'I'W THE SUMMER MItxHIGAN DAILY A Y . TWO THE SUMMER MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY. JULY 17. 1931 _. . , t _ WI mmmrr Published every morning except Monday during the Jniversity Summer Session by the Board in Control of Student Publications. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news di . patetes credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Entered at the Ann Arbor, Michigan, post. office as second class matter. Subscription by carrier, $1.0; by mail, 1l.745, Offices: Press Building, Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Telephones: EditorIal, 4925; BusIness 2-1214. EDITORIAL STAFF MANAGING EDITOR HAROLD O. WARREN, JR. Editorial Director .......... Gurney Williams ASSOCIATE EDITORS C. W. Carpenter Carl Meloy L. R. Chubb 'Sher M. Quraishi Barbara Hall Eleanor Rairdon Charles C. Irwin Edgar Racine Susan Mances~ter M"arion Thorn ton P. Cutler Showers BUSINESS STAFF BUSINESS MANAGER WILLIAM R. WORBOYS Assistant Business Manager .. Vernon Bishop Contracts Managern........r.. rCarl Marty Advert:sing Manager .........Jack Bunting AccounLs. Circulation ......... Thomas Muir FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1931' iight Editor-Gurney Williams OASiED RILLS STALE AIR Music & Drama II OUTWORN EXAMINA TIONS The present type of college exam- ination, based on mere rote learn- ing for the most part, will soon give way to the type advocated by speakers at the Institute for Ad- ministrative Officers of Higher Ed- ucation, if tendencies continue to (evelop. Educators have felt for a iong tIme that something is radical- ly wrong; that a change for the better is essential if a college edu- cation is to be lifted out of the par- rot class of learning. Ben D. Wood, of Columbia, sums up the situation in two paragraphs: "We have grossly underestimated the importance of the examining function of education," he says. Examining can be done well only a; the expense of time, talents, and money. We have had little examin- ing in this country, if by examin- ing we mean a measure of individ- ual growth. Our tests have been unrelated and distorted snapshots, not a record of development. Ex- aminations do not and cannot de- termine education, but they should be a helpful guide to the student testing his powers. "The important thing is to ascer- tain what the student has learned by virtue of being alive, regardless Encouraged by the success of the University Fresh Air Camp drive,' Rolls will shortly sponsor a cam- paign designed to create a Stale Air Camp where country boys, fed up with fresh air and sunshine, will be sent to the city for two weeks of stewing and gasping amidst the swelter and grime of a busy metro- pols. * * * The idea, if carried out, should do more than anything else to solve the back-to-the-farm problem and not only insure sufficient attention to crops in the future, but prevent further overcrowding of cities. * * * At the Rolls Stale Air Camp boys would learn to dodge autos, steal pennies from newsstands, snipe butts, beat up the kids in the next block, draw chalk pictures on suit- able surfaces, and become expert gang leaders. Watch for further announcements! * * * Last year we instituted a cam- paign to discover what students aiRed about when they were not in classes. But people began to glare so at us in Angell hall when we listened to various groups chat- ting between classes that we final- ly had to give it up. However, we were sitting in. The Den (free adv.) the other night, and four young ladies were in the booth next to us. * * * Over two slices of watermelon, hey regaled themselves with some of the folowing conversation. When il four talked at once, it was rath- er hard to get all, and then too the radio was rather loud, but for the what-students-t a 1 k-about depart- ment we submit some of the fol- lowing items. * * * It seems that matrimony was the topic of conversation for the first five minutes. Such things as "even when you're fifteen years old, there's a difference," and "she's on- ly seventeen, but he's an engineer, and they're going to get married" and "I saw him kiss her" were some of the bits that dropped over the booth wall amid riotous laughter, so that finally the manager came over and spoke soothing words, and that made us mad, because we couldn't hear much more after that. * * * However, we WERE surprised to hear one make the follow- ing statement: "Even I wish I were thirty years old." Now that is something we never ex- pected to hear someone of the weaker (?) sex admit. To such things has coeducation brought us. * * * Then a mutual boy friend came under the verbal lashing the world was getting. It seems that "he wanted to see us" and that "I knew what his motives were" but that ""I told mother about that experience." * * * Then