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Phone: 2-1214. - Representatives: College Publications Representatives, Inc., 40 East Thirty-Fourth Street, New York City; 80 Boylson Street, Boston; 612 North Michigan Avenue, =Chicago. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR .........THOMAS K. CONNELLAN CITY EDITOR........ .......... BRACKLEY SHAW EDITORIAL DIRECTOR ..........C. HART SCHAAF SPORTS EDITOR.... .......... ALBERT H. NEWMAN ;DRAMA EDITOR-..........._...... JOHN W. PRITCHARD WOMEN'S EDITOR.................CAROL J. HANAN NIGHT EDITORS: A. Ellis Ball, Ralph G. Coulter, William G. Ferris. John C. Healey, E. Jerome Pettit, George Van Vleck, Guy M. Whipple, Jr.. SPORTS ASSISTANTS: 'Charles A. Baird, Donald R. Bird, rAthr W Cartens, Sidney Frankel, :Roland L. Martin, M4a ,orie Weorn. . :,, WOMEN'S ASSISTANTE: Marjorie Beck, Eleanor Blum, Lois Jotter, Marie Murphy, Margaret D. Phalan. REPORTERS: C. Bradford Carpenter, Ogden G. Dwight, s I'ii a. Elliott, Courne 0A. -vans , Thomas E. 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Jane Bassett, Virginia Bell, Mary Bursley, Peggy Cady, Virginia Cluff,, Patricia Daly, Genevieve Field,' Louise Florez, Doris Gimmy, Betty Greve, Billie Griffiths, Janet Jackson, Louise Krause, Barbara Morgan, Margaret Mustard, Betty Simonds. 5 NIGHT EDITOR: RALPH G. COULTER College Humor "cks icg.ga .. C OLLEGE HUMOR has officially recognized Michigan's 1933 foot- ball team as National Champions. That, i it- self, should cause considerable surprise among the student body and make them more sure than ever that the team was among the greatest Michigan has produced, since there has been a feeling on campus for several years that University of Mich- igan teams and players were usually forgotten by College Humor sport writers. Two seasons ago, although Michigan went through the season undefeated and untied to win the National Championship under the Dickinson 6ating, College Humor awarded its private laurel wrath to Southern California. Add to this the fact that College Humor's All-American selections for the past few years have been very shy of $ichigan players and you can see just why that miagazine's sudden recognition of this year's team as t the nation's best is so surprising as well as gratifying. Yes, we are pleased and honored to read that Charles E. Parker, well-known New York sports writer, feels "that the so-called myth- ical football championship for the season just past belongs to Michigan without question," and says sQ in the current issue of College Humor. Screen Reflections Four stars means extraordinary; three stars definitely recommended; two stars, average; one star, inferior; no stars, stay away from it. new things, as in this play, that are to be con- tended with before decision is reached. "Design For Living" presents the questionable situation of two young artistics living together with one feminine artistic. Srange as it may seem the manner with which this situation is put over doesn't seem to be the -least bit out of color, some may disagree with this, and the constant occur- rence of the familiar Noel Coward dialogue helps to bring the observer into the swing of the theme. Miriam Hopkins as Gilda, Frederick March as Tom, and Gary Cooper as George, of course can't attempt to compare with the original New York cast of Noel Coward and the Lunt-Fontaine duo, but their attemp is a sincere one and worhy of merit. Gilda meets Tom and George aboard a train; friendship and then love eome to the fore, so a gentleman's agreement is reached. Tom has a play accepted, leaves George and Gilda, to return while George is away doing some painting. The three meet the morning after, Gilda goes to her friend Plunkett and they come to Utica, New York, married, give a party for influential friends for Plunkett's advertising campaign only to have the inseparables get together again and pick up where they left off. Flip the Frog, Coming Attractions, and the News are added subjects of about the average run and help set up the fine feature, as some one has said, commonly known as "Exit." -R.E.L. Campus Opinion Letters published in this column should not be con- strued as expressing the editorial opinion of The Daily. Anonymous communications will be disrearded. The names of communicants will, however, be re- garded as confidential upon request. Contributors are asked to be brief, confining themselves to less than 300 words if possible. WISHES ALL CAMPUS OPINION ARTICLES WERE SIGNED To The Editor: This is written not to take a side in any cur- rent controversy but to commend those who sign their own names to their contributions. It ought to be a fairly common opinion among those of us who find instruction and entertainment in reading Campus Opinion that sniping from cover of an- onymity is poor sportmanship. The campus world should be like the big