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MOULIN ROUGE, with Jose Ferrer
(EDITOR'S NOTE: The following was picked
from 14 reviews of Moulin Rouge as the most
outstanding. See page 1 for the complete list of
winners. in The Daily's contest.) .
"MOULIN ROUGE" is announced on the
screen as a tribute to Toulouse-Lautrec
"that he and his time shall live again." Dir-
ector John Huston and photography super-
visor .Eliot Elisofon have paid their tribute
admirably well in one of the more enter-
taining pictures of the year.
The phrase "that he and his time shall
live again," however is misleading. "Moulin
Rouge" is pure fantasy. As a glimpse of
life at the turn of the century, it is pre-
sented to us through the eyes of a stunted
French painter. Toulouse-Lautrec is a
poetic figure. His world is a poetic world.
The picture stands or falls on this point.
The plot is simple. It evolves around the
series of. images that are used to mirror
Toulouse-Lautrec's world. Played with feel-
ing and reserve by Jose Ferrer, the crippled
painter's life reflects these images in a pan-
orama of pastel fade-outs and hazy back-
drops. Thus a rowdy opening scene in the
Moulin Rouge slips unobtrusively into dis-
mal, early morning Paris and the deformed
artist recalling his childhood in a series of
flashbacks. It turns out that the young
Lautrec, having tumbled down a flight of
stairs in boyhood, early learns that his pas-
sion for women is not to be returieed. From
this moment on, he becomes the Cyronoish
figure of a beautiful soul enclosed within an
ugly body.
"Moulin Rouge" has some delightful
scenes. Zsa Zsa Gabor completely steals
her brief appearances as a flighty chorine.
Suzanne Flon and Colette Marchand are
both good as the two loves in Lautrec's
life with Miss Marchand especially adept
in her portrayal of a prostitute trading
love for Lautrec's money. Most amusing
however, are Ferrer's own' comments like
"marriage is like a dull meal. with the
dessert first," and his antics-with a cog-
nac-filled cane.
The Challenges, Attitudes
Facing Student Legislature
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EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is an excerpt
from a speech made by outgoing Student Legis-
lature president Howard Willens at the SL ban-
quet Wednesday night. The remainder of Wil-
lens' speech dealt with specific SL accomplish-
ments such as discussions in the Lecture Com-
mittee and the Committee to Study Campus Or-
ganizations.)
By HOWARD WILLENS
A RECENT editorial in The Daily stated
that the Student Legislature "is suffer-
ing from an acute attack of disillusionment
and sophistry" and that this is due princi-
pally to the fact that Student Legislature
(and other "political" groups on the cam-
pus) finally sees itself for what it really is-
"an important, yet powerless part of the
campus community."
The important question concerning this
is not whether I, as an outgoing President
(suffering from the usual "senioritis"),
am equipped or willing to accept this chal-
lenge ... but whether the young members
of the Student Legislature are prepared
and have the courage to accept this chal-
lenge (in any of its many forms) which
you will encounter in the next year. In
clarifying the nature of the challenge I
should like to outline two types of at-
titudes, prevalent among many members
of the administration, faculty, and stu-
dent body, which confront the Legisla-
ture.
The first belief extends peyond the Leg-
islature and affects all the student govern-
mental groups on the Michigan campus--
IFC, Panhel, IHC, Assembly, and the Board
of Representatives. It is simply the belief
that student opinion at the University will
never, nor perhaps should, be a significant
factor in the deliberations of University of-
ficials concerning University policy. Although
there are instances to the contrary, all of
these groups have found on more than one
occasion a reluctance on the part of the ad-
ministration to consult with, or listen to, the
official agencies of student opinion on the
campus.
