THE MICHIGAN DAILY a 'RIDAY,JULY 13, 1934
the Sparks sarcasm soars to a new level. His lean,
angular jaw snaps around the picture with the
speed of a gross of lightning bolts, and the Yale
Bowl effect of his felt hat, crammed fast on his
1head, floats into almost every scene after his
initial appearance.
Men who are acting as officials a7
DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN the dance tonight pleaserepor
promptly at 8:45 on the second flooi
Publication in the B~ulletin is constructive notice to all members of the
University. Copy received at the Summer Session office until 3:30; 11:30 of the Michigan League.
Saturday._Richard Edmundson
By THE SUMMER OBSERVER
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East Engineering. Quiet and peace and order.t
Tht masculinity of the architectural design is
,soothing. The building is plain and angular and
clean. Spotless tiles on the floor. Square corners,.
'And an engine!
Set off in the lobby is the skeletal form of an
pight-cylinder Graham. It draws the masculine
eye. They stand and they ponder. They stoop
and they peer. Not often does the student tinker
with the machinery on display.
Up in the halls the typewriters click. The halls
are narrow and somewhat dark. If an office door
is open there is the usual scene of woman-at-
.typewriter. Passing shadows never make her look
up. The displays in the cases of foreign engines,
posters of new machines, white powders in bottles
are equally silent.
Out the window into an adjoining part of the
same edifice, men stand serenely working under the
flying belts.
Within the Library no one looks around. Peace
and quiet. Not even this defaced sign disturbs
the reading students: . . EtIODICALS. But the
atmosphere is not eerie. It is tranquil.
yr
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Phillips Holmes and Mary Brian can be credited The date of the Excursion to Put-
Philips olms an Mar Bran cn bcreite in-Bay, Lake Erie. has been changed
ywith little more than supporting roles, as the real from ay, July 21. to Wednes-
frmSaturday,Juy2,tWens
value of the play lies in the comedy supplied by day, July 18.
Sparks. Zasu Pitts throws in a few high frequency -
flusters, and June Brewster, "Vanities" star, does 'U. S. Civil Service Commission an-
a good job in her role of a spicy telephone operator. nounces the following examination:
The other members of the cast are little more Junior Legal Assistant (Labor Law),
than perfunctory in their parts. Bureau of Labor Statistics, $2,000.
Although Sparks single-handedly almost dragged fice Announcement is on file at the of-
the picture to a three star ranging, the shorts ,
dropped it. The bill was all-Paramount, with a
newsreel, Sportlight, and two other features. The
Sportlight was rather ordinary, with shots of
ping-pong, sun-bathing, bicycling, and last year's
football teams, but is all right if you like sun-
bathers.
A comedy with Eugene Palette was dripping
with slap-stick - the drunk-with-cutie caught by
wife plot, and the other short was a rehash of
nickelodeon pictures, with the usual comedy melo-
drama added to it - a tale of the flirtatious belle
who entangled two youths of Phi Phuey Phuey in
her toils - good for a few snickers.
Altogether, it's worth the money. -C.B.C.
THE WOMAN'S WORLD
The nursery school, University Elementary
School. Even under lessened enrollment due to the
chAnge of season, the school carries on. The little
tots come in at nine and leave at three. Substitute
mamas are combined into teachers and nursery
maids. The tots play, romp, draw, eat, and sleep.
In one room hangs a series of colored stripes, with
:omething like an ear emerging in a far corner. The
artist will tell you upon question that it is a tiger.
Tiny beds with white framed curtains screen
off small compartments in which the children take
naps. Tiny tables at which sits the bigger teacher
are used for meals. Conversation is often terrifying,
for the teachers allow the youngsters to talk about
anything from Samuel Insull, the big baA man, to
cutting off the teacher's head.
