PAGE TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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fwenty Years Agoa
From 'the Daily files of
October 2, 1914
Case, which for more than a decade
has opened the Michigan footballI
season, opposes the Varsity on Ferry
Field this afternoon.
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AT THE DETROIT CASS admit at the outset that their mar-
Lee Shubert presents "No More La- riage has. no possible chance of suc-
dier," a comedy by A. E. Thomas, staged cess, but find out after many trials
tb Hrby Watson Barrett. and tribulations, that it is a most de-
Dickens .... . .......... ...John Bramall cided success.
Oliver Allen ?' ........... Bradley Cass Th.ptisnteecalnwn
Ms. Fanny Wownsend ..Mar Sargent he plot is not especially new, and
Jaequette. ............Isabel Delehanty the play would tend toward medioc-'
Mr::. Anderson Townsennd ..Ann Dereif it t f th bride'
Mr. Anderson Townsend ..Roy Gordon racy i i were no or e s
Sheridan Warren ........Walter Pidgeon grandmother, a role carried out ex-
Marcia Townsend . .Daphne W. Wilson
Stafford...................Boyd Davis ceedingly well by Mary Sargent. She
James . .aiston...........Robert Lowes is a rather charming old lady, in ap-
Diana .. ...........Betty Linley
The Earl of Moulton ....Nicholas Joy pearance one of those Victorian char-
Teresa German .....Marcella Swanson acters, but yet in reality a modern
With one of the most delightful miss who is not above a drink or two,
the newer comedies, the Detroit Cass a cigarette, and a few cuss words now
opens the fall theatre season present- and then. The role is a little over-
ing "No More Ladies." It is a fast done in the beginning, but soon
moving bit of mirth that proves an smoothes out to carry the play
adequate beginning to one of the through to its splendid finish.
most promising seasons that Detroit All in all, the cast was well chosen,
has had in prospect for a good many with Walter Pidgeon, Daphne War-
years. ren. Wilson, Nicholas Joy, and Brad-
A. E. Thomas has to his credit ley Cass as it most outstanding mem-
many fine comedies, and "No More bers.
Ladies" is one of his finest. It has The two scenes designed and car-
a, most unique plot, which carries it- ried out by Watson Barrett prove to
self along by an unusual amount of be the last word in artistic settings,
suspense, and an almost continuous and provide a most pleasing back-
stream of brilliant lines. ground.
As the curtain rises, we have Sheri- Reports have it that a party of the
dan Warren, who is a bit proud of his championship Detroit baseball team
various affairs, and Marcia Town- was present to enjoy the opening
send, one of the smart young set, both performance, but they eluded this
of whom are pretty well bored with reviewer's recognition, as they did a
life, deciding to get married. They majority of the audience.
Pantless Frosh Expose
Their Sensitive Natures
A far cry from the urbane attitude the health service in the morning
of the University of Michigan campus with bruises from belt buckles.
where freshmen are treated as equals When the parade was over, an un-
successful attempt to crash the Aggie
by all, were the pajama and ashirt~Theatre was made.
tail parades to which the lowly frosh The frosh were somewhat appeased
of Lafayette University and Okla- when the heads of the two sophomore
homa Agricultural College respective- groups, the Ruf-Nex and the Hell-
ly were subjected recently. Hounds, also ran the belt gauntlet to
"show them how to take it," but
At Lafayette especially, did the when the '38 leader tried to duck some
men of '37 heap disgrace and scorn upperclassmen, he and his cohorts
upon the heads of their meek breth- were unceremoniously dumped in the
ren. Besides watching the innocents Theta Pond.
stroll in their boudoir clothes, the And the aloof, dignified seniors
population of Easton, Pa., were treat- stood around, smoking their pipes,
ed to proposals of marriage, duck- and remarked, "It's not like it used
walkings, and rather impromptu to be in the good old days."
swimming parties.
In fact the struggling neophytesu
even performed a civic duty - though Frost Comes--Hay
one hardly of their own choosing.
