MI C DAJ V Season Is Success Dressmakers * - --- - - Successful In< Stock Project Vacation Theatre Reports Sell-Outs; Actors Are Well Known Here Complete success has attended the. work of Amy Loomis' new Vacation Theatre in its first summer at Tra- verse City and Nortport, Mich., ac- cording to reports received yester- day by The Daily. Miss Loomis, who has appeared for a number of years in campus plays, was director of the Lydia Mendel- ssohn Theatre, and helped found Robert Henderson's seasons here, took a troupe composed largely of, actors known on the Michigan cam- pus to the resort section of.Northern Michigan, with the idea of "grad- ually building up a public." She has done that and more; recent weeks have brought sell-outs and near sell- outs for the Vacation Theatre. Closing next week with C. L. An- thony's "Autumn Crocus," seen here recently, the Vacation Theatre has tentative plans for seasons in Lan- sing, Grand Rapids, or other Mich- igan cities during the winter. Plays- of high calibre have been presented throughout the summer, among them being "Three Cornered Moon," Shaw's "Arms and the Man," Paul Osborn's "The Vinegar Tree," John Van Druten's "There's Always Juliet," and S. N. Behrman's "The Second Man." Alan Handley, oif the Bonstellge Civic Theatre of Detroit, last seen in Ann Arbor opposite Jane Cowl as Orsino in "The Merchant of Venice" last spring, has played leading roles in the Vacation Theatre plays, along with Mildred Todd, Arthur Davison, and Doris Rich, also of the Botstelle Theatre. Paul Showers of the Grand Rap- ids Civic Players, Mary Power, and Hobart Skidmore, all former mem- bers of Play Production, are also fea- tured actors, Ruth Ann Oakes, who has directed a number of campus plays, and Olive Mathews, also of Ann Arbor, are connected with the theatre in technical capacities. In New York Go On Strike Mother Nature Found Guilty Of Causing That Painful Backache NEW YORK, Aug. 16.--A)-Sixty thousand dressmakers in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut received a call to srtike today. The strike, begun at 9 a.m., was aimed at what union leaders de- '2ounced as .'sweatshop conditions." The demands included a 30-hor week, enforcement of existing wage agreements and.limttations upon con- tractors. A statement by the National Dress Manufacturers' ,Association, jobbers' organization,, said: Because Nature has not completely perfected the spinal column of man to fit his upright posture, the human race suffers from sciatica and other low back pains which probably do not bother the four-legged members of the animal kingdom, study of the cause of such ills at University Hos- pital indicate.. For the last two years, every pa- tient at the Hospital who complained of sciatica or other pain in the lower back, was x-rayed to study this re- gion. In 74 per cent of the cases the intervertebral disk, the pad between the stationary first sacral vertebra and the movable first lumbar verte- bra, was squeezed fiat, allowing the bony joints to pinch sensitive nerves which branch out from the spinal column, Dr. Paul C. Williams, of the surgery department, found. The real damage found in most cases was the collapse of the little gelatine filled sac in the center of the disk, the nucleus pulposa. In three- fourths of the cases this sac had been broken and its contents squeezed out, so that it no longer served as a hy- draulic shock absorber between the bony sections. Men are affected more often than women, probably because of heavier work or violent exercise. There are several reasons why this accident happens most frequently to the disk and nucleus pulposa at this point. The first, or upper sacral vertebra tops the immovable series attached to the pelvis. Its upper surface slantsdownward and for- ward at an angle. This is satisfac- tory when the backbone is supported at both ends, as in four-footed ani- mals, but in man the whole weight of the spinal column bears down on this slanting joint. As a result the padding is subjected to what engineers call a "shearing" stress on the membrane of the nu- cleus pulposa, this may rupture and the hydraulic shock absorber deflates. In addition, faults in growth may occur, since the angle of the top of the sacral vertbera alters from 70 to 80 deg'rees from birth until the age of upright carriage and through- out life most twisting and bending movements involve action at this joint. Heavy lifting and too sudden bends and twists are often found in the case histories of sciatica patients and probably often were the last straw' for the normally well burdened nu- cleus pulposa. Treatment usually aims merely to help out nature, which in time will usually join the