THlE MICHIGAN DAILY CHIGAN DAILY I Of -=- ,: : " ,II ells, and Greta Garbos to the very much more interesting Henry's, Napoleon's, Lenin's, Holy Roman Emperors, or any of the others. Of course it must be borne in mind that Henry was a rouge of the first order, but then,. There is a riotous comedy pornographically en- titled "Not Tonight, Josephine." Paul Tompkins is good. AT THlE MAJESTIC "ROMAN SCANDALS" **MORE GALAXIES OF YOUNG GIRLS Eddie Cantor, the Jewish pun merchant with the rolling eye-balls, was overrated by the re- viewer in the J-Hop issue. He shouldn't have gotten away with three stars for "Roman Scan- dals." The Scandals are good musical fare, Eddie sings several songs in a setting of Roman pois- onings, orgies, and rose water baths, and for the Cantor fans, there is no limit to its desirability. As for others, it is OK to see after you have seen Henry, -G.M.W., Jr. A .M - ~~~~~- ~- ~^ --- - on the following supposition. There are certain broad principles which dominate good drama, and which must be followed for the most part in order that a play may be a good one. Fur- ther, any two critics with the same degree of analytical skill will agree as to the detailed ele- ments which compose a play. But whether those details are "good things" or "bad things" is, in many cases, a decision which depends on the psychology of the individual critic. In brief, a critic's general judgment on a play is in most cases likely to be accurate; but whether an individual component of that play is good or bad must be determined by each playgoer. And these detailed judgments may be influenced by very trivial things: what did the gentleman have for supper? was the lady's gown in the desired condition when she donned it? what gossip has the playgoer heard about the leading lady? or, is the dramatist known to have a predilection for garlic? A reviewer whose mental angle is fairly sane will consider, then, that he is acting as a guide and not as a dictator. He may write with cer- tainty, because he is certain of his own reactions; but he will expect his readers to accept his de- cisions cum a pretty bulky grano salis. Published every morning except Monday during the University year and Summer Session by the Board in Control of Student Publications. Member of the Western Conference Editorial Association and the Big Ten News Service. . ociatided daliEiate zs . -= 1933NATIOI4t ) 1934 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is enclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispathces credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches are reserved. Entered at the lost Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class matter. 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K ......... .... ...CATHARINEMC HENRY DEPARTMENT MANAGERS: Local Advertising, Fred Herr trick; Classified Advertising, Russell Read; Advertising Contracts, Jack Bellamy; Advertising Service, Robert Ward; Accounts, Allen Knuusi; Circulation, Jack Ef- roynson.- ASSISTANTS: Meigs Bartmess, Van Dunakin, Milton Kra- mer, John Ogden, Bernard Rosenthal, Joe Rothbard,t James Scott, David Winkworth. 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, Margaret1 Mustard, Betty SiIonds. NIGHT EDITOR: GUY M. Wy]HIPPLE, JR. I Student Health. HEALTH HAZARDS OF HELL WEEK "HELL-WEEK" will soon commence again in some of our fraternities. This "week," tra- ditiorially and obviously appropriately named!, comes in a winter season in which we have this year a steadily increasing number of severe "colds" with a special selectivity of the bronchial tubes and lungs. These complications in the lungs we have already noted in recent months with a marked and sudden increase of pneumonia. The same type of infection of the nose and throat passages persists at the present time, and we have had five more cases of bronchopneu- monia admitted to the Infirmary recently. The Health Service has not heretofore made any official comments on the so-called "hell-week" and its special activities. We have, however, been interrogated directly and indirectly regarding casualties assumed to be caused by these activi- ties. Therefore, officially for the first time we de- sire to criticize certain phases of "hell-week" and ask for their discontinuation in order that certain students may not be predisposed to serious illness. One phase which we criticize is "The Trip" or "Trips" that pledges are called upon to make at night to nearby towns, villages, and hamlets, sometimes to "nowhere"! Of course, they walk and are asked to execute errands most of which usually keep them out all night. It is said that some have been found next morning sleeping in a