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from going to a man's apartment.
This
Nil
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statement is astounding. She implies that
when a man asks a girl to dinner at his house
he is seeking questionable privacy."
I have never made such a statement and
I consider the last sentence insulting both to
me and to the women on this campus. The
women know, I believe, that my attitude to-
ward them has -never been one of suspicion.
or of imputing wrong motives to their actions.
I am interested only in having their social
affairs conducted with dignity and in good
taste.
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FRIDAY, DEC. 2, 1932
Further Discussion On
'4Io-Ed For Dinner' Ban,.
N EDITORIAL appeared tin yester-
day's Daily discussing the "co-ed
for dinner" ban, which forbids women to eat din-
ner at a fraternity house unless a chaperone is
present. The point was made that the ruling was
iot being obeyed because it is ridiculous to be-
lieve that there is any need for a chaperone on
si h an occasion, providing that the women leave
th house within a reasonable length of time
after the meal is served.
The Daily feels that the practice of permitting
women to attend fraternity house dinners would
1e exceedingly unwholesome, if overdone, Whether
dr not chaperones were present.
If done in moderation, however, the practice
is harmless.
We believe that the individual fraternity, as
the host, is better fitted than any external gov-
erning body to determine whether it is going
beyond the limits prescribed by good taste in en-
tertaining women at dinner.
Dean Alice Lloyd has stated that she was mis-
quoted yesterday since she did not say that the
ban would be "enforced" but merely "urged that
this regulation be given attention."
She also said that she was further misquoted
n regard to a comparison between attending a
fraternity house and a gentleman's apartment.
The Daily regrets having "misquoted" and "in.-
sulted" Dean Lloyd and sincerely hopes that the
fOillwing statement from her will rectify the
matter.
It has been my understanding that admin-
istrative officers of the University would not
be quoted in the Michigan Daily as to official
actions without having the matter verified.
In the Daily of December first, on the edi-
torial page, in as article headed "The Co-ed
for 'Dinner Ban is Revived . ." I was so
misquoted as to make it necessary for me
to makte a formal denial in order to avoid
serious misunderstanding.
In the rules issued by the Women's League,
the Women's Self-Government Association of
the University of Michigan, under date of
August 1931, the following rule appears,
"Women "may not go to men's rooming
houses or fraternities for dinner or calls
unless a chaperone is present."
This rule seems to mie to be made in the
interests of good taste in social affairs and is,
I believe, ?heartily approved and endorsed by
the women on this campus who stand for
such. Recently in speaking to a group of
leaders in student government, I urged that
this regulation be given attention.
I am quite as well aware as the writer of
the article that such a rule can best be en-
forced by public opinion. It is a very easy
rule to break unless student opinion is for it.
I made no autocratic statement that "the
rule will be enforced." I am quite aware, also,
that it has been for so'ne time the custom
Music and Drama
DALIES FRANTZ-.
AND THE DETROIT SYMPHONY
To speak of Wednesday night's concert from
an orchestral standpoint would be not only erron-
eous but unpolitic. The symphony was present
and Dr. Gabrilowitsch was all too evident, but the
great share of the interest, both musical and
otherwise, centered in the soloist. It was not
only that he was so good, but that the others
were so bad-by comparison a mediocre perform-
ance would have been outstanding, and in con-
trast to his playing, which had all the firm assur-
ance of the professional, the Detroit Symphony
seemed like an orchestra of careless amateurs
and their conductor a doddering old man. It is
hard to say that he is slipping, but it is more dif-
ficult to believe that those fumbling interpreta-
tions and slipshod renditions would have come
from the dabrilowitsch of the past. Never in his
most careful moments would he ever before have
prolonged Brahms to the interminable lengths to
which he doomed it-never before have his
brasses been allowed to overblow so blatantly. The
attacks and releases anc the accents were ragged
and uneven, and as for a blending of tone qual-
ities such as was felt in the Boston Symphony
-this was not one orchestra, one unified whole,
but rather a collection of many little ones, each
one going its own sweet way.