one in which one makes choices and takes the consequences. Norman Anning. TheThar PERIOD -NEW PARAGRAPH The Future of the Detroit Civic By JOHN W. PRITCHARD DETROIT is fated not to see "All's Well That Ends Well." The Shakespeare opus was to be the Civic Theatre's next attraction: the game, unfortunately, has been called because of rain. Detroit audiences either didn't know that the Civic had reopened, or else they were't sure where it was. Net result: no box office and a temporary fadeout. The hey-day of stock companies in the Michi- gan metropolis was and is not. The immediate question, of course, is whether that day will re- turn. Thomas Wood Stevens, Civic director, thinks it will. Denizens of the city sighingly reminisce regard- ing the years when Jesse Bonstelle and her com- pany of embryonic stars, many of whom later became nationally famous stage figures, stood them up in the rear of the Garrick Theatre. Later Miss Bonstelle took over the old Temple Beth-El, converting it into an unique sort of playhouse. There her company never quite succeeded in mak- ing the financial grade, but -the Bonstelle Players continued to be a revered Detroit institution, even after the group was converted into a Civic The- atre. Two years ago Miss Bonstelle died. Detroit mourned, and then, in its stolid, business-like fashion, decided that the Civic Theatre was a thing of the past. The conclusion was wrong, but Detroit never found it out. The announcement of Robert Henderson's appointment as director created a mild stir; Mr. Henderson worked val- iantly, selecting excellent plays and renowned guest stars, but it was in the end futile. The theatre folded up anyway. This fall the organization reopened, under the direction of Mr. Stevens. Its former house was no longer available, having been converted into a talkie-and-vaudeville emporium. The company engaged the auditorium of the art institute, the existence of which most citizens didn't suspect. "Tour du Monde," "The Late Christopher Bean," and "The Pigeon" were all that they had a chance to present. Press agentry was weak, advertising was weaker. Seats were discouragingly vacant. Many people had never heard of "Tour du Monde," which is a dramatization of Jules Verne's "Around the World in Eighty Days." Besides, look at Post and Gatty. A lot of prospective customers had recently seen "Christopher Bean" in the movies. Finally, "The Pigeon" is not one of Galsworthy's better known plays. These facts tended to keep away even those sharp-eyed folk who detected the Civic Theatre advertisement, which was sandwiched in between the Cass and a block of behemothian movie ballyhoo. Again the theatre closed. Thomas Wood Stevens told me Saturday that there is a probability of a reopening once the national recreation program goes into effect. The past run, he said, had the function of reminding Detroiters that they had a theatre. Also, it is desirable for the organization to find itself an "angel"- commonly known on Broadway as one who barters cash for a pash, but truly any person who will finance a show for any reason what- soever. These conditions working out favorably, the Civic Theatre should fling wide its doors some time this spring, Mr. Stevens intimated, There is little probability, he stated, of radio perfor- mances for publicity purposes between now and the reopening. stage shows; it's lethargy. I register herewith a devout prayer that Thespis may smile benign- antly on Mr. Stevens in his efforts to revive an admirable and necessary institution. IS, As Othrn:s See It COME TO MICHIGAN THE announcement by the National Chamber of Commerce that Detroit is one of six American cities which have such good health records they will be barred from the 1934 National Health Conservation Contest in order to give other com- munities a chance at the prize is gratifying. It is well recognized that Detroit's favorable po- sition is due in great measure to the health con- servation measures carried on energetically here. Health Commissioner Vaughan has ben congrat- ulated many times before for his successful lead- ership of this field, and doubtless will be many times again. A contributing factor not so well known is the low average age of Detroit's residents. This means that the city not only has a low normal death rate and a high normal birth rate, but that its citizens generally have youth and strength to aid them in fighting off disease. A third element is the climate. The other five healthiest cities in the United States are Mil- waukee, Syracuse, New Haven, East Orange and Brookline. Detroit and Milwaukee are on the Great Lakes, while the others likewise enjoy vari- able, generally moist weather, without long-con- tinued extremes of cold, heat or dryness. In other words, the climate is refreshing and invig- orating, and induces activity without causing ex- haustion. The