TH. MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1937 ' - 1 11 -.. 111 1 V 11 1 V 1 a . J. a a a.a +. THE MICHIGAN DAILY Worrell Blasts 'Merchant Of Venice'; Student Praises It; Tennis Coach Hit i " I. R4 % ,- - Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authoity of the Board in Control of Student Publications. ;Published every morning except Monday during the University year and Summer Session .Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper.. All rights of republicatin of all other matter herein also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan as second class mail matter. Subscriptions during regular school year by carrier, H.00; by mail, $4.50. Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1936-37 REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTIING My National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Rfresetative 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK. N.Y. CHJCAGO. - BOSTON- .SAN FRANCISCO LOS ANGELES - PORTLAND - SEATTLE Board of Editors MANAGING EDITOR ..............JOSEPH S. MATTES EDITORIAL DIRECTOR ............TUURE TENANDER CITY EDITOR ....................IRVING SILVERMAN William Spaller Robert Weeks Irvin Lisagor Helen Douglas NIGHT EDITORS: Harold Garn, Joseph Gies, Earl R. Oilman, Horace Gilmore, Saul Kleiman, Edward Mag- dol, Albert Maylo, Robert Mitchell, Robert Perlman and Roy Sizemore. SPORTS DEPARTMENT: IrvBn Lisagor, chairman; Betsey Anderson, Art Baldauf, Bud Benjamin. Stewart Fitch, Roy Heath and Ben Moorstein. WOMEN'S DEPARTMENT: Helen Douglas, chairman; Betty Bonisteel, Ellen Cuthbert Ruth Frank, Jane B. Holden. Betty Lauer, Mary Alice MacKenzie, Phyllis Helen Miner, Barbara Paterson; Jenny Petersen, Har- riet Pomeroy, Marian Smith, Dorothea Staebler and Virginia Voorhees. Business Department BUSINESS MANAGER..............ERNEST A. JONES CREDIT MANAGER.................DON WILSHER ADVERTISING MANAGER ... .NORMAN B. STEINBERG. WOMEN'S BUSINESS MANAGER ........BETTY DAVY WOMEN'S SERVICE MANAGER ..MARGARET FERRIES Departmental Managers rEd Macal,.Accounts Manager; Leonard P. Siegelman, Na- tional Advertising and Circulation Manager: Philip Buchen, Contracts Manage'r; Robert Lodge, Local Advertising Manager; William Newnan, Service Man- ager; Marshall Sampson, Publications and Classified Advertising Manager. NIGHT EDITOR: ROBERT D. MITCT1ELL Second Wind For The AFL.. . LABOR ON THE MARCH in this country is now as common an expression as the customary greetings we ex- change. But beneath the struggle to organize and establish a genuine labor movement in America lies a story of bitter antagonisms, of duplicity. Against the ascendant CIO, leaders of the decadent hierarchy which allowed the American Federation of Labor to sink into impotence, hurl the stock epithets of "paid from Moscow and "Red, Red." Such men as John P. Frey, Joseph Ryan, Mathew Woll, long at the helm of the AFL have devoted valuable time, which should have been used conducting an organizational cam- paign, to the self-destructive penchant for smear- ing the red herring across the trail of a genuine, democratically controlled system of unions-the CIO form of industrial unionism. So tragic has the retreat of labor from the AFL been that this week an ostensibly militant campaign for organization by the older of the two labor groups was declared in progress. News- papers, like the New York Herald Tribune which are not usually friendly to labor groups came forth with what seemed to newspapermen an overplayed story on the new life in the AFL. At the same time the AFL announced its drive, Heywood Broun, the witty columnist and Newspaper Guild President, signed a letter with other international officers of the Guild, declar- ing that they could not participate in American Federation of Labor activities. Their withdrawal was based, they said, on the inability and failure of the Federation to organize the great masses of unskilled labor and on the second sin that racketeering at the top levels of the craft unions had not been completely eradicated. On the agenda of the national convention of the news- papermen's union is the question of CIO affilia- tion which from most indications today promises to become a pleasant reality. Failure to organize by the AFL is substantiated by the overwhelming numbers that broke away to' join the Committee for Industrial Organiza- tion. First we must recall the original ten unions in the mass production industries which estab- lished the CIO. Their numbers include the powerful United Mine Workers, the Interna- tional Ladies Garment Workers Union, the rub- ber workers union, the automobile workers union. In recent months the aluminm workers union has