U PAGE EIGHT THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, DEC. 13, 1936 IN THE WORLD OF BOOKS U MILLER i . Angel's Letters Give Acc Of Unitersity's Pioneer )1ut Laments Prostitution Of Genius Before Mammon FOR THE SAKE OF SHADOWS, by Max Miller. E. P Dutton & Co. $2.50. 3y LILLIAN OGOROSKIN This new semi-autobiographical book by the author of I Cover the Waterfront is a flippant tragedy; a serio-comic elegy by a writer who has escaped Hollywood, addressed to those who still are entangled in the money-mad metropolis; a lament for the prostitution of creative genius be- fore Mammon, as represented by the bottomless money bags of the cinema producers. Max Miller "exposes" a Hollywood that differs radically from the glitter- ing picture drawn by the Louella Parsons of the beauty parlor maga- zines. Lured by a tremendous salary from a life of writing as he pleased while worrying about a leaky roof, an auto- mobile in crying need of repair, and frayed shirt collars, Mr. Miller be- comes a scenario writer at more dol- lars per hour than he had previously earned a week. Material worries dis- appear but no life of ease is the result. We see him sweating in a little office. necktie off, waiting in horror for the phone to ring with the producer's query, "Well, what have you got so far?" He tries des- perately to think of something that will make girl a, boy b, Coast Guard c, and their conflict d. hang to- gether in some kind of a story begin- ning with a bang and ending with a bigger bang. Constantly harassed by the feeling that he's not earning his salary, he eyes with envy anyone who doesn't have to write scenarios, fromthe bootblack on the lot to the birds sitting in an artificial tree; he envies yet despises the other scenario writ- ers who calmly accept overpayment (What the hell-the bigger the price you put on yourself, the more they want you) for time spent in such a typical story conference as: "But I'm thinking of the Front Of- fice, fellows. You know what the Front Office did to Charlie's script that time. He had to cut out that second and third sequence-" "Yes, but this is a different story-"' "Like hell it is , Bob. Didn't Char- lie's script have a girl who-" "Aw, just listen to me a minute now, you guys. I'm just thinking out loud now, I admit. But if she comes to this house and doesn't know her sister is there-" "How doesn't she know her sister is there?" "We plant it. We plant it there the other time." "How about knocking off and get- ting some coffee. It'll do us good. It'll clear up the cobwebs." According to Mr. Miller, Hollywood is "clearing, the country of more than' one classic which might have been written for the future but which must for all time take itsuplace in the Great Book of Things Undone 'because I was too tied up to get around to it.'" Not for fame (how many of you could name 10 scenario. writers) ; not for glamour; but all for the sake of being in the money. Well. Mr. Miller was in the money, and he escaped. He wrote this book to celebrate his escape, and to be a Paul Revere for his country and his writing colleagues. But I'm afraid it was a narrow escape : he might still be in Hollywood-and in the money --but his girl a, his boy b, and his Coast Guard c fail to come together with a big enough bang to please the producer. He is fired. It's Christmas! Give a Year's Subscription to their favorite Magazine - New York Times and New I York Times Book Review, and all gther magazine sub- scriptions taken here, BLUE BIRD BOOK NOOK Rental Library Nickels Arcade i i Days I FROMI VERMONT TO Edited by Wilfred. B. versity of Michigan P] By STOWELL ED1 From Vernont to M Qhc sLory of James B. An o Michigan; but this .hares the reader's inter pacture given in thist ictters of American educ fimc-1869 to 1871-and shty of Michigan's rugg necr leadership. The le collection were takenr the Angell papers. It was a time when th cf Michigan was som question mark in Amer ticn, when everyone kneN ing an untried path.I of the wildly growing We v;as groping vigorously. the University's growing past and it was enteri President Haven had ju the University needed a 1 one to perfect what ha For this important po required the best in An cation, the Regents turn dent James B Angell of sity of Vermont. It see been taken for granted igan must go East foi even though the facu Arbor contained mar names. Mr. Angell, indeed, ft plex problem. He had I mont only three years, had endeared himself t state. He had always Englander, and it wou step to Michigan. The question but that Mich the spotlight of America and if he went to Ani eyes of the educational be upon him. But there loyalty for Vermont, wh cided him in favor of Michigan offer. For aid in his decisio to all his friends in ed they generally took off and said what they thou igan. They gave much there was a nanifestly pi that education leadershi ways remain in the East tried and true methods< Icnd would be always th Mostly from the Wes letters assuring Mr. Ang cellent promises, the ide of the University of M these letters the Univer will find special interest an abundance of materi University. Prof. James R. Boise of sity of Chicago wrote to MICHIGAN. Shaw. Uni- ress. WARDS ichigan tells gell's coming y story only rest with the collection of ation at that the Univer- ed and pio- etters of this mainly from he University ewhat of a rican educa- w it was tak- In the spirit est, Michigan The bulk of g pains were ig manhood. ust resigned; leader, some- d been done. sition ,which nerican edu- aed to Presi- the Univer- med to have that Mich- r its leader, lty in Ann ny eminent Tai ticular attention is the R.O.T.C., sng a storm-center of radical discus-' sion, for which the authors urge the Nye-Kvale bill, which makes mihi- Rebels Against Destiny tazy training in schools and univer- AsScn W'orld sities optional. as the antidote. The~ As Secondd ie-up between the R.O.T.C. and the Wa r Looms rcgular conservative interests is strik- ingly shown by an incident at OhioJ WAR OUR HERITAGE, by Joseph P. State University in 1929, when the Lash and James A. Wechsler, with student senate, the student body and drawings by A. Redfield and an intro- the faculty votd agamst compuo ciucton. b eieR.O.T.C., the first two by overwehim- duction by Bruce Bliven. Interna- tional Publishers, New York, 1936. ing margins, without impression on 157 pages. 