Sunday, March 27, 1955 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Five Sunday, March 27, 1955T H E MICHIGAN DAILY Page Five GULLIVER'S TRAVELS: Traveler Must Build Strong HE International Relationships ON By ROY AKERS not a "literary" travel journal at getting the toy men of Lilliput and IT IS, so the words of the lyric all; that, rather, they were really the giants of Brobdingnag in pro- ver go, "A Big Wide Wonderful a literary vehicle for a fascinat- portionate scale with men of nor- World." But, fringed with an Iron ing flight of fancy into the irony mal stature it was this: that what- and Bamboo curtain, our world is of social satire. ever their physical size or culturalfo / not as wide as it once was. And, background might be the vanity, l 1 as anybody's decrepit, bachelor LThLIPUT, Brobdingnag, Laputa selfishness and eccentricities of uncle would gladly tell you, with- and the country of the Houy- men remain at a relatively con- out being asked, it ain't as won- hnhnms emerged into something stant level, with their hopes and derful as it ised to be be back in more than just mythical countries dreams always rather counter- the good old days when he was a to be re-visited. Actually, they poised between the opposing poles boy afflicted with an overt interest were sideshows exhibiting man, of rationality and animality. Man in the finer things of life, such as who has the dubious distinction is, so to speak, merely what he wine, women and song, of being the only creature whose is, but always living in the hope All of which brings us up to our foibles can possibly exceed the an- of attaining the something more Uncle Sidney. tics of the ape, that he would like to be. Uncle Sidney-this was our Jonathan Swift never quite for- bright uncle, the one that could gave his fellow man for being 'a THOSE who board the boats and read and write-used to sit out on creature who, while gifted with planes this summer will not the woodblock about halfway be- the power of reasoning, seldom meet the Laputians and the Houy- tween the mule shed and the whis- took the time or the effort to en- hnhnms. And it is hardly possible key still, atop one of the highest joy a rational existence. that they will come across the peaks of the Appalachians reading Certainly, for the present trav- King of Brobdingnag who would "Gulliver's Travels," Shakespeare eler, a passport and a visa are not rather have lost half his kingdom and the Bible to us kids. enough. There are the Iron and than to become a partner to the Shortly after leaving the hills I Bamboo curtains, the McCarran secret of gunpowder. But in every bought a pencil, won tuition mon- veil, and the separate worlds of port the traveler will find the ey in a poker game, and enrolled East and West. These, together imagery and the ilk of their in a university. It was a rather with the conflicting ideologies and counterparts. typical Midwestern university con- philosophies, and the differing For, from the farmer hopefully sisting of sprawling lawns filled hopes and dreams of weary peo- nursing a grain of corn sprouting with gleaming new buildings-no ples of a future world, would make through the mother earth to the money-and a deep concern with Captain Gulliver a confused and atomic scientist plotting his own high ethical concepts that ran tired traveler, indeed, destruction; from the little peo- the gamut from the propriety of But, exhausted though he might pe to the big people of the world Bermuda shorts to the omnipo- be, Gulliver could not avoid the who hold within their hands and tence of bourgeoisie mores. realization that the, problems con- their hearts the hopes and fears This was where I met Profes- fronting his mythical pygmies and of pygmies in a universe too im- sor Perkins who taught beginning giants are removed only in time mense for their comprehension- English. And here I was again con- from the problems confronting a here lies the only reason for faith fronted with "Gulliver's Travels." world of people today, in human destiny. I soon came to realize that the For if Mr. Swift proved anything And if there Is to be a human voyages of Captain Gulliver were with his mathematical precision in destiny for people living in One World it can come about only ANNUAL FESTIVALS: when those people do not exist as strangers. Beyond the atolls I of the future there is danger lurk- ing in the sea winds of time,is Summer International ospreselnsedigite trust and malice spring to growth cultivation. That "Good fences make good neighbors," this saying may be true. But do they make good friends? By HARRY STRAUSS The traveler, when he disem- All will be w peare Festival will hold forth at barks, can build his fences or let ALL THE WORLD'S a stage and Stratford - on - Avon from April his barriers down. Either, way, he all the world will see stage pro- through November. will rub shoulders with the Peo- ductions d u r i ng the summer Canada's Shakespeare Festival ple. For they are there to be met months. at Stratford, Ontario, will offer the and talked with by the man with Th Nearly all the countries in the Bard's "Merchant of Venice" and the suitcase in the wide, light world will offer their version of a "Julius Caesar." The group will plains between the shadows of the Passion play and most will give also present "Oedipus Rex." The dark curtains. 9-5231 . Librty S nationalistic plays or folk dramas. three plays will be shown during Captain Gulliver didn't meet The American National Theatre July and August. them all. and Academy will present its "Sa- ..-i.: .;:.ix,.>:":r.a5 . ...... it.: p ,, 2 .,.. - lute to France." In addition to the musical part of the program, Helen Hayes and Mary Martin will SOUthsummer appear in Thornton Wilder's "The Skin of Our Teeth." Judith Ander- son will star in her famous "Me- noit dea' by Robinson Jeffers, and Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Ok- lahoma!" will be presented. An annual event taking place in the middle of June is Shakes- ,t e', peare's "Hamlet" which will be performed in the courtyard of Kronborg Castle, Elsinore, Den- mark. Denmark will mark the 150th '< suit of a wonder fa birthday of Hans Christian An- derson Friday and Saturday with longer line ja a nation-wide celebration. Copen- hagen will have a concert and white mandarin colla drama while a play and broadcastnd s will be held in Odense, the author's g birthplace, style, too, among o NORWAY'S Bergen Festival be- Lady Renl ginning at the end of May will i produce Ibsen's "Th Wild Duck'" brght spring sh in addition to other events. Beginning June 15, the Hol- land Festival will offer a varied program. Among items to be in- cluded in the month long event will be the Shakespeare Memorial Company with "King Lear" and "Much Ado About Nothing." These plays will star England's Peggy Ashcroft and Sir John Gielgud. Celebrating its tenth anniver- sary, the Gregenz, Austria, Festi- va is to show Schiller's "Kabale und Liebe" and Grillparzer's "Ko-.. nig Ottokar's Gluck and Ende" MAIN AT LIBERT (King Ottokar's Luck and End). London will see its theatre sea- Only the Finest Qua son in full swing since it has most of its attractions during the sum- mer months. As usual, the Shakes- ADED SOUTH VACATION? ping you'll need ie trip is ready lOW! at ?kRJLYN'S~ DRESSES SHORTS SKIRTS H IRTS JACKETS BLOUSES SWEATERS LACKS SWIM SUITS X01 Tissue Fresh! orn right through Summer 5 Michigan Theatre Iidg. .."4.% * ": ::-i+::'.'"si Y" :_v+r" ^i_"3" _'$vfiri 'v***: .'r':'ssimfj : u e?'r bric, lineen . .. easy Jcket buttoned far to a r ... leaf skirt .. . * . there's. a box jacket thers fashioned by n . . . in misses sizes .. . ades, navy, and white. 25. TY ANN ARBOR lity at Prices that are Fair I