly individual work and essentially modern, in spite of all the restrict- ing formulas, with a life and a vigor that need: no explanatory titles or programs-a work that is a delightful contribution to the unqualified expressions of absolute music. As Prokofieff has been called the "cubist in music," Debussy is as wrongly termed the "im- pressionist." His are no blobs of tone, smeared in any order across ;;ie musical canvas. He is colorful, he is ever changing, he is fragmentary- but, in his best things at least, he is inevitable. The two Nocturnes, Nuages and Fetes, were as different in their own ways as a Whistler and a Cezanne, yet each had a coherent unity, a single- ness of impression, that is not wholly sensuous. The gray white monotony of the slow passing clouds-the whirling joyousness, the captivating spirit, all the gay rags and tatters of the carnival -each was expressed in his own peculiar clear, sliding harmonies-and yet each was right. It is unfair when he can paint with such a nebulous, unlimiting power of suggestion, to accuse him of narrow restrictions. When one can sketch so per- fectly, why bother with the ponderous materials of a symphony? * (Or Less) "A WOMAN COMMANDS" ore Barash, Jack Bellamy, Gordon ert, Jack Efroymson, Fred Hertrick, 1Knuusi, Russell Read, Lester 3kin- and Robert Ward. 0inmy. Blliye Grffiths, Dorothy Cor, Helean &hume, May Seefried,y THURSDAY, OCT. 27, 1932. ducation Or4 'rohibition1 . wil b M ICHIGAN voters will be given their first opportunity since the enact-t ent of the Eighteenth Amendment to register eir opinions on the matter of morals legislation their decision on the State Dry Law Repeal oendment this fall. That prohibition has failed is no longer a matter] question to nearly all fair-minded persons. A w obstinate fantatics still hold to the principle legislating morals but the average man realizes at laws which cannot command the respect of e great majority are detrimental to the insti- ton of law itself. The dry law has tended to in- ease not only the number of persons indulging alcohol, but has carried the drinking habit to ass in which it has been hcretofore: unknown -wmen, adolescents, ad the so-called respect- Ale classe. It has also tended to increase the coholic ogntent of liquor. Final eloquent testi- ony to the failure of prohibition is evident in ie inroads that the Al Gapones and Legs Dia- onds of Volsteadism have made upon our na- >nal security. The repeal of the state dry law, however, en- munters other complications. The claim of the ponents of the measure that it is a nullification the national law by the state deserves some at- ntion. Does it nullify the national law? It ight be well here to ask another question. Call te state nullify a national law? According to all gal precedent, it cannot. Then, why pass a state peal amendment? The answer is quite simple. The national pro- ibitio law amnd the state dry law are two en- rely different things. Their own relation is in iat they deal with the same problem, i. e. the >etrol of the liquor traffic. The state law was not aacted as an enforcement agency for national rohiition. It was enacted BEFORE the Eight- enthi Amendment The Federal law does not call !3j the 1tate for it enforccmenu. It must be en- )rced by Federal officers and its off enders tried i Federal courts. The repeal of the stale dry law- annot obstruct the enforcement of national pro- The Queen ......... ....... Pola Negri The King ................ Roland Young Alex . , ... . ... ... . Basil Rathbone The Major-Domno ..I. . H. B. Warner The program in brief: While not wishing to condemn a moving picture in toto or even in part without adequate reason, there is a time when it does become necessary to follow in George Jean Nathan's steps and attack in whole-hearted vein. "A Woman Commands" has, probably, nothing whatsoever to recommend it other than Roland Young, who is a perennial favorite and so can hardly be counted among the attractions of this certain production. Taking place in a mythical kingdom of central Europe, the picture tells of the adventures of Maria Draga (Miss Negri), a cabaret singer who becomes the wife of the king of the country in question. After a revolution, a charge of illegiti- macy against her son, a proposed firing-squad at dawn, a few conferences between domos and senechals, the singer is released to her lover, Alex, played in the accepted manner by Basil Rath- bone. Mr. Rathbone, who