50c. the Board of Trustees. By7 JOSes, GIES In connection with the trustee sys- By JOSEPH GIES tem, the interesting point is made War, the heritage of the American that the majority of the trustees, by student and the profit of the Amer- whose autocratic hand most Amer- can capitalist, is once more made the can universities are ruled, are drawn heme and study of a book whose' from the class of bankers and finan- radically-minded authors succeed in ciers, the most reactionary group in 1 atching the ear of more than the our society. 'adically-minded section of the pop- "When the United States entered ulace. the war in 1917," a pointed passage The prcmise of the little volume observes, "their (the trustees') sym- 3f Messrs. Lash and Wechsler seems pathies lay with the destiny of Amer- to be that the only possibility of ican capitalism and that destiny was keeping our country from engaging the victory of the Allied armies. It mn an impending Second World War is not astonishing that . . . there is lies in a powerful and well-organized no record of Trustee opposition to mass movement of the citizens of all the war. The rescue of the Morgan classes, led by the group which is at loans was a matter of concern for once the most threatened by and our whole financial domain." FORTHCOMING BOOKS 1 American Today, a collecti etchings, woodcuts, lithog) by contemporary artists. Equinoxm$5. 2 The Human Comedy. James i l0 . I on of 3 raphs 4 Har- 5 vey Robinson. Harberr $3. Rose Deeprose. Sheila Kaye- Smith. Harper $2.50. The Man in the Blue Mask. An- thony Morton. Lippincott $2. Catherine do Medici. $3.75 JAMES B. ANGELL zhe most sensitive to the recurrencej "The standards of scholarship at of war, the students. Ann Arbor in the classical depart- ment are higher, I really believe, than at Yale or Harvard; and the char- acter of the students incomparably more manly. This is the most en- couraging feature of the University." Another prominent educator pro- nounced Michigan "the only univer- sity on the right basis we have in In their opening chapter the au- thors have indulged themselves in a fantasy purporting to describe the activities of public leaders, especially educators, on and following "M-Day," the War Department's designation for the first day of mobilization, in the war of 1938. The trouble with this fantasy, as such, is that it's en- The authors succeed rather well in presenting a constructive and prac- ticable program for peace, stressing the necessity for militant mobiliza- tion all along the line against the forces of destructive reaction which they believe are dragging the world and Americ? toward the abyss of conflict, and which can only be de- feated by an effort of hitherto unheard-of nr-nnrtinn.. JI the country." Throughout From Ver- tirely too realistic. Many of the aced a com- mont to Michigan, Eastern and passages, especially the quotations been at Ver- Western education are discussed by of national figures, are very deft! in which he, the leading proponents of each. 'satire, but the picture as a whole is o the whole Mr. Angell, after a good many much too horrifying to allow us to been a New months of consideration, and after a enjoy. Id be a bigm.t. While President Roosevelt's war re was little visit to Ann Arbor, finally turned proclamation draped in red, white igan was in down the offer. Negotiations were and blue, swamps the Chicago Trib- n education,, reopened later in 1870, and finally in ne's front page, President Ruthven n Arbor the the early part of 1871, it was agreed, pledges the "full and furious co-1 world would by the Regents and Mr. Angell that operation of every member of the was his deep he would assume the presidency that Michigan community in the neces- ich later de- year. He delivered the address at :ary and just adventure we are un-' refusing the Commencement that spring. And dertaking," and the League Against then began what might be referred Pacifism and Radicalism of Michi- n he turned toas the "golden age" in the his- gan State College throws three Jew ucation and ish students in a lake. Henry Ford their gloves Indeed, the effect of his character is quoted, "War is a great and neces- ght of Mich- was immediately apparent, for so he sary test of a nation's moral fibre." praise, but wrote: The remainder of the book, the revalent idea "The next morning (his second greater part of it, is made the ve- ip would al- day as leader of chapel) I went in, hile for a careful survey of condi- and that the early. Soon some Sophs got ready tc of New Eng- throw nuts at the Freshmen. I im- tions exisng in America, especialy e best. mediately, kindly, but firmly re- point ominously in the direction of t were those quested them to desist. They did so, the fateful "M-Day." Singled out forI ell of the ex- and that was the last of that . _._. al conditions The next morning there was not a ichigan. 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