joined with the steel workers and oil field workers unions to place their confidence in the Committee for Industrial Organization. In ad- dition workers on one of New York's large sub- way systems voted 10,638 out of 11,585 for affil- iation with the CIO in what appears to be a general exodus. As for racketeering and insincerity the AFL has tolerated at its leadership such men as Jo- seph Ryan who has built a gangster's heaven for himself in the International Longshoreman's Association, Francis Dillon who led the 1934 auto Donald Shylock To the Editor: Mr. Henderson's Merchant of Venice is in- credible. The Donald Duck diction, the Noel Cowardscuffling, the marathon speed and un- intelligibility, and now Mr. Henderson's own hypnotic reassurance: all are strange and un- real. Surely nothing paid for was ever so bad, except possibly the traveling Chatauqua as it neared a well-deserved end. Like a bad dinner which will neither up nor down, leaving one a conscious corpse, neither living nor dead, replete but disgusted, this Merchant of Venice will linger in the mind to parody and poison the immortal lines. Consolation can be found only in sympathy for the professional players involved, and in the saving speed which brought the "performance to a close after only two hours. -Prof. W. H. Worrell, (Of the Oriental Languages Dept.) As You Like It To the Editor: Mr. Leon Ovsiew went to the Lydia Mendels- sohn Theatre with the idea of reviewing a play. It's too bad he wasted his time. Mr. Ovsiew did a nice job of picking the presentation of the "Merchant of Venice" apart but he forgot to put the pieces together again. The review published in The Daily Sunday rnorning was a distinct insult to the dramatic artists who are visiting Ann Arbor. Mr. Ovsiew let personal prejudice enter into the article and I do not feel it should be regarded as a valid criticism. Other Shakespearean productions, "Hamlet," Othello," and "Twelfth Night," have been given here. I feel they were accepted by the majority of the theatre-goers as enjoyable plays, well- acted. I fear Mr. Ovsiew is too analytical of mind to truly appreciate a dramatic offering of this sort.. The slight praise which Mr. Ovsiew does give Mr. Hughes has little weight when he says that modulation of the tempestuous speeches would improve his portrayal of Shylock. It is the very forgetfulness of place and self which makes Mr. Hughes so effective in this role, Miss Winwood brought the. youth of Portia to us in a delightful gaiety which did not seem overly spread with giggling frivolity. Mr. Ingram gave a vigor to his part that pleased the audience. The sub-plots seemed to be woven into the major theme so smoothly that the continuity was unbroken. All in all, I was very pleased with the per- formance. I wish some true dramatic critic would publish a review which shows its worth and its wealth of dramatic character for those who could not attend any of the performances of "Merchant of Venice." I would like to see a play directed by Mr. Ovsiew. I am sure it would be the most flawless of all productions. -An Appreciative Theatre-Goer, Three Square Inches To the Editor:. Four years at the University of Michigan have given me much to think about. Social problems, political and economic equality, racial discrim- ination, have all come before me in vivid, clear experiences. Most of that which I have learned has been out of classes rather than in them. When one works his way through four long academic years, with no other income, except that which he, himself earns, he soon learns that college is not X11 J-Hops and sorority Teas. College, to me meant a strugle for existence, a continual fight to get three meals a day and a place to park your stuff. College meant realiz- ing that there were other fellows with troubles, and that the less you cearn, the more you learn about your fellow unfortunates. Finally, after the four years are almost com- pleted, the student-worker decides to "splurge" and buy something to remember "college by." Five dollars or so for an 'Ensian, three dollars for his pictures, (You can get them for a dollar, but not at the "approved photographers") and you're "broke" for the next three weeks. But the student-worker figures that it's worth it. Weeks pass. Ballyhoo after ballyhoo is issued by the 'Ensian staff, and the student looks for- ward to a real souvenir of his college days. For the student who hasn't yet bought the book, the staff notifies the parents that their son has not yet bought their product, and suggests that he might not have the money for it. Embarrass- ing for the student, but the staff sells more copies, so what do they care? Finally, the 'Ensian arrives. The student