by his own confession in an early talking picture, is Bah-sil Rath-bun, is too tall, too dark, too much a lover, too much the height of militarism to be interesting, "Paradise," which was banned from the radio some weeks ago for its alleged "suggestiveness," is sung very well by Miss Negri, but the American public patently does not care for its popular: music after weeks of repetition. To use a trite phrase, "Paradise" is as old as yesterday's news- paper. The climax of "A Woman Commands" is, to the reviewer's mind and to the minds of many others who witnessed it, a fnff. When the revolution seems at its height, and Miss Negri's hour darkest, and the priest who is to bless her before the dawn shootigg is on her very threshold, Alex hands her into a carriage and . . . there is a fadeout, as utterly imprevue as Miss Negri's col- lapsed return to stardom. Added attractions: "Scram!" a Laurel and Hardy comedy, uproariously funny; Hearst Metro- tone News. -G. M. W., Jr. Musical Events THlE flOSTON SYMPHONY The Strauss tone poem, Don Juan, has, if one can forget all the various labels and tags which have been attached to it by over assiduous musical researchers, a very real emotional quality of its own. There is a certain naivete, an unquenched eagerness, a youthful egoism that make it the incarnate spirit of all the young seekers of all time. If it must be a Don Juan, then at least it should be a very adolescent one-one who has yet to know the meaning of boredom. There is nothing of the cynic-of the world weary profli- gate in this music. It, too, has a definite sensuous appeal-a glamorous one that sweeps you off your feet to ride along with it on the top of life. But, if one can read all the various loves, the bitter revulsions, the unfilled desire for the ideal, and the final repentance and death, into this vital, un- confined, and highly emotional music, they arc both to be congratulated and condoncdd. The Tschaikowsky Fifth Symphony is almost purely surface music. Its "attractive luxury of feeling" makes an immediate appeal to the senses which takes no second hearing to be appreciated, and has given it a wide popularity among concert goers-and justly so. It is quite perfect-for that kind of music. Mr. Koussevitsky's liberties with the interpretation are very understandable from that point of view. After all, if emotion is tlh essence of the work, that, and that alone, should receive the chief emphasis. And: it did, The char- acteristic Tschaikowsky orchestration was espe- cially evident in the fourth movement with its circular flourishes in the strings and ammunition effects among the brass and drums. It is the kind of thing that can be simply wallowed in until every sense is thoroughly satiated, just as certain good ladies will go to sad movies for a "good cry." The audience was very responsive and quite rightly rewarded the musicians with an en- thusiastic ovation, which, one may hope, was not entirely in response to the closing work. Little can be said of such an orchestra under the leadership of such a conductor. The string section was especially fine, with a vibrancy and a life that makes it unsurpassably eloquent. In all it is a superb orchestra, under the baton of a very great musician-the limitations of the English language let one go no further. if I ,4 I : s c 4 E le XI to Wear these NEW BALL-BAND LOCKER SANDALS Clean! Comfortable! SafeI Light in weight and inexpen- sive, The very latest and best in protection for locker room, shower or beach. Soft, thick, cushioning sioles of sponge rubber-wonderfully o"fortable on concrete or te loors-and sealed so they do not soak up water or germs. On the bottom a layer o spe- cial material that DOES NOT SLIP on wet floors. Cannot be damaged by water. Easily sterilized. 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The same ingenuity and thoroughness go intO every step of making cable, telephones, switch- boards and many other kinds of telephone equip- ment. The dependable apparatus that results is one reason why Bell System service is dependable. I. Sf Io, Don't Risk 'AHEE I III BELL; SYSTEM -; = . ,. s a e y: A NATION.WIDE SYSTEM OF INTER-CONNECTING TELEPHONES MICHIGAN DAILY ADVERTISEMENTS PAY -701~110 --Kathleen Murphy Other College CAMPUSES I r P IN CHORAL UNION C0)IN C E RT SERIES I SLEEPING in class was required at Colgate re- cently. A psychology professor was trying to determine the most effective pitch for an alarm