'AGE THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1954 AGE THE MICHIGAN DAILY ..... I 'U' Offers 29 Libraries for Student Use Former Student's Play To Open in Philadelphia Norman Rosten, '38 Grad., poet, playwright, and radio dramatist, who won the major Avery Hop- wood awards in drama and poetry in 1938, will have his most recent play, "Mardi Gras," premiered in Philadelphia today. After a run in Philadelphia, the play will open in New York on January 28. . * . "MARDI GRAS, a prose drama written in poetic mood, is the story of out-of-season lives of native Coney Islanders, centered around a local festival. Rosten came to the Univer- sity as a graduate student in 1937 to study playwriting on a Theater Guild Playwriting Fel- lowship. "This Proud Pilgrim- age," a poetic drama written by Rosten at the University, was produced by Play Production and the following year in New York on the Treater Guild spon- sored experimental theater pro- gram. While at the University, Rosten wrote his first volume of poetry, "Return Again Traveler," which was published in 1940 by the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Since then he has had four volumes of poetry published, the most recent of which, "The Plane and The Shadow," came out last spring. A prose comedy by Rosten, "First Stop to Heaven," was pro- duced on Broadway in 1941. Rec- ognized as one of the few distin- guished writers for radio, he has written numerous radio dramas for such programs as Cavalcade of America and the Treasury Star Parade. Technic The January issue of the Michigan Technic, engineering magazine, will be on sale to- morrow and Friday in the Engi- neering Arch. Issues are 25c per copy. Detroit Critic To Lecture The final speech assembly for the fall semester will be held at 4 p.m. today in the Rackham Lec- ture Auditorium. Russel McLauchlin, Drama Ed- itor and critic for the Detroit News will be the guest speaker and will use "The Fabulous Invalid" as his topic. McLauchlin will be intro- duced by Prof. William Halstead of the speech department. McLauchlin has been the music and drama critic on the News for 25 years. Before that he was on the papers' editorial staff for five years. The assembly is open to the public and no admission will be charged. '1 1 :1 -1 -Daily-Dick GaskilU WOMEN'S LEAGUE LENDS SPACE AND LUXURY FINALS PROMOTE STUDIOUS ATMOSPHERE IN CHEMISTRY LIBRARY By JANET WALTER Students facing finals and look- ing for a quiet abode in which to study will be interested to learn that, besides the four main Ii- braries, there are twenty-five branch libraries across campus. Each library supplies not only different types of books to choose from, but also a different atmos- phere and location. FOR THE latest modern facili- ties in studying, the Social Science Library in Mason Hall, with its modern furnishings, florescent lighting, and individual booths in which to study should provide a new and quiet setting. For the greatest comfort, women students might try tak- ing off their shoes and reclining in an easy chair in the League Library, or for the men, the Union Library. The Angell Hall Study Hall seems typical of most of the old- er libraries, being composed of simply rows of tables and stacks of books. Also in Angell Hall there are the Economics and Mathemat- ics Libraries. For music students, there is the small library of narrow volumes up in BuxtonTower, and for as- tronomers, there is one in the Ob- servatory. * * * IN THE same building with the General Library is the Library Science Library and the Medical Library for students of medicine and nursing. The*University Hos- pital houses a similar library for doctors and nurses. In the Chemistry Library, decorated with sketches of fa- mouschemists and the founders of the first honorary chemical society, are books for chemists and pharmacists. The East and West Engineering buildings harbor three libraries. For scientists in other fields there is 'a Dentistry Library, Na- tural Resources and Natural Sci- ence Library and a Physics Li- brary. OTHER specialized libaries in- cludes the Architecture Library, Business Administration Library, Education Library, Fine Arts Li- brary, and Museum Library. The Public Catalog in the Gen- eral Library lists all books in the University Libraries and tells in which branch library they may be found. GAVARNI'S ART TOO: Museum Exhibit Displays Indian, Persian works o -- Limited number of By DEBBY BERG The Museum of Art is current- ly featuring an exhibit of the wa- tercolors and drawings of Gav- arni and a display of Persian and Indian textiles and miniatures. One of the greatest nineteenth century characterists, Gavarni. a Frenchman whose real name was Guillaume Sulpice Chevalier, is described as "more interested in portraying the foibles of different classes of Parisian society than in political satire," in Marvin C. Ross forward to a guide of the exhibi- tion. SLG Agenda Student Legislature will meet at 7:30 p.m. today in Strauss House Dining Rmn. of East Quadrangle to discuss the fol- lowing topics: SAC Study Committee Re- port Ualendaring Committee Re- port Student Book Exchange Committee Reports All interested students and1 faculty members have been in- vited by SL to attend the meet- ing. THE watercolors and drawings in this exhibit represent two phases of Gavarni's development. One begins with his trips to Eng- land and the other begins in 1851, after his return to France. Gavarni, a former apprentice in an engine factory, also did work with lithographs. Rank- ing among the greatest litho- graphic artists of his day, Ga- varni is best know'n in the Unit- ed States for his work in this medium. This collection of Gavarni's works in the west gallery of the museum was selected from the Walters Art Gallery of Baltimore and from the Rosenwald Collection in the National Gallery of Art and is being circulated by the Smith- sonian Institute. * s* * THE PERSIAN and Indianmin- iatures in the north gallery are illuminations from hand lettered manuscripts." Used to illuminate the text of the Persian books and later In- dian ones, these miniatures are small, paintings which take up a whole or part of a page. Read and Use. Daily Classifieds s-O( 2 (J4 . SUBSCRIBE to the 1954 MICHIGANENSIAN at REGISTRATION! I '53 'Ensians are on sale, for 6.00 at the Student PubIcations Bldg... HILL AUDITORIUM February 12th TWO SHOWS: 7:15 P.M. - 9:30 P.M. '. S OUNG ' eRIC A Es \L '4 ( i , 1 Festival of Modern American Jazz t I Michigan League I Ann Arbor, Michigan m I