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HE INTERFRATERNITY COUNCIL faces a crisis today. Whether it will continue to bask in the lethargy that has char- acterized its activities during the past year or whether it will rise to an organization of true lead- ership of fraternity activities on the campus will be decided when fraternity delegates vote on "radical changes" in the old Council constitution. Many of the new amendments prepared by the special committee are commendable. If passed they will serve to develop an organization of administra- tive efficiency, as well as an organization with "teeth." The resolution which compels fraternities to be represented by their presidents is highly commend- able. These men, as a rule, are elected for their qualities of leadership and responsibility. The pres- ent Council is sadly lacking in this type of men. A further resolution of the revised constitution provides that a majority of 15 delegates to the Council may oust the president and the student . members of the Executive Council by a vote of "no confidence." The advantage of this change is obvious. Although the actual executive power rests in the hands of a small commission, it is directly responsible to the Council as a whole. The chief and most controversial issue .under the revised constitution is the minimizing of fac- ulty power in the Executive Committee so that under the new plan the student members control the committee by a 5-to-3 vote. The advisability. of this resolution is highly debatable. Only the future can decide what the results of this move would be. There are 48 fraternities qualified to vote "no" or "yes" today on this all-important issue. We urge every fraternity to vote in order to make this decision a representative one. Hour Examinations Ask Too Much... UDGING from the number and scope of questions on the average literary college examination there is no premium put upon thinking during the course of such IN HIS SECOND offering in the current dramatic season at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, Mr. Henderson is again turning to English belles lettres, this time to Mr. Samuel Pepys, esquire, great drinker of liquor, prodigious eater of food, and great lover of women. Quite incidentally in this play, in comparison to the reams of paper covered by the sisters Bronte in last week's play, Mr. Pepys is the trenchant chronicler of Restoration manners. For this reason, among others, "And So To Bed" makes a much better play than the grim tragedy of the Yorkshire moors. Mr. Fagan has confected a gay comedy of intrigue, that captures in spirit at least the manners of the town during the colorful days and sporting nights of the restoration. The intrigue, it is true, is often conventional yet skillful comedians invest it with life and color. Since it is a comedy with its background a period which produced the greatest English literature of that genre, "And So To Bed" invites a detailed comparative study and analysis of technique. In this matter, I shall confine myself to mere comment that the modern performance doubtless is better suited to the mood of a modern audience. And whatever one would like to say of what is deriva- tive and what is not, it is the players who merit the reviewer's attention. Madame Leontovich as Mistress Pepys, the spir- ited and attractive wife of the diarist, is hardly what one would expect fron a perusal of her hus- band's pages. Her interpretation of the part was no doubt a surprise to the author himself. But that does not minimize the fact that she is wholly delightful, wholly charming, a really great comic artist. Her movements, her postures, her pert atti- tudinizing are not the least part of her charm. Inspired by this the entire cast turn in splendid performances. Mr. Peters' interpretation of Pepys is by far the best thing he has done locally, and proved him to be an excellent comedian. The mu- tual recriminations, suspicions and repentances of the closing scenes with his wife were particularly well done by both. As usual in farce comedy, the situations are most piquant in the second act and here it is a great pleasure to find Katherine Wick Kelly in a worthy part. "Beauty, wit and song" are the attributes of the dashing Mistress Knight, and Miss Kelly reveals all of these. Always at her best in costume plays she brilliantly rounds out her portrait of the singer who so captured the roving eye of Pepys and the merry monarch as well. Much might be said of Donald Randolph in this latter part, of Edith Gresham as Mistress Knepp, a lady of the town, who obliges while in her cups with a delightful ballad during the supper. In fact, there is no doubt, that "And So To Bed" is a farce comedy that manages to be consistently enter- taining without insulting the intelligence or frac- turing probability -and this is no small achieve- ment. HENDERSON AT DETROIT CASS: "THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS"- A Review By JOHN W. PRITCHARD CONTRARY to my expectations, "The Pursuit of Happiness" is not just a lot of horseplay about bundling, concentrated into one scene, with a matrix of useless filler surrounding and connecting it. Instead, it is a very witty comedy, at rather a new angle. It presents characters who are very real, speaking lines that are very unpretentious; yet the characters are immensely stimulating to the sinews of laughter, and there is scarcely a line that fails to rock the audience in an uproar of risibility. Moreover it is a well-constructed play, leading up to its main thesis carefully and interest- ingly. This play has more relevance to, Ann Arbor dramatics than any previously presented in Detroit this season. It is a Henderson show, a sort of auxiliary to the Dramatic Season here, and its proceeds will go into the Season's coffers. Two of the stars - Walter Slezak and Olive Olsen - will be seen here Friday in "Meet My Sister." Written by Lawrence Langer and Armina Mar- shall,' the play introduces a Connecticut family during the early years of the revolution. Into this group comes a Hessian, Max Christmann (Mr. Slezak), who