THE MICHIGAN DAILY IGAN DAILY ished 1890 A- r --y-tis , " )'" i Published every morning eicept Monday during the University year and Summer Session by the Board in Control of Student Publications. Member of the Western Conference Editrial Associa- tiob a' the Big Ten News Service. soctiited 6,o011e ate ,reis ;F 933 in o~p aveR X934 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches are reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as ecrid class matter. Special raeof postage granted by Thir Assistant Postmaster-Generl. Subscription during summer by carrier, $1.00; by mail. $150. During regular school year by carrier, $3.75; by mail, $425. Offices: Student Publications Building, Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michiga, Phone: 2-1214. Represer'tatives: College Publications Representatives, Inc., 40 East Thirty--Fourth Street, New York (ity; 0 Boylston Sureet, Boston; 612 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANACiNG EDITOR.......THOMAS K. CONNELLAN EDITOR.IAL DIRECTOR..... " .....C.RAT HA F' CITY EDITOR......................BRACKLEY SHAW SPORTS EDITOR...:............ALBRT H. NEWMAN. WOMEI'S EDITOR................CAROL J. HANAN NIGHI EDITORS: A. Ellis Ball, Ralph G. Coulter, Wi- "am G. Ferris, John C. Healey, E. Jerome Pettit, George Van Veck, Guy M. Whipple, Jr. 0P0RTS ASSISTANTS: Charles A. Baird, Donald R. Bird, Arthur W. Carstens, Sidney Frankel, Roland L. Martin, Marjorle Western. WOMEN'S ASSISTANTS: Barbara Bates, Eleanor Blum, Lois Jotter, Marie Murphy, Margaret D. Phalan. REPORTERS: Roy Alexander, John A. Babington, Ogden G. Dwight, Paul J. Elliott. Courtney A. Evans, Ted R. Evans, Bernard 'H:Pried, Thomas Groehn, Robert D. Guthrie Joseph L. Karpinski, Thomas H.Kleene, Rich-. ard E. Lorch, DaVid G. Macdonald, Joel P. Newman, Klenneth Parker, eore I. Quimby, William R. Reed, Robert S. Ruwitch, Robert J St. Clar,Arthur S. Settle, Marshall D. Silverman, A. B. Smith, Jr., Arthur M.' Taub, Philip ''. Van Zile. WOMEN REPORTERS: Dorothy Gies, Jean Hanmer, Florece Harper, Marie Hed, Eleanor Johnson, Jse- phine McLean, Marjorie Morrison, Sally Place, Rosalie Resnick, Mary Robinson, Jane Schneider, Margaret Spencer. BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 2-1214 BUSINESS MANAGER ........... W. GRAFTON SHARP, CREDIT MANAGER...........BERNARD E. SCHNACKE WOMEN'S BUSINESS ANAGER..., ...... ................ ............ CATHARINE MC HENRY Z)EPARTMENT MANAGERS: Local Advertising, Fred Her- trick; Classified Advertising, Russell Read; Advertising Contracts, Jack Bellamy; Advertising Service, Robert Ward; Accounts, Allen Knuusi; Circulatio, Jack Ef- roymson. ASSISTANTS: Meigs Bartmess, Van Dunakin, Milton Kra- mer, John Ogden, Bernard Rosenthal, Joe Rothbard, James Scott, David Winkworth., WOMEN'S BUSINESS STAFF Jane Bassett, Virginia Bell, Winifred Bell, Mary Bursley, Peggy Cady, Betty Chapman,.Patrici Daly, Jean Dur- ham, Minna Giffen, Doris Gimmy, Billie Griffiths, Janet Jackson, Isabelle Kanter, Louise Krause, Margaret Mustard, Nina Pollock, Elizabeth J. Simonds. NIGHT EDITOR: GEORGE VAN VLECK New. Directorate Ofl Student, Alumni Relations A S might be expected, the newly cre- ated office of Director of Student1 and Alumni Relations is receiving much and var-l led criticism. Study of the criticisms reveal that they have just one thing in common -they pro-t ceed from a misconception of the functions and jurisdictions of the new office. The criticism we heard yesterday, naturally, had to do mostly with the student aspect of the new7 office. The tenor of the criticism was that there7 is no need for the new directorate, and that its1 establishment is just one more step in the direc- tion of paternalism. Why should extra-curriculari activities be co-ordinated, it was asked. HowI can they be co-ordinted? Won't the whole re-7 cult of the planbejust .one,, more blak to fill out, one more office to keep in touch with? Isn't1 this more paternalism.) Now a study of the student relations of the1 new office leads to the conclusion that these ques-1 tions are in the wrong direction. For the essen- tial part of the new Director's student work will be the composition of student