It was not so much a matter of tempos in the
Brahms as of feeling. And nothing can be more
boring than bad Brahms. The lovely C minor
symphony, which is so youthfully and at the same
time eternally emotional, was deadened until it
almost fell apart from sheer weight. It went
leisurely along, as relaxed as an old man stretche
out asleep and snoring and all the vitality which
is so characteristic of Brahms, all the thrilling
tensities that whip this work, so often accused
of being muddy and thick, out of its lethargic
scoring into a very ecstasy of feeling, were lack-
ing. It was like the slow deliberate killing of a
beautiful thing by clumsy fingers. Instead of
the subtle interweaving of many threads to form
the patterns of an eternal design, these voices
were as crudely final as a black and white ana-
tomical sketch.
Mr. Frantz, who has just returned to Ann Arbor
from a highly successful New York debut, needs
no fond platitudes from the town which so proud-
ly claims to have fostered him. Forgetting all
that and allowing him to stand on his own merits,
he deserves to be considered abstractly from a
purely musical standpoint-and he is proving
decidedly interesting in that view. The Liszt con-
certa, which is at best "pianistic," became a
vehicle for the expression of himself and the way
he played it was so much more outstanding than
what he played that the question of relative worth
of the music became submerged in the signifi-
cance of the performance. He has matured sur-
prisingly in a year--even though his tone was still
sometimes hard, it was never harsh, and after all,
vigor is a healthy sign of youth, one of the
distinctive contributions that should be charac-
teristic of American art in general. Aside from the
small question of some of the fortes, his shadings
were restrained and often lovely, the technical
passages-the little arpeggios and the long solo
trills were as lucid as clear water, and the grad-
ual development towards the exciting climax in
the last movement even inspired the orchestra
into an unaccustomed fervor. In itself this occa-
sion was not as interesting as it was of being
an indication of what is to come. He will go
very far. And, what is more unusual, he deserves
to.
After the setting up exercises of the Brahms,
Dr. Gabrilowitsch seemed to get a bit more
warnmed up. The Italian Rhapsody of Casella,
was hardly worth all the effort that they put into
it. This composer, who is ranked next to Re-
'pighi with the best of contemporary Italians, has
achieved some rather unusual orchestral effects,
but, as with all of the impressionistic school it is
the medium used, the way it is done rather than
what is done that counts. It might so easily
never have been written at all. But they played
it muchbetter than the symphony or the con-
certo. Maybe it was easier.
-Kathleen Murphy
Screen Reflections
Four stars means extraordinary; three stars very
good; two stars good; one star just another picture;
no stars keep away from it.
AT THE MICHIGAN
,,RACKETY RAX"
SATIRE ON FOOTBALL,
CROOKS "MUSCLING IN"
McGloin ...............Victor McLaglen
His Girl ..... . ........ ..Greta Nissen
Stultsfeld ..............Allan Dinehart
"Rackety Rax" is the movie interpretation of
Joel Sayre's satire on collegiate football. Victor
McLaglen is cast as a big shot racketeer (violent-
ly-checked vests and suits to clash) who goes in
for everything that can be made crooked, from
horse racing to political electioneering. He has
a rival in Gelotti, another "mugg" who must be
and there you are, for of course Gelotti is not
slow to take up the "fascinating" collegiate sport.
At times this comic strip show will bring a
long and hearty laugh from you-it's. so ridicu-
lous. Mostly, though, you'll just chuckle and
wonder how true it all is.
There are several attempts at extravaganza
in depicting McGloin's apartments and office
buildings. We see elaborate charts, maps, and
graphs, showing in modernistic splendor how each
racket, etc., is progressing. McGloin lives in full
pent-house splendor, surrounded by Intelligence
Corps, bodyguards, messenger services which
plant "day and night letters and telegrams,"
which, may it be said, are hand grenades, bombs
and other East End warfare tools.
Typical shots: When McGloin is visiting the
president of Canarsie, he picks up a piece of
bric-a-brac which emits one sharp "gong." One
of his henchmen, alseep, starts up from the sofa
he is sprawled on, feints with his left, snarls and
goes through the motions of a prize fight. An-
other: McGloin's football stadium, seating 250,-
000 (it's packed). Still another: While visiting
Canarsie's athletic fields, McGloin is nearly
struck by an arrow shot by a member of a girl's1
archery class. "Chee," he says, "Indian goils."
