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"THE MICHIGAN DAILY
FRIDAY, MAY M1, 1954
PAGE EIGHT TUE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1954
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Announced
University Regents-Alumni Hon-
or Awards have been awarded to
830 graduating seniors of Michi-
gan high schools, Acting Dean of
Students Walter B. Rea announc-
ed yesterday.
The Honor Awards, in the form
of certificates having no monetary
value, are given to recognize out-
standing high school seniors
throughout the state who have
been accepted for admission by the
University.
Also awarded Regents-Alumni
Scholarships were 455 of the Hon-
or-Award winners. These scholar-
ships pay for semester fees and are
renewable for the student's entire
undergraduate program, if his aca-
demic record warrants. continua-
tion.
The certificates will be present-
ed at a ceremony in September.
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THOMAS ROSCOE ARP
. . . sympathetic friends help support tortured film critic after a "particularly bad one."
Controversial Critic, Arp,
Details Career of Smears
Tihe Theosophic.l Society inin Arbor
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By GAYLE GREENE
"Tom Arp slept here."
This cryptic message was recent-
ly tacked on a front row seat of a
local theater after a rather somber
review of the current attraction
written by a student who has prac-
tically become a campus tradi-
tion. "Anyone who doesn't sneer
when my name is mentioned, just
hasn't been around."
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OBJECT OF the- sneers, the
scornful laughs, the bristling ire
and an occasional sigh of relief is
Thomas Roscoe Arp of "the Dear-
born Arps" whose career as'a Daily
reviewer recently saw a centennial
-"My one hundredth review ap-
peared with little fanfare."
The 21-year-old English hon-
ors senior, who claims his birth
in Detroit earns him the dis-
tinction of being "born farther
South than a number of other
people," is a picture of studied
sloppiness and non-studying
scholastic achievement.
"A man who is immaculately
tailored can always be accused of
being a 'secret slob' (with torn un-
dershirt and month-old socks),"
Arp said, admitting he followed the
formula of sartorial elegance for
many years.
Today he affects the air of
"secret gentleman"-in a wrinkled
blue sweatshirt and torn wash-
pants. "But underneath, the soul
is immaculate."
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TALL, SLENDER, perennial crew
cut, perennial blue sweatshirt -
this is Tom Arp who will leave for
Stanford University next fall un-
der a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship,
having survived the wrath of the
theater crowd, the English depart-
ment, the Letters-to-the-Editor-
writers and those who don't agree
with him on Marilyn Monroe.
Any film graced with Miss
Monroe's charms is automatical-
ly exempt from Arp's scathing
comments. "I think she is an
excellent actress and typifies the
American ,girl." Height of his
controversial career was the
panning of "Miracle in Milan,"
which critics had hailed every-
where.
"I guess I was wrong," he mut-
tered. (Ed. Note--As this issue
goes to press, Arp is threatening
to shoot the night editor unless we
cut this last sentence, but journal-
istic integrity will not let us heed
his plea.)
In his freshman year, an all "A'
record, "a 4 point so to speak,"
convinced him he had time for
non-academic activities. "After
several months on The Daily, I
definitely decided against a career
in journalism."
ON THE WAY downstairs "to
leave the Publications Building
forever," he mistook the Gargoyle
office for the lavatory and became
a member of that staff. "My sole
function was to cheer up Gargoyle
staffers who are, by nature, a rath-
er despondent crew."
As a senior, Arp finds time to
engage in "more important activi-
ties." Recently he headed the
"oust SL movement" when the leg-
islature moved into the conference
room at the Student Publications
Bldg.
"Go Home SL" and "Do not
feed the, SL members" appeared
in red pagt on the glass window
separating the Daily Conference
Em. from the Gargoyle-Genera-
tion office. Arp was also seen
flinging a burning cross through
the Conference Room door.