fact that all six healthiest cities share the same weather is something which ought to give residents in other parts of the country something to think about. What can Miami or Los Angeles or the rest of the cities in the much-advertised "sunburn belt" say to this? What do the ad- vocates of mountain air or desert dryness say? Or those who sing the charms of the magical salt-water breezes, or the delights of never-end- ing summer? Those places may be all right to visit, but right here and ever-changing storms, sunshine, clouds, winds and clear, bright days is the healthiest place to live. -The Detroit Free Press PEACE MACHINERY NEEDED (Editor's Note - The following letter was pub- lished in the correspondence section of a recent issue of Today, weekly newspaper.) To The Editor: I want to write you about a matter which has been borne in very deeply on me since coming to China. In your June issue and in other student publications I read with profound interest the re- sults of the student poll on pacificism which orig- inated with the Oxford Union and was initiated in the United States by the Brown Daily Herald. The results of this poll give tremendous grounds for. encouragement but one cannot help but feel a little concerned lest students may believe their duty has been done when they have registered themselves in profound opposition to war. This negative phase of the struggle to get rid of war is a truly basic one, but it is only half of the battle. China has probably had millions of people who would not be willing to fight for the country under any circumstances. There are many more who are uncompromisingly opposed to civil war. And yet, both international and civil war have poured their sorrows upon China. There must be erected a responsible and effective machinery to do away with the causes of international and civil war. When hostile bombing planes are flying above the city it is rather late for a pacifist to wish that he had worked toward the perfection of such peace machinery. After living in China these years and looking from this distance at the part of United States in the effort to organize world peace on a basis oi political and economic justice for all countries, one cannot help but feel that American war re- sisters have their most important job directly in front of them, in changing the isolationist and self-centered relations to world life. We know that this is no new emphasis for THE INTERCOLLEGIAN, but the inadequacy of being merely war resisters has come home to us in many tragic ways during these past months. Lyman Hoover. . i I f I k i t I I ." M For the Best LAST LINE tQ this Limerick "If your "tux" badly needs a press Or you're ashamed to wear that party dress Send 'em to Greene's Who Microcleans It's Easy.-Try It Now--Here Are the Rules . Contest open to everyone except em- ployees of Greene's Cleaners & Dyers and their families. 2. Entries may be mailed or left .at any one of Greene's branch stores listed in this advertisement. 3. 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Annex AT THE MICHIGAN "DESIGN FOR LIVING" MINUS Collegiate Observer _ I By BUD BERNARD The father of a freshman at the University of Alabama claimed that his son became mentally unbalanced in studying there, and is suing the University for $30,000 damages. Two Ohio State freshmen walking across the campus yesterday engaged in a very in- teresting conversation. "What else are you carrying this quarter?" inquires the first. "Five hours of Astronomy." "Why do you want to study that stuff? It's nothing but superstition." And then they wonder why freshmen Eng- lish is required. McGill University students have turned out in such numbers for ping-pong matches that the school has built a special bleacher section to ac- commodate all spectators. I _ -- V.- ,,II 'U _________________h, TODAY FULL AET **$4.5 IU PART PAYMENT... $1.00 CM] - GV Gilda ............. Miriam Hopkins Tom.............Frederick 'March ' George ............... Gary cooper Plunkett .,... Edward Everett Horton Ben Hecht's movie version and Ernst Lubitsch's production of Noel Coward's original play, "De- sign For Living," smacks of the play in many respects, in fact enough of them to make it a success, and the minus sign attached above is for the deviation from plot, dialogue and atmosphere created inthe!-play itself, As was the case in "Another Language," as presented on the screen, the hemmed-in atmos- phere, that to the audience must have helped put across the unique ideas presented in both, is lost on the screen and is herein flavored with new The author of "No Nice Girl Swears" has written an editorial entitled "No Girl Goes Col- legiate." She urges all girls to appear stupid, stat- ing that to be called dumb blonde is truly a com- pliment; for, says the authoress, the recipient of the title has succeeded in concealing her real in-