THE MICHIGAN DAILY [CHIGAN DAILY have had a Speech prerequisite, and the group itself is a course yielding University credit. Comedy Club, on the other hand, has been forced to stand entirely on its own feet: its success is thus the more laudible. Tonight the Lonsdale comedy, "The Last of Mrs. Cheyney", is to be given its first campus showing. It is apt to be an excellent production. It is to be hoped that additional Comedy Club presentations will soon be "taken on the road." --; . 1 i III If- Screen Reflections Four stars means extraordinary; three stars definitely recommended; two stars, average; one star, inferior; no stars, stay away from it. i !lYlA PCMO.M nttO D AVMI4L - .rI g .G.- - - - - - °'1- - :C .,- - - - , Established 1890 Published every morning except Monday during the University year.and Summer Session by the Board in Control of Student Publications. 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NIQT EDITOR: A. ELLIS BALL Keep Study Halls open Week-Ends .. . B OTH study halls in the General Li- brary, as well as the Angell Hall study hall, have been closed throughout the cur- rent semester on Friday and Saturday nights and all day Sunday. Economy necessitated the ar- rangement, according to University authorities. It was explained at the Library that an attend- ance count in the study halls was kept and these periods were found to be the least popular of any during a week. The fallacy of the conclusion lies in the fact that this census was taken early in the year when students were not so much in need of a place where they might study on weekends, and the number present was naturally lower. However, at this time of year, all of us find it necessary to do most of our reviewing for exam- inations at these very times, but are without a suitable place for it. Fraternity houses, dormi- tories, and even rooming houses are naturally not appropriate places for intensive sudying on week-. ends, for there are always a few who have other plans which necessitate a good deal of noise and confusion in their execution. Realizing that the Univeriity has found it necessary to economize in all possible ways, we still feel that there must be some other expendi- tures which could be cut down sufficiently to pro- vide funds which would enable library authori- ties to keep the study halls open -if not all the time, then at least on week-ends immediately prior to final examinations. It would be providing what a university is expected to provide - a place in which students can find the required atmos- phere for concentrated studying We can under- stand how it has been necessary to reduce the li- brary staff approximately 25 per cent, and the allottmenit of funds 22 per cent, but the Univer- sity should not fail to fulfill this obligation to students even though some other unit may have to suffer as the result We wonder, for instance, how much it costs to enforce the auto ban. Comedy Club Road Show . . T HAS BEEN a good number ofj years since a campus dramatic or- gaization of the first magnitude has taken a pro- duction out of Ann Arbor. Yesterday Comedy Club exported "The Last of Mrs. Cheyney" to Saginaw for a single night stand. The old state- AT THE MICHIGAN "SON OF A SAILOW * Handsome..J..........Joe E. Brown Duke.. . ........... Johnnie Mack Brown Gaga...................Frank McHugh The Baroness ............ Thelma Todd People who enjoy Joe E. Brown's sense of humor will find this picture as amusing as some of his other features, but for those who are not so wrapped up in such antics will have to turn to the added features for their entertainment. Handsome is a sailor who runs into everything, including women in general, the Admiral's daugh- ter, and other incidents in particular. Duke in- vents a robot airplane, falls in love with the daughter, and proves a general hero all around. Gaga acts dumb (which isn't hard for McHugh anyway), steals Handsome's gal from him by using the "Handsome system," while the Baroness and friend spend their time trying to steal the plane from Duke for his robot airplane. This proves to be plot number 789903X common to many a comedy seen and aside from Brown's occasional facial gestures nothing to write home about or go leery over. Aside from this the film burned during one part (this has happened frequently lately) aiding and abetting to the entertainment of course. Added to this is: a Musical Brevity "That Goes Double," with Colombo, "Where's That Tiger?" (taken from the show of ages ago by the same name; Tiger Rag), a Betty Boop "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers" (so-so) and the Paramount News. This of course is a lot of trash, which re- minds me, The World's Fair Follies are coming to town Sunday. Oh! You must go! -R.E.L. Cam pus 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. ANSWERS THE GOOD AMERICAN To the Editor: - The letter signed by "A Good American" re- garding the R.O.T.C. struck me this morning right between the oatmeal and the stewed apricots. It was delicious oatmeal, although slightly scorched. It was not long before I grasped the full swing and import of the letter; I was filled with a glor- ious realization of the author's inspiration, of the sublimely soaring cadence of patriotism that surged and pullulated within him. I stood and sang three bars of "Battle Hymn of the Republic", and then marched quick-time to my class in Therapeutics. There are, however, a few points which I would like to have the panegyricist elucidate. They are, viz, and to wit, viz.: (1) How would you propose to wage a war without maiming veterans? (2) What were the policies of Woodrow Wilson? (3) What does the R.O.T.C. know about the Na- tional Students' League? (4) What does the R.O.T.C. know? (5) What causes the pictures of Washington and Lincoln to flinch? I am sure that Mr. A.G. American will be only too glad to clarify these few ambiguities, and thus complete the conversion of another errant soul to the lambent salvation of