TARX 12, 1956 THE MCHIGAN DAILY PAGE ELEVEN 'ARY 12, 1958 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE ELEVEN Dame Myra Hess Listed For Choral Union Concert London-born Myra Hess, widelyv regarded as the world's First Lady of the Piano, will present the fourth concert in the Extra Con- ,U' Association. Sets Holmes Travelogues A whirlwind trip through the sultry Caribbean or the blizzard- hewn Alps will be included in a program scheduled by the Univer- sity Oratorical Association and Burton Holmes Travelogues. The series of five programs will be given from Thursday through March 22. All programs start at 8:30 p.m. in Hill Auditorium. Holmes, recognized as one of the most brilliant creators of Travelogues, has been working in the field for almost 40 years and his personally edited films are shown throughout the country., Two of Holmes associates, Thay- er Soule and Robert Mallett, will accompany the motion pictures as narrators for the local color series. Middle East Scenes "Cairo to Baghdad" will open the series Thursday with Soule as narrator. Showing scenes in the Middle East, it will cover the Nile, the pyramids, the Dead Sea, Da- mascus and the great desert to Baghdad. Soule will narrate the second program on Feb. 23, entitled "The Caribbean." Featured in the pro- gram will be Caracas; Trinidad, Jamaica, Haiti and the Virgin Is- lands. A new film, shot especially for the 1955-56 series will be shown on March 8. Mallett will narrate the program called "The Grand Tour of Europe." A tour of Lon- don, Belgium, Holland, Germany, France and Italy will be shown in addition to a close look at Paris. Swiss Film Set Soule will return as narrator for the fourth program on March 15. Depicting the life of the people in Switzerland, the film will include visits to St. Moritz,. Interlaken, Lucerne, Rhone Glacier and the Jungfrau. The final travelogue "Califor- nia" is scheduled for March 22. This is a motor tour including the Redwood country, Death Valley, San Francisco, Los Angeles and the Pacific coastline. Mallett will narrate. Tickets for the series and indi- vidual programs are on sale at cert Series at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, .in Hill Auditorium. She will play: "Adagio, G major" and "Toccata, D major" (Fantasia and Fugue) by Bach; and "Sonata, D minor," Op. 31, No. 2 by Beeth- oven. After the intermission, she will play "Sonata F minor," Op. 5 by Brahr~is. Dame Myra was taught to play the piano and the cello at the age of five and two years later was admitted to the Guildhall School of Music as its youngest pupil. At 13 she won a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music. Makes Debut At 17, Myra Hess made her debut in Queens Hall, London, playing Dean Talks Of Training Scientists Beating patriotic drums to lure United States students into the shortage fields of science and en- gineering is a short-sighted way of approaching a recognized na- tional need, according to a Uni- versity dean. Speaking on a question which is currently holding public atten- tion, Assistant Dean James H. Robertson of the Literary College decries the unfortunate tendency to compare the number of techni- cians trained by Russia with the number being trained in the Unit- ed States. "Instead of devoting our best en- ergies toward meeting our national needs as calmly and rationally as we can, we are in danger of turn- ing the training of our scientists and engineers into another chariot race with the Russians," he says. "Admittedly the shortage here is serious and much needs to be done in our high schools and col- leges to remedy it, but no sound, lasting solution to an educational problem can be reached by an ap- peal to fear," he added. Choice Difficult Pointing out that intelligent choice of a vocation or a profes- sion is one of the most difficult decisions a young man or woman has to make, he emphasizes that this decision is not made easier by any well-intentioned propagan- da campaign to recruit our youth into a battle for technological su- premacy. "The trick is not merely to draft more students into these fields," Dean Robertson observes. "It is the far harder task of giving them every opportunity to discover ear- ly and realistically the excitement and satisfaction that science and engineering can offer to those who have the talent," he states. He points out that students who have been "sold" engineering for the wrong reasons enter colleges and quickly become discouraged when they flounder in their fresh- man mathematics and science. "The number of the disillusioned will rise if a selling camsaign based on atric tic appeals is con- tinued," he adds. No Position "Schools and colleges are in no position to counter the powerful pull of high salaries which indus- try can offer,, and as a re- sult, young students are not get- ting as exciting and as competent a faculty in high school mathe- matics and science as they need," he declares. The modern Detroit housewife has not completely lost