They were set to work doing a job Feverites Rejoice--
of re-tarring the city streets, a task
which.eye witnesses say proved, a AndSneezesStop
little exhausting. One of the youthful op
"sleep-walkers" found himself cut off
from his fellow-sufferers by row upon Now that Ann Arbor has had its
row of interested spectators and spent first frost of the year, the tempera-
the next five minutes trying to catch ture dropping to 38.5 early Monday
up with the parade. morning, those unfortunate individ-
At Stillwater, Okla., the young uals who suffer from hay fever will
gentlemen who were making their de- stop their sneezing and snuffling and
but to higher education were chased act like ordinary human beings-at
down Main Street minus their dun- least until next fall.
garees, their shirt-tails flying in the Even though the hay feverites' na-
wind. And those cruel and heartless tional anthem, "Golded Rod by Gold-
persons called sophomores urged them ed Rod," is now silenced, it had a rip-
on with leather belts. roaring time while it lasted. Hun-
In fact so eager was one of the dreds of University students sought
"torturees" to escape punishment, throughout the year the comforting
that he ran into a lamp post and and usually remedial advice of Dr.
cut his head severely - and they Bonaventura Jimenez at the Health
"don't allow" drinking out at Okla- Service, and the doctor reports that
homa Aggie either. The brutes of '37 the past season was one of the worst
took their task of meting out punish- in his experience as far as hay fever
ment seriously, however, and several is concerned.
of the youngsters had to report to Little damage to crops in general
--was done by the frost, however, and
KYER, HIGBIE QUALIFY another one is not predicted for some
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 1 -( - time. But the hay feverites don't
Miss Jean Kyer of Ann Arbor quali- care. They have been relieved.
fied in the Women's National Ama-
teur here today. Her two 44's for a ALUMNI ORGANIZE
36 hole total of 88 put her in a tie A new University of Michigan Club
for eighteenth place with Dinna Fish- has been organized at Iron Mountain.
wick, British star, and Maureen Or- The club received its charter, number
cutt. Mrs. Harley Higble, Detroit, 123, from the Alumni Association yes-
was among the leaders with 45-39-84. terday.
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AT THE MICHIGAN
- "BULLDOG DRUMMOND
STRIKES BACK"~
The membership total of the Union The Mh11an Theatre presents "Bull-
has ow eaced 252- whch a itis, do g Dnuswnnd Strike Back," a Darryl
hF. znicl: production with Ronald Col-
will undoubtedly eclipse the total. Un- man, Loretta Young, Warner Oland,
Charles futterwortli, and Una Merkel.
ion enrollment of other college or under the direction of Roy Del Ruth.
university Unions that offer volun- It is difficult at times to compre-!
tary memberships hend just how "dumb" movie pro-
ducers think an audience is. In try-
Russell Jacobs, '18, suffered a frac- d h k d .
IIng to force "Blldon~ D~ru d nt
his best friend's wedding. The wed-
ding over, he goes walking in the Lon-
don fog, highly desirous of settling
down and raising hollyhocks. He
finds victims and victims, only to
have them whisked out from uhder
his very eyes.
When one gets away from the ab-
surdity of the plot, the action isn't
bad at all. Ronald Colman makes
a dashing, romantic, gentleman, and
Loretta Young does splendidly in her
rather limited part. Charles Butter-
tured right wrist when he fell from
a tree at the corner of East Liberty!
and south Fifth Street during a haz-
ing spree last night.
The Technic will make its initialI
appearance of the year on Oct. 10,
and will bring before its readers arti-
cles on a variety of subjects, chief of
which will be one of the new stadium
and one on the new science building.
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Student orders for more than 600'
tickets to the Cornell and the Penn-
sylvania football games were receiv-;
ed at the athletic association office
yesterday.
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University students are invited to
attend the Red Cross Relief meeting
of the Deutcher Bund of Detroit, to
be held in the Armory at 8:00 o'clock
tonight. John J. Lens, '82, will speak
on "Relations Between Germany and
America."
trikesBa c" uluugey mmonuive
Strikes Back" upon us, they must give
us an I. Q. of about 60. Such a group worth is perhaps the most outstand-
of inconsistent idiosyncrasies we've l ing character in the entire show. As
never seen for quite some time.
It's a swell murder mystery, and'
even if you like mysteries, and this
critic doesn't, it's sort of off color.
