I' PAGE SIX THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1949 ......... . . . . ... . ........... . . . . ... .. .. ....... .... .... .. . ........ . . .. . . . SYMPHONIC SIDELIGHTS: Tin Pan Alley Rehashes, Revives Russian Music ,} By JOHN MORRIS If you want to get your music on the hit parade, you'd do well to be born a Russian. Lyric writers have mooned over so many of Tchaikovsky's melo- dies, finding salable tunes in such profusion, that there is hardly a 'Spanish Play To Be Given "Nuestra Natacha" by Alejan- dro Casona will have its initial performance in the United States on May 4-5 at Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, under the auspices of La Sociedad Hispanica. Called by one critic "the great- est success in the Spanish theatre in years," the play deals with the new student generation in Spain. Natacha, the heroine is in- tended to portray the sacrifie which the youth of Spain must make if it hopes to be useful to its country. A social drama, the play is cast with members of La Sociedad His- panica, and is under the direction of Anthony Pasquariello of the Spanish department. Strange Aircraft FRANKFURT, Germany, April 26-(P)--American troops in Ger- many have been ordered to report it immediately if they see any "unconventional aircraft" - like the "flying discs" which alarmed the U.S. a few months ago. Army officers said, however, the orders were routine instructions from the Army Department for all troops at home and abroad. "No flying discs or anything like them have been reported over here and we have no reason to expect any," one officer said. Tchaikovsky symphony or over- ture that does not have half a dozen Junes, moons, loves and doves written into it. Popular Prokofieff Sergei Prokofieff, young Soviet composer, outsellls Mozart with his "Peter and the Wolf," which can also be found in several , uke- box arrangements. When Leon Fleischer plays Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto at the May Festival con- cert Sunday afternoon, juke box addicts will recognize another fa- vorite from Tin-Pan Alley lyri- cists. Notable exception to Russian infiltartion into the juke-box re- gime was Chopin, Polish pianist, whose Polonaise went the rounds three years ago. Latest in the long line of "skis" and "vitches" to hit the juke box is Aram Khachaturian, young So- viet composer, whose "Saber Dance" is outselling a good bit of local talent. The Dance is one from Khacha- turnan's "Gayne" ballet, which will close the third May Festival concert at 2:30 p.m. Saturday. Revamped Versions Many of the popularized ver- sions of the piece are substantially the same as the concert arrange- ment, but many arrangers prefer a 4/4 time rather than the orig- inal 3/4 arrangement. With the "Saber Dance" it doesn't make much difference. Khachaturian was awarded the 1942 Stalin Prize for his 'Gayne," which pictures life on a Soviet farm on the eve of the war. The concert Saturday will include four movements: Saber Dance, Dance of the Rose Maidens, Lul- laby, and Lezgenka. Khachaturian's "Saber Dance" was not mentioned in the recent report on anti-democratic and formalistic trends in Soviet music. Campus calendar Quarterdeck Society-Meeting. 7:30 p.m. today, Rm. 336, West Engineering Building. International Center, Phi Iota Alpha-Prof. Juan D. Curet"Puer- to Rico: An Unsolved Problem," 8 p.m. today, Rackham Amphi- theatre. Anthropology Club -- Meeting, Dr. Clark Hopkins, "Excavations in Near East," 8 p.m. today, Sem- inar Room, Museums Building. League-sponsored candy booths -Managers meeting, 4 p.m. today Garden Room, League. Young Democrats - Meeting, 7:30 p.m. tomorrow, Rm. 302, Un- ion. , Expectant Mothers Class - Meeting, Adelia Beeuwkes, "Nu- trition," 7:30 p.m. tomorrow, Child Health Building. ROTC Cadets Initiated Here Formal installation of Com- pany H-1, Pershing Rifles, was made at the ROTC range last week by officers of the First Reg- iment Pershing Rifles, with head- quarters at Ohio State University, Columbus, O. Cadets initiated were William Albrecht, Captain; Louis Dehm- low, 1st Lieut.; Carl Aichele, Rich- ard Arthur, Walter Barron, Charles Boradhead, Euthymius Cocoves, James Degnan, William Fujitsubo, John Hughes, Donald Hayden, Michael Johnson, Frank Kunz, Donald Nelson, William Powell, Raymond Roof, Chester Szemborski, John Spindler and William Zabrosky. Major William F1 Johnston, faculty adviser, was made an hon- orary member of Pershing Rifles. The organization is a National Honorary Military Society with the purpose of encouraging, pre- serving and developing the highest ideals of the military profession. MINUTAE-Artist E. A. Siefert, 513 Williams, points out the fine detail of one of his hundreds of pen-and-ink drawings. This is the St. Paul's Church in Aurora, Illinois, which Siefert last saw years ago. Yet he recalls all the exact details and put them on his board with geometric precision. DANCES A JIG : Elderly German Masseur Makes Magic with Pen, Ink Union Opera Seeks Student Songvriters