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WEDNESDAY,
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Wyckoffs Plan1
To Start Own
School In Fall
Stage Designer, Costume
Manager Complete Last
Season With University
When the curtain rang downyes-
terday on the final**performance of
Gilbert's and Sullivan's "The Gon-
doliers," stage designer Alexander
Wyckoff completed his ninth and last
season with the Michigan Repertory
Players of the Department of Speech.
For the past nine years Wyckoff
has designed nearly all the produc-
tions of the players and taught stage-
craft on the Summer Session faculty.
This fall Wyckoff and his wife, Eve-
lyn Colgen, who has been costumiere
for the Players, will start the Wyck-
off School of Stage and Art Crafts
at Edgewater, N.J.
Exclusively For Stagecraft
The new school will be one of the
first in the country to be devoted ex-
clusively to stage craft work. Its
summer program will bye offered with
the Manhattan Theatre Colony at
Agunquit, Me. In the course of 20
years Wyckoff has designed and exe-
cuted 800 sets while his wife has com-
pleted more than 3,500 costumes.
In previous winters Wyckoff has
been head of the Design Department
and Director of Stagecraft at the
Philadelphia Museum School of In-
dustrial Arts and a'member of Guild
O'Craft, a group of artists and arti-
sans who do special kinds of art work.
Former Broadway Designer
In addition to being a former scene
designer on Broadway, Wyckoff has
been an instructor in stagecraft and
art director at the drama school of
the Carnegie Institute of Technology
at Pittsburgh and also has served with
H. Robert Law Scenic Studios in New
York.
He was art director of the Cincin-
nati Art Theatre, the Manhattan
Theatre Colony and Repertory The-
atre and of the Yorktown Sesquicen-
tennial Celebration. At one time he
directed the Memphis Little Theatre
in Memphis, Tenn.
Biggest Buyer on The Cuff-Says He
Appointments Bureau Rushed
With Requests For Personnel
Lord Beaverbrook, British supply minister who arrived in Washing-
ton, D.C., after participating in the dramatic sea meeting between Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill of Britain, discussed war
supply problems at a press conference at the British Embassy.
Guidance An Educational Fad,
Dr. W illiam C. Trow Charges
By EUGENE MANDEBERG
Averaging 10 telegrams and 15
phone calls per day, the Bureau of
Appointements and Occupational In-
formation is being literally rushed
off its feet securing teaching jobs for
[students and graduates registered
with the office.
Requests are primarily for elemen-
tary education teachers, commercial
education teachers, coaches, shop'
work instructors, home economics
teachers and teaching engineers,
technical workers such as chemists,
accountants, and teachers of business
administration.
Chief concern of the Bureau at
this time is those persons who are
attempting to tegister for jobs now,
and applicants who fail to keep their
records up to date.
The Bureau has lost much valuable
(prestige, leadership, control, etc.),
(b) pupil-school, in grades, classes,
clubs (rivalry, competition, leader-
ship, etc.), and (c) pupil-home, (in
family, neighborhood, gangs, econom-
ic status, etc:). /'
3. Person to symbol: pupil response
to the cultural heritage of words,
numbers, etc.
Every teacher could " profitably
make a study of some one of these
situations over a period of years,
viewing it in connection with the
needed social adjustments of chil-
dren, and the aspects of the school,
organization that could promote this
phase of social learning.
Faculty committees could advan-
tageously study the problem of the
incorporation in the school organiza-
tion of the available situations that
would promote social growth.
If such a study should eventuate in
effective action, guidance would not
be a gadget to be added to an obsol-
escent school structure, but an aspect
of the functioning school program.
If the school took for one of its
major objectives improvement in the
field of social learning, the insane
asylums and penitentiaries might
have fewer of its alumni, and we
might develop a socially competent
citizenry
Ours, Too
time, and spent needless sums
searching for individuals who pre-
viously applied for positions, but who
failed to keep the office informed of
their whereabouts, and their present
employment.
Four men, for instance, who had
applied for positions with the Bureau
were called long distance.several hun-
dred miles away, but when finally
located, it was found that they had
secured jobs in early June. Had they
informed the Bureau of their employ-
ment when they received it, the calls
would have been unnecessary, and
other applicants would not have had
'to wait the extra time.
An instance was also reported of a
woman speech teacher who refused to
supply a photograph with her appli-
cation because she "didn't take a
good picture." (!) (Prospective em-
ployers will not even consider appli-
cations without a photograph at-
tached.)
Stressing the importance of keep-
ing records up to date, it was pointed
out that 100 records had been shown
to prospective employers in one day,
and those persons whose records are
lacking in detail will not be consid-
ered.
Last year the Bureau placed 211
applicants in college and university
alone, and this year is expected to
yield just as good a record. But peo-
ple who do not leave their correct ad-
dresses or who do not complete the
record data cannot expect to secure
jobs. One case was cited where the
office searched for a man in his
home town, that being their only ad-
dress information, when he was in
Ann Arbor. Time and money were
wasted simply because of carelessness
on that man's part.