searches thoroughly through the massive, weighty book, looking for people he knows, and the things which he has seen during his four years here. With a sudden but definite conclu- sion, he realizes that he'd been a sucker. He finds that 99 per cent of the text carries pictures of dances he never went to, initiations to fraternities on the other side of the social fence, and beautiful views of mortgaged fraternity houses to which he was never invited. ROTC staffs, elite societies, even beautiful pic- tures of beautiful coeds in beautiful gowns, for pages and pages, but only about three square inches in total are allotted to his picture and the two friends who could afford to pay the "author- ized photographer." Finally, the "sucker" realizes that for beau- tiful girls, he could have bought a movie mag- dred" of the campus; and as such, accentuates the barrier between those who have, and those who have not. As a picture of "those who have," it is a direct insult to the student who has worked for his campus, who, holding no puppet offices, has sweated in the desire to alleviate the social inequality rampant here, visualizing a fraternal equality not symbolized by the social parasites who bear that name. Because the scion of a too-too-well-to-do tribe has gotten into the habit of making itself conspicuous, does not mean that he should be more entitled to go down in the distorted history of the institution other people have worked for and attended. Four years . . . and after four years of finan- cial discrimination . .. it has to be pictorially re- corded for me in my souvenir of the struggle. -Disgusted. Pat Ball Players' To the Editor: In an article in today's Daily "Coach" John- stone of the tennis team states that Michigan lost the Conference net meet with "pat ball players," who "weren't prepared to play a driv- ing game because they did not practice it suffi- ciently during the season." These boys practiced all winter long under the watchful eye of "Coach" Johnstone, and if they were not practicing a driving game, he had ample opportunity to do something about this before the Conference meet. It seems just a bit late now for him to put the fault on the players, when the remedy lay in his own hands-provided he is a proper coach. Johnstone further states that such players as Bickel and the Ball brothers were "developed" by Chicago and Northwestern. , With all due - credit to the coaches at those schools, Johnstone overlooks the fact that such players held high rankings before they went to college. Good play- ers will not attend a college which holds no attraction for them in the way of opportunities to improve (e.g. good coaching)-and perhaps this is the reason Michigan failed to win the title, rather than that the boys played pat ball tennis. At any rate, it is hardly the right of the man responsible for the way our team played, to criticize now that it is all over. I am sure that this is the feeling of all tennis fans on the campus. -Leonard D. Verdier, Jr. '7L A Pandora's Box -Will Its Evils Plague Us?- (From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch) IS THERE something sinister to the country's future in the industrial strife which for the past few months has been waged from coast to coast? Has John L. Lewis, whose CIO forces have been making almost unbelievable advances in the organization of the country's workers for collec- tive bargaining purposes, opened a Pandora's box and released a hearde of evils that will plague us for generations to come? Just what is the meaning of the happenings on the industrial front that have crowded fast uppn one another since last December when the operations of one of the nation's largest corporations-General Motors-were paralyzed by a sit-down strike? Before attempting a reply to these questions, let us recall that, in the past 40 years, there has occurred a revolution in the organization and methods of industry comparable in significance to that which followed the invention of the steam engine in the eighteenth century. Tech- nological advances have made possible our great mass-production factories and these in turn have given rise to giant corporations operating on a nation-wide scale. In Berle and Means' work, "The Modern Corporation and Private Property," it is stated that 200 corporations, each with assets of more than $90,000,000, control 49.2 per cent of all non-banking corporate wealth, while the remaining half is owned by more than 300,000 smaller companies. THEATRE By JAMES DOLL Th ird Play Opens Today TWO SEASONS ago when Richard of Bordeaux was produced in New York with Dennis King, we first had a chance to become acquainted with a play by Agnes Macintosh, that Scotch woman