THE SUMMER MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1930 t. Fi Published every morning except Mony during the University Summer Session by the Board in Control of Student Publications. The Associated Press is exclusively en- titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and the local news p~ublished herein. Entered at the Ann Arbor, Michigan, postoffice as second class matter. Subscription by carrier, $i.5o; by mail, I r About Books THE "DELIGHTFUL" MISS ANNE GREEN. The Selbeys by Anne 'Green; E. P. Dutton and Company, New York; Price $2.50; Thank you, Mr. Chiper C, for your little letter in yesterday's { PORTABLE TYPEWRITERS We have all makes. Remington, Royals, Corona, Underwood GRUEN WATCHES DIAMONDS HALLER'S Jewelers State Street at Liberty WATCH REPAIRING FINE JEWELRY 31 Colored duco finishes. Price x$60 0. D. MORRILL 4 South State St. Phone 6615 $zoo. Offices: Press Building, Maynard Ann Arbor, Michigan. Street,I EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR GURNEY WILLIAMS Editorial Director ......... Howard F. Shout City Editor........... Harold Warren, Jr. Women's Editor .......Dorothy Magee Music and Drama Editor... William J. Gorman Books Editor ......... Russell E. McCracken Sports ~editor.............. Morris Targer Night Editors Powers Moulton 'Harold Warren, Jr. Denton Kunie Howard F. Shout Assistants Helen Carrm Bruce Manley Cornelius Buekema Roberta Reed Sher M. Quraishi BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 22114 BUSINESS MANAGER GEORGE A. SPATER Assistant Business Managers William R. Worboys Harry S. Benjamin Circulation Manager ........ Bernard Larson Secretary ..s.st.. tS Ann W. Verner Joyce DavidsonLeiM.Kd Dorothy Dunlap Night Editor-Howard F. Shout SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1930 THM INDEIENCIES OF 1930 That famed New York producer,' Earl Carroll, has just brought forthi his latest bath-tub spectacle. And, true to the Carroll tradition, the chief touch of dramatic suspense was furnished by the police officers of New York who came to see the performance from the more ad- vantagous viewpoint of the wings. Apparently the old war; has begun,+ and the old question arisen of whatJ part the theatre is to play in the, 1930 crop of immoralities.; 'While Mr. Carroll has proceeded. on his old maxim of "beauty knows no law", it would seemi that he might have learned from formerj experiences that there -are differ-; ent interpretations of beauty, to wit, his own and that of the Ar- kansas Baptists. The nude in art1 has been accepted, albeit with many qualms, as a necessity in-; voked' by the artistic temperament; Review Copy from Wahr's Univer- Campus Opinion. You nave re- sity Bookstore. stored our faith in the reading pub-li.Whabeutohnkht You can't start about reading about the only people who ever this book in the usual way. The wrote to the Daily were the land- publisher insists on printing four lde opann bu h d pages of blurb, clipped from var- lde opann bu h d iosnewspapers and magazine re- ministration's building plans. views, at the very front part. It You're evidently a Chiper off the is a darnable idea. It assumes you, old block (if you will admit the are too feeble to understand a book validity of our weak pun) in re-I ,by yourself, that it is necessary to viving last summer's squabble be- be told just how to react to a book. tween the dramatic critic and the Though who knows it may be play -production department. Or printed at the demands of our maybe you weren't here last year democracy-loving American read-1 at all, but blood will tell, won't it? ing public, to satisfy its desire to It's kind of you to bring the old react to every stimulus normally,j skeleton out again which Mr. Gor- r r t h e - way- every'bbdy-else-does: man and the play production forc- I (which i not always normal). It I es so successfully locked in the is said in proof of the existence of Icloset all this past school year. this spirit among American readers. About the best part of your let- that the reason professors are in-! ter, if you'll allow us a little "con- vited (paid sometimes, should be, structive" criticism - w h i c h is always) to speak before women's! about the only kind that any crit-1 clubs on current books is so the :ic should make, don't you think,1 dear ladies will know just how to Mr. Clipper?-about the best part react to that latest volume. I shall of your letter, as we were saying, not force my opinion upon you (if was the ironical part. There's you never use "I" in an article nothing like irony for getting crit- you can never be sued for libel). ics' goats, is "there? No, you. real- Whether it is the publisher's de- ly should have seen Mr. Gorman- sire to rob poor college professors shhhh, he's over there .now-when of the opportunity of speaking be- he saw your cheery little greeting. for "buxom bonny dames", prepar- You said, by the way, that three ing therm for the "right" reactions,: people had professional experience. it is hard to speculate. One can previously in stock companies. hardly think them as low as that.' Maybe that's what's the matter At any rate it is a darnable idea,; with