The second attitude focuses directly on the
Student Legislature (and is frequently
utilized as a rationalization for the first
attitude). Here it is thought that student
opinion at the University of Michigan will
never be important until the Student Leg-
islature has been replaced by another type
of student government. Frequently you will
hear the Legislature blasted as "irrespon-
sible" or "unrepresentative," and the motives
of the members of the Legislature are dep-
recated. The past of the Legislature, partic-
ularly its work regarding discriminatory
clauses in campus organizations and the
problem of the library hours, is taken as
proof of the above opinions.
WHY SHOULD student opinion be consid-
ered important? I should like to present
an over-simplified answer to this question
I believe that the University of Michigan will
be a better University in two ways if stu-
dent opinion becomes an important element
in the making of University policy.
First, I believe that many of the decisions
themselves will be better, and I think it is
a fact that all the decisions will be accepted
more readily when it is known that students
participated in the decision-making process.
Students have varying degrees of interest
and competence in the different spheres of
University operations. In the matter of Uni-
versity finances, for example, few students
would challenge the decisions of University
officials regarding such matters as dealing
with the State Legislature, etc. In questions
of an academic nature-curriculum and hir-
ing of faculty-again it would seem that
this field is fundamentally the concern and
decision-maljng area of the University fac-
ulty.
But I do not believe that even these areas
should be "hallowed" in the sense that stu-
dents should fear to express themselves re-
garding these questions. It would seem
that University officials and faculty would
welcome student opinion in these areas--
on rent increase, curriculum changes;
knowing what students think should be
like knowing all the facts of a question be-
fore an intelligent decision is made. It
is in the area of student affairs-in the
broadest sense of student organizations,
student regulations, and student disci-
pline- where the students have not only
perhaps the greatest immediate interest
but also the technical competence which
they lack in the other fields. It is here
where the students should speak out con-
tinually, and where students should have
their decision-making area. It is here def-
initely where the decisions will be infer-
ior unless student opinion plays a major
role..
Secondly, I believe that the University will
produce better students, graduates, and citi-
zens, if student opinion assumes a more im-
portant place in the University. This is prob-
ably the most hackneyed statement in stu-
dent government circles, but it seems to
necessitate frequent reiteration here at the
University. The University should aim not
only to increase the classroom knowledge
and intellectual capacity of the student, but
also should endeavor to train the student
to utilize his mental faculties to benefit the
society of which he is a part . . . whether
it be a city, state, national, international
or University community. I believe this is
consistent with existing University policy.
We frequently hear of the University's very
real obligations to serve the State of Mich-
igan . . . by means of TV programs, Out-
Patient Clinics, Extension Service, Survey
Research, etc. I would say that training the
student in the sense I have mentioned is an-
other of the University's important non-aca-
demic functions. I think this attitude on
the part of the University will benefit not
only the people in student government (ad-
mittedly a small percentage), -but will cre-
ate a greater awareness among all the stu-
dents of the problems of the University-an
awareness which will extend to their friends
and families now, and will remain with them
as alumni. This is the basic motivation of
people in student government-to help ad-
ministrative officials and faculty in meet-
ing the many serious problems which con-
tinually confront the University of Mich-
igan.
EVER SINCE the last war, our foreign pol-
icy has had to take one longshot gamble
after another. First we had, to mention on-
ly the major ones, a Vichy gamble and a
Chungking gamble. Later we gambled in
Athens and in Ankara, and then we risked
our physical and moral resources in Bel-
grade and Madrid.
In all these ventures, the odds have been
against us from the start. Not our deliber-
ate choice, but the inscrutable madness of
a Hiler or the maniacal reasoning of the
Politburo has determined where and with
whom we take the hazard of alliance or of
co-belligerency. We are still paying off on
the Moscow gamble that Hitler forced on
us. If the Wehrmacht had driven Stalin
out of his country, we probably would have
been obliged to set him up in London or in
Washington as the leader of a "free" Rus-
sian government-in-exile.