problems as they arise, and not the establishment and enforcement of new regulations. That there is a place for the office is easily shown. The proof proceeds from the fact that all' jurisdictions of students and of boards relating to students center in the president. . He is the person,and' the only person, who can resolve prob- lems arising from conflicting views, say, of the faculty board that passes on proposed Comedy Club plays and the board in control of the League and the Lydia Mendelssohn theatre. A satisfac- tory solution of such problems, which constantly arise, almost always necessitates an attentive hearing of the pleas of the parties involved. This takes time. .The president of the University cannot be'-expected to have the time, Hence the new office. President Ruthven, incidentally, does not in- tend to make himself inaccessible. He will retain authority in all matters and will himself hear the cases that Professor Anderson will not be able to settle. The new office will merely pro- vide for fairer, more leisurely hearings, and for a greater clarification of issues. Thus it will fulfill a real need And incidentally a better man than Professor Anderson could not have been picked for the new position. No student who has had occasion to kiow him will fail to applaud the choice, and alumni -acquaintances will rejoice to learn that a man with his sympathetic grasp of their problems has been named the first director of an office which will also affect them. of the most interested parties in the controversy a chance to express its feelings. State Street merchants want to sell beer. Their desire is based on the premise that the students want to buy beer. If the student body does want to have beer available for public consumption in the campus area, it should say so now definitely. This is the time to let your pent-up feelings take effect. In addition to the student vote, the faculty will be given the opportunity to express its views on east side beer. It has been one of the con- tentions of the council drys that it is this group which does not want beer. We have talked to men on the faculty and we believe that the rank and file of the teaching group on campusis for the sale of beer. Whether you are wet or dry, whether you are a student or a member of the faculty, you should vote on the beer question Friday. This will be the first popular test of the issue. Musica Events TWILIGHT ORGAN RECITAL Choral Prelude on "Ein Feste Burg".. . . Hanff Sonata 333 ................ .......Quant Arioso Presto Fugue in G-minor (the lesser) ........Bach SuiteOp. 14 Magaeingreau Pensee d' Automne......... . ...;..Jongen Hora Mystica ........................Bossi Heroic Suite .......................Rowley Mood Fantasy Triumph Song T HIS month marks the 450th anniversary of the birth of Martin Luther, to whom the World is indebted for the great hymn of the Protestant Church, Ein Feste Burg (A Mighty Fortress is Our God.). Johann Haniff, an important German organist prior to Bach, set a group of chorale pre- ludes, among which Ein Feste Burg is outstand- ing. Quantz earned his reputation as flutist in the court of Frederick the Great, and as a composer of hundreds of flute pieces for the king. The Bach Fugue, tuneful and spontaneous, is known as "the lesser," to distinguish it from the Fugue which adjoins the Fantasia in G-minor. The modern element is well represented in this program. The important position is given to an imaginative work of Paul de Mailengreau. Avoid- ing the extremities of modernistic tendencies, he writes with admirable freedom. He has absorbed from Franck his sense of devotion and spirituality, and from Bach his artistic integrity. Better known in England and France, his works are gain- ing recognition as having something to say and saying it well. S.P. THE KREISLER CONCERT To the Editor: I have a strong feeling (and I know others who share it) that Miss Place's recent review of the Kreisler concert should not go unchallenged. It, seems only fair that the Daily should give space to an answer to a few of her rather wild state- ments. (1) Miss Place wrote: "For those who have heard Kreisler before, there was some disappoint- ment