Meeting Tomorrow Will Describe Script The wrappings will be taken off the 1948 Michigan Union Opera at 7:15 p.m. tomorrow when a meeting for all students interest- ed in writing songs, lyrics or ar- rangements will be held in the journalism newsroom in Haven Hall. The writer of the script which has finally been judged best of those submitted will be revealed at the meeting. He'll be on hand to describe his "baby," to the music writers, according to Dave Leyshon, chairman of the Union Opera Committee. Distribute Script "Mimeographed scripts will also be handed out to prospective songwriters," he said. "We are most anxious that all students, women as well as men, who are interested in any phase of writing or arranging music come to the meeting and get the low-down on what we think is going to be a great show." The Committee hopes to pro- duce the 1948 Union Opera the first or second week of next De- cember. Plans for the revival of one of the University's most col- orful traditions have been under- way for over a year, and the com- pletion of the script marks the end of a script contest begun last June. Composers Needed Originally, eight scripts were submitted to the Judges, Prof. Donald Haines, Prof. Kenneth Rowe and Prof. Harry Allen. The two best were picked and since Christmas a committee has worked steadily to improve them for the final judging. "The script is done, production plans are being laid, and we now need the composer's touch to add the all-important music," Leyshon saia. MUSICAL SUPPLIES REEDS -- STRINGS We carry VAN DORN REEDS Complete Musical Repair PAUL'S MUSICAL REPAIR 209 E. Washington Ph. 8132 By MARY STYEIN "Jack Hunt Defender of Right and Liberty" and "The Tuesday Night Comedy Hour" will take to the Angell Hall airwaves today as speech students get their "Opera- tion 4006" underway. Armchair listeners down in Rm. 25 and studio audiences up on the fourth floor can get in on Station WMDS' (call letters for Michigan Department of Speech) programs from 7 to 10 p.m. today and to- morrow. Condensed Broadcasts 200 speech students in 10 classes will participate in the experiment, which will include condensed ver- sions of all the kinds of broad- casts actual radio stations carry. The shows include dramas, like "The Wolverine Theatre," comedy show 7 like "The Tuesday Night Comedy Hour" at 9:16 p.m. to- day, audience participation pro- grams like "Whodunnit," sched- uled for 8:36 p.m. tomorrow. Va- (i..Ivy-lMhiiier Plant rlo Be Discusse(" Pushing for eventual adoption of the city-manager type of gov- ernment, the Citizens Committee for Charter Revision will present two speakers on the manager plan, at 8 p.m. tomorrow, in the Coun- cil Chamber, City Hall. George Bean, Pontiac city man- ager since 1945, and Charles Gooding, who led Junior Chamber of Commerce support for the change in Ypsilanti (adopted in 1946), will be the speakers. The first boost for the Revision Committee came from the local Junior Chamber of Commerce, and the League of Women Voters. current rat O N SAV IN G S ...insured to $5,000. Any amount opens your account at ANN ARBOR Savings and Loan Assn. 116 N. Fourth Avenue Opposite the Assets Over Court mos. 11,000,000 riety shows will include "Under the Big Top" and "Batters Up," patterned after actual network broadcasts. Soap operas, of course-"Bev- erly Dallas" and "A Woman's Heart" are among the tear-jerk- ers scheduled to be enacted, as well as "Jack Hunt" md "The Ad- ventures of Steve Ryvan." bott children's adventure serials. Students report an advantage in writing for "Operation 4006"- they can leave Jack Hunt, for ex- ample, on the verge of certain ruin without having to get him out of the scrape in the next chapter. There just isn't any next chap- ter. All-student Programs The classes have written, di- rected, acted and announced, edit- ed the scripts, done in fact all the work for the shows. Garnet R. Garrison, T. C. Battin. Prof. Hugh Norton, and Wmi. Stegath, who teach the classes are staying far behind the scenes. Reason for odd program times- like 8:36 and 9:16-is that the students are packing a full day of continuous broadcasting into the three hours each night-with the result that programs must be cut to about a third of normal runing time. The two-day experiment is the second that the speecn depart- ment has undertaken. First phase of the "Operation" was last se- mester. t I fIl WMDS To Go On Airwaves NVitha Operation 4006" Today ,4 DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN By CRAIG WILSON There is an elderly man living on Williams Street who still has trouble with the English language but can make a pen and a bottle of ink dance a jig. He is E. A. Siefert, 513 Williams, masseur by profession, who sud- denly acquired an urge to create 10 years ago. Now his little home is alive with gigantic pen-and- ink drawings of practically all the large public buildings and man- sions he has seen during his life. Detailed Drawings When a Daily reporter arrived he was ink-well deep in a huge