who prefers to hide behind the name Gordon Daviot. Her tragedy of the weakling Richard II was "an interesting play written with a nice command of language, a sensitive knowledge of character, and a shrewd eye for theatrical effect." Her play The Laughing Woman will open tonight at the Mendelssohn theatre as the third offering of the 1937 Dramatic Season. It is based on1 H. S. Ede's The Savage Messiah which tells of the happy life of Henri Gou- dier, the sculptor and Sophie Brzeska, the writer who lived together for a few years in unequal and helpless acrimony in the midst of London's art life. In summarizing the play, Brooks Atkinson of The New York Times said: "The Private life of Henri Gau- dier and Sophie Brzeska was more in- teresting than most, for he was a raging genius and she a woman of volatile emotion and notable integ- rity. In the play he appears as Rene Latour and she as Ingrid Rydman; otherwise the story closely follows The Savage Messiah narrative. They mneet on the continent; she is middle- aged, and cautious, he is young, en- thusiastic and overwhelming. They live together, first as brother and sister, in London, and later as man and woman. They live on nothing; they quarrel violently, create social brawls, and finally his genius begins to win recognition at the moment when the war breaks out and artists ,o to the front like any common soldier." The play will have, five perform- ances in Ann Arbor. Opening tomor- row night, it will continue Friday night, Saturday matinee and night; and Monday matinee and night. The second bill of Noel Coward plays will open next Tuesday, June 1. * The Space-Stage EDITOR'S NOTE: Robert Henderson, director of the Ann Arbor Dramatic Season, has sent the following article to the Editors of The Daily. THE ANN ARBOR production of The Laughing Woman, save for Tonio Selwart who created the role of the young sculptor in the Broad- way production this fall, differs red- ically from tne New York perform- ance. We are using not the New York script, which was badly writ- ten-with that peculiarsvanity which is Broadway's-to shift the import- ance from Mr. Selwart to the woman star of the play. Instead, in Ann Arbor we are presenting the original English script, which enjoyed such a success in London. Here the two roles of Henri Gaudier, the sculptor, and Sophie Brezka, the author, stand equal. As created by Mr. Selwart and Miss de Neergaard, I feel they will stand as two of the most original and compelling performances of the season. The Laughing Woman further in- terests me, technically, because it furnishes an opportunity to use, in the direction, the "space-stage." The space-stage method is the reverse of the influence of Gordon Craig, Rob-' srt Edmund Jones and other disting- uished designers who made the scen- 25y rather than the actors the im- portant factor in a production. In a space-stage production the audience, to all intents and purposes, seescno scenery at all, at least in the con- ventional sense. If, as in The Laughing Woman, the settings shift quickly from various poor rooms, to a dining room, to a London street in a space-stage pro- duction there are no settings in a realistic sense; no broken plater, no imposing Georgic columns, no street lamps. There are a few properties, a great many variations in stage lev- els, fine stage lighting-all set against a black velvet cyclorama. In other words, all of the emphasis is shifted onto the actors. *'* * Walks To Be Improved HAVE OFTEN FELT, as have many directors, that many plays on a bare stage in rehearsal have been :nore moving than in actual produc- tion when cluttered up with manifold settings. Such important personali- ties in the theatre as Zoe Aikkens end Alice Kauser agree with me that the present curse of the New York theatre is the scenic designer, who both financially and artistically, swamps many a fine play with set- tings so vast and imposing that the poor actors and the even more un- fortunate script itself has no chance. , Actually the use of the space-stage method, which attempts to reduce wcenery to a very minimum and con- centrate all attention on the actors themselves, isafar from economical; for all the platforms and levels used in the creation of the space-stage (all elaborated padded to deader sound) use more lumber and can- vass than any usual amotnt o_ DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Publication in the Bulletin is constructive notice to all members Of %b Umiverslty. Copy received at the aoe of ~theA Aastaat totbo Preie" umtil 3:30; 11:00 a. .on Satiarday, Notices VOL. XLVII No. 172 THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1937 In view of the fact that the regular payday for