THE MJCHIGAN DAILY <::. FRIDAY, OCTOBER, 20, 1950 .- FIA, COE, (,15 MINIMIZES REHEARSALS: Munch Concentrates on Performances When the Boston Symphony Or- chestra presents its concerts here Sunday and Wednesday evenings, the conducting skill of its new leader Charles Munch will be a major point of the audience's in- terest. Munch, a Frenchman, has in- troduced into American orches- tras the European conducting met- hod of little rehearsals and much performance. * * * * s him over, however, was grounded in the Azores for three weeks and he returned to Paris without ever reaching the United States. MUNCH stayed in France dur- ing the German. occupation, con- ducting concerts and turning his salary over to the underground movement. After the war he was made an officer of the Legion of IHonor for his services to France and was the first conductor to be sent by his government for a se- ries of concerts in London. In 1946 he came to America wit t fanfare as guest conducor of t e Boston Symphony and the New York Philharmonic. Wh'en Serge Koussevitzky an- nounced his retirement as con- ductor of the Boston Orchestra, the group's trustees '-gan looking for a successor. In April 1948 Munch was chosen as the new leader of one of the world's finest symphony orchestras. UNLIKE the conductor who pre- sents a carefully prepared piece with musicians trained by strenu- ous rehearsals, Munch offers a spontaneous and livelier perform- ance with musicians fresh and alert to every cue. Though occasional details may suffer from this method, it has received favorable response from audiences and players alike. Munch's musical career has been a varied and irregular one. At the age of six he began studying the violin with his father, Ernest Munch, professor of the Conserva- tory of Strasbourg. WHEN HE WAS 21, Munch went to Paris to study medicine but af- ter one semester decided to devote himself to music. With the out- break of the first World War, ,Munch, living in Strasbourg, was conscripted into the German Army and wounded at Verdun. After the armistice, his fin- gers too stiff for the violin, he took a job translating insurance contracts. But determined to re- turn to music he studied fever- ishly and after two years.became ly and after two years became a Professor at the Strasbourg, Conservatory. In 1930 after a stay at the Leip- zig Conservatory, he became con- ductor of the Straram Orchestra and was well received by the pub- SRA To Hear UN Discussed The Student Religious Associa- tion will observe United Nations Week with a special coffee hour 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. today at Lane Hall. Prof. Lawrence Preuss of the political science department will present a brief talk on the United Nations. Afterwards, students will have the opportunity to talk in- formally with him. Prof. Preuss was present at the Dunbarton Oaks meetings and the San Francisco conference. CHARLES MUNCH .* * * lic and press. Munch's first invi- tation to the United States came in 1939 from the St. Louis Sym- phony. The plane that was to bring 'U' Botanical Gardens Receive Two Genuine Rubber Trees Two genuine rubber trees were presented tonthe University Bo- tanical Gardens by a national rubber company in a ceremony held at the gardens yesterday. University President Alexander G. Ruthven and Prof. H. O. Whit- temore, director of Nichols Ar- boretum, accepted the trees for the University at the presenta- tion. S. M. Cadwell, director of research and development for the company, and Charles Brandt of the public relations department made the presentation. * * * * MEASURING six feet in height, the trees (Hevea brasiliensis) were grown in the rubber company's experiment station at Paramus, N. J. from seeds brought from plantations in Malaya. The ten month old trees have been tapped for liquid rubber and will eventually attain a height of 60 feet or more and. yield about 10 pounds of rubber a year, according to Cadwell. Studies of rubber trees and plantations have been made at the University by Prof. Maurice W. Plant Films Slated The University museums will present three movies entitled "The Story of Dr. Carter," "Plant 'Growth" and "The Cabbage" at 7:30 p.m. today in the auditorium of the Kellpgg Institute. Senstius of the geology depart- ment, Prof. H. H. Bai'tlett, director of the Botanical Gardens and Prof.'Carl D. LaRue of the botany department. The trees will aid them in continuing their research. Stop Students At Borderline Prof. Claude Eggertsen's com- parative education class encoun- tered trouble yesterday at the Ca- nadian border. The difficulty occurred when two students-one from the Philip- pines and" the other from India. -were not permitted to enter Can- ada by the authorities there. "According to the Canadians, the reason they could notadmit the foreign students was that they felt United States officials would involk the recently passed Inter- nal Security Act and would not readmit the students. on the return trip," Eggertsen said.. Hence, while the rest of the class went on, the two students went back to the American side and se- cured permission from the offi- cials there; then they went back to the Canadian side, and were finally admitted, Eggertsen ex- plained. Civic Plaers Begin Tonight Ted Heusel, Grad., will star and direct the Ann Arbor Civic Play- ers production of "The Silver Whistle" which will be given at 8 p.m. today and tomorrow in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. Heusel plays the role of a tramp who, with a faked birth certifi- cate, enters an old people's home. The tramp is seeking a welcomed rest from his travels. Once inside the home he decides that it needs a little livening up. Heusel takes the same part which Jose Ferrer starred in two years ago on Broad- way. Tickets for "The Silver Whistle" are on sale in the box office of the Mendelssohn Theatre. They are priced at $1 for the main floor and $.60 for the balcony. SL Probing Need of AA Rent Control "The possibility that students' cost of living would increase if the Federal Rent Control Bill dies at the end of this year is the reason for Student Legislature's investi- gation into the need for rent con- trols in Ann Arbor'1 according