feudalism. - The Second Noble Kinsman CO-OPERATIVE COUNCIL DISBANDS To the Editor: - At the meeting of the Co-operative Council yes- terday afternoon, a resolution was adopted that: the Co-operative Council disband and return to the Undergraduate Council the power to collect and distribute all monies accruing from the Good Will Fund. This procedure was the result of the destructive attitude of the Undergraduate Council and the Michigan Daily from the time it was made clear that the Co-operative Council was to be more than a means of contacting various needy students through its member organizations. A conflict of opinion arose when an editorial en- titled "Co-operative Council and Good Will Drive" stated that the Co-operative Council" was not to have any power of distribution at all" and that "Its sole function, as far as the Good Will Fund is concerned was to be and will be the employment of its representatives as an instrument for the detection of need." As far as such a function is concerned, it would be obviously much more efficient for the Under- graduate Council to contact the various church and liberal organizations directly, and therefore, it would be not only useless but entirely worthless to create a special body solely to perform that function. In refutation of the editorial in question how- ever we wish to state that the Co-operative Coun- cil was an organization existing in its own right, and that its constitution guaranteed it the power to collect and distribute monies derived from the Good Will Fund. The unsocial and misleading nature of this editorial violated these rights and made ineffectual any function the Co-operative Council might otherwise have performed. co-operate with this "Gentlemen's Club" unless they change their organization to make it a de- cent and representative for the students. Throughout this unfortunate affair, the atti- tude of the Dean of Men, in trying to consiliate those with opposed viewpoints, is to be highly commended and approved. Signed; Kendall B. Wood Adrian Jaffe M. J. Wilsie Ex-members of the Executive Committee, Co- operative Council. Musical Events RACHMANINOFF CONCERT IN REVIEW Rachmaninoff has proclaimed himself a "ro- manticist," in interviews and as perhaps never before in Ann Arbor, last night in his concert. Hitherto, his performances have been purely in- tellectual feats; last night, there was a directed emotional content that makes the recital mem- orable. That is, the romantic, subjective, self-dis- closing qualities that are typical of the nineteenth century were controlled by the cold, intellectual, and discriminating genius that has usually pre- dominated in Rachmaninoff's concerts. Details that are the product of year's of thought and trial may have been lost in the facility of tech- nique that is his, and that is always astonishing and overpowering and fascinating to an audience. The Schumann "Symphonic Studies" were a de- light in their contrasts of mood and spirit. It was due to the clean-cut touch, the sureness of his hands, that made the'staccato chords in the second variation,dthe singing tone of the twelfth, and the crystal brilliance of the last, successful. But, it was effortless, seemingly; it all was simple technically, alive melodically, rich and deep in ef- fect. Rachmaninoff's own teacher and friend, Anton Rubinstein, won his greatest triumphs with the Schumann Studies. It was particularly fitting that the personality of Professor Lockwood, himself a pianist of Pro- fessor Lockwood, himself a pianist, who was a friend to his students, a friend to his colleagues, a cultured scholar and a musician, a man whost mind was keen and filled with genial humour, should have been brought to the attention of the public by the playing of the B-flat minor So- nata of Frederick Chopin at the hands of this great pianist, Rachmaninoff. It works out into a whole, with each movement an evolutionary unit in the contour of the total. Rachmaninoff does not repeat himself, in the repetitions of the sections, he plays mezzo-forte where before he played softly. In the famous Funeral March, (which gave the particular significance to the memorial to Prof. Lockwood), after the serenity of intermezzo, came the return of the sombre march with an almost brutality, and where be- fore, the climax had come in a passionate out- burst, in this last section came gently and as if there were reconciliation. There were liberties taken with rhythm; an ease and accentuation, or a hurry for emphasis, in the scherzo, which in this sonata is the second movement. The first and last movements were done in the grand manner, with speed and expedition. Rachmaninoff's own compositions on this pro- gram, Three Tableaux Etudes were spun out with rippling speed, with happy melody and colorful zest, somewhat reminiscent of somebody else, De- Bussy, Chopin, and Rachmaninoff of the G-minor prelude, respectively From the Sonetto del Petrarca to the Hungarian Rhapsodie the last group was Lisztian, in turn of melody and brilliant fireworks. Liszt will always be popular to the fire-eating public, with its dash and splash. In his expansive mood, Rachmaninoff played four encores, his own "Troika," a piano arrange- ment of the "Bumble-bee", the C-sharp minor prelude, and Hopak. The audience arose, applauding, after the Sonata settled in the thought that, to paraphrase Dickens "there never was such a pianist." S.P 4/}a ...... ..."ur s. W"A HR'SBOOKTO REiS STATE STREET "Buy With Confidence" MAIN STREET ~I I Pearl Buck - THE MOTHER Sinclair Lewis - WORK OF ART Anne Parrish - SEA LEVEL Nordho ff and Hall -MEN AGAINST THE SEA Dashiell Hammett - THE THIN MAN Hillel Bernstein - L'AFFAIRE JONES N EWQOOKS -Just Published THE ORATORICAL ASSOCIATION has the pleasure to present Air C0fommodore Fellowes Leader of the Housto i-Everest Expedition and The Official Motion Pictures of "The Conquest of Everest" HILL AUDITORIUM Thursday, January 25th at 8 P. M. Tickets Now at Wahr's 50c and 75c I N., . N,