THE MICHIGAN DAILY IGAN DAILY of the Summer Session 7 K 1 r,.,.y 1 creating among leading figures of the state by openly associating with such a man as the above- described attorney. Democratic leaders, state offi- cials, and others have attempted to aid the gov- ernor by moving to break up this unsatisfactory connection with a man who has started gossiping tongues to wagging. Unless Mr. Comstock proceeds to follow the warnings of his friends he will soon find that he is politically doomed in the State of Michigan. He has had ample opportunity to make up for his grievous error in consorting with such a man in the first place, but if he doesn't take a step backward very soon it will be too late. Already the Legislature, composed of many men froi his own party, has expressed an opinion upon this matter and now it is time for Mr. Com- stock to do soniething about it. ri ...--.- qI 1 .. .NMwto~Or a VPublished every morning except Monday during the Vpiversity year and Summer Session by the Board in' Control of Student Publications. Sember of the Western Conference Editorial Associa- tion and the Big Ten News Service. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Tae Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use. .fr republication of all news dispatches creditedto it or 4t otherwise credited in this paper and the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches are reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as. second classm atter.Special rate of postage granted by Thirxd Assistant Postmaster-General.- Subscription during summer by carrier, $1.00; by mail, During regular school year by carrier, $4.00; by .mail, $4.50. Offices: Student Publications Building, Maynard Street, Ann. Arbor, Michigan. Phone 2-1214. epresentatives: College Publications Representatives, JX-p., .40 East. Thirty-Fourth E'treet, New York City; 80 Boyston Street, Boston; 612 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago. National Advertising Service, Inc., 11 West 42nd St., New York, N. Y. EDITORIAL STAFF Phone: 4925 1ANAGING EDITOR............FRANK B. GILBRETII ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR.....KARL SEIFFERJT ASSOCIATE EDITORS: John C. Healey, Powers Moulton and E. Jerome Pettit., REPORTERS: Edgar H. Eckert, Thomas H. Kleene, Bruce Manley, Diana Powers Moulton, Sally Place. BUSINESS STAFF .Office Hours; 9-12, 1-5 Phone: 2-1214 BUSINESS MANAGER.............BYRON C. VEDDER- ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGER..,.HARRY R. BEGLEY CIRCULATION MANAGER.........ROBERT L. PIERCE' FRIDAY; JULY 21, 1933 'Father' Iden Is Gone.. N OT MANY .of the students now at- tending the University have occa- sion to remember the late "Father" Iden. But there are thousands of Michigan graduates scat- tered about the world who will long remember, him as head of the "Upper Room" Bible class. Coming to Ann Arbor in 1913, "Father" Iden became head of the Bible Chair, under auspices of the United Christian Missionary society.r He then' proceeded to devote all his time to religious teach- ings. He organized a Bible Class among the stu- dents here comparable to the one he founded at his alma mater, Butler College, in 1887. At the same time that he was carrying on his. activities among the students he also edited the. "Upper Room Bulletin" and conducted a Bible class in an Ann Arbor church. He never married He devoted his entire lifetime to the one supreme purpose of furthering the instruction of religion. It was very fitting that, in appreciation of his work here, he was sent, in 1924, on a world tour in order that he might visit his many former "pupils" who were then scattered in far-away places about the globe. The fund which enabled him to make this trip came from contributions made by Bible students here. "Father' Iden has delivered his last address to students. No longer will they gather in the "Upper 4oom" of Lane Hall to. listen to his teachings. But thousands will always remember him for the great good which he accomplished here and the University and its students will forever be in- debted to the man who devoted his life to a pur- pose which he considered the most beneficial on earth. The Theatre ABOUT CARLO GOLDONI (Author of "The Servant of Two Mas- ters" which the Repertory Players are playing this week). By DAVID MOTT Voltaire, who thought very highly of Goldoni, called him "the Italian Moliere." In the sense that he is his country's greatest literary figure this is true. It is also more accurate than such wide comParisons generally are. Goldoni, while u- perior in imagination, in spontaneity, deals with the more superficial aspects of humanity. Mo- liere, on the contrary, probes deep into the 'hu- man soul, and has greater elegance of form. In return Goldoni is more genial and kindly in his judgments, and, while lacking none of Moliere's keenness of observation, is devoid of his bitter sat- ire. But Moliere lived in an age when his coun- try was passing through a glorious epoch of na- tional history. Goldoni, in the century. after Mo- liere, lived in the darkest period of political de- gradation that Italy has ever known. Goldoni's first aim was to bring to the Italian stage people and situations that were true. He wrote his plays to be acted without the traditional masks of the commedia dell' arte type of drama. This fact made his early efforts rather unappre- eiated by his native Venetians. It was in a fit of discouragement at the reception of his plays that he left Italy for the position of playwright of the Italian Comedy Company in Paris. He never wrote a play that was not suited to the