convenient farmer's corn-crib, etc! We have found that these "Trips" cause extraordinary hardship, exposure to extreme cold temperatures, severe fatigue, etc., all of which predispose the pledge to acute illness - severe colds. Thus, some of the unfortunates wind up in the Infirmary in- stead of at the festive board of the formal initia- tion banquet. Severe respiratory infections and the sudden in- creasing incidence of pneumonia (with its in- creased mortality) is by no means localized to Ann Arbor. Reports from many localities about this and adjoining states indicate that the preva- lence of pneumonia this winter is widespread. This article, then, is directed against a particu- lar initiation activity, namely, "The Trip," in order to prevent a fatal illness befalling some pledge. Those houses which persist in this prac- tice, or similar practices fraught with the same anticipated hardship, will receive our most severe criticism. While we do not wish to be extreme in pro- testing against initiation practices, the occasional injuries of a mechanical nature suggest that more reason is required in the amount of physical vio- lence to which students are subjected. Some fraternities have sent their pledges here for an examination prior to initiation. We have never been quite sure whether these requests grow out of a desire to protect the initiate or to add another item of annoyance or anxiety. We have feared that a statement of health would be taken as a license for going the limit with the boy. We do not encourage such examinations and issue only the regular health card relative to activities of which the University approves. J-Hop And irman Singleton. - 0 About Books DAYS WITHOUT END, By Eugene O'Neill: Ran- dom House (1934), $2.50.-A Review. EDITOR'S NOTE: Professor Campbell wrote this review for The Daily shortly before his departure for California to engage in literary studies, By OSCAR JAMES CAMPBELL EUGENE O'NEILL'S latest play, "Days Without End" has completely bewildered most of the critics. The course of his genius has always been unpredictable. That is one reason for believing him an authentic creative artist; but this time he has not only surprised, he has baffled. This mod- ern miracle play is, in brief, the spiritual history of a soul who, having turned away from God, has sought hopelessly in the various "isms" of the contemporary world for a faith that would bring him peace and happiness. Half hating and half fearing the Christian beliefs of his youth, he sins not through passion but deliberately and de- fiantly, first by committing adultery and then by attempting murder. The subjective essence of the plot is revealed by having the personality of John Loving split into two parts, each played by a different actor. One is the earnest striving seeking self; the other is the evil mocking self - the part that has sinned and is damned. Stanley Ridges, who plays this role in the Theatre Guild, production of the play, wears a mask, the face of which is twisted into an expression of cruel cynicism. He is not seen by the other characters, though often he speaks for the visible self, to the latter's surprise and an- noyance and to the irritated confusion of his in- terlocutors. The most interesting and most moving scenes in the play are those in which the two parts of John Loving debate with each other. The crisis is such an excited colloquy when John kneels before a figure of Christ on the cross and his alter ego stands behind him resisting every effort of the soul to surrender itself to God. At last when John quotes the lines "Thou art the Ressurection and the Life, and he that believeth in the love, his love shall never die," the devilish self reconizes that he has been conquered and "slumps to the floor, dead." Then John ends the play with this line: "Life laughs with God's love again, Life laughs with God's love." This speech may recapitulate the course of the entire play, but it is verbally and poetically inade- quate for so exalted a moment. This is an example of a serious blemish in the drama that most of the critics have noted. Throughout the action, O'Neill has failed to write in language of high enough imaginative ecstasy or even of enough poetic intensity to communicate the emotions which the action is designed to evoke. Many of the great moments fall a little flat and leave one with a feeling of emptiness, of a spiritual void dark and amorphous. In the history of the author's career this "mir- acle play" assumes an important part. His earlier works displayed men and women as mournful waifs in a hostile universe. At the end of Mourn- ing Becomes Electra Lavinia shuts herself up with her memories