Back in a screen-in booth sits an observer, tak-
ing notes unseen by the "kids" on "How long num-
ber seven plays with a doll" and "What made num-
ber three strike number six." A lusty howl shatters
the nerves. The screaming one stands in the
middle of the floor and yells. The attendant takes
the child by the hand, places her in a room by her-
self, and allows her to scream to her little lung's
content. She is in the screaming room.
A thin young man jumps away from the door.
For this is a woman's world.
Campus Opinion
Letters published in this column should not be con-
strued as expressing the editorial opinion of The
Daily. Anonymous communications will be disregarded.
The names of communicants will, however, be re-
garded as confidential upon request. Contributors
are asked to be brief, confining themselves to less
than 500 words if possible.
REPLY TO A PEDAGOGUE
To the Editor:
As one of the many hundreds of stay-ins around
this institution I feel called upon to defend those
students who have found it necessary to work,
and work hard, in order to glean what knowledge
the University of Michigan has to offer to those
who enroll.
If the Pedagogue who wrote a letter to Campus
Opinion the other day and inferred that we regular
students know nothing of the current depression
except maybe a vague rumor to the effect that
there was such a depression, would come to Ann
Arbor next fall during Orientation week and seek
employment at the University for a school year, he
would no doubt change his mind as to the extent
the depression influences us stay-ins.
I wish to ask, as a torch-carrier of the first water,
if the Pedagogue has ever stopped to realize how a
student must feel to receive word from home that
the bank has just failed and it will be impossible
for him to continue his studies any further.
And too, if the Pedagogue were called upon to
earn his board in the hours of the morning before
his eight o'clock, I would "wager he would curse the
depression every time his alarm clock sounded. Ann
Arbor winters have a habit of becoming very cold.
I only wish the Pedagogue would of necessity have
to arise every winter morning and trudge through
the snow a few blocks in order to stoke a dirty fur-
nace. And then spend the money he earns at this
task on a poorly-lighted an as poorly-heated
room.
Don't think, Pedagogue, because we are here
where some people do paint their toe nails blue
or red, that we all spend our time at.the art of
decorating our anatomy. And if we had time for
the art the depression would forbid our spending
money for the paint. -A Stay-in.
The Theatre
Students in the College of Engi-
neering: Saturday, July 14, will ber
the final day for droppinlg a course in
the Summer Session without record.
Courses may be dropped only with the
permission of the classifier after con-
ference with the instructor in the
course.
Michigan Repertory Players: "Both
Your Houses," Maxwell Anderson's
Pulitzer prize satire on Congress is
being presented this week at the Lydia
Mendelssohn theatre.
Season Ticket Patrons - Michigan
Repertory Players: Please make your
reservations for "Both Your Houses"
as early as possible. The advance
sale for this show is very heavy and
your co-operation will assist the Play-
ers in supplying good seats.
Dance Club will meet for the first
time today at 2 o'clock for work. Time
for later meetings will be discussed.
Women Students: There will be a
picnic swim this evening. Party will
leave Barbour Gymnasium at 5 o'-
clock. A charge of 35 cents will be
made to cover food and transporta-
tion. Make'reservation now in Room
15, Barbour Gymnasium.
A Committee has been appointed
to make a thorough study of Orienta-
tion Week and report the result of this
study. Members 'of the faculty are
invited to send criticisms and sug-
gestions on this general subject to,
Committee on Orientation Week,
Room 107, Mason Hall.
Seniors, College of Literature, Sci-
ence, and the Arts; School of Edu-
cation; School of Music; College of
Architecture; and School of Fores'try
and Conservation: Tentative lists of
Summer Session seniors in these five
units have been posted on the Bul-
letin Board in Room 4 U. H. Each
student who expects to graduate at
the close of the present Summer Ses-
sion should inspect these lists, and
see that his or her name appears and
is speled correctly. Any omissions
or cor ections should be reported im-
mediately.
University Bureau of Appointments
and Occupational Information: The
Bureau has the following call for
which applicants are desired:
Man to handle commercial de-
partment and general shop in small
high school.