actors who were going to play it. He studied the players, and knew them intimately both as to their mental and physical makeups. "My heroes," he said, "were men and not demi- gods. Their passions had the degree of elevation suitable to their rank, but they appeared with the properties of human nature with which we are acquainted, and their virtues and voices were not carried to an imaginary excess. This is precisely what was requisite to bring back to reason a public accustomed to hyperboles, antithesis, and everything ridiculously gigantic and romantic." This quotation, written late in life, in his "Mem- oires," explains his revolt against the old time play. "The Servant of Two Masters," like many other Goldoni plays, was written at the request of an actor. In this case it was Sacchi, the famous comedian, who even suggested the plot to him. Goldoni was not ashamed to admit that many of his works were written for the love of money. "I never thought of composing any form from taste or choice, and I never labored on them from motives of complaisance or interest. When we are possessed of talents, we must turn them to some account; a history painter will not refuse to draw a baboon, if he is well paid for it." For all his commercial attitude, he enjoyed his position in France where he had a comfortable pension from' the Court. Screen Reflections Four stars means extraordinary; three stars very, good;, two stars good; one star just another picture;: Ino stars keep -away from it. AT THE MICHIGGAN ** "THE MYSTE'RY OF THE WAX MUSEUM" Entirely in technicolor, "The Mystery of the Wax Museum" is a bit harder on the eyes than the usual type of picture. But, if you can sit through it-and it really is a beautiful bit of photography-you will certainly enjoy the effects which can be obtained by coloring up a mystery story. Glenda Farrell plays the .part of 'a newspaper reporter who, braver than the average woman, steals into the wax museum to clear up one of the wierdest mysteries to be conceived by a scen- ario writer for some time. Miss Farrell is a fine little actress and this picture well proves it. She has a perfect knack for portraying the clever, self-contained, ambitious type of young lady with- out making you sick of it all in the first reel. In fact she makes you like it. And that is say- ing a great deal. Of course Fay Wray is in the picture too but has little to do besides look pretty and scream now and then-and we suspect that the screams come from a double.I apparently. She does quite well as "Blondie" in this film of the gang world. The story is one of the most far-fetched we have had occasion to witness for some time. It concerns the activities of the young moll who worked up to the leadership of the largest gang in Chicago (a real tough spot for any girlie, if what we've heard about it is true.) Chester Morris hasa a role which, recently, has become r'ather typical for him. As the hard-boiled gangster (you know, cigarette in the corner of the mouth all the time and that sort of thing) he seconds Miss Blon- dell's actions very well. But the sequence is almost too much for us and if it were not for the fact that the whole thing is obviously farcical we would not have cared to see it through. As things turn out however, the picture has a few nice points. SCREEN LIFE IN HOLLYWOOD By HUBBARD KEAVY HOLLYWOOD--To scores of Hollywood come- dians, Mickey Mouse-no matter what his public may think of him-is a villain, a scoundrel, a wolf in disguise, an evil-does-a rats-cal! And all because Mickey Mouse practically has ruined the once thriving business known as slap- stick comedy. He is the best slap-stick comedian in the world and no one in Hollywood can equal him. Beaten At Their Gamn. All this from Edgar Kennedy, who says Mickey Mouse is the reason human comedians are growing, old and gray with worry. They can't keep up with him, they can't imitate him-in fact, they can't do anything successfully that even resembles good old slapstick comedy because Mickey has moved into and is completely dominating that once fertile field. The situation, says Kennedy, who stars in and directs two-reel comedies for R. K. 0., is indeed a serious one. It is so serious that it is revolutioniz- ing the two-reel metier. "Once it was funny when a character was shown jumping uphill or running rapidly backward (which was accomplished by camera trickery), but Mickey can jump so far and run so fast in any direction that a human comic hasn't a look-in any more," said Kennedy regretfully. "The chase was always good for the finish, but it isn't any longer because Mickey can run faster and farther and be chased by a Digger. angrier mob than any of us. Comedies Changing "Those who manufacture short comedies have had to devise new means of being funny. These consist chiefly of inventing situations which are plausible and in which fairly plausible things are said and done. The secret of the dear, departed slapstick comedy, so popular a few years ago, was that it went completely outside the realm of pos- sibility. _ I e- Excursion No. 8: Schools of the Cranbrook Foundation, Bloomfield Hills, Saturday morning, July 22- Round trip bus fare $1.35. Buses leave at 7:45 a. in. from in front of Angell Hall, and will return to Ann Arbor soon after noon. The schools, erected through the Cran- brook Foundation, are considered the finest private schools in the Middle West. Assistant Head Master C. J. Keppel will personally conduct the party through, the buildings and will explain the educational methods used in the schools. Reservations should be made by 5 p. m. Friday, July 21, in