And failure to notify the Bureau of
jobs received is.unfair to those who
are on the waiting list, for they must
remain idle while the previous appli-
cants are being sought after.
Research at National Bureau of
Standards, Department of Commerce,
has more than doubled the life of
currency paper.
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Detroit.........54
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Tigers, Yanks Split Two
As DiMag Sprains Ankle
DETROIT, Aug. 19.-(R)-The New
York Yankees came to grief today,
not so much by dividing a double-
header with the Detroit Tigers, as in
losing their great batting and field-
ing star, Joe DiMaggio, with a
sprained ankle.
The Tigers scored eight runs in an
unrestrained second inning in the
first game to win 12 to 3 and then
were knocked back into their humble
place as the Yanks captured the
nightcap 8 to 3.
Z n.TheMajors
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Tuesday's Results
Detroit 12-3, New York 3-8
Chicago 4-1, Philadelphia 0-0
Wash'tan 8, Cleveland 6 (12 in.)
St. Louis 3-7,.Boston 2-10
Wednesday's Games
New York at Detroit
Philadelphia at Chicago
Bost n at St. Louis
Washington at Cleveland
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By PAUL CHRISTMANN
"Guidance," charged Dr. William C.
Trow in his talk yesterday before a
group of educators in the University
High School, "seems at present to"
be the current educational fad."
"In spite of the ignorance of the
psychological theories and techniques
involved, on the part of many engaged
in this work, guidance like other edu-
cational fads past and present has
many points in its favor. But it can
be effective only if it I' conceived
as a function of the social institution
and not alone of designated individ-
uals.
Dr. Trow explained that he be-
lieved that one of the important func-
tions of the school that guidance
emphasized was that dealing with
the opportunities for social learning.
"Social psychology has for its field
the relationship of an idividual," he
stated, "to other individuals.
"As such relationships are studied,
developmentally, within the insti-
tution of the school, a body of knowl-
edge will gradually be built up that
will make social learning more effec-
tive. Some of the social relationships
in educational practice, together with
samplings of behavior involved, may
be roughly classified as follows:
1. Person to person. This would in-
clude (a) teacher-pupil relationships
(suggestion, direction, attitudes, etc.)
and (b) pupil-pupil\ (friendship, ag-
gression, etc.)
-2. Person to group. The following
would be included: (a) teacher-school
Miss Alma Carroll, 18, (above) of
Los Angeles, Calif., is the service
man's ideal bathing beauty. She
was chosen Miss America of Na-
tional Defense at the Mardi Gras
in Venice, Calif., by three judges in
uniform-a soldier, a sailor and a
marine. Miss Carroll won a trip to
Quantico, Va.
Quad To Have Concert
Music by Johann and Richard
Strauss will be featured on the
Strauss Library Music Hour from
6:45 to 7:30 p.m. today in the Main
Lounge of °the West Quadrangle.
The final record concert, tomor-
row, -will feature two modern, popu-
lar-type orchestras, those of' Duke
Ellington and Art Tatum.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
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St. Lgouis......72
Cincinnati ......62
Pittsburgh......60
New York .......56
Chicago. ......49
Boston.......46
Philadelphia ... 31
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Results
Brooklyn 9-6, Pittsburgh 0-2
Chicago at New York, rain
St. Louis at Boston, rain
Cincinnati at Philadelphia, rain
Wednesday's Games
Pittsburgh at Brooklyn
St. Louis at Boston (2)
1Cincinnati at Philadelphia (2)
Ohly Games Scheduled
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Pictorial
News
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This picture of naval guns in action was described by German sources as a new battleship firing her 15-
inch guns. Turret arrangement is similar to that on the Battleship Bismarck, sunk by the British. This pic-
ture was sent from Berlin to New York via radio.
President Roosevelt entertained at dinner for British Prime Minister Winston Churchill aboard the U.S.S. Augusta "somewhere in the Atlantic"
on Saturday night, Aug. 9. This picture was released by the White House in Washington and shows the guests on the deck of the Augusta just before
dinner. Seated, left to right: first man unidentified; Sir Wilfred Freeman, Vice Chief of British Air Staff; Churchill; Roosevelt, with dog Falla at his
feet; Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, First Sea Lord of Britain; General Sir John G. Dill, chief of the Imperial British staff; last man unidentified.
Standing, left to right, W. Averell Harriman; Harry Hopkins; Admiral E. J. King, commander of the Atlantic Fleet; Rear Admiral Ross T. McIntire;
Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles; Brig. Gen. Edwin M. Watson; Capt. Elliott Roosevelt; Admiral Harold R. Stark, chief of naval operations;
Capt. John R. Beardall, the President's naval aide; General George C. Marshall, chief of staff, and Ensign Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.
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