to top it all off, when they left, we hald a conference with sev- eral other Rolls Pherrets and came to the conclusion that they were school teachers. O tempora, o mores. (Which translated, means educational appropriations should not be cut down.) * * * At last the really "'last day" of the directory sales rolled around. Monday, we heard one of the edit- ors bellowing, "Last chance to buy a directory!" Tuesday he was out there again, saying the same damn thing. But Wednesday he was gone. The Fresh Air Camp lads had taken his place. The day the volume was supposed to come out, we saw him and the other editor scurrying around the campus with worried looks on their faces, mutter- ing "Fifty-five dollars and seventy cents," twelve hundred copies by noon," "page proofs," "Eleanor Sch- maltzenblatt," and "payroll." But we must hand it to Mr. Worboys, LILIOM A Review Mr. Windt has done to Molnar's "Liliom" just what (a priori) the average movie director would do. He has made it "foggy with tears" and with an admirably poised pleasant play he offers a tedious, maudlin evening. This was particu- larly stupid of Mr. Windt, it seems, since throughout the play Molnar scattered indications that he hadn't lost his sense of values. Mr. Windt and Miss Chapel (individually and mutually) pushed the play for big, grand, "meaningful" emotions that would tug your heart (or throat) and leave you pounding (or gasp- ing) as at the movies. Whereas Molnar literally bathed the play in a whimsical humour that always made explicit just how much emo- tion and meaning he thought his finely conceived and finely com- prehended scenes would bear. In the light of the truism that the di- rector should be able to approxi- mate or attain the intelligence of the dramatist, one begins to de- spair of Mr. Windt as the perman- ent director of what should be one of the best student organizations in the country. Such despair, of course, requires elaborate justification. Well-one began to feel that Mr Windt was perhaps too deeply af- fected by the play in the very firs scene. As he interpreted it we wer supposed to be somewhat awed by the seriousness of the birth of lov (or something of the sort). Mis Chapel spoke her lines with an aweful slowness and seemed striv- ing for a sort of Katherine Cornel emotiveness. Our little hearts wer supposed to go out to her as Juli earnestly intoned: "But-Mr.-Lil- im--I haven't had-a-a lover or "I'd give you my money-if- had any-" etc. As I interpret it the scene has no pretence to emo tional depth; and it is silly t strive for it. What Molnar ha written is a sensitively humourou version of a simple scene betwee a tough and a peasant girl. Wha Molnar sensitively enjoys is th warmly comic way in which thes two inarticulate people equivocat and dilly-dally in the face of a pe culiar emotion they can't expres or understand. Played for sof comedy by making it full of gig gles, pauses, nervous whistling blank stares, awkwardnesses, th scene would be delicious. And th emotion, the poignancy, woul come through the lightness, givin the scene its right depth, balanc and beauty. Mr. Windt didn't con cern himself much with the light ness and the dilly - dallying. H concentrated on the poignancy an the result was pretty maudlin. Similarly, in the beginning of th next scene (Julie's scene with Ma rie), Miss Chapel again spoke in th slow, awesome tones that an eigh teen year old peasant girl woul be entirely incapable of. The re action we were supposed to hav was something in the nature of "How terrible it all is! he hasn' any work and he beats her!-- poo thing! ... but she loves him thougi . .you can see that.. how won derfully deep and suffering peas ant passion is . . . etc." Whereas surely Molnar never meant Juli to give an affecting recital of as pects of the "lower depths." Juli would tell these things to Marie iI a simple, curt, blunt way witi something of the peasant's natur- al stoicism and unemotional resig- nation. To repeat, this eightee year old peasant girl would surel never indulge in the luscious emo- tionalising of Miss Chapel's Julie If Julie were interpreted withou# the sense of the poignancy of he] own situation which Miss Chape gave her, then again the poignancy would come through, so to speak "legitimately.'' There was one thing in the next scene which convinces me that Mr Windt approved of Miss Chapel's ! manner. As Liliom goes out with sort of bewilderment. The scene was oozed for big emotions. And, certainly, the scene won't bear it; We have all make it isn't that big. And if one won- - O Remington, Royal, .ders whether Molnar thinks it Corona, Underwood should have been taken so senti- ybe CUd mentally, one has only to look at N K Colored dco finishes. Price $60 the very next pleasant scene in R . D. MORRILL heaven, which Wednesday night o* L 3 -4 South StatSt."Phone661 gave one the feeling that Mr. Mol- E j A 3 "" aSh nar was laughing, perhaps sneer- ing, at Mr. Windt. The fault of __c ___ N this death scene could have been A.