Room 9, University Hall. Wesley H. Maurer Excursion No. 9: Greenfield Village (Second Trip) - Wednesday After- noon, July 26-Scheduled for stu- dents and citizens who were unable to go on the tour, July '19. Buses leave from in front of Angell Hall at 1 p. m. Party returns to Ann Ar- bor by 5:45 p. m. Nominal entrance fee of 25 cents will be charged at the village. Round trip bus fara $1. Reservations must be made by 5 p. m., Tuesday, July .25, in Room 9, University Hall. Wesley H. Maurer Graduate School: Students en- rolled in the Graduate School will not be permitted .to drop courses aft- er Saturday, July 22. A course .is not. officially dropped until it is re- ported in the office of the Graduate School, 1014 Angell Hall. Students who have changed their' election.isince submitting election cards should call this week at the office of the Graduate School. This involves the dropping and adding of courses, the substitution of one course for another, as well as the change of instructors. G. Carl Huber Excursion No . 10: Put-in-Bay, Lake Erie-Thursday, July 27. Under direction of Laurence Gould, profes- sor of geology and renowned antarc- tic explorer. Chartered buses leave from in front of Natural Science ,Building at 7 a. m. Steamer leaves Detroit dock at 9 o'clock, arrives at. Island at 12:30 p. m. Tours under guidance of Professor Gould. Steamer leaves Island at 4:15 p. in. and ar- rives in Detroit at 8:15 p. m. Await- ing buses will return party' to Ann Arbor by 10:30 o'clock. Bus fare, round trip, $1.50. Steamer fare, 75 cents. If party consists of more than 100. a rebate of 20 cents will be made, thus bringing the net fare to 55 cents. Total expenses under $5. Make reservations by purchasing bus and steamer tickets before p. M. Wednesday, July 26, in Room No.. 9, University Hall. Wesley H. Maurer School of Education Students: Please note the following announce- ment which has previously appeared incorrectly in the D. 0. B.: Permis- sion to drop courses without "E" (not "C" as previously printed) grades will not be given after July 22. No course is considered officially dropped unless it has been reported in the Recorder's Office, Room 1431, University Elementary School. C. O. Davis, Secretary University High School Demonstra- tion Assembly: The third demon- stration assembly of the University, High School Summer Session will be presented this morning at eleven o'clock in the high school auditor- ium. The program will be given by classes in the science and fine arts departments. The pupils of the sci- ence class will show the development of astronomy from astrology. In the part of the program entitled "Tab- leaux Vivants" the fine arts classes will show examples of the various schools of art. Introductions will ac- company each "living picture." All Summer Session students who are interested are cordially invite dto attend the assembly. An Illustrated Lecture on Munici- pal Housing in Vienna will be given' by Dr. F. S. Onderdonk at 5 p. m. this afternoon in Natural Science Auditorium, for the Socialist Club Public Lecture Series. Latin 216 and 215: Will the mem- bers of these courses please consult the Bulletin Board in Graduate Reading Room 1 as soon as possible. The information asked for in that DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Publication in the Bulletin is constructive notice to all members of the University. Copy received at the office of the Summer Session until 3:30; 11;30 a. in.Saturday. :ulletin shouw the end of th at the latest. I I The Cosmopolitan club is invited by Dr. and Mrs. Fisher to a tea-party today at 4 p. m., at their house, 1430 Cambridge road. The meeting is arranged to bring the students from other campuses into contact with the students here and also the foreign students with the native students who are only here for the summer. Both members and non-members are invited. B. S. Samra, President Cosmopolitan Club Michigan 'Repertory Players: "The Servant of Two Masters," the fa- mous Italian comedy of Carlo Gold- oni, will be presented tonight at the Lydia Mendelssohn theatre. The theatre box-office will be open from 9:30 to 12 and from 1 to 9 today. The telephone number is 6300. Business and Professional Women's Club Picnic: The Ann Arbor Busi- ness and Professional Women's Club extends an invitation to all out-of- town club members in the Summer Session who might enjoy attending the club picnic to be held Saturday, July 22, at Mrs. Peel's cottage, Win- ans Lake. Supper will be 40 cents. Meet at the north door of the Mich- igan League at 3 p. m. for transpor- tation. Please make reservations not later than Friday noon calling tele- phone number 9861. Women, Students: There will be a swimming party today at the In- tramural pool, followed by a supper at the Women's Athletic Building. A small fee will be charged. Reserva- tions should be made by calling 4121 Extension 721, before Friday noon. The party will leave Barbour Gym- nasium at 5:30 p. m. A mid-summer showing of etchings, pencil renderings, ceramic sculpture and water colors by students and young alumni will commence Sunday at 3:30 p. m. at the Student Art Exchange in the League. In addition to this showing of new work, there will be a One Dollar Show in which a wall of. the 'Ex- change' is devoted to a collection of wood-cuts, water colors, etchings etc., to be sold for one dollar each. Fac- ulty and students are cordially in- vited. Editorial Comment r 16 PROBLEMS AND PROMISES OF RADIO Radio and television promise to give birth in the not far distant future not only to phenomenal advances in communication, but to some of the