the show. You know how and should be omitted from fu- stock companies have been failing! ture books. !all over the country. And surely! The Slb ±you remember the stock company TheSelys was published this back home that did "Rain" the spring and has run through a long fis we,"TeFmlUptis list of editions, here in July it is the second week, and "Hamlet" the still a best seller., Anne Green,' third--in different costumes, of! sister of Julien Green, writes in aI course.. dimetrically opposite vein of her It's rather unappreciative, how- brother., She is light, gay, humor- ever of Mr. Gorman to disparageI ous, her brother is sullen, deep, o pentrain. Se I nt s god I hework of salaried actors who! wrier s hr roterthoghmore gave up stock for Play Production attractive. In The Selbys Miss Iannerfogti.Ithes Green deals with a story of the I timation of men who really know American colony in Paris. Aunt j criticism, however, we might add, thatMrGrmnsciiimifa Virginia, Uncle George, Barbara,super oranhtiingseenforsomer Michel,. and Berry are all delight-stie oe ampuins.enSohresand ful individuals. And Barbara's lit- tm nh aps otee n +1 anvo~c#, r++Vr 1ych4r there, and there.1 tom" NDAY' FIRST CHURCH CHRIST, SCIENCE 409 South Division 10:30 A. M.-Regular morning serv- ice. Sermon topic; "Sacrament," 11:45 A. M.-Sunday school follow- ing the morning service. 7:30 P. M.-Wednesday evening testimonial meeting. The Reading Room, 10 and 11 State Savings Bank Building is open daily from 12 to 5 o'clock, except Sundays and legal holidays. [IRST BAPTIST CHURCH Huron Street East R. Edwards Sayles, Minister 9:45 A. M.-Church School. 9:;45 A. M-Class for students led Ly Mr. Preuser. 10:45 A. M.--Morning Worship. Sermon by Mr. Sayles on "LIFE TO THE FULL." ST. PAUL'S LUTHERN CHURCH (Mo. Synod) Third and West Liberty C. A. Brauer, Pastor JULY 13th SUNDAY SCHOOL PICNIC 10.33 A. M.-Children's service with sermon by the pastor in Wolter's Grove on the Foster Road. Trans- portation furnished at 10 a. mn. from church. Meals served by ladies. In case of rain, services will be held at the church at 10:30 a. m. ST. ANDREW'S EPICOPAL CHURCH Division and Catherine Streets Rev. Henry Lewis, Rector Rev. Thomas L. Harris, Assistant 8:00 A. M.--Holy Comnmunon. 11:00 A. M.--Morning Prayer; Ser- mon by Reverend Mr. Harris. FIRST METHODIST CHURCH Cor. S. State and B. Washington Sts. Rev. Arthur W. Stalker, D.D., Mini- ister; Rev. Samuel J. Harrison, B. D., Associate Minister; Mr. Jack Luther, in charge of Student Activities for the Summer. 10:30 A. M. -Morning Worship. Speaker: Bishop William F. An- derson of Boston. Subject: "What Price a Man's Soul." 12; 00 M.- Discussion Group for Students at Wesley Hall. Leader: Dr. W. C. Rufus, "Parallels of Science and Religion."~ 5:30.6:00 P. M.-Open House. 6:00 P. M.-Wesleyan Guild De- votional Meeting at Wesley Hall. Leader: Mrs. Howard Wahren- brock. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Huron and Division Sts. Merle H. Anderson, Minister 9:30 A. M.-Church School. 10:45 A. M.-Morning Worship. Dr. John Comin, Michigan Syno- dical Superintendent. 5:30 P. M.--Social Hour for Young People. 6:30 P. M.--Young People's Meet- ing. i, _-I k I i but the nude on the stage is, to most of the self-apppointed cen- sors of mankind, a little too real- istic for toleration. Of course, there are also several interpretations of toleration, and somte of them might involve the recognition of ,the rights of the in- dividual to witness any sort of a spectacle, indecent as it might be, if he, were of such stuff as to en- j oy indecencies, all this provided that no one had to see it who did not relish it. After all, the pro- hibition of such performances amounts to little more than an at- tempt to forbid people to have the. kinds of minds which they have. But'this is, to be certain, nothing more than an opinion concerning the relative merits of a puritan at- titude, in which the preservation of tradition and standards is of prime importance, and an individ-- ualistic attitude, in which the greatest good is believed to come by permitting all freedom of the individual in so far as it is com- patible with the maintenance of a social order. Perhaps, we are not created in the same image as our brothers on the European conti- nent, who seem to have no diffi- culty in permitting the individual to go his own way unmolested. We seem to be over-concerned with the welfare of the group, and as a result, we are heartless in curbing the activities, of the individual. If the presentation which Mr. Carroll was making on the New York: stage were such that it af- fected our social being, that it marked the presence of an insid- ious poison spreading through the fibre of our national structure, then certainly, it should have been stopped at, once. But,. if it repre- -sees merely a catering to the tastes of a large: portion of the populace, and is not consciously an attempt to destroy moral stability, it is do- ing no more than any other of the host of motion pictures which are being witnessed by thousands all over the country every day. In fact, they are more to be censored, for they are no only immoral