THE MCfMXN XIEY Coed Charm To Be Subject Of Conferences Expert Plans To Offer Beauty Hints, Advice A series of lectures and confer- ences on "Personal Development" will be presented this week by Eliza- beth Macdonald Osborne, and will be open to all women. Miss Osborne's program is divided into four separate services, including lectures, personal check-up confer- ences, personality discussions and a make-up bar. The initial lecture on "The Im- pression We Leave" is scheduled at 4 p.m. today in the Grand Rapids Room of the League. Immediately following, Miss Osborne will personal- ly supervise experiments at the make-up bar. The bar will be open every afternoon from 2 to 5p.m. and women are urged to come and use it as often as they wish. All shades of foundations, lipsticks, powders, and rouges will be available for experi- ment. A talk before the Women's Edu- cation Club at 7:30 p.m. today in the WAB will be followed by a per- sonal check-up conference for all women in attendance. A check-up conference, in which Miss Osborne answers questions, will be open to all wpmen on campus at 8:15 p.m. today in the Grand Rapids Room. The second lecture, "How to Achieve the Right Look," will be held at 4 p.m. tomorrow in the Grand Rapids Room. All questions will be answered at the personality discussion at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Grand Rapids Room. The final event of the pro- gram will be a personal check-up conference at 3:30 p.m. Friday in the Grand Rapids Room, which all women may attend. Producer Meredith Lauds Cohan's 'Pigeons and People - * * It is unusual when amateur the- atrical groups are first to produce plays released from Broadway, but George M. Cohan's popular comedy "Pigeons and People" was released to Charles Meredith, a director of amateurs at the Dallas Little Theatre in Texas. Plays ordinarily travel from the legitimate stage to Hollywood where highest plaudits and royalties are paid; to amateur groups throughout the country where writers pick up scattered "chicken feed" royalties. Cohan Played Lead Starring George M. Cohan, who played in the lead role of Parker, Detroit Greets Van Druten Play 'Voice of the Turtle' Made Hit In Boston "The Voice of the Turtle" opened Monday for a limited engagement at a Detroit theatre. The three-man cast of the John Van Druten comedy consists of Har- vey Stephens, Louisa Horton and Peggy French, who came to Detroit after a 25-week record run in Bos- ton and a month in Washington. The play is currently in its third year in New York, while another company, which recently completed 18 months in Chicago, is touring the West Coast. The stage setting for "The Voice of the Turtle" is a cross-section of a three-room apartment, consisting of a living room, bedroom and kitchen and was designed by Stewart Chan- ey. lVatinees will be given Wednes- days and Saturdays for the play which was directed by its author. "Pigeons and People" was produced on Broadway in 1931-32. Meredith, who saw it then, fell in love with it. Attempting to persuade Cohan, through mutual acquaintances and friends to let him produce it, Mere- dith finally won the privilege in 1940. Cohan was so fond of his play that he refused to release it before then. "Pigeons and People" which will play at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre today under the direction of Meredith, is called the best of most typical American plays. 'American Flavor' "It borrows nothing from abroad," Meredith said. "Its vernacular and, literary flavor are American. Its form, written to be produced without intermission, is unprecedented." Most American playwrights, including Eu- gene O'Neil who is considered the greatest, pattern drama after Ibsen, Shaw, or the Greeks, Meredith said. O'Neil's great "Morning Becomes Electra" shows the influence of the Greeks. "Though 'Pigeons and People' bears a slight resemblance to the work of the Italian dramatist, Perandello", PLAYS LEAD . . . Ray Pedersen will be Mr. Parker in "Pigeons and People" which opens at 8:30 p.m. today in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. Meredith said, "I am sure that Cohan The special problem in directi never saw or read any of his plays." this play, Meredith said, is to mail II_. 0 0o 0j a- ,as c on at on an gi- ig- is- he Lai. a on ce. is- ith tn- :ci- X- al- ng in- IS STUDENT DIRECTORY Campus Highlights Marquis To Speak... Prof. Donald G. Marquis, chair- man of the psychology department, will speak on "Psychology of Social Change" at 4:10 p.m. tomorrow in Rackham Amphitheatre. At 8:10 p.m. tomorrow Prof. Wil- liam F. Ogburn, chairman of the sociology department of the Univer- sity of Chicago, will discuss "How Technology Changes Society." Messiah Festival... Hundreds of singers from church and community choirs all over the State will participate in the National Music Camp Messiah Festival at 8 p m.tomorrow in the Interlochen Bowl. Maynard Klein, choral director of Tulane University and a graduate of the University, and Prof. Joseph E. Maddy, president and founder of the National Music Camp, will conduct this performance of Handel's Messiah, the first Interlochen pro- duction to include musicians from the entire state. Spanish Society .. . The second regular meeting of the summer Sociedad Hispanica, to be held at 3 p.m. today in the East Con- ference Roomgf the Rackham Build- ing, will feature a talk by Jose Ortiz of Puerto Rico. Ortiz, who is teaching in the De- partment of Romance Languages this summer, will show the influence of the Negro race on Afro-Cuban poetry, in which he has made spec- ial study, and will also recite some of the works of the best-known Cub- an poets. The talk will be followed by games and general conversation in Span- ish. Perkins in Chicago .. . John A. Perkins, assistant professor of political science and secretary of the Institute of Public Administra- tion, left yesterday for Chicago, where he will attend a two-day meet- ing of the newly-formed Association of State Planning Officers. The meeting. which is being held at the Public Administration Clearing House on the University of Chicago campus, will be devoted to discus- sion sessions on what state planning agencies should do. Linguistics.lectures... Phases of development in Anatol- ian languages will be discussed by Prof. Edgar H. Sturtevant, professor emeritus of linguistics at Yale Uni- versity, in two lectures of the series sponsored by the Linguistics Insti- tute. Prof. Sturtevant's first lecture will be given at 7:30 p.m. today in the Rackham Amphitheatre. The second will be at the weekly luncheon meet- ing of the Institute at 1 p.m. to- morrow in the Union. zens" at 3:00 p.m. today in the University High School Auditorium. This lecture is the first of two that Rice will give relating to arts and architecture. His second lecture will be given tomorrow at 3:00 p.m. on " 'Style' and 'Fashion' in Archi- tecture and Related Arts." Rice is a member of the Summer Staff of the College of Architecture and Design and is offering a course sponsored by the American Insti- tute of Arts and the Carnegie Found- ation. Walter on Board ... Erich A. Walter, associate dean of the literary college, hasibeen elected to the Board of Directors of Cran- brook School, Bloomfield Hills. Dean Walter succeeds Prof. Morris P. 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