There is nothing particularly funny about the
picture-but it may appeal here because of itsI
pertinency.
Added attractions: Andy Clyde comedy; Para-
mount News; and a short entitled "Movie Album."
In the latter are presented some old-time flashes
of faded movie stars of another generation. There
are some real laughs here. --G. M. W. Jr.
AT THE LYDIA MENDELSSOHN
"TEN DAYS ThAT SHOOK THE WORLD"
THIS PART FOR STUDENTS ONLY
"Ten Days That Shook the World." is a picture!
that we hesitate, in ai fear and trembling, to;
review. There is, undoubtedly, a typically Rus-
sian viewpoint from which we find it impossibleI
to view this saga of the Russian Revolution's
focal point. When this picture, with its imagery,
its impressionism, and its symbolism, is transport-
°d from the scenes it is so inevitably bound upj
with, it loses caste. By this we do not mean that
she story per se suffers, rather the methods em-
?loyed in unravelling the skein of the bloody
3olshevist counter-revolution tend to fall into dis-
_epute.
The points referred to in the preceding Para-
,raph can be rather definitely plotted out. Theyi
are (1) direction, (2) photography, (3) expression-
sm, (4) continuity, and (5) a "meaning" to the
.ndividual member of the audience. It will be
een that these factors are the cloak and vesture
>f all that is presumably developed to the highest
point possible in American movies. It is pre-
Asely these points that are lacking, from what
ve wish to term the "non-intellectual" point-of-1
view, in the Russian "Ten Days That Shook the
World."
The direction and "meaning" we wish to take
up as one. A pronounced tendency may be ob-
served to hasten the mobs through their action
scenes without conceivable rhyme or reason to the I
layman. Just what is happening? Are the Bol-
shevists plotting? Or is it the Kerensky forces?
Who is gaining the upper hand? Thus, through
the fault of the director or directors, logic is
discarded, except, and we wish to make this clear,
in the event that you are a member of the second
type, to be discussed later.
A girl, crushed to death beneath the storming
feet of the mob, is seen lying in the middle of a
drawbridge as it is being lifted. Her hair slowly
Slips from one portion of the bridge to the other.
But this bit of symnbolism is shown no less than
,our times. And it palls.
The photography is bound to be eulogized by
certain moviegoers because unusual "shots" are
injected into the action. Yet the good is out-
weighed by the poor lighting, "flash" jumps from
cene to scene, and a bewildering hippety-hop
from city to city.
And that just about covers it from the student
angle.
Read on.
* * *THIS PART FOR FACULTY ONLY
"Ten Days That Shook the World" is a picture
ghat can be classed as an epic, a super produc-
ion, and a mighty drama graphically demonstrat-
ing the rise of a new and invincible Russia from
the tragedy, the sorrow, and the grifne'of a yester-
day that is passed, probably forever.
The stamping out of the Czarist regime, the
rise of Kerensky, the succession of Lenin and
Trotsky to the corrupt, dissolute and vacillating
Provisional Government form. an entity that is
not to be denied. While tending toward the epi-
sodic, it seems to avoid with remarkable precision
the bad effects incumbent upon the American
movie which suffers from this all too common ill.
Photography, while probably second only to
direction in importance, is still a minor asset or
detriment, as the case may be.
Possibly the theme so ably portrayed can be
summed up in the words of Alexander Dumas-
"toute la sagesse de l'humanite est entiere en ces
deux mots--attendre et esperer."
But you must see it A. , and decide.
-G. M. W. Jr.
AND THE SHORT SUBJECTS
NO STARS
Pictures of ice on trees, nature shots of tum-
bling ,rivers, fairy stories of an old hag and her
children, propaganda of the Red government, and
other similar items are included in the bill-of-
fare immediately preceding "Ten Days That
Shook the World," now showing at the Lydia Men-
delssohn Theatre.
Nothing can be said in their favor.
One short, detailing the adventures of the
step-daughter, the daughter, the father and the
mother, is nothing but a page out of Grimm. In-
rlocuous sub-titles don't help it a bit. The au-
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