TivE iI 'CHIG AN D AIi Y Script For Next Year's Opera Sought By Union And Mimes Deadline For Manuscripts notify them of any developments that Extended Until May 15 ay arise. Selection of a student's play for $100 Offered To Author production by the Union will qualify him for far greater riches than the By HERVIE HAUF ER original Mimes award. "Four out of Wanted: a successor to Max Hodge. Five" has been submitted, Smith said, That was the advertisement issued to the national contest for musical plays sponsored by the American So- yesterday by the Union and Mimes, ciety of Composers, Authors and Play- men's honorary drarr>tic society, as wrights and may win for author they extended until May 15 the dead- Hodge a $720 scholarship and read- line for submission of scripts for next ings by Broadway and Hollywood year's Union Opera. producers. To the campus writer who can best "Four out of Five" had two locales fill the shoes of the former editor -Ann Arbor and Hollywood. It told of Gargoyle and author of this year's of the attempts of an aspiring fresh- Opera, "Four out of Five," Mimes and man to become a BMOC through en- the Union will give $i10. listing the aid of Mrs. Roosevelt, Prof. Robert A. Kenyon, chairman FDR and a Hollywood siren named of the Committee on Theatre Policy Hedy La Tour. Included were satires" and Practice, suggests that the sub- on fraternities and sororities, Mosher- mitted scripts should not contain Jordan dormitory, the Ruthven teas more than two acts, should be com- and, above all, the coeds of Michigan. plete with at least some lyrics and should provide ample opportunities e aoclsi a ls for specialties. i.'eiate Fnais Since there is a possibility that next year's Opera may go on tour, reviv- To B Sta oed ing the traditional Opera trip which High Will School Compete Survivors Friday The 23rd annual final for the state high school debating championship will be held at 8 p.m. Friday when teams from Flint Northern and Grand Rapids Cerntral, survivors of a three- month elimination contest, meet in Hill Auditorium to debate the proposi- tion, "Resolved That the Federal Government Should Own and Oper- Ate the Railroads." More than 1,000 high school stu- dents and debate coaches will come to Ann Arbor from all parts of the state to attend the finals. Members of the Grand Rapids Central negative team are Robert Dangl, David Ewing, and Gordon Boozer, and they were coached by Florence T. Effy. Bernard Didier, Lorraine Miller, and William Tate will take the af- firmative for Flint Northern and their director was Frederic C. Harrington. French Club To Initiate New Members Tonight Le Cercle Francais will meet at 7:30 p.m. today in Room 408 Ro- mance Languages Building to initiate new members and to formulate plans and committees for this year's French play. David Rich. '42, Margaret Drum, and Rosebud Scott, '42, will be ini- tiated by Carrie .Wallach, '41, presi- dent of the club. Plans for the production of "Les Jours Heureux" May 3 at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre will be con- sidered. All members are urged to attend so that complete committee arrangements may be made, Miss Wallach urged. Architectural Drawings Now On Exhibition Winning Ryerson Entries Exhibit On Third Floor At Architectural School An exhibit of the prize winning drawings in the 1939 competition of the Association of the Alumni of the American Academy in Rome and the 1939 entries in the Ryerson Scholar- ship competition is on view from 9 a.m. 