six THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAT, NOVE~MBER 13, 1952 NO COVER CHARGE': Mgimes To Sponsor 33rd UnionOpera Production Voting Privilege Granted To Women of Lebanon By BOB APPLE The performance of "No Cover Charge" will mark the 33rd time that Mimes of the Michigan Union will sponsor the Union Opera. The history of Mimes, an elec- tiye honorary society dedicated to the furthering of play productions, dates back to 1913 and the Union Opera of that year, "Contrary Mary." IN WAS IN that year a group of. prominent members of the Union Opera formed together to organize a dramatic club. The small club quickly blossomed with the presentation of short- skits, plays, musical numbers and im- personations. Soon, however, they began to .rueblood Cites Danger To America The most important threat fac- ing the American people is not Russian aggression as such, but rather the possible weakening of our convictions during a long pe- riod of tension, according to Prof. Elton Trueblood, of Earlham Col- lege. who spoke at yesterday's speech assembly. Discussing "The - Basis of the Life *We Prize," Prof. Trueblood said that to counteract this dan- ger of internal failure, today's youhig people- must "consistently and thoroughly build up a body of thought concerning the meaning of the good life." *COMMUNISM, he said, gets its main strength, not from its politi- cal and' economic implications, but from the fact that it has become a faith for a group of young peo- ple in an area covering half the earth's surface. Citing the rapid rise of com- munism as, an indication of its power, he said that it can only be compared to Islam, which constituted, on a smaller scale, the same sort of mass movement. Fo this reason, according to Pref. Trueblood, our world tensions ,will not .be alleviated in the for- seeable future. "There is no evi- dence" he said, "that we in this century can live in peace." Instead, we must learn to 'ac- cept this condition, and must sum- mon all our resources to help us to meet its challenge.' He also spoke of the "interim mentality," a state of mind relat- ed to the old "eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die" phi- losophy, which he felt was one of the main stumbling blocks 'this generation would have to over- come. confine their production to sa- tiric impersonations of prom- inant personages in the public's eye and appropriately named their society "Nimes," which means mimic. Since 1913 the sponsorship of the Union Opera has been Mimes' foremost undertaking. The Opera improved yearly and in 1923 reached its' greatest heights by playing in the New York Metro- politan Opera House. Besides sponsoring the Opera, Mimes also staged several spring dramatic productions on their own well-equipped playhouse be- hind the Union. * * * DISASTER seemed to strike this flourishing organization when the depression hit. The Opera was called off until 1934 when Mimes enlisted the aid of Miss Sally Rand to engineer a revival of the annual show. During this times Mimes play- house was removed to make way for additional buildings around the Union, so the Opera be- came the group's primary con- cern, The Opera went under again with the outbreak of World War II and stayed inactive for eight years. In 1949 Mimes revived the Opera ,withthe production "Froggy Bot- tom." Tickets Scarce For Musical "Brigadoon," the charming dance and song tale of an enchanted Scotch village that comes to life for one day every century, will continue its run at Lydia Mendel- ssohn Theatre today, tomorrow and Saturday. The curtain will go up on the second performance of the Stu- dent Players production of the Broadway hit musical at 8 p.m. today. Tickets at $1.20 and 90 cents will be on sale at the Mendelssohn box office from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. and for half an hour before cur- tain time, today, tomorrow and Saturday, the nights of the per- formance. The Friday and Saturday per- formances are sold out, but last minute cancellations may be avail- able, according to Joseph Gadon, '53, Student Players president. Furniture Display A public display of the latest In business office machines, fur- niture and supplies will be shown. at the seventh annual exhibit of the School of Business. Adminis- tration, from 1 to 5 p.m, and 7 to 9 p.m. today and tomorrow at the Rackham Bldg. Read Daily Classi fieds By ALICE BOGDONOFF / While some women in the Unit- ed States are contemplating cab- inet posts, women in Lebanon were just last week granted the