Officers Elected
EAST QUAD
Ron McCreight, '56BAd, and
Cice Coleman, '55, were elected
president and vice-president of the
East Quad Council for the coming
year at this week's joint meeting
"Rejecting three mediocre plays"
was the extent of his activity as
Generation magazin.e Drama Edi-
tor. The Inter-Arts Union elected
him vice-president and appointed
him producer of the drama portion
of their three-day program. As
producer, Arp found himself mim-
eographing plays and moving
benches.
* * *
ARP, WHO WAS elected to Phi
Beta Kappa honorary society as a
junior, decided to attend his sec-
ond PBK banquet this year to "set
an example for the new initiates."
He set the mood for the eve-
ning by eating fruit cocktail with
a salad fork and comparing this
year's meal to last year's. "It
was exactly the same, in fact
the chicken pie was probably left
over from the 1953 banquet."
Arp lives in an apartment filled
with LP records, alphabetically
arranged books and a hi-fidelity
phonograph which dominates the
living room. His roommate is a
Frenchman "who thinks that his
nationality makes him chef par
excellence automatically."
Unfortunately Arp finds it dif-
ficult to survive on egg drop soup,
which is the extent of his room-
mate's culinary achievements.
"I used to room with another
Daily reviewer but I couldn't con-
vert him to my point of view. He
still writes nice, gentlemanly sort
of reviews."
ONE EVENING last week Arp
was seen reading poetry aloud.to
an unappreciative audience at a
local combination pub-restaurant.
He can be seen there every eve-
ning, but this particular evening
he was reading poetry. He is rare-
ly caught in such academic pur-
suits and friends wonder how he
maintains his grades.
"Once you've established a re-
putation as an intellectual, no
amount of work can erase it,"
Arp admits modestly.
When asked how great an in-
fluence he .felt his reviews had on
the University public, Arp sug-
gested a spot check of several pas-
sersby.
Sticking his foot into the aisle,
he tripped the first passerby.
First Passerby: I think Arp takes
his reviewing very seriously.
Arp: No comment.
Second Passerby: Well, I think
Arp: Never mind, Mother dear.
Third Passerby, a member of
the French Club: Paris est la cap-
itale de la France.
Arp: Honi soit qui mal y pense.
Fourth Passerby, an actress: Do
~you know the first lines of The
Shooting of Dan McGrew?
Arp: It's one of my favorite
plays.
Fifth Passerby: Why do you
hate the movies?
Arp: I don't hate them (Quick-
ly, at once, immediately) I don't
hate them (Panting in the cold
air,. the iron Ann Arbor air) I
don't, I don't, I don't hate them.
I don't hate them.
E. NORMAN
PEARSON
International Lecturer,
Retired Engineer
in two public lectures
"Mans Bodies-"
Here and
Hereafter"
(lllustrated with Lantern Slides)
Michigan Union, Room 3N
Friday May 21, 8:00 P.M.
ANIMAL FAMILY PORTRAIT- There's no
doubt about family resemblance as Christopher, week-old camel
in London Zoo, makes public appearance with mother, Peggy.
S T A R R O L E A H E A D - Rossana Podesta, 19-year-
old film actress who'll star in new super-epic movie "Helen of
Troy," caresfor her two-months-old baby. in Rome, Italy, home.
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Michigan Union, Room 3 B Sunday, May 23, 3:00 P.M.
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Y O U T H F U L S T A R - Fourteen-year-old Bobbie Sir
Kegian, of Temple City, Cal., sits on one of his motorcycles sur-
rounded by trophies he's won in open motorcycle drag races.
O N E N I G H T S T AN D -- Buff Cobb, Mary Sinclair,
Marlene Dietrich and Faye Emerson, left to right, appear in New
York opening of Ringling circus for United Cerebral Palsy Fund,
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STOP, LOOK AND REPENT - Churchmen
erected this crucifix in hope of reducing suicides at bridge near
Munich, Germany, from which 191 persons leaped to. death.
GOV-ERNOR TURNS FISHERMAN. - New
Jersey Governor Robert B. Meyner waits patiently for a bite as
1954 state trout season.opens at Saxton Falls, near Hackettstown.
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