May, May 31, is a holiday and Saturday, the 29th, is a half- day, May salary checks will be ready for distribution on Friday, May 28. I Shirley W. Smith Commencement Tickets: Tickets for Commencement and the Alumni Luncheon may be obtained on re- quest, after June 1, at the Business office, Room 1, University Hall. The Commencement Week programs will also be ready on June 1 or soon thereafter. Inasmuch as only two Yost Field House tickets are available for each Senior, please present iden- tification card when applying for tickets. * Herbert G. Watkins. Seniors: The firm which furnishes diplomas for the University has sent the following caution: "Please warn graduates not tostore diplomas in cedar chests. There is enough of the moth-killing aromatic oi in the av- erage cedar chest to soften inks of any kind that might be stored inside them, resulting in seriously damaging the diplomas." Herbert G. Watkins. Student Loans: There will be a meeting of the Loan Committee in Room 2, University Hall on Tuesday, June 1 at 2 p.m. At that time the Committee will consider requests for loans for the Summer Session and the school year 1937-38. All blanks for this meeting must be submitted by Friday, May 29. J. A. Bursley, Chairman. Faculty, College of Engineering: There will be a meeting of the Faculty of this College on Friday, May 28, at 4:15 p.m., in Room 348, West En- gineering Building. Agendum: Elec- tion of University Council member and of Executive Committee mem- ber; report on freshman-sophomore questionnaire; a n d changes in courses. Members of the Michigan Wolver- ine: Membership fee refunds may be used for the purchase of meal tickets for next week; the difference will be paid in cash. The full cash refund may be obtained by calling at the Wolverine at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 5. The above refund will be forfeited after June 1, 1938. Women Students from Cleveland who are interested in volunteer social work for the summer should call at the office of the Dean of Women and fill out application blanks as soon as possible. Student .Photographers: Anyone who is interested in trying out for the photographic staff of the 1938 Michiganensian is urged to attend the meeting of the staff on Thurs- day afternoon at 4 p.m. Students are expected to furnish their own equip- ment, but the 'Ensian furnishes all materials. Academic Notices E.E.3 will not meet at 10 a.m. Thursday morning, but will meet as usual at 1 p.m. Thursday afternoon, May 27. torium, at 11 a.m. This will be the only opportunity to take any or all of these exams. English 6, Report Writing: Last semester students who have not yet taken their reports out may get them by calling at my office, Room 9, University Hall, at any time during office hours. J. Raleigh Nelson. 4 Intercultural Council: I wish to announce the personnel of the newly constituted Intercultural Council. It is as follows: China, Vung Yuin Ting, Utah Tsao; Japan, Naomi Fukuda; Philip- Pines. Gregorio Velasquez; Syria, Ibrahim Khatib; Turkey, Muzaffer Harunogu; Russia, Alexander Gol- off; United States, James Eyre, Nel- son Fuson, Josephine Montee, John Luther, Katherine Taylor; Europe, Emiliano Gallo. The Council will hold its first meet- ing in the University Council Room, Thursday, May 27, at 4:15 p.m. J. Raleigh Nelson, Counselor to Foreign Students. Concerts Student Recital: A recital of com- )ositions written by members of the student body of the School of Music, nd performed by students, will take >lace at the School of Music Audi- :orium on Maynard Street, Friday vening, May 28, at 8:15 p.m., to vhich the general public is invited. Student Recital: Tom H. Kinkead, Theyenne, Wyo., will give a recital on 'he Frieze Memorial Organ in Hill Auditorium, Friday afternoon, May N8, at 4:15 p.m., to which the general public is invited. Carillon Recital: Wilmot F. Pratt, Jniversity Carillonneur, will give a 'ecital on the Charles Baird Carillon n the Burton Memorial Tower, Thursday afternoon, May 27, at 4:15 .m. Events Today Mimes: There will be an important neeting on reorganization Thursday, Vay 27, at 4:30 p.m. in the Union. All old and new members are asked ;o attend. The German Journal Club will meet [hursday at 4 p.m. in Room 319 of ;he Michigan Union. Glider Club: The University of Aichigan Glider Club will hold its inal meeting of the year Thursday'at :30 p.m. in Room 348 W. Engineering Building. Four very interesting films n Gliding and Soaring will be shown ollowed by a short business meeting. All members are urged to be present. Phi Tau Alpha: The annual ban- luet of Phi Tau Alpha, honorary lassical society, willbe held in ,the Miichigan League at 6:30 pm. on Thursday evening, May 27. All