- - very easily corrected. Mr. Allen A JE S T could have read Lilom's fran'tlcW disjointed attempts at self--ustifi- LUNCHEON 35c NOW! cation much more quickly with a DINNER 45c sort of hysteria induced by his re-_- morse, his perplexity, and his agony of inarticulateness. Miss Chapel could have spoken more rapidly, CHIGAN 'eagerlyembracing the opportunity to make the confession of love # which shame had stifled. And N w° --NOW- again, I submit, the scene would have conveyed a balanced emotion and not an emotion, as in Mr. The BrOadway Windt's interpretation, to which Sta Success the scene is in no way adequate g UCC;S: and which only made us embar- "A rassed that Mr. Windt was so ex- cessively touched. f And then, as a final corrobora- T l~ tion of the persistent fault I find with Miss Chapel's Julie, there is the way she read that astr ovely s speech: "It is possible, dear-that - /f/ someone may beat you and beat you,-and not hurt you at all." She spoke it very slowly, very emotion- ally, reacting to the wordsherself The funniest picture ever Sin such a way as to suggest that made to measure for she fully understood what it meant. e I believemthe real poignancy of the W ILLIAM IRENE DELR Y rspeech comes out only if JulieW I L A ,'E o RO speaks it simply, unaffectedly, JAMES HALL s bluntly, as a truth she has di - 5 L EW C DY covered with her body alone, and NATALIE MOOREHEAD - thus leaving us the luxury of re- y Directed by Roy Del Ruth l acting to and understanding it. DOROTHY MARJORIE e These errors of Mr. Windt and JORDAN RAMBEAU e Miss Chapel made Wednesday eve- and others - ning's performance, as I have said, very tedious and maudlin. But EXTRA". I some of the enumerated faults , were so obvious that they will be "Crashing Hollywood" Also - surely corrected. And besides, Farce Comedy Burton Holmes o there'are some very good things in Epic the production. Mr. Allen's work RIPLEY NOVELTY Farce Comedy s as Liliom was excellent. He in no and_:._ ovlte n way brought a sullen, childlike, fer- Novelties t ocious personality to the part, so PARAMOUNT NEWS e that very naturally a good deal of SUNDAY e the effort of getting himself into "Ma___F_ _SUNDAY e Liliom shows. His Liliom was not " altese Falcon" "ANNABELLSAFFAIRS" - as racy, or as-exact as would be the Liliom of some one naturally more t suited to the part, who could have - given it more vitality, more phy- , sical resourcefulness. What is ex- SUMMER e cellent in Mr. Allen's work is the e understanding. There were no d faults of understanding. All as- g pects of the part he acted con- e scientiously and skillfully and al- - ways in the right direction. Miss - Scott's Marie seemed a perfect per- e formance: !thoroughly charming, d genuine and convincing. Miss Power's Mrs. Muskat had the right e qualities: a harshness, a verve, a STILL AVAILABLE AT THE PRESS -sort of shrewd vulgarity, and a S ILA A L B EA H R S e peculiar pathos of its own; but it BUILDING - was always a little uncertain as d though she were not sure of its - meaning. The performance of Hel- e en Carrm, Phares Reeder, Robert :. Hiuber and Frederic Crandall were t all very adequate. The sets are a r very successful imitation of Lee Si- b monson's. - W. J. G. TAKE RIDEON USc n Reflections e n At the Michigan h - Although William Haines is feat- - ured as the star in "The Tailor n Made Man," at the Michigan until T O y Sunday, we liked the acting of Jos- - eph Cawthorn best. As the German- - . American tailor, both the script and t the plot permitted him plenty of .-. -- r action, he made the best of oppor- 1 tunties offered him in the dia- n logue, and really put all the enter- COME TO DETROIT tainment into the picture.CO E D TRO'"T William Haines, as usual the nYathis Summer, park your car on the dock, and enjoy this all-day t debnair bol - as-bras. yang over the great International Highway of Lakes and Rivers. Free debonair, bold - as - brass young Dancing on the boat. splendid Cafeteria and Lunch Service. See Detroit . gentleman, who crashes h e r e, river front, Belle Isle, Lake St. Clair, the Flats and the celebrated "Venice s crashes there, and always comes of America." This cruise of 61 miles each way takes you through a con- out all right in the end, did his stantly changg panorama of rare land and water views. e part toward contributing to the Port Huron, Sarnia, St. Clair Flats, Algonac many laughs in the picture. He Starting this trip from Port Huron passengers leave at 3:10 p. m., arriving was fortunately not allowed to lapse in Detroit at 7:45 p. m. Returning, leave Detroit