THE MICHIGAN DAILY OM ri "IIu QOQb Fill Busy Wee With Activit Initiations And Pledg Are Held By Nume Groups On Campus k ies ings rous 'Gang's All There'Presents A Dramatic Array Of Characters Many fraternities and sororities have been busy during the past week with pledging, dances, rushing din- ners, and initiation banquets. A number of initiation ceremonies will be held this week-end, Alpha Epsilon Phi Alpha Epsilon Phi announces the pledging of Mary Jane Greenstein, '37, and Beatrice Robinwitch, '36, Tuesday afternoon. Chi Omega A formal initiation banquet was held Saturday by Chi Omega sorori- ty for Winifred Bell, '37, Ann Arbor, Barbara Spencer, '37. Highland Park, Mary Kiest, '34, Knox, Ind., and Ruth Perdee, '36, Clinton. Honor awards were presented to Winifred Bell and Barbara Spencer. Toasts 'were given by Barbara Spencer for the freshmen, by Fran- ces Drake for the sophomores, Bea- trice De Vere for the juniors, and Margaret Shaber for the seniors. Mary Morrison was the toastmistress. Alumnae who attended the affair included Jean Berridge, Highland Park, Genevieve Lawson, Dorothy Hart, Royal Oak, Lloyd Munson, De- troit, and Ethel Howard, Pontiac. Delta Alpha Epsilon Delta Alpha Epsilon fraternity an- nounces the initiation of their pledges, which was held March 4th. The new members are: George F. Rieth, '34P, Wilfred C. Oestrike, '34E, Donald W. Gardner, '37, Roy Sim- mons, '37E, Charles H. Armstrong, '37E. An initiation banquet was held on March 4th at which time a Pledge Scholarship Cup was awarded to Ver- non G. Baldwin, '34, and Wilfred C. Oestrike, '34E, for making the high- est grades in their respective pledge classes. Kappa Delta Rho Kappa Delta Rho fraternity had as guests over the week-end, Miss Florence Vandenburg, Louis Veen- stra, Truman Steinko, and Ronald Innes. Sigma Nu Sigma Nu fraternity announces the initiation of William C. Bates, '37, Robert S. Leahy, '36E, Ralph Boehn- ke, '37E, Bruce D. Marshall, '34, Rob- ert G. Ewell, '37, and Paul S. Dod, '37A. The fraternity is entertaining three guests at a rushing dinner to- night. = Sorosis Sorosis will hold a formal initiation for Janet Allington, '37, G r o s s e Pointe, Nancy Quirk, '37, Ypsilanti, Alice Goslin, '36, Battle Creek, Jo- sephine Wilcox, '37, Detroit, Mary Louise Miller, Detroit, Joan Whet- stone, '36, Lapeer, Dorothy Bolton,, '36, Detroit, Betty Anne Beebe, '37, Ann Arbor, Harriet Kanouse, '37, Ann Arbor, Anne Gaynor Laub, '37, Grosse Ile, Charlotte Rueger, '37, Ann Arbor, Jane O'Ferall, Detroit. Speech Society Initiates Eight New Members Zeta Phi Eta, national professional speech-arts fraternity, announces the initiation of the following eight new members last night at the League: Elizabeth Allen, '36, Louise French, '36, Josephine Gibson, '35, Muriel Horrell, '34, Marjorie Oostdyk, '35, Ruth Poat, '35, Mary Edna Travis, '35, and Garnet Waggoner, '36. Zeta Phi Eta has the distinction of being the first professional fra- ternity for women in the United States. Its first chapter was founded in 1893 at the Cumnock School ,of Oratory at Northwestern University. With the establishment of Pi chapter at Minnesota in January, there are now sixteen active chapters in the United States. Members are selected on the basis of scholarship and per- sonality from the students majoring or minoring in speech. 47c - EVERSHARP - 47c 4-inch Leads - Latest Mechanism 302 South State St. By MARIE MURPHY The plot for "Gang's All There" involves some really dramatic scenes, judging from rehearsals, for sparks fly when Virginia Chapman, as the hard-boiled, temperamental leading lady of the show within the show, flares up at Mack, the young pro- ducer, played by Marie Abbott. When Mack is "put on the spot" by Scarface Joe, the underworld menace, played by Beatrice Devine, it requires some fast talking, and clever strategy on the part of the former to extri- cate himself from the situation. Miss Chapman fits effortlessly into her part as Velura Velmar, who says she is from Argentina and never for- gets for a minute that she has played before the crowned heads of Europe. The harried young producer has fre- quent and wordy outbursts with that blond and experienced lady, who is so sure of her box office appeal. Scarface Joe, that gangster villain, s determined that his fate will not be that of the crooked politicians who had been laughed out of town by Mack's production of the previous year satirizing them, "The Sweet Land of Liberty." When his threats scare Mack's chorus so that they show signs of a wdlk out, it is Fanny, the clever, but plump little chorine who has been relegated to the back row because of her obvious love of chocolates, who shames them into sticking with the show. Charlottle Whitman, as Fanny, well portrays this poor dancer, hope- lessly in love with the director to whom she is just "one of the gals." Fanny's devotion is so great that Many Peces Amuse Crowd At Stunt Niht Selections From Campus Dramatic Productions Offered At League Spontaneous entertainment afford- ed by members of the stunt night crowd, with special emphasis on se- lections from the forthcoming cam- pus dramatic productions, were pre- sented last night in the League