Two women and one man for camp
counsellors. Positions paying only
maintenance and transportation.
For further details call at the of-
fice, 201 Mason Hall. Office hours
9-12 and 2-4.
ion, Literary College, College of En-
gineering, and Graduate School who
expect to receive a Teacher's Certifi-
cate at the end of the summer ses-
sion and who have not filled out an
application blank for this purpose
must do so immediately. The appli-
cation blanks are available in the of-
fce of the Recorder of the School
of Education, 1437 University Ele-
mentary School. The attention of
students in the Literary College is
called to the -fact that this applica-
tion is in addition to the application
made to the Committee on the Teach-
er's Certificate of that College.I
Men's Education Club Golf Match
today, 1:30 p.m., University of Michi-
gan Golf Course.
Stalker Hall: Saturday at 12:30
p.m. there will be a tour to Starr
Commonwealth at Albion. This will
be of special interest to students of
Education and Sociology. Please
make reservations by calling 6881.
Total cost of the trip will be less than
one dollar.
Conference on Worsip: At the
Michigan League Saturday from 10
o'clock to 12:15 and 2:00 o'clock, a
conference will be held upon Wor-
ship and the Conservation of Values.
Professor Norman B. Richardson, Dr.
Frederick B. Fisher, Prof. Stuart A.
Courtis and Rev. Henry T. Lewis and
others will speak. Open to Summer
School students without fee charge.
Stalker Hall: Today at 9 p.m.: In-
ternational Party and Dance spon-
sored by the International Student
Forum. Admission 35 cents per per-
son or 50 cents per couple. All wel-
come.
This group of hostesses will work
today. Please report promptly at
8:45 on the second floor of the Mich-
igan League. A different group will
work next week.
Jean Seeley
Maxine Maynard
Margaret Kimball
Jane Fletcher
Charlotte Whitman
Betty Aigler
Mary Morrison
Phyllis Brum
Kay Russell
Dot Moore
Frances Thornton
Margaret Siewers
WilmarClisbe
Mary Ellen Hall
Barbara Nelson
Elva Pascoe
Margaret Burke
Sup Calcutt
Marie Heid
Margaret Robb
Lucille Benz
Charlotte Johnson
Jean Keppel
Greta Wessborg
Marian Wiggin
Marian Hymes
Eddie Bob
LAUGHTON & WOODRUFF
and Their Music
icing cery night aexoit mon.
...Admniion4 0o- st ihigan"
most Beautiful summer saroom
Pour stars means extraordinary; three stars very
good; two stars good; one star just another picture;
no stars keep away from it.
MAJESTIC IN REVIEW
"JIMMY THE GENT"
Jimmy ................... James Cagney
Joan .....................:..Bette Davis
Mabel ......................Alice White
Louie..................Allen Jenkins
Joe .......................Arthur Hohl
Wallingham ............. Alan Dinehart
We've been waiting for something good at the
Majestic all summer and at last it's come. As far as
entertainment value is concerned "Jimmy the
Gent" is on a par with "Little Miss Marker" and
"The Thin Man"- the best the Michigan has had
to offer of late.
It's a Jimmy Cagney show, and your enjoyment
of it will depend entirely upon whether or not
you like the tough guy of the screen. Cagney ,fans
don't much care "what the vehicle is as long as the
cast contains Jimmy, but here's a Cagney show
with an interesting plot. It contains all sorts of
humorous situations centered mostly around Jim-
my's attempt to get "class." As a tough guy he's
convincing -but as a gentleman he's a howl.
Jimmy is an open and avowed chiseler who digs
up missing heirs and frequently supplies fake ones
Xor a cut. Alan Dinehart is in the same racket but
pretends to be on the level. Bette Davis, an in-
ivestigator in Jimmy's office, is really in love with
him but she quits him and goes to work for Dine-
hart because she thinks the latter is ethical and
Jimmy is not.