in the old colonial mansion. That is, the soul turns to itself to discover what mean- ings and satisfactions it can find, in meditation. In "Days Without End" the soul emerges, to be driven by the Hound of Heaven, past atheism, socialism, communism, past the mysticism of the East, even past the best that philosophy offers, back to the altar of God in the Holy Catholic Church. Collegiate Observer By BUD BERNARD Final examination boners have always had a peculiar fascination for me, and the follow- ing beauties, authentic University of Oregon creations, seem particularly meritorious: "The sailors were singing merrily as they toiled at their wenches." "A virgin forest is a place which the hand of man has never sullied." * ** At the University of Maryland it is a custom that freshmen shall not wear tuxedoes or full dress. The rule originally was made in order to spare freshmen the expense of purchasing for- mal evening wear. * * * A story from the University of Indiana campus tells us that a boy at that institu- tion calls his co-ed "heart dissipation," be- cause she is beginning to tell on him. ° f! , ; 'l ,, ;, ' _ : ; _, j ii ii I ,i E , ,k iii = T HE campus hat is off to Phil Sin- gleton and his committee for their ccessful J-Hop. Through his and their efforts the lowest price recent years was attained, and an attendance rger even than that of last year was attracted. ecorations and orchestras were on a par with e high standard of J-Hop tradition. The dance went over the top financially. The best indication of the success of an event this kind is the enjoyment it provides .its trons; the praise of those who attended this ar's hop attests to its high quality. A personal tribute to Chairman Singleton must added. Work for the hop comes at the most convenient time possible - just before and dur- exams. Yet Phil breezed through with five A's d a B. And to cap the climax, when ,the roll s called in his Monday morning eight o'clock sterday, he was among those present. We could do with more Singletons. Screen Reflections AT THE MICHIGAN "THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY VIII" -*gg AN AMOROUS AND FAT KING WELL DEPICTED Very weighty, six-foot four-inch Henry VIII, e amorous Bluebeard who ruled the Island Em- 'e in the first portion of the Sixteenth Cen- 'y, is most admirably depicted in "The Private 'e," now appearing at the Michigan. The cast all English, and all good. Mr. Laughton, of irse, is now familiar to American movie-goers ough his appearances in "The Island of Lost uls," "If I Had a Million," "The Sign of the oss," and the submarine picture whose name s somehow slipped the reviewing memory. En "The Private Life" Laughton takes fullest vantages of his opportunities to portray the hly human monarch who, in the words of our itemporary billboards and extravagant pub- ty sheets, "didn't ask 'em, he axed 'em." nry's first wife, Catherine of Aragon, is dis- ased in a foreword with the curt "she was re- ctable so of course Henry divorced her." When i see something like that, you can well know at a different picture is coming. And it does. nry's affairs with the dark Anne Boleyn; the autiful No. 3 who gave Henry his first son; e fourth - the card shark Duchess of Cleves; The Theatr THE ART OF PICKING CREATIVE TEETH By JOHN W. PRITCHARD "'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own." -Brother Pope IN SOUTH AMERICA there is a bird whose sole business in life is picking refuse from the teeth of alligators. The reptiles, with docile condes- cension, open wide their jaws and allow the little scavengers to perform their dental operations. The birds thereupon become exceedingly insolent, forgetting a rather obvious fact: no alligators, no sijstenar ce. There is some sentiment among writers, dramatists, and the rest of their kind that critics are as vainglorious as this ornithoid tooth- pick. A critic is, of course, foolish to suppose that his function approximates the importance of that of a creative producer, and relatively few critics are so assinine. There is, however, a rather widespread error in critical minds: the illusion of infallibility - or, as a corrolary to it, the idea that any given production can create only one correct impression. One or two people have ac- cused me of such papal tendencies. The purpose of this squib is to make quite clear the point of view from which I criticize drama - and I whole- heartedly admit that my slant on the subject may be quite as wrong as many of my other judg- ments, although it is right for me. The verdict handed down by waspish Mr. Pope Ohio State co-eds think that the should be a cross between a dancing ideal man angel and i A