'to 5 p.m. daily except Sunday in the third floor exhibition room of the College of Architecture and De- sign. Offered by the Lake Forest Founda- tion for Architecture and Landscape Architecture, the Ryerson Scholar- ship was formerly a traveling fellow- ship abroad. Entries from the archi- tecture college include Richard Chad- wick, '40A, and William Small, '40A, in architecture, and Robert Lilli- bridge, Grad., and Francis W. Will- sey, '40A, in landscape architecture. The exhibit shows the drawings sub- mitted in the competition from the Armour Institute of Technology and the Universities of Illinois, Cincinnati, Ohio State, Michigan, and Iowa State and will be open until April 25. A collaborative problem, the pro- ject of the 1939 competition of the alumni association was a summer theatre in a small commnnity. A team from the architecture college, consisting of John Kelly, '40A, Bar- bara Bolton, '40A, and James Neilson, '41A, were awarded first mention in the 1940 contest. The drawings will be on exhibit until April 23. Air Engineers ' Will See Film Annual Banquet, April 30, Will Chronicle Flight "Conquest of the Air," a sound mo- tion picture depicting man's struggle to master the science of aviation, will feature the climax of the annual In- stitute of Aeronautical Engineering banquet Tuesday, April 30 in the Union. Spotlighted speakers at the ban- quet will be Major James H. Doo- little, national president of the In- stitute of Aeronautical Sciences and noted speed and stunt flyer, and Major Lester D. Gardner, executive vice-president of the Institute. Illustrated by the film will be the theory and practice of lighter and heavier-than-air transport and the development of the science of aerody- namics. The chronicle of transpor- tation will be presented through the media of animated charts and models, photographs and drawings from Smithsonian archives and by actual newsreels and motion pictures of his- torical events in airline history since 1900. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1940 VOL. L. No. 145 Notices lon ors Convocation: The Seven- teenth Annual Honors Convocation of the University of Michigan will be held Friday, April 26, at 11 o'clock, in Hill Auditorium. Classes with the exception of clinics, will be dismissed at 10:45. Those students in clinical classes who are receiving honors at the Convocation will be excused in order to attend. The faculty, seniors, and graduate students are requested to wear academic costume but there is no procession. Members of the faculty are asked to enter by the rear door of Hill Auditorium and proceed directly to the stage, where arrange- ments have been made for seating them. The public is invited. Alexander G. Ruthven First Mortgage Loans: The Univer- sity has a limited amount of funds to loan on modern well-located Ann Arbor residential property. Interest at current rates. F.H.A. terms avail- able. Apply Investment Office, Room 100, South Wing, Universityj Hall. Freshmen and Sophomores, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts: The Academic Counselors will begin approval of elections for the first semester of the 1940-41 academic year on April 29. You will be sent a postcard requesting you to make an appointment with your Counselor for this purpose. It is expected that you will answer this summons promptly. It will be possible for you at this time to receive attention that cannot pos- sibly be given during the rush of registration in September and will save you much time and trouble if attended to before you leave in June. This applies to students who will ART CINEMA PRESENTS I , FIR$ST PRI . for the Awarded to N. 'Y.'F ILM C RITICS R French Cinema Center Release Lydia MendelssohnThieatre Tomorrow, Friday and Saturday - 8:15 P.M Special SaturdayMatinee, 3:15 DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN have less than 60 hours of coursel credit in June, Arthur Van Duren, Chairman Academic Counselors Candidates for the Teacher's Cer- ificate for June 1940, to be recoin- mended by the School of Education, are requested to call at the office of the School of Education, 1437 UES, this week, between the hours of 1:30 and 4:30, to take the Teacher Oath which is a requirement for the cer-t tificate. Doctoral Examination of Miss Em- ma L. Moon will be held at 3:30 p.m., Thursday, April 25, in 110 Romance Languages Building. Miss Moon's department of specialization is Ro- mance Languages: French. The title of her thesis is "A Metrical Study of the Three Successive Versions of Gervais de Basire's Lycoris with Spe- cial Attention to the Observance of the Principles of Malherbe." Professor