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Representatives: College Publications Representatives, Inc., 4C East Thirty-Fourth Street, New York City; 80 Boylson Street, Boston; .812 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR.........THOMAS K. CONNELLAN EDITORIAL DIRECTOR.............C, HART SCHAAF CITY: EDITOR ....... .......BRACKLE~Y SHAW SPORTS EDITOR.. . ..ABERT H. NEWMAN DRAMA EDITOR............JOHN W. PRITCHARD WOMEN'S EDITOR.................CAROL J. HANAN LIGHT EDITORS: A. Ellis Ball, Ralph G. Coulter. William (i. Ferris, John C, lleatley, George Van Wleek, E. Jerome Pettit. SPORTS ASSISTANTS: Charles A. Baird, Arthur W. Car- s-ens, Roland L. Martin, Marjorie Western. WOMEN'S ASSISTANTS: 4arjorie Beck, Eleanor Blum, Lois Jotter, Marie Murphy, Margaret D. Phalan. REnPORTERS: C. Bradford Carpenter, Paul J. Elliott, Courtney A. Evans, John J. Flaherty, Thoms A. Groehn, John Kerr, Thomas H. Kleene, Bernard B. Levick, David G. MacDonald, Joel P. Newman, John M. O'Connell, Kenneth Parker, William H. Reed, Robert S. RuWitch, Arthur S. Settle, Jaco C. Seidel, Marshall D. Silverman, Arthur M. Taub. Dorthy Gier, Jean Hanmer, Florence Harper, Eleanor John1lr~n, Rto Loebs, Josephine 'McLean, Marjorie Mor- riso1, ;ally Plare, Rosalie Resnick, Jane Schneider. BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 2-1214 BUSINESS MANAcER.. .......W. GRAFTON SHARP CREDI ETMANAGER..........BERNARDA T SQHNACKE WOMEN'S BUSINESS MANAGER . ........ .... .....CATHARINE MC HENRY DEPARTMENT MANAGERS: Local Advertising, Noel Tur- ner; Classified Advertising, Russell Head, Advertising Service, Robert Ward; Accoutnts, Allen Kmunst; Circula- tion and Contracts, Jack Efroymon. ASSISTANTS: Milton Kramer, John Ogden, Bernard Ro- enthal, Joe Rothbard, George Atherton. Jane Bassett, Virginia Bell, Mary Bursley, Peggy Cady, Virginia Cluff, Patricia Daly, Genevieve Field, Louise Plorez, Doris Gimmy, Betty Greve, Billie Griffiths. Janet Jackson, Louise Krause, Barbara Morgan, Margaret Mustard, Betty Simonda. FRESHMAN TRYOUTS: William Jackson, Louis Gold- smith, David Schiffer, William Barndt, Jack Richardson, Charles Parker, Ro'oert Owen, Ted Wohlgemuth, Jerome Grossman, Avncr, Kronenberger, Jim Horiskey, Tom Clarke, Scott, Samuel Beckman, Homer Lathrop, Hall, Ross Levin, Willy Tomlinson, Dean Asselin, Lyman Bittman, John Park, Don Hutton, Allen Ulpson, Richard Hardenbrook, Gordon Cohn. NIGHT EDITOR: JOHN C. HEALEY Tonight's The Night At The Whitney . . although huge in itself, was definitely limited in amount. Pension payments fall into no such category. They grew out of the Civil War, and for the rest of the nineteenth century the G.A.R. was a na- tional power in politics, holding the threat of its voting. strength as a bludgeon over recalcitrant Presidents and Congressmen. The comic-opera Spanish War has furnished another sorry example. Today payments to veterans and dependents of men who were in that war exceed by far pay- ments made before the World War period. And now it is apparently proposed to create another privileged class, to pay a man the rest of his life if he spent six months at a southern training camp during the war. The veterans' lobby will, if not curtailed in some manner, make a uniform the one-way ticket to life support, which .was just what President Roosevelt was attempting to stop. Because a veteran became ill in 1923 is no cause for his automatically becoming eligible for life to dip into the public funds. But the vet- erans' lobby thought it did. And what is more important, they forced Congress to adopt that view. The grab-bag was open., Roosevelt found it imperative to attempt to close it. In the hysteria of . the special session Congress did close it partly. But now, with' elec- tions coming on and the lobby operating with full force, Congress gave in, notwithstanding. Presidential disapproval. The Michigan delegation in both houses showed no concern over either an unbalanced budget or broken promises of economy. Early in this year's session, Horatio Abbott, Michigan Democratic national committeeman, wired Michigan Dem. ocrat members in the House, asking them to sup- port the President. Among the ones who indig- nantly told Abbott to mind his own business was Rep. John C. Lehr, who represents this district. Retorted Lehr: "I have, ever since I have been in Congress, unqualifiedly and absolutely supported the program of the President, and it is my present plan to do so." He further mentioned his "38 years of unselfish support of the Democratic prin- ciples." Yet Representative Lehr was among the Mich- igan delegation who three weeks ago voted unani- mously to override the President's veto of the pension bill. What could have worked to halt his "unqualified and absolute support" of the Presi- dent? The answer is clear. He comes up for election next November and he might well have feared the influence of the veterans' lobby. That is the situation nationally as well. The lobby is triumphant. Whether it will remain tri- umphant depends on the electorate. Despite the' great American tendency for glossing over the de- fects in the country's system, such a pernicious- ness cannot and will not be permitted to exist forever. screen Reflections lay... - m AT THE MICHIGAN "RIPTIDE" ** CAN I w by KNO G-.t OD?1 Mary ................... Norma Shearer Tommy ............ Robert Montgomery Lord Rexford ......... Herbert Marshall After an absence of 18 months, Norma Shearer. who somehow got the title of "First Lady of the Cinema," makes a reappearance on the talking screen in "Riptide," an ultra-modern story with a Continental background, written and directed by Edmund Goulding. It is unfortunate that an old, threadworn story should have been given to the star of "Smiling Thru" and "Strange Interlude." It is the aged triangle of a woman torn between love for her husband and her playboy acquaint- ance. Lord Rexford must leave Mary to attend to business, and she wants lovin'. On the verge of boredom, Tommy gets a new interest from Mary who leads him on in order to relieve the monotony of her existence. The newspapers pick up the scandal and smear it over their sheets. Friend husband comes home with divorce papers in his pocket. The remainder of the time is spent with the portrayal of Mary's indecision. Robert Montgomery is an excellent comedian and plays the part of the intoxicated playboy very well. Norma Shearer-is at home in her part and makes the best of the trite dialogue she is supplied with. Herbert Marshall is disappointing as the husband in as much as he is just too, too, too noble. He thinks Mary is too, too, too divine. Everyone is too, too something or other. Technically well mounted, "Riptide" will please those patrons who like the drawing-room problem drama in which there is much anxiety, conversation, and too many tears. On the other hand it will bore those who like to see something different for their money. ~J. C. S. T~4 h nt ^ t- REV. FREDERICK B. FISHER WAHR'S BOOKSTORE The Twentieth Book in Harpers Monthly Pulpit 1 l r r Musical Events GRADUATION ORGAN RECITAL THIS AFTERNOON r r METROPOLITAN. THEATRE DOINGS AFTER A WINTER of comparatively tranquil hibernation the Detroit theatre is beginning to stir restively, to prove that night is not eternal, to provide entertainment other than lecture series and first-run movies. This awakening is extended to the Cass and Wilson Theatres. Walter Hampden is the famed star who will give the Cass its 1934 baptism, with a repertory program which, having started last night, will extend through Wednesday night. The De Forest Famous Players, a glorified stock company, will open next Monday at the Wil- son, continuing for several weeks with a new play each week. Mr. Hampden's offerings will be as follows: Monday and Wednesday evenings, "Richelieu"; Tuesday evening, "The Servant in the House"; Wednesday matinee, "Macbeth." The De Forest Players (with Margaret Fitch, Melva Gerard, Mar- tin Burton, and Phillip Dakin) will open with P. G. Wodehouse's comedy, "Candle-Light." All will be reviewed in this column. - - - - - - - - - -I contact the Student Body throunh ihe Michigan Daily Classified Ads F.otnomitla. .. Efficient.* (ASK RATES . I aTUin I tt Zt U14at 420 Maynarif Street The 1934 Michiganensian will be out the first week in May. BUY IT NOWi $5 Make 2nd and 3rd payments at St udents Publications Bldg. E VERYONE WILL BE THERE. Where? At the opening perform- ance of the revival number of the Union Opera, "With Banners Flying," at the Whitney Theatrej tonight. They will come to watch some 75 men students don dresses, falsetto voices, and what not, to show women students, men students, faculty members, and administrators how others see them. Advance notices promise that everyone from President Alexander G. Ruthven to Etaoin Shrdlu, '37, will come in for ,his share of the "razz fest"j that will follow the opening curtain. The show, meant to be a satire of all those things which we' cherish so on the campus - to show us up ast others see us, will also furnish an evening of real entertainment. For your own edification, as well as for fun's sake, we'll see you there., Opening The Gr i B.. . . W RITING in the March issue of} The Forum, Editor Henry Goddard Leach came out, with enthusiastic praise of Presi- dent Roosevelt's accomplishments in his first year of office. To Editor Leach the New Deal was man's supreme gesture toward perfection. In a sweep- ing disregard for the oft-spoken view that it approached a New Deck rather than a New Deal he described Roosevelt in glowing and compli- mentary terms. It is not our purpose here either to applaud or gainsay Mr. Leach's editorial. Yet in one detail, his discussion of the veterans' lobby, we agree most strongly with him. .Said Mr. Leach, in discussing the President's achievements: "First, the smash- ing of the veterans' lobby. The pension racket had become an octopus of billions of tentacles threatening to throttle and emasculate the eco- npmic freedom of American life. ,At the rate we were going over half the tax-burden of the peace.