to Leah Marks, '52, chairman of the SL Subcommittee on Rent Con- trol. Under the federal bill a local option on controls can be taken up by a city council and the Ann Arbor City Council has already set up a committee to investigate the need for retaining rent controls in the city. * * * "SL's SUBCOMMITTEE hopes that its investigation of the ef- fect of decontrol on the student population of Ann Arbor will be an aid to the city council," Miss Marks explained. The SL committee is now in- vestigating the direct and in- direct effects of decontrol on students. Only those students living in private residences and apartments will be 'directly ef- fected by any action on the federal bill, but all others will be indirectly hit if decontrols bring about a raise in rents. "For with a rise in rents a cycle of higher prices in other fields begins, and if food prices were to get caught in the cycle even cam- pus residence hall fees may be forced up," Miss Marks said ex- plaining the SL's reason for set- ting up the committee. PETITIONS in favor of retain- ing controls are being circulated so that the students may have a tangible way to express their feelings, the legislator asserted. "However, this is not a way to gain support for retaining rent controls as much as it is a method of reaching student opinion," she declared. "SL is interested in the reason behind student's reactions to \the petition no matter what that reaction is," Miss Marks de- clared. Special petitions for the regis- tered voters of Ann Arbor are also being circulated by SL with the aid of interested Ann Arbor groups. "SL is certain that the City Council will give us a hearing on our investigations when they are completed," she said. Cinema Guild Film Cinema Guild will present the Russian film, "Alexander Nevsky" at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. today and tomorrow in the Architecture Auditorium. The movie is advertised as "the greatest historical film ever to come out of Russia." English sub- titles are included. Observatory Opens The University's observatory will be opened to visitors for the first time this semester at 7:30 p.m. today. Located on the fifth floor of* Angell Hall, the observatory will be open till 10 o'clock, provided the weather is good. The campus will be bright with aloha shirts and muumuus next week. It will be Aloha Week back in Hawaii, and the University Ha- waii Club plans to celebrate in style. Its 110 members will wear their native dress - brightly printed aloha shirts; holokus, the ancient costume for women; muu- muus, the popular modernized Sodee Says Pledge Decline Not Alarming Considering the war situation and the decrease in the number of freshmen enrolled in the Univer- sity, fraternities have no cause for alarm over the drop in the num- ber of pledges this year, according to Bruce Sodee, '52, Interfraternity Council rushing chairman. Only 459 men pledged this year compared to last year's record hign of 542. But Sodee thought the 83 man drop only natural. "IF I WERE a freshman I would devote this year to my school work and wouldn'twant to pledge until there was less danger of being drafted. If the army took me while I was pledging I'd only have to start my pledge period over again at some future time." "I think many freshmen con- sidered the situation from that angle and together with the small freshman class there was bound to be a drop in the num- ber of pledges," Sodee asserted. Aside from the smaller number of -pledges, Sodee ventured that fraternities were very well satis-; fied with the results of the rush- ing period. Fraternities were particularly pleased by the results of the IFC publicity campaign, during which information booklets were distri- buted to all rushees and signs dis- played on campus, Sodee added. This year's rushees were much better informed about fraternities than any previous group, he said.1 ALOHA WEEK will start off on campus with a program at 4 p.m. Sunday at the League. There will be Hawaiian dancing, featuring the traditional and modern hula, and a cultural group from the Club will sing Hawaiian songs. In the spirit of true Hawaiian hospitali- ty, the program will be open to the campus at large. Five hundred orchids are being sent from the Islands, and will be presented to the women attending. Unfortunately, we won't be able to celebrate Aloha Week like we could back home," said Kiyo Taira, '51, of the Hawaii Club. "In Hawaii, the Week is a series of programs, feasts, ;hula contests and even contests to judge who has the best muu- muu." Aloha Week was founded in 1948 "to spread the good will of the Islands," according to George Ariyoshi, '52L, president of the Club. Next week's program will mark the first celebration of the Week at the University. The Hawaii Club, which was founded in 1946, is not open only to Hawaiians but toall students interested in the life and culture of the Islands.. The Club sponsors a social every month, provides en- tertainment for other organiza- tions through its intercultural committee, and publishes a tri- Weekly paper of news about Ha- waiian students on campus and on other campuses in the United States. London Surgeon Will SpeakToday Dr. J. E. A. O'Connell, neuro- surgebn of St. Bartholemew's Hospital, London, will deliver the second annual Max M. Peet Lec- ture at 4 pm. today In the 2nd floor amphitheatre of the Uni- versity Hospital. The subject will be "The Cere- bro-Spinal Fluid Pressure and its Etiological Relationship with Certain Lesions Affecting the Cen- tral Nervous System." HULA DANCE ON TAP: 'U' Hawaii Club Plans 'Aloha Week' Festival -' -- - Homecoming Pep Rally version course, sarong. F a- F - ?=F- _- _-F- rr snight a c' _ __ F £ ? ? _ _ =x s;~~rrv a of the ,holoku; and, of that old favorite, the *.. * *q JUST RECEIVED!... Another Shipment the Spectato OP1 In All These Ways (Continued -from Page 1) JUDGES will include Prof. Sho- rey Peterson, of the'economics de- partment; Marvin Felheim, of Chii 0 vi<=~ o ==o<=>o OG 'f Need a bubble guard for your fraternity pin? The price is thirty five cents including all Taxes. o V0 Interested in a perfect diamond in two carat size? 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