right of franchise. But not all Lebanese women will vote. The law stipulates that in order to vote, women must have had a primary education. And once the qualifications are filled, wom- en must vote or else be subjected to fines up to $27 as men are. The move for women's suffrage came when Prime Minister Khak- id Shehab's government issued an election decree which, in addition to giving women the suffrage, cut the number of parliamentary seats almost in half and drastic- ,.. r ally revised the basis of represen- tation. PROF. MARBURY Efimenco of the political science department and specialist in the Near East commented last night that "one would have expected Lebanon to take this step earlier since Leb- anon is one of the more modern, cosmopolitan countries of the Near East." Efimenko explained that the reformist decrees of the gov- ernment were made possible by the cabinet's six month dictorial powers zranted to it by parila- ment. "The emergency powers, came as a result of long general agitation for the removal of the corruption in President Camille Chamoun's .rule," .Efimenko pointed out. He went on to explain that there are strong "political bosses" in the Lebanese parliament and that the small reformist groups apparantly hope to "get rid of there bosses and corruption" by widening the franchise to women. George Trug, Grad., from Leb- anon commented that the new de- cree is "a fine move." He expressed the view that voting should be compulsory because "it makes the people more conscious of their stake in government." SPECIAL PURCHASE SA- E --Daly-Chuck Kelsey COFFEE HOUR-Faculty members take a few minutes off for coffee in the newly opened sixth floor Haven hall coffee lounge. Coffee, cake and other snacks are on sale for University staff mem- bers. Though the lounge has only been open for a week and a half-it is doing a soaring business. Located near the offices of the psychology department, it is frequented by members of the Eng- lish, history, psychology, sociology and political science staffs. Big Ten Student Conference Formulates Constitution Plans Delt Pledges To AidScouts About 15 Delta Tau Delta pledges will be .waxing floors and washing windows at the head- quarters of the local chapter of the Girl Scouts tonight. The project was planned when the Girl Scouts informed the In- terfraternity Council they had no feasible means of cleaning up their Nickels Arcade office. The pledges are scheduled to be- gin work at 7:30 p.m. today and will continue until they have giv- en the headquarters a thorough clean-up. nRMW OF MR Order Your Sut - NOW TAILORED TO MEASURE 5%/1141175 * STAR CLEANERS 1213 S. University DRY CLEANING SPECIALS FOR THE PRICE OF Save $1.00 on Every $3 of Cleaning 2-HOUR CLEANING AT REGULAR PRICE t f At the annual Big Ten student government conference held at Purdue, Nov. 7 and 8, plans were drawn up for a Western Confer- ence student government associa- tion constitution. If ratified by all 10 schools, the constitution will serve to formalize the interchange of ideas between the various colleges. * .* * ALTHOUGH there is now com- munication among the Big Ten schools most of it is done between two schools because there is no centralized office. The proposed constitution calls for a central filing system of all student governments, to be handled by a different school each year. This will provide a faster and more efficient pro- gram of communication. The central office, to be set up this year at Minnesota, will also plan various conferences of the Big Ten student governments. Provision has also been made in the constitution whereby the Big Ten student presidents may joint- ly issue statements of opinion on matters of students interest. The formal draft of the consti- tution, to be sent each school by School Artists Enter Exhibit Eleven artists in the Universi- ty will have works displayed in the 43rd annual Michigan Artists Ex- hibition which opens Tuesday in Detroit. Students being represented are: John D. Farnham, Grad.; John L. Goodyear, Grad.; Jamie Ross, '56SM and Don Zanfagna, '53A&D. Wolks in oil, water color and sculpture by the following profes- sors will also be shown: Gerome Kamrowski, Carlos Lopez, Thomas F. McClure, Jean P. Slusser and Emil Weddige. Others represented will be Mar- garet H. Chapin of the University High School and William A. Lew- is of the Engineering Research In- stitute. The exhibition, to be held at the Detroit Institute of Arts, will continue through Dec. 21. 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