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FRIDAY, DEC. 1, 1939
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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Pituitary Gland
Is Di'scussed
D r.Geiling
Studies Of Gland Anatomy
In The Various Animals.
Is Described In Speech
The scientist interested in the pitui-
tary gland is forced to study animals
outside those regularly available in
the laboratory, Dr. Eugene M. K.
Geiling, chairman of the pharmacol-
ogy department of the University of
Chicago, explained yesterday in his
University lecture on "The Compara-
tive Anatomy and Pharmacology of
the Pituitary Gland" at the Rackham
Auditorium.I
Describing his research on the
whale, Dr. Geiling outlined his trip
to the whaling stations northwest of
Vancouver, and the varied studies he
performed there. He stressed that
his experimentations, however, were
primarily a group effort, and indicat-
ed the 'value of research upon such
lower mammals as whales and por-
poises.
Dr. Geiling, considered one of the
most versatile men ever to appear
here in a University lecture studied
and worked at Universities in both
South Africa and the United States.
He specifically voiced his attachment
to Michigan because of "the many
valuable contacts he had made here."
Dr. Isaac Rabinowitz Is
Speaker At Hillel Tonight
Dr. Isaac Rabinowitz, director of
the Hillel Foundation, will speak on
"The Nazis Pacify Poland" at 8 p.m.
today in the Hillel Foundation, im-
mediately following the regular Fri-
day night Conservative Services,
Dr. Rabinowitz's talk will be given
in place of the fireside chat discus-
sion originally scheduled
Seven-Hour Vigil
Baby Wilma Lee Bryant, age
four months, had a seven-hour
wait while her mother tried vain-,
ly to obtain a relief order for food
in Cleveland. The mother, who
also had children two and four
years old, parked the baby outside
the relief station part of the time
she was waiting for her name to
be called. The city, short of funds,
restricted orders.
Fraternity Group
Plans Broadcast
A feature of the National Inter-
fraternity Conference, which meets
today and tomorrow in New York
City, will be a broadcast at 10 a.m.
Saturday from the floor of the Con-
ference by CBS to be presented as an
impromptu discussion on the general
subject, "Are College raternities
Worthwhile?"
According to G. Herbert Smith of
the National Undergraduate Inter-
fraternity Council, four universities
will be represented at this Confer-
ence: University of Florida, Univer-
sity of Los Angeles, Northwestern
University and DePauw University.
Large Cast
Will Perform
In Slum Drama
In producing ". . . one third of a
nation . . ." Play Production is en-
countering :numerous complications
and unusual difficulties for a college
theatre group.
The play comprises nineteen sep-
arate scenes, for example, and all
scene changes are made during stage
blackouts. Main scene in the drama,
in which playwright Arthur Arent
portrays the housing problem in large
cities, is the inside of a three-story
New York tenement house. In this
one scene four rooms and two halls
are revealed.
Actual speaking parts number 186,
and there are a great many more
extras. Only 83 actors will take
part in the play, however, some tak-
ing three or four separate roles.
Masculine and feminine roles are
about equal in number.
Approximately 250 costumes will
be needed for the play. Some of the
actors must make as many as seven
costume changes.
Electricians will operate spotlights
to cover 17 different small areas, ex-
cluding general stage lighting. This
arrangement calls for more than 200
cues for changes of lights.
. . one third of a nation ..
will be presented Wednesday through
Saturday, Dec. 6-9, in the Lydia
Mendelssohn Theatre. The theatre'
ticket office will open at 10:30 a.m.
Monday.
Rabies Cases Gain
Despite Prevention,
Despite preventative efforts by the
University Pasteur Institute, the,
number of active- cases of rabies in
dogs and other animals has increasedz
rapidly during the past six years,1
Dr. Herbert W. Emerson,. director of
the Institute, announced this week.
Dr. Emerson said that more thany
500 cases of rabies were reported to
him in 1938, compared to the all-
time low of 90 cases in 1933. This
directly indicates an increasing
number of infected animals through-
out the state, he pointed out.
The failure of individual owners
to care for their pets and harmful1
propaganda by kennel clubs were
cited by Dr. Emerson as causes for
the increasing number of animal
illnesses. State-supplied vaccine,s
further research and educationalI
work, better muzzling and leashing
laws, and vaccination of dogs weref
suggested as remedies.i
Camera Conviction
byuHARRY MOORSTEIN w
A building isolated is the two
story sound testing structure which
is built within the walls of the East
Physics Building.
Resting on its own separate foun-
dation with no part of its walls
touching those of the physics build-
ing, the segregation of this sound
testing apparatus is carried to such
an extent that even the power leads
are flexible and the gas and air
connections are made of rubber. No
chance for an outside sound to creep
in is overlooked.
This testing chamber, which is
only one of the many in the physics
building, is composed of merely two
rooms. The rooms are directly above
one another and their entrances are
n the first and second basements.
They are acoustically opposites. One
sound absorbing, the other sound
reflecting.
Reverberation Room
studies in determining the most ef-
fective dealening material to use.
Due to thisdequipment, the average
deadener today is 15 times as effec-
tive as a deadener three or four years
ago, yet there is no increase in cost.
The noises in this room are ab-
sorbed as quickly as possible so that
the only sounds measured are those
coming directly from the object to
the measuring instrument. The mea-
surement of the vibrations is by the
use of a moving film camera with
the aid of steel plates. These plates
are ground and calibrated so they
can vibrate at the slightest noise.