The main hazard in the co-belligerency
gamble is that our military and economic
assistance will be recklessly dissipated. If
the soldiers who are supposed to use the
weapons made in the U.S.A. haven't the
heart to fight or if they are led by crooked,
incompetent officers, then we become the
Quartermaster, . and laughingstock, of the
enemy. Actually there is no sure way to
know how the people and soldiers under a
tyrannical government feel about their mas-
ters. -from the "Reporter"
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Eliot Elisofon's camera work finally pro-
vides the key to -the picture's impact. Shots
filmed through Miss Gabor's red veil and
' with multicolored lights playing on Ferrer's
face in the climactic suicide scene, empha-
size the factual unreality "Moulin Rouge"
ii. strives for. Sacrificing exactness of detail
for a greater-than-real emotional appeal,
its producershave thus left themselves open
to a criticism of being overly sentimental.
Their concern with such heroics drags down
the. movie's plot and ultimately raises the
:whole. question of what "Moulin Rouge" is
trying to accomplish.
-Don Potter
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informer
PERIODICALLY cases come up on this
campus which aptly illustrate the pre-
carious, position of the foreign student in
the United States. Last year the case was
an Indian student who was being deported
for apparently no substantial reason. This
Week the student under attack is a South
Africali Indian, L. V. Naidoo.
Strangely enough it is not the immigra-
tion office which is hounding Naidoo at
the moment, but a "fellow South African,"
namely Miss Rhoda Barry, University of
Illinois student and presumably a white
Couth African.
'Miss Barry began to interfere with Naidoo
p in January when she wrote a letter to The
Daily attacking Naidoo and "his eloquent
plea for the Africans (black races)" in con-
nection with Kenya and the Mau Mau.
But this blast at Naidoo was confined to
the editorial page of The Daily. Now, Miss
a Barry has written a letter to the Minister of
Internal Affairs in Pretoria, South Africa,
in which she accuses Naidoo of conducting
a "smear campaign against the Union of
,'South Africa."
This self-styled informer goes on to
y recommend to the Minister that Naidoo's
passport be revoked.
In Naidoo's case this recommendation
could easily result in his being pulled out
gof this country before he finshes his journ-
alism degree this spring.
It is certainly true that Naidoo has been
outspoken about his country and it is quite
'obvious that Naidoo has pulled no punches
,in his attack on the racist practises of
tMalan and his government. But is this
grounds for deportation?
Naidoo has attacked the policies of his
x government but has remained loyal to his
country and, as he writes Miss Barry, "I
t hope that net too far in the future Afri-
cans, Europeans, Coloreds, including In-
dians, will enjoy the fruits of our beloved
. country ... equally."
There is little wonder in Naidoo's bitter-
ness. His people are among the eight mil-
lion non-European South Africans who are
Idisenfranchised, segregated dhd impover-
ished.
" But in snite of his hatred for Malan
Another Paradox? ...
SINCE the beginnings of recorded
history, simultaneous with the
growth and development of "civil-
ization" there have also peen para-
doxes of civilization, the greatest
of them being wars.
Is the current of history so
strong that we must necessarily
follow it? Or can we learn from
history?
That man cannot cooperate with
man, that nations cannot be at
peace with other nations, that no
profound international under-
standing can be brought about,
that love cannot dominate the
minds and actions of men and na-
tions, are alldelusions.
In the Third World Conference
of Christian Youth that I attend-
ed in South India last December,
three hundred delegates came
from fifty-two nations-and we all
felt that we were a team of really
united nations. If we did learn
anything from that conference
that we can relay to others, it is
certain things are so common in
man that all men are equal, and
that the greatest peace and co-
operation can be attained when
love and sacrifice are the motives.
If, instead of thinking in terms
of how much it can make and
gain, each nation in the United
Nations thinks rather in terms
of how much it can do and give
for the promotion of world peace
and prosperity, then we would
have a sounder criterion upon
which to base and judge the UN's
successes and achievements.
Are the UN delegates aware that
their organization is at present the
only hope of mankind for a peace-
ful world? Or is it inevitable that
we should be led to believe that
the UN is another paradox of
civilization?
-Raja Nasr, Lebanon
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Defense of Israel .. .