C. A. Knudson, as chair- (Continued on Page 4) III All Seats 11 II Reserved Box Office Open Now Admission 35c New Housing Trends Seen 11 I By Architect An increasing demand for the low- cost small house was reported by Mil- ton W. Pettibone, Detroit architect, to the design class in Domestic Archi- tecture of the architecture college last Saturday. Mr. Pettibone has made a study of low-cost houses in Michigan over a period of years. He described a small house as one .costing from four thos- and to six thousand dollars. The general decrease in incomes, Mr. Pettibone said, had resulted in the demand for the low-cost house de- spite its restricted size. He showed how variation in plan and equipment affected the cost of the house 47APpwo\ o"o Ii HANDY SERVICE DIRECTORY QUESTION: Which handles the greater number of communications, the Bell Telephone System or the Federal Post Office? k ANSWER. The Bell System. Telephone calls out-number letters and post-cards 3 to 2. MOVING - MOVE BY STEVENS-Vans. Na- tionwide service. Low rates. Goods delivered direct on our own vans. George Stevens, agent. Phone noons and evenings, 2-3802. 410 N. Thayer St. 375 TRANSPORTATION -21 WASHED SAND AND GRAVEL - Driveway gravel, washed pebbles. Killins Gravel Company. Phone 7112. 13 10 Big Days1 WISE Real Estate Dealers: Run list- ings of your vacant houses in The Daily for summer visiting profes- sors. Dial 23-24-1 for special rates. HELP WANTED WANTED-College men for steady summer employment. Good pay for those that qualify. Write Mr. Zenor, 412 E. William, City. 377 STRAYED, LOST, FOUND-- 1 LOST-Kappa Nu fraternity pin Tuesday morning between Law Quad. and Natural Science. Re- ward. Phone 2-2868. 378 FOUND-Tan cowhide zipper coat at Michigan Union Depot. Re- turned April 5. Call for it at the depot. WRITING part of red and grey Conklin Pen, between Chi Omega and University Drug. Ph. 2-3159. 376 LOST-Wristwatch with silver case; brown leather strap; in Union washroom Mon. afternoon. Regis- tered No. Reward. Phone Chad- wick 4017. 379 ARTICLES FOR SALE-3 FOR SALE-Students' white buck, brown saddle, welt sport shoes; men's, $2.95, sizes 7/10, women's, $1.95, sizes 4/7. Men's brown mocs $1.85. Ph. Mr. Lombard, 4844, or call at 807 So. State. 372 TYPING- 18 TYPING-Experienced. Miss Allen, 408 S. Fifth Ave. Phone 2-2935 or 2-1416. 34 TYPEWRITING I TYPING-L. M. Heywood, 414 May- nard St., Phone 5689. 374 WANTED-TO BUY-4 BEN THE TAILOR-More money fort your clothes. Open evenings.; 122 E. Washington. 329 HIGHEST CASH PRICES paid for your discarded wearipg apparel. Claude Brown, 512 S. Main Street. 146 ANY OLD CLOTHING-PAY $5.00 TO $500. SUITS, OVERCOATS, FURS, MINKS, PERSIAN LAMBS, DIAMONDS, TYPEWRITERS, & CASH FOR OLD GOLD. PHONE SAM-6304. SUNDAY APPOINT- MENTS PREFERRED. "359 LAUNDERING-9 LAUNDRY - 2-1044. Sox darned. Careful work at low prices. 16 WANTEP - TO RENT -6 HOUSEHOLDERS: With rooms to rent to high school editors at 50c a night per person on May 2 and 3 will please send postcards to J. L. Brumm, 213 Haven Hall, with the following information: name, address, phone, number of accom- modations. Assignments will be made in advance of convention. RATES FOR THREE-MINUTE NIGHT AND SUNDAY STATION-TO-STATION CALLS ANN ARBOR TO: Alpena.......... Bay City ........ Boston, Mass. ..... Cadillac........ Chicago, Ill...... Dallas, Tex...... Flint..... ... Grand Rapids .. $ .60 .35 1.15 .55 .55 1.70 .35 .40 Indianapolis, Id.. $ Ionia ......... Kalamazoo...... Marquette .. New York City OwossO.. Port Iuron...... Sault Ste. Marie.. .55 .35 .35 .85 1.04 .35 .35 .80 On a call for which the charge is 50 cents or more, a federal tax applies. MICHIGAN BELL T E L TELEPHONE CO. Come! Don't miss a visit to our wonderland of values and new ideas for your home. You'll be surprised at the thousands of items we carry for your conven- ience. For months we've plan- ned this great Spring event. Now the invitation is out . . . and we hope you will accept. We know a visit will be worth your while. I 1940 DRAMATIC SEA SON COUNTER SAE of SEASON TICKEFTS SIl and I ii III IllulI