vertebra in an immovable segment. Casts and bracing corsets help this to be done with a minimum of pain, while in a few cases an operation to join the two vertebra was resorted to. Modified NRA. Program Given To Newspapers WASHINGTON, Aug. 16-(A')--The way was opened today for American. newspapers to join the parade of business organizations marching un- der the Blue Eagle.. A modified Presidential re-employ- ment agreement providing for tempo- rary minimum wages and shorter hours for newspaper workers was ap- proved Tuesday night by Hugh S. Johnson, recovery administrator. As approved, the temporary sched- ule, submitted by the American News- paper Publishers' Association, left open several controversial questions, including insistence of the publishers on their constitutional riglit to a free press. These questions will be determined before a permanent code is agreed upon after public hearings and Pres- idential approval. A major provision of the temporary agreement provides a 40-hour work week for reporters and other workers receiving less than $35 weekly. It also provides: A 40-hour week for accounting, clerical, office, service or sales em- ployes except a limited number of circulation and delivery men and outside salesmen. The same schedule for mechanical however, employ these latter a maxi- mum week of 44 hours for any six weeks within any six months period during the period of the temporary agreement, but not more than eight hours in any one day. The agreement exempts hours and wages under contracts on or before July 1, 1933, which cannot be changed except by mutual consent. In other cases a 40-cent an hour wage was fixed for mechanical workers or arti- sans, except apprentices. Minimum wages for office and sales employes were prescribed at from $12 weekly in towns of less than 2,500 to $15 in cities of more than 500,000. RELIGIOUS PAINTING SHOWN CHICAGO, Aug. 16.-(AP)-The in- ternationally famous painting "Naz- arene" which portrays Christ as a blond, blue-eyed triumphant person, is on exhibition at the Hall of Re- ligion of A Century of Progress-the Chicago World's Fair. Col. H. Stanley Todd, painter of. the masterpiece, in describing the painting, said: "From my earliest recollection an earnest desire possessed me to por- tray on canvas our Master, Jesus Christ. I desired to represent. Hiim as One who was sure He was about His Pather's business giving His strength and His joy to all. Missouri's largest trout hatchery. near Springfield, has a. capacity of more than 1,000,000 baby fish. AMY LOOMIS two=MileD e Race Program CHICAGO, Aug. 16.-A two-mile aerial high dive was added to the' program for the International Air Races and Gordon-Bennett Balloon Race to be staged here September 1-2-3-4 as the aviation climax of A Century of Progress-the Chicago World's Fair. Capt. Merle Nelson, chief ofacro- batic stunts and technical advisor to the Pennzoil Company, one of, the sponsors, announced that H. E. (Spud) Manning, 27-year-old Los Angeles parachute jumper, will per- form the leap daily at the Curtiss- Wright-Reynolds airport, where the air meet will be held - Nelson will take the parachute jumper aloft in a plane to a height if more than 11,000 feet. At this altitude, Manning will leap out into space, falling free until he is less than 1,000 feet above the ground cefore pulling the rip cord of his chute. He will carry a bag of flour .in his arms, spilling it to form a trail of dust so the spectators may follow the course of his descent. According to .the former Army pilot, Mannin's technique is as per- feet as that of a championship diver. He is said to be the only man in the world who actually swims through the air. On his descent he can glide a mile sideways and can loop at will. He can also increase or decrease his speed. Ted Nobriga, Hawaiian hurler, started off with three straight vic- tories for the Springfield (Il:) Red Birds. mparison. uipment presents many Lhe engineers of Western ~r the Bell System. rying of telephone cable :ective lead sheath. This nce, for the tiny copper >ice properly unless their ghly dried. To this end, rs devised special drying s thirty times drier than d thoroughness go into ble, telephones, switch- nds of telephone equip- pparatus that results is n service is dependable. "Any impression that we are deny- ing to labor a satisfactory return for its efforts is misleading and errone- ous." Meanwhile the United Dress Man- ufacturers' Association called for a shutdown of more than 2,000 con- tractors' shops. The strike, which comes at the height of the.rush season, was called by the International Ladies' Gar- ment:Workers' union. 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