THE MICHIGAN DAILY It E MICHIGAN DAILY Established 1890 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." =.z-. _I i1 Musical Events I ~gall Published every morning except Monday during the University year and Summer Session by the Board in Control of Student Publications. Imber of the Western Conference Editorial Associa- ton a l the Big.Ten -News Service. zsonutated (ai i atc re 1 i433 NATIOHA .ovuc 1934 MEMBER OF THME ASSOCIATED PRESS The Assiated ress s exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or Aot otherwise credited in this paper and the local news publihed rei~n. 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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 Letters published in this column should' not be construed as expressing the editorial opinion of The Daily. Anonymous communications will be disre- garded. The names of communicants will, however, be regarded as confidential upon request. Contribu- tors are asked todbe brief, confining themselves to less than 00 words if possible.. 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. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING Place advertisements with Classified Advertising Department. Phone 2-1214. The classified columns close at five o'clock previous to day of insertion. Box numbers may be secured at no extra charge. Cash in advance-11c per reading line (onlbasis of five average words to line) for one or two insertions. 10c per reading line for three or more insertions. Minimum 3 lines per insertion. 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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. 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