clock. Song Recital TICKETS On Sae' at School of Music 0-EDP play football and men knit at the Uni- versity of Melbourne, Australia. The men tool up knitting as a protest against the women who have adopted rugby as one of their major sports. * * * WEDNESDAY Nov. A, 8:15 P. M. The repeal of the state law will not bring the gal distribution of liquor back. But it will bring out a tremendous reduction in state expendi- [res. It will mean that Michigan can cut a large mnbe'r of law enforcement officers from its pay- 11 who have been retained for the sole purpose enforcing the dry law. The elimination of the 'y enforcement machinery would certainly be uch more practical than the reduction of the lucational facilities of the state, which however, ill undoubtedly be the result if no better means tax reduction is evolved. One-third of the cases tried in Michigan's crim- al courts are prohibition cases. So the police idently spend one-third of their time apprehend- g liquor law violators and the courts one-third ftheir time trying them. If the dry law cases ere removed, not only would the expenditures of ie law-enforcement agencies and the courts be Most deservedly has Dr. Serge Koussevitsky, conductor of the Boston Symphony, been called a genius in the rare art of program building. Such a concert as was presented Tucsday deserves tp be considered in its entirety as well as in its purts for, because of his skillful blending of musical flavors he conceived a unified medium of expression be- sides the various ones of the individual compos- ers. By his cleyer juxtapositions he evolved a perfect whole that in itself, by its merging of one emotional tone into another, achieved an organic unity. One work framed a background for the next and e,ch set off the other - pseudo classi- cisne of the Prokofieff with its vigorous joviality made an ideal foil for the kaleidoscopic expres- sionism of the Debussy Nocturnes, and against anything but the Don Juan, the Tschaikowsky Fifth would have seemed ever more luxuriously sentimental than it did. A fine painting loses many of its values when it is not properly dis- played and lighted - how much more so music, where the time element is predominating, so that the final impression is often no more than a re- membered emotion. An artist builds with colors, one against the other, to please and gratify the senses; a composer builds with fleeting, ever- fading sounds - the most subtle architecture of all. There is no physical object to return again and again - when the last tone dies away it is over. So it is with the conductor, that is, such a one as Koussevitsky - by an expert placing of personalities, by a combination of separate styles of emotional expression, he, too, must complete the one impression, must weld the bits and pieces into a unified creation. And so he should not only be called a conductor of other people's music, but A PLAN for the conentration. of Northwestern University students buying in Evanston in ex- change for student employment has been institut- ed at that school. The Daily Northwestern report that more than one hundred and fifty studenti have gained part-time employment through the new plan. One pseudo-corporation which has re- sulted from the drive is the University Window- Washing Service. already used Iy some 3 Evan- ston merchants. in SI Gj1E f-ONC'RT $1, $159 $2, $2.50 SEASON TICKETS (9 cQuerL) $6,1$, $10, $12 HILL AUDITORIUM * * * WHEN the president of the Colorado School of Mines ordered sophomores not to paddle freshmen this year, the sophomores made the freshmen paddle each other. 0 LAWRENCE TIBBETT "EDUCATION is becoming a major student ac tivity at the University of Chicago under th new plan," declared Chauncy S. Boucher, demn of the college in an interview recently, "This atti- tude is in marked contrast to that formerly dis played by college students to whom scholastic work was the least important phase of university life." The T'PINCE OF1 SONG" OUTSTANDING. AS, OPERA STAR S TUDENTS at the University of Nebraska ar being used as agents of a liquor racket charges Federal Judge J. C. Munger. "Responsibl men are hiding behind telephone numbers, ant hiring students because they aren't likely to b arrested," the Judge says. "They all agree t stick together, give no information, take punish ment, and resort to violence if necessary." * * * CONCERT ARTIST RADIO SINGER nTn~TT.T? cQm A P FORTY-TWO trunks containing the complet I