By applying the material to be test-
ed to these plates and then striking
the plates, vibrations are caused.
These vibrations are measured by
the moving film camera.
Used For Research
The building, whose top is just
at ground level, is used primarily for
industrial research. Both the phy-
sics department and the engineering
department make use of the appara-
tus.
Soundproofing Devices Isolate
Laboratories From Noisy World
Prof. Price, Local Carillonneur,
Known As Composer And Author
Anniversary Dance
Observes Founding
Of Russian Union
A Soviet Ball to celebrate the 22nd
anniversary of the founding of the
Soviet Union will be held tonight
from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. in Unity Hall.
Outstanding feature of the evening
will be the Russian film epic, "Road
To Life" which portrays the rehabili-
tation of the homeless "wild boys"
who swarmed over Russia in the early
days of the USSR.
Also on the program are the De-
troit Balalaika Players who will pre-
sent a number of Ukrainian and Rus-
sian songs and dances in native cos-
tumes. A special display of modern
Soviet art posters will be shown as
well as an exhibition of leading Mar-
ist literature of past and present. AUI
rooms will be decorated with the Rus-
sian motif.
Music, including recordings of
works by Prokofiev and Shostokovich
will be heard. Swing and modem
dance records will be prayed for those
who desire to dance.
Seated at the long keyboard of
the carillon Prof. Percival Price,
University carilloneur, pounded out
the notes of "a little ditty I com-
posed" and said, "And that's the
way the carillon is played."
Professor Price, who became car-
illoneur on Sept. 1, is a muscular
man with a forceful personality.
Born in Toronto, Professor Price was
studying organ at Toronto when a
carillon was installed. He was ap-
pointed carilloneur and studied at
the Beiardschool to Mechelen (Mech-
lin Carillon School) in Belgium and
was the first non-European to receive
a diploma from this school. In 1928
he took the degree of Bachelor of
Music at the University of Toronto,
and in 1934 received the Pulitzer
Prize in music from Columbia Uni-
versity. He -was appointed carillo-
neur at the Rockefeller Memorial
Carillon in New York City, and was
there until 1927, when he became
Dominion Carilloneur at the new
Peace Tower in the Houses of Parlia-
mnent at Ottawa. Ann Arbor is only
one of the many places on this con-
tinent, South America, and Europe
where he has made guest appear-
ances; he was here last fall. During
the visit of the King and Queen of
England to Canada recently he
played the carillon for them. He
revived some carillon music com-
posed by Handel when at the court
of George I in England over two hun-
dred years ago, and arranged for
the present royalty to hear on the
carillon, pieces composed by English
sovereigns during the last five cen-
turies.
"The key board of the carillon is
like that of the piano, not like that
of the organ," declared Professor
Price. The variety and the shading
of tones is the result of the player's
direct touch, not of stops on the in-
strument, as with the organ. The
skill of the carilloneur is shown also
in his arranging, which he must do
himself. There are a few modern
compositions written for the caril-
lon; very few older pieces have sur-
vived from the earlier days of caril-
lons. -Professor Price has written a
number of compositions himself, and
has also written a book, the principal
authority on the carillon, published
by the Oxford University Press.
To play the carillon Professor
Price sits on a long bench in front)
of the keys and the pedals, which
are used to work the same bells as
the keys. It is physically not easy
to play a carillon. Professor Price
strikes most of the keys with blows
of the fists. When he plays in the
small room on the tenth floor of the
tower surrounded by bells, one for-
gets the arduousness of his task while
noting the variety of effects he gets.
Vassar College has received special
funds to finance a study of child be-
havior and normal personality de-
velopment.
A camera trap set to halt re-
peated burglaries in a Crystal
Lake, Ill., filling station obtained
this picture and brought about the
arrest of Harold Lewis, 19, a farm-
hand. A photo-electric cell was
used to trip the camera shutter
and fire a flash bulb.
LRA D109j:
-'-By June McKee
The Swinton-Harmon-Fineberg tri-
umvirate sportscasts another Fan
Fare program at 2:45 p.m. today over
WMBC.
Then comes the "Game of the Cam-
pus," latest broadcast to excite the
ether around WJR to such extents
that veritable volumes of fan mail
have deluged Morris Hall. Making
its initial bow last Friday at 3:30
p.m., it promptly evoked letter re-
sponse from seven states and Canada,
from Colorado to New York-from
Ontario to our own Ann Arbor.
Dreamed up by Jack Silcott, Grad.,
has Dick Slade, '41, Johnny Gelder,
'40, and yr. scribe on for regular
staff, and today, in contestant capa-
city, Helen Westie, '40, Nancy Har-
ris, Grad., Peter Antonelli, '41, and
Guy Warner, '41.
Along with this week's new game
(listen to learn), is a special inter-
view of Galen member Howard Law-
rence, '41M, regarding the Christmas
Fund program,
In Mike's field, announcers, actors,
commercial continuity writers, dra-
matic scripters, news commentators,
sportscasters, and salesmen are non-
technically grouped. Announcers
generally work in eight hour shifts.
Some start at 6 a.m. and run until
2 p.m. Others start at 4 p.m. and run
'til midnight. Frequently the work
is tiresome if announcers with stand-
bys miss activity. Often the work is
rather routine, but always year-
round, with no slack or peak seasons.
Now the U.S. has about 800 radio
stations, each employing from three
to eight announcers. Radio students
also stray into commercial. movie
fields, public address equipment-us-
ing, and broadcasting teaching,
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