most perplexing problems with which society has been compelled to deal. With the development of the radio to its pres- ent perfection and the recent invention of the "iconoscope" by Dr. Zworykin, the mechanical dif- ficulties have at last been sufficiently well over- come that the problem now is not whether we shall have television, but What we are going to do with it. The implications of this new adjunct to radio are so extensive that one hesitates to speculate as to their exact nature. Not only has this mir- acle of electricity supplied us with sound which reaches us instantly from almost any part of the globe, but now it does the same with sight. Speedy capture of criminals looms as an immediate bene- fit; in combination with newspapers, news cover- age and dissemination are promised on a scale never before dreamed. It is difficult to see the limit of benefactions promised. But as in every new discovery, difficulties, not the least of which is the question of control, are seen to mount. At present the public's chief in- terest in radio its in its entertainment. Yet even today with the supply of licenses limited, the air is flooded with programs best forgotten. Government owned and operated stations have been suggested and have .been fought by private enterprise on the basis that the public demands greater variety than the government could supply. The argument can, of course, be met with the thought that the public would probably be even better satisfied with fewer stations and improved programs. Be that as it may, the problem will not have to be met today or even tomorrow. But it is one whose complexities are constantly mounting and, which must be met eventually.T -The Daily Iowan. nn Arbor's ew Buses. AFTER a number of weeks without local buses, Ann Arbor will welcome iew service in the city next Monday. On that v a fleet of new machines will provide trans- tation for students and townspeople. n the 'good old days"-'-when students drove ir own automobiles-the bus situation was not much significance on the campus. But now that is the only practical means of getting from nt to point in the city, students will welcome return of bus service. t is to be hoped that the new concern will sper. Without any- type of service 'whatsoever students are the great losers in Ann Arbor. ey are the ones to benefit from a speedy, con- ient, comfortable means of getting to and from campus. The news service is supposed to vide this type of transportation. It is up to the :ent population to lend full support in making undertaking a complete success so that a repe- on of the recent difficulties will not occur. wvernor Comstock Slipping... . -.. '.fi +4 x Yi i' " r.r ' y ','. Vn YI a . ..'',, I s. b Wfe are offering you subscrip- tiOns for the remainder of the Summer Session at a special rate of- This is the price for a copy de- lered to your residence each International Law Session Students.. . w . .... C RITICISMS of Governor Com- stock's disregard for the advice of nds in his recent need seem to be well-founded. i'rst it appeared that the executive had merely le a grave mistake which would be righted as i as he discovered his error. But now that he refused to listen to the advice of well-wishers' > have only the welfare of the state and the ernor himself in mind it is time to wonder if' has not perhaps carried this thing too far. e openly aligned himself with a man whose' itation is extremely distasteful to the people [ichigan. The out-of-state character concerned a background that is very questionable and he hermore has openly professed connections As a mystery story however, the film is quite novel. Though it has the usual attributes of such a story it also contains just the proper amount of awesome crudity, the perfect dose of intensity. And at the climactic moient, when the young- sters in the balcony are applauding with glee the timely arrival of the police and the breaking down of that last door which hid the innermost depths of the museum from the eyes of the world, as the girl let out one last spine-chilling scream, our neighbor-critic poked us in the ribs. "Ah," he said, "the troops from Fort Dodge." Well, maybe we do like the sensational a bit or perhaps "The Mystery of the Wax Museum" did take us back to the blood-and-thunder days of the movies, but we still liked the picture very, much. There is some excellent mask-work and some fine photography contained therein, as well as the fine acting of Glenda Farrell and the sup- HOLLYWOOD "SCOTLAND YARD" AND NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT # Coupled with renewed statements from Wash- ington concerning the federal government's deter- mination .to put an end to racketeering, news comes from Hollywood this week that steps are being taken to organize an extensive movieland "Scotland Yard" in self protection against the depredations of kidnapers. Joseph W. Reilly, chief of police of the Fox Film corporation is said to be the sponsor of the plan by which the major studios would combine to form a $100,000 fund for the organization of a far-reaching secret police system. Meanwhile or- ders were said to have been issued by municipal police to shoot to kill in dealing with kidnapers. Al this is exciting reading, but it reveals a sadly inadequate system of law enforcement. Perhaps kidnapers are an especially difficult tribe with which to deal. Considering their contempt for the law and the police, it is certain that they are too unruly for the present enforcement agencies. The hlst statement from AttorneyGeneral Cum- i I I morning. The Michigan Daily mtudent PublicationsBuilding i MI