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students, for the benefit of the audience as a
whole. He pointed out that the trick was no
longer new, and had lost its humor some time ago.
He refrained from saying,"Most of you are stu-
dents and grown up. Let's try to act like little
gentlemen," although who could have blamed him
if he had?
?'' In plain words we offer, "Act your age."
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NIGHT EDITOR: GUY M. WHIPPLE, JR.
Stunt Night
Fun ForAll...
T HE League's latest innovation,
Stunt Night, at which various
persons are called from the crowd of supper-
dancers to perform for the entertainment of the
rest, is a tendency in the direction of relaxing the
formality which hems in the Michigan student.
Although many students will look upon this as
a rather undignified method of calling attention
to themselves, there are others who will relish
the opportunity of experiencing the pleasure of
doing something well for the enjoyment of
others. Stiff formality has a tendency to stifle
social relations instead of fostering them, and
Stunt Night will help students return to the pre-
cepts of the wise counselor who said, "Be your-
self."
Surely to act is to be human, and of the many
things which college students are doing to forget
themselves there is nothing more releasing, and
more pleasing to both performer and audience,
than singing and dancing.
It's fun and you can't beat fun.
'Naughty Children'
At The Michigan . .
I T seems that one of the pitiable
campus tragedies is that collegiat-
ism has progressed little beyond the second or
third year of high school.
Back in the early '20's when "Yes, Sir, That's
My Baby"' and "Collegiate" were blasted through
trumpets and saxophones, college students thought
is was quite the thing to wear baggy "plus fours"
and paint clever signs on their cars. Fashion has
pinned the lily on knickerbockers, and the death
knell for "collegiate" cars has long since sounded.
The ingenuity of the student has always been
taxed to the limit, seeking to find a new and craz-
ier stunt to pull on the campus or in the fraternity.
For those who enjoy that sort of thing, the Under-
graduate Council has provided class games, at
which 'the super energy of undergraduates could
be aired among themselves without disturbing
those whose tastes lay in different directions.
Fraternity intiations, clever games thought up
by upperclass men and former, students for the
freshmen to do are still with us; but the hazing
of former days, when dad wore button shoes and
thought they were dandy, is out. Back in 1919
it was nothing to drag one of Ann Arbor's street
cars off the rails, or take alarm clocks to the
theatre. The street cars have long since 'disap-
peared, but not the alarm clocks. Since the Sat-
urday night Owl show and vaudeville was insti-
TWILIGHT ORGAN RECITAL1
Fantasia and Fugue in G-minor....... J. S. Bach
Trio from Secular Cantata, "'Tis
My Pleasure"..................J. S. Bach
Chorale-Preludes (Op. 122) ..............Brahms
No. 6 : How Blessed Are Ye
No. 10: My Inmost Heart Doth Yearn
No. 5: Adorn Thyself! O Fond Soul
Scherzo from C-minor Sonata ...........Andrews
The Chapel of St. Miguel.. . .............Seder
Improvization of an Organ Symphony
Mr. Edwin Stanley Seder, a Chicago organist,
is to present the organ recital this afternoon. An
unexpected turn is given to the program by the
improvization, upon themes handed in by those
who are willing and desirous of so doing, or by
members of the audience before the perform-
ance, of an organ symphony of four movements:
allegro, andante, scherzo, and finale. Not many
performers attempt improvization for public per-
formance nowadays, although among church or-
ganists there exists the tradition of improvization.
established by the old school of Europeans, elabo-
rate, yet well-organized. Mr. Seder is basing his
method upon that of Dupre, the French organ-
ist. Those who are not actually contributing to
this afternoon's improvization will probably enjoy
the novelty of it, while those who contribute
themes will be proud to hear their ideas expanded
into part of a major composition. This comes
at the end of the recital.
Both of the Bach and the Brahms are well-
liked numbers. The second of the Brahms group
is based on the famous Passion Chorale used by
Bach in his St. Matthew Passion. Mr. Andrews'
Scherzo and Mr. Seder's own composition are of
American interest, the latter being inscribed to
our own organist, Palmer Christian.
Mr. Seder has recently conducted the Bach
Chorus at the Century of Progress Exposition and
has been giing recitals throughout the middle-
west. He is the organist of the First Presbyterian
Church of Oak Park.
Campus pinion
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To The Editor:
Regarding your editorial about the San Carlo
Grand Opera Co., there is every reason to believe
that Ann Arbor may have the privilege of hearing
a brief season of "dollar opera" next fall if the
company is permitted to rent Hill Auditorium.
Mr. Fortuno Gallo, impresario of the San Carlo
company, writes, "It would be quite easy for us
to give operas at the Hill Auditorium regardless
of whether there is a proper stage as we are giving
operas in many other university auditoriums with
plain platforms surrounded by the drapes which
we carry."
The immensely successful seasons in Chicago
and Detroit and the enthusiastic acclaim of the
critics in both cities testify to the consistent, high
quality of the operatic presentations of the San
Carlo company. The splendid response of music
lovers here to the Choral Union concerts and the
May Festivals at $2.00 top for single tickets in-
dicates that opera at' 25c to $1.00 would attract
great crowds.
The Choral Union might find it profitable to
sponsor a short season of the San Carlo opera
here next fall, perhaps as a part of the concert
series. If the opera is financially successful in the
3,500 seat Paramount theatre in Detroit, it should
be more successful in the 5,000 seat Hill Audito-
rium, and the Choral Union would find this a
lucrative venture, under its sponsorship. An ar-I
rangement could be made whereby the Choral
Union season tickets would include admission to
two or three of the operas presented here (the
choice of operas being left to each patron, indi-
vidually).