REGRET that Mr. Ben M.
Awada, whose letter on "Pales-
tinitis" you published on May 6, is
voicing his objections to facts
stated by Professors Haber and
Slosson with more heat than ac-
curacy and coherence. The State
of Israel was established on the
basis of "the historical connec-
tion of the Jewish people with
Palestine", internationally recogn-
ized since the Palestine Mandate
of the League of Nations. The
United Nations has confirmed the
right of the Jewish people to es-
tablish an independent Jewish
State amongst the eight Arab
States which already existed in
that area. The Arab States op-
posed that decision, which may
have been their right; but they
opposed it, as was not their right,
by armed force. They fought a war
to prevent the State of Israel
from existing. As a result of this
war of aggression, against Israel,
the problem of the Arab refugees
wascreated; not by Israel putting
them "out of the back door", but
by a mass exodus of Palestinian
Arabs directed by their own lead-
ers.
The time has come to treat these
unfortunate victims of Abar ag-
gression against Israel as human
beings, and not as pawns in
political maneuverings directed
against the State of Israel.
Israel has accepted with open
arms three quarters of a million
Jewish refugees. The Arab na-
tions are keeping their own bre-
thren in refugee camps maintain-
ed by the United Nations.
As for Arab fears of "spreading
conquest" on the part of Israel,
I find nothing in the existing sit-
uation to indicate a justified fear
of Israeli expansion. It is Israel
who offers non-aggression pacts. It
is the Arab States who refuse
them. There is a clear contradic-
tion as to facts and Arab asser-
tions: The Arab States made war
against Israel, but it is Israel who
is accused of having aggressive
intentions. Israel is offering
peace negotiations and non-agres-
sion pacts, to be supported if ne-
cessary, by the United Nations.
The Arab States refuse to nego-
tiate and yet they say they need
assurance against Israel aggres-
sion. You cannot, on the one
hand, pretend to fear the aggres-
sion of your neighbors and on the
other hand reject possibilities of
receiving non-aggression guaran-
tees with international support.
I strongly feel that the real ills
of the Middle East-economic
backwardness, illiteracy and dis-
ease-can be cured, not by re-
crimination and polemics, but
only by peace and cooperation
among all peoples of that area
based on mutual recognition of
each other's right of existence and
with enlightened support of the
Western World.
-Edward Superstine
I Believe .. .
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Who torment their
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And vomit up a
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The campus rages!
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All Eloise or Angell
Blood in each eye,
each hand,
brains to de-
thimbleful of
nay, 'tis past
Hall's let out!
and letters in
Hail Frankie Laine! and Froman!
(Jane),
And modern vics'.
I believe that every new-born
Johnny Ray
Will serve our need,
And boost our creed,
'Cause I beeelieve.
III
I agree what churches need are
flashing signs,
And "moon-June" rhymes;
Forty-fives and thirty-threes and
sapphire tips,
And change-booth lines.
I agree the "masses" could be sip-
ping cokes,
And telling jokes,
And singing
"I Beeeelieve".
-Dick Grossman
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Tragedy & Joy. ,
To the Editor:
MR. AWADA'S letter throws
light on a problem that has
many Jews thinking seriously.
Israeli independence caused heart-
breaking joy to us, but heartbreak-
ing tragedy to you. Part of the
price for the Israeli state was the
displacement and suffering for
your people. For your misery the
are deeply sorry, and we want
sincerely to help.
We need your help if we are to
remove the barb wire from our
borders; you need ours if you are
to remove the barb wire of the
D. P. camps. Accusation, count-
er accusations, andubitterness only
will widen the gulf between us.
For the well being of both our
people, we must replace our anger
with understanding. -Joe Weiss
Brazil.. .
To the Editor:
PROF. CATHERINE HELLER of
the College of Architecture and
Design made some interesting re-
marks concerning her trip to South
America; however, we think that
in a short time it is impossible for
anyone to judge the architecture
of a country and much less of a
continent. Prof. Heller said that
South America is awakening to
20th century architecture and also
that the use of reinforced con-
crete on buildings throws the
graceful lines off.