grill- room. S. Leon Kaye. '34, who has writ- ten several of the pieces to be heard in "Gang's All There," offered an- other of his own selections, "Rhap- soday in Space," a piano number, finishing up with "The Man I Love," and "And Then My Heart Stood Still," in which he accompanied the singing of John Silberman, '34. The love scene duet from "The Gondoliers," Gilbert and Sullivan op- era to be presented later this month, was sung by Jean Seeley, '36, and Robert Miller, '34, who were accom- panied by Joseph N. Conlin, SpecSM. In a balcony skit parodying "Ro- meo and Juliet," Louise Pliss, '34, played the part of Beck Glantz, and Silberman the part of Boitram Yatz. Byron Dalrymple, author of many J.G.P. selections, sang "Grey Day Gal," and "Why Can't This Night Go On Forever?" Silberman was master of ceremonies. Etching And Print Exhibit Opens Here An exhibition of etchings and orints opens this afternoon in the galleries of Alumnae Memorial Hall and will run daily from 1:30 to 5 p.m. until March 22. The group of 133 etchings by :Donald Shaw Mac- Laughlan is loaned by the Toledo Museum of Art. The exhibition of prints, selected by Edith Gregor Hal- pert from the American Prints Mak- ers exhibit of 1933, is sent from New York City. The galleries will be opened from 8 to 9:30 p.m. Thursday, March 15, for the lecture which Wilfred B. Shaw, Director of Alumni Relations, is giving in connection with the ex- hibit. There will also be a talk at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, March 18, by Wal- ter Donnelly, editor of the University Museums Publications. A group of engineering students at the U. of North Dakota threw one of the student solicitors, who was try- ng to force faculty members to sub-: scribe to a University news organ, into the campus lagoon. The action was prompted by the 60 per cent sal- ary cut given the faculty members and the sympathetic nature of the engineers. at the crucial moment she "does a Cinderella," saves the day, the show goes on, and she gets her man. The comic element of the play is sustained more by the minor cast parts than the leads. The emphasis in the latter case is upon the ex- cited, strained feeling that exists just before a big production is to open, while the lesser characters are able to form either clever or ludic- rous relief. Mosher-Jordan olds Informal Guest Dinners Mosher-Jordan Halls are enter- taming some members of the faculty tonight at an informal dinner. The guests in Jordan are Miss Ethel Mc- Cormick, Miss Margaret Smith, Miss Sara Rowe, Miss Alta Atkinson, Dr. Dorothy Hard, Mr. and Mrs. Rene Talamon, Mr. and Mrs. Warner Rice, Mr. Louis Chapard, Miss Elizabeth Inglis, Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Wild, Mr. Karl Reichenback, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Adams, Dr. Lloyd Gates, Mr. and Mrs. Manley McDonald, Miss Laurie Campbell, Miss Ina Rankin, Miss McFee, Miss Gertrude Muxen, Mr. Hans Pick, Mr. and Mrs. Har- vey Rhorer, and Mr. Charles Del- Gaudio. The guests in Mosher Hall will be Mr. and Mrs. Robert Horner, Dr. and Mrs. Preston Slosson, Mr. Morley Scott and his mother, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick P. Jordan, Mr. and Mrs. William B. Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Hawkins, Mr. and Mrs. Har- vey Webster, Dr. George Stanley, Dr. and Mrs. Raleigh Schorling, Mr. Ar- thur E. Evans, Dr. and Mrs. John H. Muyskens. Hillel Group To Produce Two Plays Sunday Night The Hillel Players will present two one-act plays at Hillel Foundation, Sunday night at 8:00. The first play, "The Mayor and the Manicurist" by George Ade is under the direction of Harriet Kesselman. Herb Fabricant will play the mayor and Sally Leavitt the manicurist. Ada Zola and Nor- man Sharfman will take the roles of Ruth and Wally respectively. Frank Molnar's "Violet" under the direction of Larry Ruben is the sec- ond play to be given. "vere To Go Motion Pictures: Michigan, "Easy To Love;" Majestic, "Ace of Aces" with Richard Dix and "Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen" with Dorothea Wieck; Wuerth, "Christopher Bean" and "Solitaire Man;" Whitney, "Men in Her Life" and "Forbidden Trail." Dancing: League Grill Room, Hi- Hat Inn, Preketes, Tavern. Art Cinema League: "Poil de Ca- rotte;" 7:30 and 9:05 p.m., Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. Russian Quintet Completes First Year OfActivity' Student Group Interprets And Traces Development Of Native Folk Songs The Russian Student Quintet, man- aged by Gregory Dolgorukov, will celebrate the anniversary of its first rehearsal Saturday. Since those first days, when the group was a male quartet, there have been changes and today it boasts a soprano soloist and a Cossack dancer in its number. The group has broadcast several times re- cently, although it has made no cam- pus appearances, and will be heard at 4:15 p.m. tomorrow over Station WJR. Saturday the quintet is offering a program of native songs and in- strumental music at the Detroit In- stitute of Art, in conjunction with the internationally-known Russian Balalaika Orchestra. One of the most charming members of the group is Madame Tatiana Maksoutova, soprano, wife of another member of the