Both men are bribing morgue keepers and hos-
pital attendants to inform them of sudden deaths
so that they can find the heirs, if a ny, and horn
in on a split.
After a series of amusing incidents, mostly con-
cerned with Jimmy's humorous attempt to run his
business on an ethical basis, Dinehart gets Miss
Davis' consent to run away with him to Europe.
Dinehart, Jimmy, and Miss Davis meet on the
boat just before sailing time and Jimmy shows
Dinehart up for the crook that he is. Then, of
course, Jimmy and Miss Davis do the natural thing.
The only weak part in the show is the mis-cast-
ing of Miss Davis. She just can't convince you that
she really could love anyone of Cagney's type. The
est of the cast is exceptional. Allen Jenkins as
,Louie, Jimmy's right-hand-man, is perfect. Alice
White is an exceedingly dumb dumb girl. And
Mr. Dinehart is very smooth.
The short subjects are above the ordinary, a
Harry Langdon comedy being the only "flop."
-C.A.B.
Teacher's Certificate Candidates:
All students in the School of Educa-
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is an excerpt from
an 'article which appeared in the magazine "Unofficial"
some time ago. The author is George Spelvin.
A FOUR-YEAR
DRAMATICS COURSE
Play Production courses are closed to fresh-
men and first semester sophomores, and must be
preceded by a rather irrevelant course in the
theories of speech. Director Valentine B. Windt
has been known to achieve mild miracles in de-
veloping student talent; but inevitably the talent
will vary from year to year. When it is bad the
present course is flagrantly inadequate.
For some time we have advocated the establish-
ment of a four-year dramatics course under an in-
dependent Play Production department. We still
do.
(Outcries and general confusion. Alarums and
tuckets. "We cannot corrupt our freshmen by giv-
ing the interesting courses!")
The answer is an undignified but emphatic "Nuts
to you."
Is the University still treasuring among its
illusions the venerable New England belief that
work in theatre is immoral? Why should it be
worse than paleontology, Coptic, or Quantitative
Analysis of Blowpipes. Why shouldn't freshmen
be allowed access to Play Production? The admin-
istration probably doesn't realize that fewer ofd
them would flunk out if their courses could be
made intellectually stimulating as a trip to Ecorse.
We realize, of course, that the present system
is designed to produce public speaking teachers
for Michigan high schools - nice steady girls who
know their epiglottis from a hole in the thyroary-
tenoid - who will go out and send back more
incipient teachers who will go out and send back
more. It is a fine device for preserving the educa-
tional machine, but hardly the concern of a dra-
matic critic.
It is our business to root for a satisfactory uni-
versity theatre, loudly and lustily. The road is
dead, professional stock is dead, the movies are
very young. Student shows are the only fare the
camnus can get. and from the public's point of view
cp
ATTEND ATTEND
COOL MATINEES. . . . MICHIGAN . * * *COOL MATINEES
THE SUICIDE MURDER MYSTERY-
Nobody would talk but the victim -- and he couldn't!
"PRIVATE SCANDAL"
Phillips Holmes - Mary Brian - Zasu Pitts - Ned Sparks
Selected Short Subjects
. . . . . . . . . . . . MAJESTIC . . . . . . . . . . .
Matinees: All Seats 25c -- Evenings: Balcony 25c, Main Floor 35c
ENDS TONIGHT
JAMES CAGNEY, BETTE DAVIS, ALLEN JENKINS
"JIMMY THEGENT"
TOMORROW
Otto Kruger Nancy Carroll
"SPRINGTIME FOR HENRY"
Matinees 15c ... ...WUERTH. ... ... Nights 25c
DOUBLE FEATURE PROGRAM
Buster Crabbe Edw. G. Robinson
"Search For Beauty" "DARK HAZARD"
Maxwell Anderson's Pulitzer Prize Play