- loving American people would in a few years have been required to support in princely pauperdom the widows and derelicts of war. It was Roosevelt who laughed fearlessly at political expediency and administered the nension lohhv a definite check- Introduction (Sonata in the style of Handel)...................Wolstenholme Allegro Suite : A Chinese Garden ........ DeLamarter Nocturne The Fountain The Legend Scherzo (Sonata for Organ) .........Parker Fugue.........................Honegger Soul of the Lake (Seven Pastels from the Lake of Constance) ........Karg-Elert Two Choral Preludes: "O Welt, ich muss dich lassen" . .Karg-Elert "O Welt, ich muss dich lassen" . . . .Brahms Fugue a la gigue .. ..................Bach Prelude and Fugue in D Major ........Bach Mary Anne, Mathewson, who has made several musical appearances on the campus before this, will present her graduation organ recital this afternoon in Hill Auditorium. With a native gift of music,"Miss. Mathewson is at home in many branches of the art. Shehas aadifficult program cut out for her. CHAMBER MUSIC RECITAL In Review The recital had its high spots and its low spots. It began on high with the double concerto of Chausson, with .solo work and ensemble work well balanced, well blended and distinctive. But with the Bach (arranged by Harold Bauer for the mod- ern piano .and, still in manuscript), which may have been too delicate a thing for Hill Auditorium, there was a let down. It somehow didn't register tonally or in flowing coherence. Speaking impar- tially, the Debussy quartet, performed by four young women, was the peak of the program, for in tempo and ensemble, in plausibility, that is, it seemed to have been assimilated in its entirety, in all its contours ebb and flow; this quartet moved in a finished performance. The next two numbers, Mozart-Grieg piano so- .ata, arranged here for chamber orchestra, and the Pillois Rhapsody chiefly proved the training and co-operation of the ensemble, with good bal- ance and color values nicely drawn. The Pillois was of the two more enjoyable, from' a musical standpoint. The Brahms Sextet, after a hiatus, got into full swing, for an effective, smooth, artistic performance. To conclude, the Dvorak, with addi- tion of harp, which in Hill Auditorium, obviates the tonal purpose of the piano by its opposite, more reverberating tone, swung to a noble finish. The chamber music class is probably one of the largest of any school in the country. This program demonstrates that it is doing an ambitious task well, for the performance of these students com- pares, if, actually, is not superior, to the work being accomplished in other studios. Some cham- ber music recitals have been broadcast; few have been on such a scale as this, and few have been superior in finish. Mr. Pick may well be satisfied thatThis work and plans, which are cumulative in Collegiate Observer By BUD BERNARD The head of the botany department at the Uni- versity of Western Ontario stated that the average professor told from eight to 18 down-right lies per lecture and that most text books contain an aver- age of 120 false statements or mistakes. Then he claimed that the students were suckers or chumps for taking them all in. (What's the poor student to do?) When two freshmen were questioned at the University of Illinois about turning in the same answers on a history quiz they replied, "History repeats itself." Cribbing was made compulsory on a quiz given recently in a University of Texas psychology class. Each student was directed to look at other papers and compare answers, and to cheat in any other way provided he did not talk. The purpose of the test was entirely experimental, the material having been previously covered. No results were an- nounced. * * At last the dance drunk has been given a break. A story in the Purdue Exponent says, in regard to a certain dance: "Pass-out checks will be issued." Some (practical) joker placed a large cannon firecracker under the hood of a North Carolina State professor's car, and connected it to the starter. When the savant stepped on the starter, the firecracker went off. Some choice, fancy and unadulterated language followed. Here's a statement coming, from a disillu- sioned junior at Ohio State University. When a bee stings you, it dies; but co-eds just try it again. Freshmen women at Adelphi College, according to an old tradition, must have a bald spot shaved on their heads which is to be covered with a hat and three feet of purple ribbon. * * * * A co-ed at Olaf University, in an examina- tion defined "prerogative" as a cure for tape- worm. * * * * Harvard University officials certainly outdo the proverbial Scotchman in making money go a ina wqm. Whe n .00dars nwas recently do- Ii. OPENS TONIGHT 25th Union Opera WHITNEY THEATRE Curtailn at 8:15 ffs