at 9 the next morning, too much into the vernacular and arrvig ii Port Huron at 2:10 p. m. _slang as n previous oasions, and Str. Tashmoo leaves Griswold St. Dock at 9 a. m., Daily and Sunday; arrive the int of cheapnes wictinged aPort Huron 2:10 p. m. Returning, leave PORT HURON, 3:10 p. m., arrive " the hint of cheapness which tinged DetroIt 7:45 p. m. FARES: Tashmoo Park or St. Clair Flats, week days 75c; , some of his former efforts was al- Sundays, $1.00, R. T. Port Huron or Sarnia, Ont., one way, $1.10, R.T. $2. together lacking. He and Cawthorn T A$ H M O O PAR K . kept yesterday afternoon's audience laughing most of the time, and this ' bteeDetroit and Port Huron is Detroit's favorite pleasure ark laughinmeo osdeof the ieadthisf where You may spend six hours and return on Str. Tashmoo in the is some job considering the state of evening. Free dancing in the pavilion; picnic in the grove, baseball, golf , the weather yesterday. and all outdoor sports and amusements. Dorothy Jordan, in the other lead, did not have much of a chance to Railroad Tickets Heron.eeors odn St.ashoo er di.s" i do more than a little timely weep- Sing here and there, look pretty, and Dancing Moonlights to Sugar Island contribute the love interest to the Drive to Detroit and enjoy an evening of music and dancing on Str. picture. For the benefit of 01r Tashmoo and in the pavilion at Sugar Island. Tickets 75c. Park en the readers who are romantically in- dock. Leave at 8:45 every evening. * dined, this phase of the show was rather badly done. 4A#DO PI PULAR STR. TASHMOO FAj SW.iNt of what courses he taken. He should about the building he does about the Caesar's bridge." Commenting on The Daily Iowan has or has not know as much of Ford cars as construction of this statement says that "Dr. Wood is entirely correct about un- derestimating the importance of the examining function of education; in the process an unfortunate stress lhas been laid upon the outworn types of examination without suf-' ficient consideration of their mer- its. Usually examinations are a mere mechanical hurdle for the un- dergraduate, entailing a large amount of 'cramming' and memori- zation, but revealing not at all the student's aptitude or m e n t a 1 growth." The Institute does not propose to do away entirely with examina- tions, but it hopes to work out a system of tests whereby the initia- t..e of the student may be ascer- tained; a system by which the abil- ity of the student to do some con- structive thinking may be meas- ured. Examinations will be formu- late l with a view to finding out whether or not the student can ap- ply his learning to the sort of prob- lems he will face after graduation; learning will be brought down from the pretty but impractical realm of pure theory. Examinations advocated are the essay type confined to a single sub- ject with a time limit of several hours, objective tests resembling the ordinary intelligence test, and problem examinations in which a student will be given a task to per- form on his own resources in from one to three weeks. Some of these types are now in use here but a more general application of this plan in most of th University de- partments would vastly improve the benefits to be derived from four or more years of study. Not alone would the students benefit; instructors would find their work more interesting, and more tangible results of patient teaching. would be their just reward. The basic idea is worth serious consid- ' (who, incidentally, registered as be- ing born July, 1931) that he made enough money on the directory to pay our salaries this week, even though he is always griping, and even though he got soaked $2 for a Lion's Blind Children Benefit Dance ticket which he tried to swap to us for $1. * * * Talk about ways of getting even. The officials made certain of the staff members enroll in school be- fore they could work here this sum- mer; so just to spite them, one member made out the address on his grade cards as Monte Carlo, Morracco, so the University would have to spend five cents instead of two, to mail the things to him. the knife, he roughly throws Julie on the fHoor. Now Mr. Windt Wed- nesday night allowed Miss Chapel a long time for "reacting" and for a very emotive "pulling herself to- gether" and "pulling herself up' scene. If Miss Chapel had coughed one would have thought her Cam- ille, just abandoned by her Armand And that suggestion of Camillean emotional self-indulgence, which Miss Chapel was constantly giving was not only very wrong for Julie but extremely ludicrous. And then, the death scene. This surely was both ludicrous and maudlin; with no one to Thblame but Mr. Windt. le made it go very s-1-o-w-1-y. He had Mr. Al- len read his long speech very slowly for nonderous nathos. with Miss