We don't believe that Prof. Hel-
ler had enough time to see any-
thing, or if she had, she didn't
see what she should have seen. At
this point we would like to say
that Brazil is not awakening to
any kind of architecture; on the
contrary, if we have anything for
a long time it is modern and grace-
ful architecture. People from all
over the world come to Brazil to
study architecture. France, Italy,
Germany, England, Spain and
other countries have already pub-
lished books on the impressive
Brazilian Architecture. We use
our own modern systems of pre-
stressing concrete that allow us to
make things that would be im-
possible to do with any other sys-
tem. Did Prof. Heller see the
Municipal. Stadium in Rio de
Janeiro which has a capacity for
200,000 people and is entirely cov-
ered without a single sustaining
column? Or, did she see the
Quitandimha Hotel in Petropolis,
Estado do Rio, which is more
luxurious and graceful than any
lavishly expensive Hollywood set-
ting?
Prof. Heller also points out that
custom built furniture is the pre-
dominate type and are compara-
tively expensive. Evidently she
didn't see the P. Kastrup factory
that handles all government con-
Panacea . .0.
To the Editor:
I WOULD like to see Mr. Ben
Awada recover from his recent
illness "Palestinitis," so am sub-
mitting some suggestions which
might ease the pain.
A. Concerning the "demand
made upon a weak and defenseless
people to drive them away to pov-
erty and humiliation."
1. The Arabs have never had it
so good regarding health, educa-
tion and equal rights as they have
in the new state of Israel. Here he
does not have to suffer indigna-
tion at the hands of those eco-
nomically superior to him for he
is an equal.
2. If homes for those who vol-
untarily fled is in question, what
about the Arab section from the
division of Palestine when Israel
was created. The Arabs were not
driven out and the only cause of
reduction to poverty and humili-
ation stems from the non-accep-
tance by those countries in the
Arab League (numbering eight
with a recent addition.)
B. Democracy or Agency of Per-
secution?
1. The system of government is
similar to the British. One exam-
ple of the democratic principle is
illustrated by the many political
parties.
2.'The church and state are not
one, as religious practices have
been imposed on neither Arab nor
Jew.
3. If economic aid from America
(government and private agencies)
is what is meant by imperialism,
then we may regard the world as
being a subject of American impea
perialism.
4. Another element which may
be considered in constituting Is-
rael as a democratic state is its
tendencies toward the western na-
tions as opposed to the past ten-
dencies of pro-Nazism of the na-
tions surrounding it in the Near
East.
Our sick friend is caught in a
common dilemma of whether or
not the Jews are a race or reli-
gion which is not pertinent to any
of his "reasoning."
Here's to a quick recovery with
facts as medicine.
-Harriet Bergstein, '55
Book List ...
To the Editor:
THE STATEMENT from the pro-
secutors office that the Wayne
County listing of "obscene" books
will not be the criterion employed
by local officials to have book
dealer's clear their shelves is
sheer nonsense. That criterion
already has been used and the
books have been removed.
The Wayne County list now con-
tains about 152 titles and new
titles are added at the rate of
about ten per month. The list
was sent by the Ann Arbor Police
Dept. (evidently on orders from
the prosecutor's office) to a local
distributor with instructions to
have the books removed from cir-
culation.
The dealer then abstracted only
books in current distribution in
Ann Arbor from the list. Thus
Hemingway's book does not appear
on the condensed list, but works
by James T. Farrell, John Faulk-
ner, Jules Romains, and John O'-
Hara among others do. The con-
densed list of 47 titles was sent to
all local book stores except one
with the following instructions:
"The following list of books has
been banned by the Ann Arbor
Police Department, remove these
books from your 'stand immedia-
They damn, decry, deplore,' de-
spair, demand !