in an indecent way, but they also namnr 'the deire~stof the audi- Iti ecpauus in getu~ing aius.na~ are delightful. But ofter you have said that, there is really not much more to say. The book is certain- ly not a great character novel, not the masterpiece of an age. The perpetual delightfulness of the scene has a distorting influence on the characters; it 'makes them ap- pear unnatural and refracted. It gives the effect that everything is "sweet and rosy", somewhat even of the Pollyanna effect, and critic- ally there is hardly anything else that one can say but "delightful" to this sort of thing. Though in the next breath, by reflex perhaps, you find yourself murmuring-"if true." This may be part of the con- temporary reaction against if -true literature, and must be regarded as prejudice therefore. But this one can say, say quite unbiasedly, that if-true literature thus far has never produced healthy character portrayal, that Miss Green is no execption to this. And then, as no critic will argue, there is nothing particularly original or contribut- ing about Miss Green's style, and about her handling of the novel form. But The Selbys is really not a Pad book, it is one of these novels that neither muss nor mar. Just a conveniently written affair that will not worry us-imperiling our moral institutions, or aesthetic forms. Indeed Mists Green is a very congeniel sort of novelist, especially congenial for summer reading, summer reading that should be (proverbially) light and unworrying. This type of writing occupies a big place in literature, the biggest place in fact, so it will be more than just summer read- ing to many. It is escape litera- ture, the literature of delight, and if not taken in small doses gives you the attitude it is life, or that it ANNOUNCEMENT-In commem- oration of the aniversary of the annual critic-theatre combat, the Rolls Column will sponsor a pub- lic FREE-FOR-ALL on the steps of the General Library tomorrow eve- ning from eleven until one to which the faculty and students of all colleges of the University, in- cluding the School of Forestry, is cordially invited. Concerning our proposed change of name, we have received, even at this early date interested replies to our public question: Shall we be singular, plural, or different? The score at present is a tie between the Doctors Whoofle and Doctor Whoofle. The figures of the public census are as follows-for the sin- gular cognomen-one vote (hand- ed in by the editor himself) ; for the plural or unchanged signature --one vote (turned in by us). But the Fight has just begun, friends. We need Your Help. WILL YOU HELP TOO? Driving out for a swim the oth- er afternoon, we stopped at a farmer's house to get a drink of water. NOTE-for the benefit of the Washtenaw Tribune, this f arm- er did NOT reside in Washtenaw County. The farmer was in the farmyard feeding some hogs when we drove up. After our drink, we went over to look at his hogs. We said, "Those are good fat hogs. Did you raise them? "No", said the farmer, "I bought them for $3.25 each." "And you intend to sell them in the fall?" "Yes, I'l sell them for $3.25 each." "But", we objected, "you won't make any profit, will you?" "Yes", the farmer said, "I fig- ured that out. But you see, we've had the use of the hogs." That's not a very fast one (ED- i ITOR). Well, old man, you tell us one now and we'll give you a rosey red apple. Where do you get this "we" stuff, Doctor? (EDITOR) Where did Lindbergh? None of your lip, and this is no way to fill up a column. (EDITOR) Don't we know that. I _J Crepe Chiffon One of the Fabrimode Costume Hosiery groups, styled by Mine. Elsa Schiaparelli, noted cou- turiere, to interpret and coipie- ment the weaves of costume fabrics. Fabrimode Costume Hosiery meet a wildly enthusiastic reception when it was recently presented to a fashion assemblage at Schiaperelli's recent European style expositions. We have been fortunate enough to secure a limited supply of Crepe Chiffon, one of the new Fabrimrode Cos- tume Hosiery groups, and offer it for your inspection. A NEW HOSIERY FABRIC with the Transparency of a Shadow, Tinging the Leg to Just the Right Tone S chiaparelli' s Fabriinode Vi Crepe Chiffon Interprets and Expresses Fabrics of Sheer Ensembles and life are; different. odrama, and music. Perhaps the1 this increasing something entirely R. E.M. sickly-sentimental better way to curb tide of immorality, So sheer, so lusterless, so transparent, so skinconforming, that the hosiery fabric loses itself in a tinge of shadow. Weave markings and other me- chanical manifestations can be scarecely detected. The very essence of fragility, yet, of surprising .strength and wear resistance, is Fabriamode Crepe Chiffon. $165 19s if it has increased since the days of Helen of Troy, is to give it all the opportunity and publicity it could possibly use' to place itself before the public. The glare of broad daylight would take away, the garnish romance with which it is associated in the dimmer light of a synthetic moon. Surely the authorities will some day learn, Telephone orders receive immediate attention. Main and Annex Stores 1(5O. Phone 4161 i