drawing of the "Villa Bergen;" a large country-house in West- phalia, Germany. Each little de- tail, the number of pickets in the fence, the shape of the lan- terns and window frames-every- Co-Op Headquarters Wfill Move to Campus . General headquarters for the Midwest Federation of Campus Co-ops will be moved to the Uni- versity campus, according to a decision reached at an East Lan- sing conference this week-end. Twelve students from co-ops here attended the conference, at which campuses throughout the Great Lakes region were repre- sented. Many of the outstanding events of United States history have be- gun in April, says the World Book Encyclopedia. Of the seven ma- jor United States military con- flicts, five can be traced to April. The exceptions are the War of 1812 and World War II. thing was there. But Siefert, who came to America March 3, 1914, hadn't seen the place for thirty years! It all began a long time ago. Siefert once sat down at his little table and drew a straight line half-way down a sheet of white paper. Then he put an oblong box around it, then another one, until the page was a mass of oblong boxes climbing like a pyramid to the center. Squares and Circles A few days later: more urge. This time little squares with circles in them. Soon he was de- vising strange, intricate designs reminiscent of a waffle grid su- perimposed on a mosaic. When houses took his fancy, he applied geometrical style and bought a couple of shelves of inks. (A dozen crept into the picture above.) Now he spends most of his spare time recalling all the brickwork and masonry that ever came to his gaze and interpret- ing it with architecturally-exact drawings to hang up or give to hi, f riends. "Just a hobby," he says, "Artists starve!" THOUSADS Of homes and Business Places ARE WAITING TO WELCO as the S-.p Franchised REPRSENT Lv in Y Communty We need men with ces " FULL OR PART TIME-GOOD PAY #Here's the chance for your lea Ex-GI's to supplement your meager govern- - - ment pay by pleasant, profitable work - full or part time. No experience S or capital required. We 'train you, furnish leads and everything necess- S ary-to assure your suc- cess. Your territory may COMPLvEiKI still be open. Write to-. SNFRD L day to... 8 Student Service Dept. D-2 I (Continued from Page 4) Michigan Crib: Business meet- ing 7:30 p.m., Room 229, Angell Hall. Matters pertaining to mem- bership, future programs, and election of officers will be dis- cussed. Quarteideck Society: Business meeting, 7:30 p.m., Room 336, Ws Engineering Bldg. Discussion of banquet and picnic plans. AVC, University Chapter: Ex- ecutive Committee meeting, 7:30 p.m., Michigan Union. .Z.F.A.: 8 p.m. Nomination of of- ficers for next term. Talk on Cha- lutzim. Also "Day in Dagania" (color film). Song and Dance group at 7:30 p.m. All welcome. Christian Science Organization: 7:30 p.m., Upper Room, Lane Hall. Coming Events American Society of Mechanical Engine rs: 7:30 p.m., Wed., April 28, Natural Science Auditorium. Speaker: Mr. R. C. Sollenberger, executive secretary of the Con- veyor Equipment Manufacturers Association, Washington, D.C. The talk will be supplemented with a film especially prepared for un- dergraduate engineers. Delta Sigma Pi: Profressional Business Fraternity will present to students of the School of Busi- ness Administration, a "job panel" consisting of Prof. Paton on Ac- counting, Prof. Blackett on Sta- tistics, Prof. Riegal on Industrial Relations, Prof. Gault on Retail Selling, Prof. Phelps on Foreign Trade, Prof. Waterman on Fi- nance, and Prof. Rodkey on Bank- ing, at 8 p.m., Wed., April 28. Room 316, Michigan Union. Phi Lambda Upsilon: Annual Spring, Banquet, 6:30 p.m., Wed., April 28, Michigan Union. Sigma Gamma Epsilon: 12 noon Wed., April 28, Room 3055, Nat- ural Science Bldg. Messrs. Richard Strong and Stewart Wallace will Eye. C atching SEAM-FREE speak on "A Recent Field Trip to the Iron Ranges" (illustrated). Graduate Education Club: 7:30 p.m., Wed., April 26, East Confer- ence Room, Rackham Bldg. Chair- man, Dean Edmonson. Union Opera Music Committee: Meeting, 7:15 p.m., Wed., April 28, Journalism News Room, sec- ond floor, Haven Hall. Scabbard and Blade: 7:30 p.m., Wed., April 28, Room 100, Military Headquarters. All active members are requested to attend. Film: "Task Force Willawaw," concern- ing recent operations and tests conducted by the Army in the Aleutians. Refreshments. La Sociedad Hispanica will pre- sent movies of Mexico (color and sound), to be shown by Dr. New- man and the Detroit Mexican Consul at 8 p.m., Wed., April 28, Room D, Alumni Memorial Hall, Admission free. Young Democrats: 7:30 p.m., Wed., April 28, Room 302, Michi- gan Union. Discussion of plans for registration campaign and discus- sion of the coming state conven- tion. New members invited. Faculty Women's Club: Annual luncheon, 12:45 p.m., Wed., April 28, Michigan Union Ballroom, fol- lowed by annual meeting and elec- tion of officers. 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