All letters write, for speech and
thought are free,
And three cents gets 'em immor-
tality.
The educationists point out the
way:
All education is creative play.
No need to learn to write or spell;
Phys. ed. and self-expression do
as well.
Each would be critic writes: for
our great state
Maintains that art is settled by
debate.
Each champion of th' oppressed
writes in high dudgeon,
With logic dark and satire like a
bludgeon.
Each music lover howls in out-
raged pain,
Each shaking freshman sings the
simple strain.
Methinks I hear a mighty organ
roar:
Echoes from Burton Tower shake
the floor!
The tenors squeak in rage, the
basses call:
"Let's stand that Harvey Gross
against a wall!"
Their wit is weighted with a mean-
ing dense,
Their prose a tangled travesty of
sense;
With angry words they plead their
righteous cause,
And violate good taste, and gram-
mer's laws.
Or soberly in dullness undefiled,
Calm in style, with reason sweet
and mild,
Bent o'er his desk, half-hid in fog
from sight,
Wrapoed in Chaos and shades of
Oldest Night,
Sits the complacent, condescend-
ing fool
Who'd send all honest critics back
to schc'l!
Others I could sing, members of
that band,
Head in the ground and vorpal
pen in hand,
Whose maritial or alimen'try
stress,
Whose itching need to protest or
confess,
Sets 'em to scribbling and t'enjoy
the fame
Of printed nonsense and their
published name.
--Dean Drapier, Grad.
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and qualified staff to draw up its
own list.
In conclusion, it is a fact that
the Wayne, County list'has been
and is the basis of book censorship
in Ann Arbor. Few people will
deny the right and value of cen-
sorship of pornographic literature,
but censorship of the type current
in Ann Arbor is quite'a different
matter.
-Charles Sleicher
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Epistle to the
Letter-Writers .*..
To the Editor:
Apologies to J. D. & A. P.
HE SCRIBBLERS and the
campus wits I sing,
Whose feeble writings flap on
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BEHIND THE TRUCE TALKS
T HERE ARE still a few stumbling blocks
in the way, but the State Department
believes a Korean truce is now just a mat-
ter of time. The latest Communist proposal
is so close to the Indian compromise; which
the United States has already accepted, that
the State Department is ready to close the
deal. It has been the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
who have been holding back.
South Korean President Syngman Rhee
has also been threatening U.S. officials that
he would launch an offensive with his own
South Korean troops and risk upsetting the
"truce negotiations. He is flatly against any
truce that falls short of unifying all Korea.
In fact, Rhee has been so belligerent of
late that General Mark Clark dropped
around to see him privately to soothe him.
Rhee finally promised not to take any rash
action without first consulting Clark.
In the backstage argument over Com-
munist truce terms, the State Department
has been willing to accept Red Poland and
Czechoslovakia on the armistice commission
to police the truce and screen 48,000 prison-
ers who don't want to return home. The
State Department feels that Sweden and
Switzerland would balance these two Com-
The Joint Chiefs told the State Depart-
ment, however, that the Communist pro-
posal did not set a time limit on how long
the unwilling repatriates could be held in
Korea, and left the disposition of these
prisoners up to the judgment of a political
conference.
The Joint Chiefs feared that this political
conference might stall along for years, keep-
ing the 48,000 prisoners incarcerated while
the politicians haggled.
After a conference of the top civilian and
military brass at the White House, the Pen-
tagon finally sent instructions to General
William K. Harrison, Jr., the chief UN ne-
gotiator, to try to settle these objections.
Harrison was instructed to substitute Pak-
istan in place of India and to clarify the
fate of the prisoners who still refused to go
home after four months of thinking it over.
One drawback is that the Communist pro-
posal would give their officials an opportun-
ity to proselyte these prisoners for four
months after the armistice. The Joint
Chiefs were also apprehensive that the Reds
might use this opportunity to intimidate the
prisoners.
However, Washington officials believe
there is ennurh hsis fo rareement to settle
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