THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATUR1DAY, Johnson Takes 'Cook's Tour' For Program U' Symphony Conductor Prepares For Festival By Remote Control By HARRY LEVINE He's probably the only remote con- trol conductor in business today, but Thor Johnson, youthful maestro of the University Symphony Orchestra finds it the most successful means for preparing for a May Festival con- cert. Johnson, who will conduct the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra at the second May Festival concert next Thursday in Hill Auditorium, has been flying all over the country this past week, keeping in touch with the different artists who will assist him, and rehearsing their parts with them. For instance. in' the symphonic poem, "King David" of Honegger, the music is scored for full symphony orches- tra, chorus, three solo vocalists, or- gan and a narrator. Johnson Wasn't Fazed The fact that the orchestra is in Philadelphia, the narrator in Cleve- land, the vocalists in New York and he is in Ann Arbor didn't faze John- son in the slightest. Early Monday morning he was in Detroit and aboard a plane to Cleveland where he conferred with Rabbi Barnett Brickner about the timing of the nar- ration with the music. No sooner was that taken care of, than our air minded conductor was on the wing-- literally. Four hours later he was in Phila- delphia, conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra, while three slightly muss- ed up but nevertheless dignified vo- calists who had been rushed down from New York, were in the Academy of Music with him, ready to sing. Practiced With Feuermann At the same time, Emanuel Feuer- mann, who will play the Dvorak cello concerto on Johnson's program next Thursday, also came down from New York nand practiced with him, in or- der to get that part of the program straightened out. And Johnson hasn't been doing all these things on the spur of the mo- ment. For with the competent aid of the University Symphony Orches- tra, he has been practicing these numbers for some time right here in Ann Arbor. He's even been busy helping out, parts of other programs. The Choral Union. which will sing Beethoven's 'Ninth' Saturday as well as "King David" under Johnson, has been re- hearsing its part of the Beethoven symphony with him and the Univer- sity Symphony Orchestra until the arrival of Ormandy and the Phila- delphia. Both the stiudent members of the Choral Union and Johnson are par- ticularly enthusiastic over the music in "King David." It's music-bare, stark, real." h esays, closing his eyes as if to get better aesthetic appre- ciation, "- just lke the art-of Picas- so, Gertrude Stein or James Joyce." Other Duties Besides his duties as conductor of the University Symphony Orchestra, Johnson is also regular conductor of the Little Symphony and the Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra. One of the youngest conductors in the coun- try, he has already conducted the Boston and Philadelphia orchestras. Tickets for the concert as well as the other May Festival roicerts may be obtained at the Burton Tower offi- ces of the University Musical Society. After 5:00 p.m. Tuesday the box office will be ope in Hill Auritorium. Engineering College To Admit Woment To Summer Semester ASSOCIATED PRESS That feminine touch, seldom found within the hallowed halls of Michi- gan's College of Engineering, will soon be more than 40 strong when the college opens its doors to women during the summer semester for a full-time, thirteen week course in surveying, topographic mapping, and photogrammetry. Given under the auspices of the Engineering, Science, and Manage- ment Defense Training program of the United States Office of Educa- tion, this course will supply personnel trained in the principles of making maps from aerial photographs, in the operation of stereoscopic machines, and in the related principles of sur- veying and topographic mapping. The course will start July 6 and con- tinue through until October 3, 1942. Persons completing it will be avail- able for employment in the National Defense Mapping program, directed .by the U.S. Corps of Engineers and carried out by five Federal agencies. Two Sections Dean Ivan C. Crawford of the en- gineering college announced that about 40 women, organized in two sections, would be allowed to take Plans Outlined For New Navy V-I Pro:gram Ariny Air Force Reports Success In Recruiting Under Defermueni Plan Some twenty-five students gath- ered in Hill Auditorium yesterday to hear Lieut. Trusdell E. Wisner, Navy recruiting officer at Chicago, de- scribe the advantages of the new Navy V-1 program as it is to be or- ganized on this campus. Announcing minor changes to the dissappointingly small crowd, Wisner explained that high school students are now eligible for V-5, naval avia- tion, and that those entering V-1 and dropping school would be given the opportunity of Joining the Navy Air Corps in preference to becoming a second-class seaman. As the program now stands all students in accredited colleges who can pass a physical and mental ex- amination will be admitted to V-1, thereby being deferred from active service until a comprehensive exam- ination to be given next spring. Those who have the highest grades in this ('ompetitive examination are then deferred until graduation, but those not succeeding are given an opportunity to enter V-5. If not successful there, they must enter the navy as second-class seamen. * * - /lrfl