mem- ers are urged to attend. The Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences: There will be a meeting of the Institute Thursday, May 27, at 7:30 p.m. in Room 1042. Mr. Spring- r will make a report on his trip to he N.A.C.A. laboratories. An addi- ional speaker will be Prof. F. W. Pawlowski of the Aeronautical En- gineering Department. Plans for the annual Institute picnic will be dis- cussed. The meeting will be under the direction of the new officers. The !Athletic Group of the Michi- gan Dames will hold a meeting Thurs- day, May 27, at 8 o'clock at the Mich- igan League. Plans will be made for a hike and picnic. All members of the Michigan Dames are cordially in- vited. Coming Events The School of Education is spon- soring an informal dinner in the Ballroom of the Michigan Union on the evening of June 30, 1937. This date-is during the week of the Na- tional E4ucation Association meet- ings in Detroit, which occasion will bring together many leading men and women from all parts of the United States, many of whom were formerly students at the University. Others who have been looking for just such an opportunity as this to visit the University of Michigan will be in- vited. The dinner will be open to students enrolled in the Summer Session, to residents of Ann Arbor, and specially to faculty members who are in the city at that time. Mark the date, June 30, on your calendar and watch for further notice of the place where tickets may be secured. U. of M. Outdoor Club will have an all-day canoe trip as its last func- tion of the year on Monday, May 31, leaving Lane Hall at 9 a.m. The total charge per person will be $1.30. Make your reservation by paying a $.50 de- posit to Dorothy Shapland, in Room 2125 Natural Science Building (Tel. Ext. 594) by Saturday noon, May 29. All those interested are cordially in- vited to come. 4 4 I 4 English 31, f or Friday:4 Lost." Esperanto: will meet in] from 4:30 to section 10. Assignment continue in "Paradise Karl Litzenberg The Esperanto Class Room 1035 Angell Hall 5:30 p.m. Friday. 4 As industry and commerce have developed, la- bor organization has lain dormant. This is graph- ically shown by the fact that, when John L. Lewis began his drive, only about 3,000,000 of 30,000,000 industrial workers were organized. The then do- minant labor body-the AF of L-clung and still clings to the ancient and outmoded craft union principle, which has been proved inapplicable to mass production industry. The result of the failure of the labor move- ment to match strides with business and industry has been to create a lack of balance in our eco-- nomic life. Labor was not in position to demand and obtain its fair share of the products it helped to create. Wealth naturally tended to concen- trate. At one extreme, millions of the people were reduced to the poverty line and, at the other, huge fortunes were in possession of the few. It is a condition that caused former Ambas- sador James W. Gerard to say, with a large measure of truth, that America was ruled by 63 men. It is a condition that was one of the great contributing factors to the depression. It' is a condition that gave rise to demagogues like Huey Long and Dr. Townsend. The John L. Lewis theory is that the organiza- tion of the country's workers into unions can bring about a balance between capital and labor. His method is the formation of industrial unions, comprising all the workers in a given industry regardless of trades and crafts. His objective, as set out in a notable interview, published Feb. 16, 1936, in the Post-Dispatch, is to insure the work- ers of economic security by compelilng a more even distribution of the fruits of industry. Ccncentration in History: Summer classification programs for students concentrating in history will be signed by Prof. L. G. VanderVelde. Until the final examination period begins, he will be i nhis office, 314 Haven, Tues- day at 11 a.m. and Wednesdayat 10:30 a.m. This notice concerns only students concentrating in history who are planning to attend the 1937 I Summer Session. Geology 11: Make-up exams (Blue- books No. 1, 2 and 3) will be given on May 28, in Natural Science Audi- lerms College No Threat To Religion Colleges have not been the "de- structive" force in regard to religious thinking that most critics label them, Mrs. Mary C. Van Tuyl declared yes- terday at the meeting of the Psychol- ogy Journal Club. Mrs. Van Tuyl has been engaged in a study of the religious ideas of University students, and her report yesterday was a presentation and ex- planation of some of the results she has obtained. Over 800 autobiographical reports were collected to make this study, Mrs. Van Tuvl said. "Naturally the