in the program." This statement is an exag- geration, to say the least. Here is one who has heard Kreisler before who suffered no disapoint- ment, and there were plenty of others. It would have been much better had she written: "To some of us who heard Kreisler before...." (2) Again "It is to be remarked that whatever hurry and stiffness there was in his performance, was forced by the unbending accompaniment..." Is is not rather remarkable to suppose that, first, Kreisler has been unable, in 20 years or so, to train Mr. Lamson (!) to follow rather than to lead him; second, that a great violinist like Kreisler should hurry and stiffen his playing in order to follow the accompaniment; and third, that if Mr. Kreisler had found himself tied down all -these years by the inexorable pace of:Mr.Lamson, that, he did not get himself another accompanist? Suf- flee it to say that to many of us the accompani- ment seemed inimitable, following Mr. Kreisler's playing with marvelous skill and perfection, even in the most difficult parts; playing fast or slow as the violin was played even when the tempo varied from measure to measure, so that the two were as one. (3) And finally, "It is felt that Mr. Lamson might have been a little less anxious to acknowl- edge the applause directed in the main to Kreis- ler." This statement is simply absurd. The pro- gram clearly marked the first number on the pro- gram as "Sonata, C minor, For violin and piano." This sonata was the only part of the program for which Mr. Lamson took any applause, and he did this most modesty, always following Kreisler, and staying as much in the background 'as possible. Mr. Lamson is a first class pianist in his own right, and an incomparable accompanist. The last statement is an expression of opinion. But that convention called for Mr. Lamson's bowing after the Sonata for violin and piano, is a fact. And that he was modest about it will, I think, be at- tested by plenty of witnesses. G. A. Cook, Grad. The Theatre A COUPLE OF QUICK ONES' Notes On Henderson Fall Festival By GEORGE SPELVIN Two Broadway hits are in town this week and next, rushed in between engagements by Robert Henderson. That Mr. Henderson sees fit to revisit these familiar shores with two of his most successful interestingly with the Kaufman-Ferber work and complete a well-rounded, if fleeting, festival. Dinner At Eight It is The Daily's custom to put two critics on Mr. Henderson's trail when he comes to town, and the present article may be considered as a second review of the current "Dinner At Eight." That the play is a fine job of writing, filled with fat acting parts, and that its abrupt ending is wierd and withal stimulating, needs no recapitu- lation. The Henderson production itself shall be our subject. To horse, men. With intelligent use of the unit-set scheme, Paul Stephenson has given the play a brilliant mounting. Kitty Packard's boudoir and the Jor- dan home stand out among the succession of striking settings. The gowns are bright and ex- treme. In fact, Mr. Henderson's familiar pen- chant for a splurge of color makes "Dinner At Eight" lively and frequently beautiful. Helen Hughes as Kitty Packard, complete with all the witchery, so to speak, and Miss Ring as the flamboyant old actress, are undoubtedly the stars of the show; and Amy Loomis stands out among the small parts by far. Since the days of Mrs. Malaprop, boisterous old ladies of the Carlotta Vance type have been amus- ing, appealing, and lovable. Miss Ring has all the tricks of the veteran character actress and then some more. It is worth the price of admission (plus tax) to hear her swear about the customs official who objected to her six fur coats. It is beautiful; it is lyrical. Helen Hughes works harder than any other member of the cast to get humor into every line of the play's best part. Noel Tearle is good in his delineation of the moribund movie shiek's pitiful pride, and suffi- ciently convincing in his love scenes wth Miss Paige, but his Demon Rum sequence is badly over-staggered. Thelma Paige is also disappoint- ing to some extent; her interpretation of one of the best parts is weak and rather pointless. Robert Henderson