the skills of her pioneer counterpart. One Detroit housewife in three raises some of the food her family eats, prepares canned or frozen food, and makes some of her own or her daughters' clothing it was discovered by the 1955 Detroit Area Study (DAS) at the University's Survey Research Center. These modern producers are probably a far cry from their great-grandmothers who, if their family was to be fed and clothed at all, had to plant gardens, store food and make clothing on a com- paratively large scale. The DAS report emphasized that today "in a decided majority of greater De- troit homes these forms of fam- ily production are never found." Almost all wives, even in the Detroit metropolis, do some pastry baking, the study finds. The re- port points out that making cakes, cookies and pies requires little time and expense as compared to rats- ing a garden or home canning and that many wives no doubt enjoy baking more than most other jobs around the home. All Incomes Shown The "significant minority" who raise some food and make some clothes and the majority who bake pastry may be in upper, middle or lower income brackets. What their husbands earn or what occupa- tions they follow have nothing to do with it the study found. "The production of goods in the home was once an economy meas- ure," the DAS report points out. "It is still possible to economize by producing some things at home, but mass manufacturing and mar- keting have reduced the amount of money which can be saved in this way. Also, many wives have probably decided that the time which is required in home produc- tion might better be invested in other activities. "In the future we may find that the production of food and cloth- ing in the family will become more of a hobby than a necessary household task." Interviews Used The report is based on inter- views taken during the spring of 1955 with 731 Detroit area wives. The area-probability sample used in the research represents a cross- section of those homes in greater Detroit that contain a husband and wife. Two-thirds of the in- terviews occurred in the city of Detroit and one-third in suburban communities. A new study of the Detroit area -the fifth--is now underway. The current DAS is concerned with de- gree of agreement on moral values but includes a group of questions on the effect of the recent Detroit newspaper strike. Previous studies dealt with gov- ernment agencies, child -raising and organization memberships of the Detroit area. SURVEY RESEARCH CENTER: Area Study Reports on Household Skill NAEB To Send 'U' Series A radio series created by WUOM is to be broadcast over the na- tion-wide network of the National Association of Educational Broad- casters,, the University was in- formed recently. The programs are dramatic stories of great national heroes throughout the world. The series is called "Tales of the Valiant." The NAEB network provides educational and cultural programs to almost 100 university, college and municipal broadcasting sta- tions throughout the country. The series was written and pro- duced at the University with a grant-in-aid from the Educational TV and Radio Center in Ann Ar- bor. r TI STORE HOURS DAILY, 9 TO 5-5:30 PBRNDLE TON VIRGIN WOOL Skirts Bill Sweaters Complete Line of Fine 49'er Jackets DAME MYRA .. British Pianist two concertos with an orchestra conducted by Sir Thomas Beech- am. Later she toured Holland and became a favorite with the Dutch public. She made her first American tour in 1922 and now has made 22 consecutive tours of the United States and parts of Canada, omit- ting only the years of World War II. During these years she organ-. ized the now historic noon-time concerts in the National Gallery for workers, civil servants, soldiers and air-wardens during their' lunch-hour five times a week. Continues During War During more than six years, despite air-raids, 1,700 concerts were given, many with orchestra and chorus, in which the major part of the great musical classics of all periods and countries were performed. In recognition of her work and her great artistry, King George VI personally decorated her with the Order of the British Empire. Since the war, she has continued her international career with uninter- rupted success, playing in Great Britain, on the Continent, and about three months of every year ENGLISH BICYCLES, EQUIPPED WITH: 3-SPEED HUBS KICKSTAND SKIRTS . . . men's wear flannels in the "Slim Jim" and "Panel Pleat" models. Brooks grey, light grey, light. tan mix, moss green, blue- bell, purple mist., $14.95 PUMP TOOL BAG HAND BRAKES CHAIN GUARD SWEATERS ... turtle-top slipons; Light grey, light tan mix, purple mist. $9.95 49'er JACKETS ... now spring colors in promenade and regi. mental plaids. $17.95, 19.95 STUDENT BICYCLE SHOP 1319 South University - NO 8-6927 OWNED AND OPERATED BY STUDENTS sanĀ« w.rooo.wo: c:: Kt. .:'":':?::' ti h.'. STATE STREET AT L 1BERTY the Hill Auditorium boxoffice. 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