Whatever is done about it, the operas must not
be presented in competition with the University
musical events, but rather to broaden the scope
of the excellent musical menu on the campus in
the only respect that it is now deficient. The
opportunity presents itself now. It is to be hoped
that the interests of the local music lovers will be
considered in making a decision!
--Manning Giles
The Theatre
DINNER AT
EIGHT-THIRTY!
Tracing the Course of the Theatre's Greatest
Hit, "Dinner at Eight"
By ROBERT HENDERSON
Edna Ferber three years ago got an idea for a
play. Everyone discouraged her. "It's interest-
ing -extremely so," her friends said," but I
wouldn't bother with it if I were you. It can't be
written. The technical difficulties of construction
and production would be insurmountable. There
would be heartaches and, in the end - well, you'd
find yourself hopelessly bogged."
Miss Ferber then determined that subsequent
discussion of the play idea would be limited to con-
versations with Mr. George Kaufmen. She would
There was dinner at the Kaufman home. Presently
the clock struck midnight.
"And now," r e m a r k e d Miss Ferber, "how
about -"
"I know the answer to that one," broke in Mr.
Kaufman, "I guess we'll have to do something
about 'Dinner at Eight.' "(The title had been
born on the occasion of the first joint discussion
of the idea.) "What about tomorrow at eleven?"
Consequently "Dinner at Eight" began to come
into being. At first the authors decided to go far
beyond the limits in which they finally held th eir,
play. For instance, they planned a scene showing'
the chauffeurs who brought the guests to Mrs.
Oliver Jordan's dinner engaged in conversation
on the sidewalk outside her Park Avenue apart-
ment. This was discarded as being too irrelevant.
Then they toyed for a time with the notion of
showing what happened in the dress-making
establishment where one of the guests had ordered
a gown to be worn at the dinner. One of the
seamstresses would be obliged to stay late to fin-
ish the dress, would be forced to break a date with
her sweetheart, and would thus have her future
seriously altered, 'if not wrecked.
A peep into the establishment of the caterer
who was to serve the dinner at eight also 'was con-
sidered. "So many of these ideas suggested them-
selves," says Mr. Kaufman," that we were ob-
liged to hew terribly close to the line. Otherwise
there would have been no end to 'Dinner at
Eigsht."
After having been conversationally 'planned and
outlined, the play was exactly nine weeks in the
writing. The first act was turned out in ten days
in Atlantic City last spring, and rest was finished
in Miss Ferber's and Mr. Kaufman's respective
summer homes, which were almost across the
street from each other in Manhasset. When their
labor was done they found they had given birth
to one of the most brilliant entertainments of the
modern theatre. A new and a great American
comedy had sprung into being.
Editor's Note - "Dinner at Eight" will be pre-
sented next week, opening Sunday night, at the
Majestic Theatre, by Robert Ilenderson.
Collegiate Observer
If the instructor objects - as instructors have
the habit of doing - to the enjoyable habit of
gum chewing while he is lecturing, give him this
fact; gum chewing has the effect of increasing
"peppiness" about 8 per cent according to a psy-
chology professor at Colgate University.
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WORLD'S FAIR TO CONTINUE
CHICAGO, NOV. 5. -('P)~- Officials
of the Wolrd's Fair decided today to
hold the exposition over for 1934.
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A western educator recently stated that
college students should arrange their schedule
so as to work 10 hours per day, and sleep ten
hours per day.
Yes, but the trouble is, professor, that too
many of us try to combine them.
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SO THEY SAY
And I suppose you've met the boy who said
his financial load was so heavy he couldn't
budget. - The Oklahoma Daily
Walla Walla is a Seventh Day Adventist insti-
tution. Officials laid down rules for students which
prohibited attendance at movies, cdancep and.
"other questionable places of amusement." Girls
were ordered to attend classes in long sleeve
dresses with high waist. Violation is punishable
with expulsion.
A Washington
BYSTANDER
Ay KIRKE SIMPSON
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.-- Regardless of hopes
which Ambassador Welles at Havana may have
that a way of peaceful transition for Cuba to a
government recognizable by Washington maybe
found, Cubans here, for various reasons, are in-
creasingly skpeptical. Those with whom the By-
stander has talked see no way of regularizing the
situation without eliminating the army as< a
political factor. How that can be done except by
force they are at a loss to understand.
That is the burden of much that has been poured
unofficially into Washington official ears recently.
And it is not in the form of appeals for American
armed intervention under the Platt amendment.
Far from it. Whatever underlies it, the matter is
one originating in Cuba and among Cubans. There 1
are hints that very definite projects are in the
making there.
THE purpose of such informal representations
at the state department seems to be to dis-
suade Washington from extending, or promising
to extend, recognition to any coalition government
which might be projected to displace the Grau re-
gime and be accepted by that regime.
The argument made is that no such coalition
could overlook the "non-com." commanded army's
place in the picture. Yet it is insisted that the
Cuban army, upon which the present Havana
government or any successor which it might ac-
cept must depend to maintain itself, has no pop-
ular backing and represents nothing but armed
force.
H AD the fleeting De Cespedes government not
talked at once for reduction of the army and
army pay for budgetary reasons, it is quite possiblew
it never would have been overthrown at all.
Yet the undercurrent of expectation in Cuban
circles of a new and popular upheaval visualizes
not a mere army reduction, but complete abolish-
ment of the Cuban army in favor of a purely civil-
ian force. Exponents of that idea hold that Cuba
does not need and never has needed an army with
all the expense a professional military establish-
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