and Ainsworth Arnold for- get the distinctive personalities which have be- come familiar to Ann Arbor audiences, and turn in two genuinely different and real characteriza- tions. They lose themselves in the parts, and both of them are better than we have seen them for a year at least. Francis Compton gives a fine, sensitive portrayal of the doctor who is torn be- tween love and sex. (The distinction between the terms belongs to the authors). Prejudices We liked especially-Amy Loomis' sigh of relief after she has made Gustave an hohest man ... Edith Gresham's approaching insanity over a ruined dinner party ... . Alan Handley's accent Bertha Forman's worry over her lobster aspic. .. . Arthur Davidson's spectacles . We Are Afraid We Didn't Like So Much -The hotel manager who wanted to garner a laugh out of a death scene.... The unfortunate prominence of Larry Renault's dummy mirror. . . . Conclusion "Dinner At Eight" is a grand show - but if a critic ever ended his review the way "Dinner At Eight" ends, the editor would tell him to go right straight to (Curtain) Collegiate Observer By BUD BERNARD Recommended for the meanest man in the world: A professor at Syracuse University who, while recovering from an appendicitis operation, gave lectures in bed to his chem- istry class with the aid of a microphone, tele- phone exchange, and loud speaker. * * *I Under the glaring caption,"PARK WOMEN ALLOWED TWO LATE DATES WEEKLY BY NEW SOCIAL RULES, one of the largest head- lines in the Park College Stylus, a story reveals the dean of women's liberal decision that young women of the college may stay out until 10 o'clock on Monday and Saturday.. Other nights of the week are to be closed nights. The dean explains her radical action by saying, "The whole purpose of college rules is to protect rather than to prohibit." a: s The University of Alabama student pub- lication describes the evolution of a college man as follows Freshman: Embarrassed silence. Sophomore: I don't know. Junior: I'm not prepared. Senior: I don't like to venture an opinion until I know more about the subject. S* * * Students in the optometry department at Ohio State University were about to get one of their first real opportunities at practical optics. A vi-d tim was selected by the faculty and the students were to examine the patient's eyes to determine what kind of glasses were needed, if any. The optometrists-to-be were anxious to do a good job. They hustled and they bustled about in good order. Finally the individual tests were completed and the students retired, each one to submit his conclusions as to the tests. The results were varied: some suggested glasses, others declared the sight perfect, all were strong in their convictions. Not one student discovered that one of the eyes of the patient was of glass. - * * * A professor of German at the University of Colorado has been taken with diphtheria and 55 students in her classes have been given a three day quarantine. Again the University of Colorado has been enforcing the rule that students caught drink- ing are forced to attend Sunday School for .4,,A 'Aof thrvears We wondeur what they "Minnesota Is A ~1 But A/ . ou gh Team Iichigan Can Be Tougher"~ HAVE TO BE IN CHAMPIONSHIP T THESE POWERFUL RIVALS. THE ... WHETHER OR NOT THEY ARE lIP FORM WILL DEPEND ON OUR *A' MICHIGAN WILL FORM TO DEFEA TEAM IS GOOD IN CHAMPIONSH III SUPPORT. I THE TEAM WILL BE IN PERSON AT THIS GIANT PEP MEETING AT HILL AUDITORIUM FRIDAY NIGHT TO RECEIVE DEFINITE PROOF OF OUR SUPPORT, LET'S NOT DISAPPOINT THEM. Attend This Meeting --- -- , . j It turned out to be what the campus . . . a d r k -a a t was looking for modern magazine to meet a modern Jemand. This year's fnew GARGOYLE epresented not only a complete change n Michigan's humor sheet - it marked revolution in the entire field of college magazines. Michigan students, tiring )f the old slapstick type of publication, made this change imperative, demand- ed it. Their reception of the first issue, (exceeding the former circulation by ive hundred per cent), proved how thoroughly they approved their new magazine. another issue ! ,,,, r,.i .. . .* And now THE NOVE MBER 1 -10001. - dMWN- - -MM