According to the picture advertise-
ments, "Drummond met a dream
walking in a London fog, then the!
dream vanished, a murdered man
vanished, a hotel room vanished,"
and almost ever thing else in the
whole picture va 'shed. If it had
been meant for a farce, it would have
had some elements of success, but as
a "thrilling murder mystery," it's
rather poor entertainment.
Bulldog Drummond returns from
big game hunting in Africa to attend
Archie, the newly married husband,
he furnishes the comedy in his many
attempts to reach the end of his wed-
ding night. Unfortunately for him,
and fortunately for the audience, he
spends the night chasing villians in
the footsteps of Bulldog Drummond.
He adds much to what would other-
wise be a very dry evening.
It is hard to give any reasonable
reaction upon the picture. When
you've finished seeing it, all you're
aware of is that you've seen another
picture. It's certainly not good, but
then neither is it execptionally bad.
It's just another picture.
-C. A.E.
Fres1m1an Finds Near
Tragedy In Laboratory
Newsreel Man
Tells Of Thrills
In Day's Work
Epic Of Man's Rise Gave
Cameraman his Closest
Escape From Death
Normal ari-chair sitters who pre-
fer to hear of excitement and ad-
venture from the security of home,
and who stifle bored yawns at tales
of ordinary hazards, sit up and eye
with envious safety the modern Gul-
livers who daily perform feats of risk
and daring to provide the thrills of
movies. The world is their playground,
and each day a new game to be en-
joyed; but the price -death!
When he was 13, Reed N. Hay-
thorne got his first newsreel assign-
ment. "Get a picture of Pancho Vil-
la!" they told him, but Villa was
then on one of his revolutionary ram-
pages somewhere in the interior of
Mekico. It was a tough assignment,
but he got it, and since then he has
photographed two Mexican revolu-
tions and two Chinese revolutions.
He has traveled and worked in the
ice-bound regions of Northern Alaska
and Canada.
Spice Life With Danger
The strange and little-known cor-
ners of the world are his work-shops,
and places from which conservative
citizens hold their hats and flee hold
a strange attraction for him.
One of his greatest thrills came dur-
ing the filming of "The Human Ad-
venture," epic motion picture that
shows the rise of man from savagery
to civilization, that has been en-
gaged for special showing here at
the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, Oc-
tober 18 and 19. "Although I have
been an airplane stunt performer in
my duties as newsreel cameraman
and have flown thousands of hours in
the air, I think my most exciting
experience was the flight over the
Persian mountains during the film-
ing of The Human Adventure'," says
Haythorne'
Ignorant Of Near Death
"At one time we had to rise to an
elevation of 14,000 feet to get above
a dust storm which wrecked another
airplane, killing the pilot and two pas-
sengers. On another flight we had to
make three attempts before we were
successful in getting over the fog-
bound Persian mountains. Dr. and
Mrs. Breasted (scientific leaders of
the expedition) not knowing of the
great danger the plane was in, en-
joyed the spectacle of cloud-blanketed
mountains below."
Human adventures galore have
come to the cameraman who photo-
graphed every foot of the film, alto-
gether more than 32,000 feet, which
took over three years to film.
Persia Photographer's Paradise
Haythorne regards his trips from+
Chicago to the Near East to photo-1
graph "The Human Adventure" as
two of his most interesting journeys.!
"In all my travels," he says, "I have
seen nothing that compares with the+
splendors of the ruins of the ancient
city of Persepolic. In photographing
the ruins of the great palace built by!
Darius the Great, I had the advan-
tage of fine light. Persia is truly the
photographer's paradise. Egypt, on
the other hand, is one of the worst
places for making pictures. Shooting
must be done before ten in the morn-
I MAJESTIC
I1AiWI
With courage still unshaken and
defiance gleaming in his eye, a fresh-
man trudged out of the University
Hospital yesterday after an introduc-
tion to college life that would have
blighted the spirit of someone less
fortitudinous.
The hero of the tale is a young
man from Detroit named Morley
Benjamin. He made up his mind to
come here three days after school
had started, and arrived last Thurs-
day in a whirl of bewilderment. With-
out the enlightenment of a leisurely
Orientation Week, and further con-
fused by the loss of the first four
days, Morley boldly plunged into his
studies Friday morning.