is deserting to the American forces. He falls in love with the daughter of the family, Prudence Kirkland (Carol Stone), and secures her pemission to "spark" with her. The rest of the play deals chiefly with the question of "to bundle or not to bundle," and, if so, with whom to bundle -bundling being to get into bed together, fully dressed, with a centerboard between the couple, the object being to keep warm and save firewood. The cast, working at lightning tempo, clicks as I have seldom seen a cast click. It is really beautiful to watch. Mr. Slezak, with his slightly embar- rassed, genial manner which looks so easy and yet is such finished art, makes Max a delightful sort of person. So, for that matter, does Miss Olsen with the role of Meg, the fly-brained servant girl who is a connoisseur of militia by reason of many samplings. Francis Compton (stimulated, perhaps, by a recent arrival in his family) almost outdid himself as a fire-breathing shrimp of a clergyman: The Dance AT THE LYDIA MENDELSSOHN HUMPHREYS AND WEIDMAN RECITAL -A Review By CHARLES HARRELL BEFORE A SMALL but enthusiastic audience Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman made their initial appearance in Ann Arbor yesterday afternoon. In a program arranged with a great deal of variety and charm these two nationally known figures demonstrated with authority and dignity the reason for their widely recognized reputation. The first half of the program was devoted to a more serious mood than the later half. In the "Danzon" Mr. Weidman displayed a feminine grace and a masculine power to reveal a thoroughly trained artist. Immediately following this solo, Miss Humphrey's "Theme and Variations" bespoke a feeling for decorativeness that could not be denied as great. These two dancers, dealing with abstract movement, gave one the distinct impression of witnessing two real artists. In the "Danse Pro- fane" one sensed a feeling for macabre that stirred one to an unusualness of feeling that eludes de- scription. Clarity and definiteness marked this dance in the hands of Weidman. Again in the final number of the first half these two showed great dramatic power and a tremendous feeling for dramatic rhythm in the "Sentimentale" and the "Patetico." The last half of the program was devoted to a more witty and clever sort of dancing that was only suggested here and there in the dancing of the first half of the program. I felt that Weidman was more familiar with the "Scherzo" than he was in any of the preceding numbers. Here again he demonstrated the amazing amount of dramatic ap- preciation inherent in his dancing. His dancing was marked by a genuine feeling for the comic, and a great amount of detail so necessary for panto- mimic clarity. In Miss Humphrey's solo the emo- tional feelings of acquiesance and the aggressive achievement became especially marked in her movement. The one thing I liked especially in this dance were tle variations in movements that showed good taste and yet preserved the feeling for the emotion of the dance as a whole. To me, the crowning point of the recital was reached in the "Rudepoema" a dance divided into two parts, the first a.sacred dance to the gods, and the second a dance of love and play. Here the rude, crude, pleasant elements were displayed with dra- matic sensuousness and power that left one groping for words of praise. The whole program seemed to reach its height in this number. The final dance "Burlesca" and "Air On a Ground Bass" completed the program with a flavor of the wit and humor. Screen Reflections The rating of motion pictures in this column is on the following basis: A, excellent; B, good; C, fair; D, poor, E, very bad. AT THE MICHIGAN C "TWENTY MILLION SWEETHEARTS" Clayton ....................Dick Powell Peggy ..................Ginger Rogers Blake...................Pat O'Brien Pete .....................Allen Jenkins With a cast such as the above plus Ted Fiorito's band and The Mills Brothers as the attractions, one would expect an unusually entertaining picture in "Twenty Million Sweethearts." Unfortunately something slipped up somewhere, and the result is very disappointing. The story itself presents fairly good material, being about the rise of a young western boy from obscurity in a small town beer joint to fame on the radio. During his achieve- ment of success, he meets with all sorts of compli- cations, the cause of most of them being the antics of his four-flushing manager, Rush Blake, who puts-his finger into everything the boy wants to do. The intentions of the picture are good, the music somewhat a success (featuring "The Man on the Flying Trapeze," "I'll String Along With You," "Fair and Warmer," and "Out for No Good"), and the execution of the scenes is as well done as can be expected. But there is entirely too much of all these features, because every other scene or so seems to be a musical adventure which is so saturated with the same type of rhythm and the same tunes that a bad taste is left in the mouth. What dialogue there is is too much dialogue for its own sake and becomes a burden to the progress of the rest of the picture, involving the plot in super- fluous tangles and destroying the otherwise good atmosphere of the picture. Ginger Rogers and Dick Powell are quite at their best and present some appealing moments. Allen Jenkins has not been given as good comedy ma- terial as he should have, but he does well with what he has. Pat O'Brien overdoes his part so much as to create the desire to have him removed from the screen entirely. The title, "Twenty Million Sweet- hearts," is about the most misleading of the year, since there is nothing present in the picture that has any bearing on what it implies. 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A few copies are still available at 5.00 Musical Events STUDENT ORGAN RECITAL Prelude and Fugue in A major ........Bach Toccata in M minor (Doric) ..........Bach The Mirrored Moon (Seven Pastels) ... . .................. . Karg-Elert Primavere Twilight at Fiesole ................ Bingham Savonrola from "Harmonie of WPnrvno eSite" II II