THE MJCHICYAN DATLY SATURDAY. JI TIlE MICHIGAN DAILY 8ATUUDAY,. {epertory Season To Open With Soviet Farce Windt Directs Group Of Eight Summer Plays ComCdies To Prevail With Dramas And Musical Also Included VARIED theatre fare with emphasis on comedy characterizes the list of summer plays to be produced by the Michigan Repertory Players under the direction of Prof. Valentine B. Windt, Director of Play Production. The Pat- of, Flowers, the opening bill, is by Valentine Katayev who is perhaps the greatest living master of farce. Like his Squaring the Circle this latest play satirizes various as- pects of life in the Soviet Union. This time the system of marriage and di- vorce and the tendency of the theor- ists to live in the future rather than in the present is his subject. He is so good at using farce as a medium of self-criticism that he is allowed to say almost anything he wishes with- out fear of censorship. A George Kaufman comedy, First Lady, this time in collaboration with The Plays PATH OF FLOWERS, by Valentine Katayev ETHAN FROME, from the Edith Wharton novel.1 FIRST LADY, by George Kaufman and Katharine Dayton YELLOW JACKET, adapted by Sidney Howard from Paul de Kruif.'s "Microbe Hunters." PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, from Gilbert And Sullivan Comedy To Be Combined Offering Second Musical To Be Pinafore' Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pin- afore which will play the next to the last week of the Summer Session will actually be the second musical to be done during the summer by the Michigan Repertory Players and the School of Music. Smetana's The Bartered Bride will be produced by these same groups during Centennial Week. Previous musicals by the two groups have been The Chocolate Soldier, Pi- rates of Penzance, Ruddigore, Yeo-, men of the Guard, Iolanthe, and The Gondoliers. For Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream two sea- sons ago, the University Symphony Orchestra combined with Play Pro- duction to give the play an elaborate production. 'Yellow Jack'Is Scientific Epic (By I'VLOOKS ATKINSON in. The science could be tranlated into the New York Times) prosc of common speechi, and now To put it simply, Sidney Howard Mr. Howard has tapght the theatre has accomplished something of tre- mendous importance to the stage. In Yellow Jack, he has shown how one of the heroic epics of research sci- ence can be related with clarity, emo- tion, and nobility in thetheatre. The idea comes from the author of Mi- crobe Hunters, Paul de Kruif, with whom Mr. Howard has collaborated in the play, and the story is of Wal- ter Reed's epochal research into the causes of yellow fever. As a rule, those great chapters in scientificl history are left imprisoned within the' jargon of the profession, where only men of science can appreciate them. But two or three years ago, Mr. deI Kruif proved that the heroism of how to tell it. The telling is enor- mously moving. No tale of war has made the courage and the peril seem more exalting. For Mr. Howard has caught all the grandeur of human character that went into the yellow- fever experiment. This play en- larges the scope of the modern theatre. TYPEWRITERS FOUNTAIN PENS Student Supplis 0. D.Morill 314 SOUTH STATE STREET Ik A scene from last summer's production of "Pirates of Penzance" which was the combined offering of the Michigan Repertory Players, the School of Music, and the dance group of the Department of Physical Education, August 11, 12, 13 and 14 the groups will combine to present "H.M.S. Pinafore," comic opera writ- ten early in the career of the two matchless collaborators. 'Daughters Of Atreus' Revives Greek Spirit A Beautiful MICHIGAN WALL PLAQUE WALNUT or MAHOGANY BACK with a HEAVY BRONZE SEAL Formerly 6.50- Now $349 ULRICH'S BOOKSTORE I - - is exactly opposite to that of Mourn- The Nation) ire Becomes Electra. O'Neill, if I In Daughters of Atreus, Robert understood him a right, undertook Turney, a young and hitherto un- the most drastic possible transmogri- fication of the story because he want- known writer, has achieved a near- ed to show, not that Greek culture .niracle: without outwardly spectac- j was still alive, but that we ourselves ular innovations he has retold the were capable of giving our own mean- vhole familiar story from the sacri- ing to a series of events which, so far fice of Iphegeneia to the murder of as the mere events themselves are Klytaimnestra in some fashion which concerned, might take place in any makes it seem both old as time and civilization. Mr. Turney, on the other fresh as the moment in which it is hand, aims at something quite dif- unrolled. ferent. He modernizes only to the, The intention of Mr. Turney's play extent of shifting emphasis somewhatI ;o that more stress is laid upon mo- Ive and also slightly more, perhaps, on something which I believe is fully implicit in some of the Greek ver- sions--namely, the essential conflict between dominant mores which en- forced the duty of revenge and a growing sense of the evil of a code which did so. But he departs from tradition no farther for the very rea- son that 'his intention is the anti- thesis of O'Neill's, that instead of setting our culture against the cul- ture of the Greeks, he assumes for the latter a still living vitality. East University Avenue RO .ey ,, by J. B. 's I2' H.M.S. PINAFORE, by Gilbert and Sullivan DAUGHTERS OF ATREUS, by Robert Turney. Katharine Dayton, a newspaper wom- an who looks at Washington with a sense of humor. 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