All went well until he went to
his Chemistry Laboratory. During the
period he was faced with the neces-
sity of pushing a hot glass tube
through a rubber stopper. Hurrying
Starlings Raise IreI
O Townspeople By
Sup remneDisregard
P C?
"Let us shoot," voice the people
from out Mrtins Place way, as many
of them rise up in arm to rid them-
selves of the plague of starlings which
have swooped down on them inter-
mittently during the past five years
and annoyed and destroyed.
Martins Place is tired of pointing
cap guns and, blank cartridge revolv-
ers at the pests only to see them
flit about undaunted.
The starling is a bird which to all
purposes looks like a sparrow, but
it has one defect in its character
which the people of Martins Place
cannot overlook. Its thieving and de-
struction know no bounds. It would,
have no qualms of conscience after,
having dug up an entire garden and
gorged the seeds, nor would it even
feel bad if it took food away from
any bird or beast.
True, they have been allowed to
be shot. True, many a loaded gun has
been aimed at them by cussing gar-
deners viewing their devastated gar-
dens. But the trouble is that he so
closely resembles the sparrow who is
a protected bird, that the chance of
hitting the latter rather than the
former is too great.'
So the plagued at Martins Place
have said that Ann Arbor must do
something. Six families from the
midst of the pestilence called a meet-
ing and the result was a petition
that something must be done, even if
the Ann Arbor police have to catch
them by hand. A copy was also sentl
to the Biological Survey in Washing-t
ton asking it to rid "us of our plague."
ing to get the best results. After that
the air is often full of dust or light
fog."
He was one of the photographers
on the expedition to the South Seas
to produce "Moana," the beautiful
motion picture made by Robert Fla-
herty. He snapped the descendants
of the mutineers of the Bounty on Pit-
cairn Island in the South Seas.
So that we temperate souls may
suffer our thrills by proxy, Reed Hay-
thorne goes on, dashing from one ad-
venture to the next, turning the crank
with intrepid disregard for danger.
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in an effort to keep up with the rest
of his class, while his mind was con-
sidering multifarious fraternity en-
gagements, Morley absently pushed
down on the tube with his left palm.
You can imagine his embarrassment
when he discovered that the stopper
offered more resistance to the glass
than did his palm. The tube cut clean-
ly through his hand.
- He was rushed first to the health
service, thence to the hospital, thence
to the operating room. After he was
completely slit open and probed for
bits of glass. His mother, who had
been notified of the accident, arrived
just in time to see him being wheeled
out of the operating room, barely stir-
ring out of the effects of the ether.
But the worst was not yet past. The
glass had passed by several sensitive
nerves in the hand, and the severing
of any of them would have meant per-
manent paralysis in that hand. Un-
fortunately, Morley plans to be a
surgeon, and more unfortunately, he
is left-handed.
Painstakingly, under the doctor's
tutelage, Morley apprehensively flexed
each finger. Finally he had bent each
one successfully and was assured that
his hand would heal successfully.
Today Morley went back to his
classes, his hand in a sling, but his
heart glad with the certainty that
he has already had his year's quota of
bad luck.
Botany Professor
Sees Fossl Region
The beauties of the Gaspe Penin-
sula in the Province of Quebec are
too little known to the aferage tourist,
thinks Prof. B. M. Davis of the botany
department, after his three-week tour
of the region following the summer
session of the University.
Professor Davis made a special
point of examining the outcrop of
Devonian Sandstone rich in fossil,
remains of promitive seed plants. This
sandstone is of about the same period
as the old red sandstone of Scotland
made famous through the studies of
Hugh Miller.
Beside the fossil remains are re-
markable preservations of the plates
carried by the early ganoid fishes.
Professor Davis brought back to the
University a considerable collection of
these fossil remains.
He reports the region as abounding
in beauty and points of geological
interest. These together with the
quaint life of the French-Canadian
population make the country an un-
usual interest to the naturalist and
tourist.
"Thaumaturgy" is a noun meaning
"wonder working," according to Web-
ster's Dictionary.
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