group, Constantine Maksoutova, '34E. Joseph Kalom, Grad., first tenor, formerly with the American Opera Co. of Chicago, and an NBC artist, is the only member previously engaged ia professional singing. Combining his duties as sec- ond tenor with those of business manager and announcer for the radio programs, Gregory Dolgorukov, '34L, is the fourth member of this inter- esting group. The only one of the singers born in this country is John Dubrovsky, '35, St. Louis. He is the newest mem- ber of the organization, having been broken in only recently following the graduation last semester of Alexis Sokoloff. Victor Kibardin, Grad., the Cossack dancer, came to this country from Perm, Russia. The quintet sings entirely in Rus- sian and according to the Russian methods, basing everything on the, highest voice. Consequently the col- lege songs which the group has re- arranged are scarcely recognizable as such. It is the aim of the group, according to Dolgorukov, to discover the historic values in the modern ver- sions of Russian songs, and to inter- pret them as nearly as possible in terms of the originals. Dolgorukov draws a sharp distinc- tion between popular and folk songs. The former, he says, answer the mood of the moment and are of known origin, while the latter are of un- known origin and can be traced back, in some cases, to Slavic pagan songs of the eighth century. By LOIS JOTTER ,man, and Elizabeth never made the The regal but lonesome figure of mistake of accepting his advice. the famous red-haired queen ov- Essex did have his followers also, ing before a rich background of va- and among them appeared the great Tied characters all striving for her at- scholar and essayist, Sir Francis Ba- tention and patronage, isI portrayed con. This brilliant diplomat was a in Maxwell Anderson's "Elizabeth, the bitter enemy of the Cecils because of Queen," which is to be given March the neglect of Lord Burghley, who 14, 15, 16, and 17 by Play Pro- was his uncle. Bacon was loyal to duction. Essex, but in the end the favorite's No two of these various back- hot-headed impulsiveness, and lack ground characters are alike except in of vision lost him Bacon's support. their desire for power which leads Elizabeth herself admired Bacon ex- them into the constant intrigues of tremely, and he was one of the few the court. Elizabeth's court was al- who could equal her in intelligence ways divided into factions, and at and shrewdness. the time of her romance with Essex, Raleigh Of Cecil House which is the theme of Anderson's play, the two factions were those of Bacon's advocacy of Essex was bal- the house of Cecil, as opposed to the anced by the allegiance of Sir Walter follow ers of Lord Essex. Raleigh to the opposite faction. Ra- followersofLrde Esse. leigh hated Essex bitterly, because of Burghley Appears his ability to outshine the slightly Lord Burghley, head of the house more stolid, but still handsome Sir of Cecil, held a position of consid- Walter. Elizabeth's admiration of Sir erable power in the court from the Walter indicates the versatility of her time of Elizabeth's ascension in 1558 taste, for he was cautious, crafty, until his death 40 years later, with little foolishness, in contrast Throughout this entire interval, with Essex. In "Elizabeth, the Queen" Burghley was implicitly trusted by Raleigh is an excellent foil for the Elizabeth, who characteristically kept more romantic Essex. separate her mind and her emotions. All of these characters appearing It was his craft which appealed to in the play have been carefully Elizabeth, for although he was an studied by students in Play Produc- aristocrat and very distinguished, he tion, first from the historical point nevertheless was not the romantic of view, and second for pictorial ef- type of figure which Elizabeth loved. feet. The aim has been to reproduce Burghley's son, Robert Cecil, also the various characters as they look had considerable power, although he according to portraits made at the too, did not appeal to the emotions, particular age of the character in the since his shrewdness was accompa- play. nied by a hunch-back, and a certain snake-like quality. Robert Cecil was jealous of the handsome favorites Mt. Pleasant Alumni To which the queen admired for roman- Celebrate Anniversary tic qualities rather than for intellect. Ironically enough Cecil was the only The University of Michigan Club person upon whom the queen could of Mt. Pleasant will hold its second depend during the last year of her anniversary dinner, marking the be- life, after all the brilliant favorites ginning of the third year of the club's were gone. existence, Tuesday, April 24, at the Essex, the Favorite Central State Teacher's College, ac- Essex, one of the most romantic of cording to an announcement received all these brilliant favorites, was the in the offices of the Alumni Associa- impulsive leader and hero of all the tion here. youth of England because of his A short business meeting of the courage and success as a soldier, as club will be held prior to the dinner well as for his dashing manner and for the nomination and election of handsomeness. 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