bigan Repertory Phyers in Summer Season July 10 THE i'ICLIGAN DAILY Noted Directors Ready To Work In Pkt s Here A Comedy, drama, mystery, and an operetta will be among the varied offerings of the Michigan Repertory Players of the Department of Speech plays running from July 10 through August 19 in this, their eighteenth dramatic season. "Papa Is All" by Patterson Greene, the smash hit of four years ago, has been chosen as this season's open- ing play. Popular demand has influ- Britain, U.S Cooperating On Palestine , Attlee LONDON, July 1--(P)-Prime Min- ister Clement Attlee, answering charges by two parliamentarians that the British weekend raids and arrests in Palestine constituted a policy of war, declared tonight that he was; seeking an agreement with the Uni- ted States on a policy to bring peace to the Holy Land. Great Britain, Attlee said, would reject any peace plan unacceptable to all parties concerned and which would require arms to enforce it. He added that Great Britain hopes to settle the Palestine question in ac- cordance with the recommendations of the British-American Inquiry Committee. The 'committee has recommended that 100,000 European Jews be al- lowed to enter Palestine this year and has suggested placing Palestine. un- der a United Nations Trusteeship. Arab leaders have asserted Arabs will fight if more Jews are permitted to enter the Holy Land. In a sharp debate in the House of Commons, Attlee charged that the Jewish agency, a chief British target in the weekend operations in the Holy Land, had a "close link" with Haganah, illegal Jewish resistance organization. The House adjourned without vot- ing on the Palestine question. "The Jewish agency," Attlee as- serted, "cannot be a cover for an illegal army. There is evidence that Haganah works under the general direction of some members of the Jewish agency. I do not say all of them." Moreover, Attlee said, "We also haverevidencelofea very close link between Haganah and Irgun Zvai Leumi," another underground organ- ization with a greater record of vio- lence. enced the Speech, department to re- portray the delightful comedy of the Pennsylvania Dutch. A tyrannical Papa, a German brogue, and the tongue-twisted dialect of all char- acters in the play, add fun to the hilarious situations of the plot. "Pa- pa Is All" will run from July 10 through July 13. Cohan Cotnedy One of George M. Cohan's come- dies, "Pigeons and People" will be the second bill.'"Pigeons and People" will open July 17 for the usual four nights run. Described by Cohan as a "comic state of mind in continuous action," the play is designed to ri- dicule people for weaknesses and idiosyncrasies. "Angel Street" one of the most popular of recent mysteries will be presented July 31 to August 3. Writ- ten by Patrick Hamilton, this thriller of London in the gaslight era has been playedon Broadway and on tour. The movie version appeared under the title "Gaslight." The second Shaw play of the year, "The Apple Cart," a political ex- travaganza, honoring George Ber- nard Shaw following his ninetieth' birthday which will occur July 26, will be represented by the Department of Speech August 7-10. Written in 1930, Shaw's satire on politics is still pertinent. Grand Finale The grand finale of the Repertory season will be theproduction of Bed- rich Smetana's operetta, "The Bar- tered Bride." Bohemian village life is the theme of the plot around which is interwoven folk songs and music. Five performances of "The Bartered Bride" will be given from August 14 through August 19. Season tickets for the plays are now on sale daily in the box office of the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. Box ofice hours are from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day except Sunday and July 4. Two distinguiuhed theatre direc- tors arrived this week-end to join Prof. Valentine Windt in the direc- tion of the summer theatre offered by the Department of Speech. Mrs. Claribel Baird, a member of the dramatic faculty of the Oklahoma State College for Women, and a fa- vorite with Ann Arbor audiences both for her directing and acting ability, was the first to arrive. Mrs. Baird will repeat her performance as Mamma in the play "Papa Is All" which was so popular a few sum- mers ago. She will also direct the mystery play "Angel Street." Charles. Meredith, director of the Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre in New Orleans, arrived Friday by motor to take up his work casting and directing the second and fourth bills, "Pigeons and People," and "The Ap- ple Cart." Meredith directed "Mis- alliance" in 1941. Prof. Windt, director of dramatics at the University, will direct the first play "Papa Is All," and "The Bar - tered Bride." Operetta To Be Given August 17 The School of Music and the De- partment of Speech are collaborat- ing for the twelfth consecutive year to present a famous operetta. Village life in Bohemia is depicted in the opera chosen for this year and "The' Bartered Bride," to be given Aug. 17, abounds with local color and costumes. It is one of the great works by the founder of the Bo- hemian nationalist school. Few over- tures have consistently held their place in the hearts of music lovers as has the overture from "The Bar- tared Bride." The full University Orchestra will be in the pit, and the best voices from the music school will be in the leading roles. Operas presented formerly have included "The Chocolate Soldier," "The Mikado," "The Vagabond King." Army Educates Officer- Auto-Engineers Here As part of the Army program to keep its officers in constant contact with University developments in their fields, 12 officers ranging in rank from lieutenant to lieutenant- colonel have begun a two-year course in graduate automotive engineering' here. VISITING DIRECTORS-Mrs. Claribel Baird, from Oklahoma State College for Women, and Charles Mere- dith, director of Le Petit Theatre Du Vieux Carre, and Miss Lucy Barton, Costumiere have arrived to work with the Reparatory Players. CEREBRAL HORSEPLAY: Theatres Celebrate Shaw's 90th Birthday With Plays, George Bernard Shaw will be 90 years old on the 26th of this month, and theatres all over the world are producing one or more of the bard's plays in honor of the event. The department of speech last month inaugurated the local celebra- tion with the production "The De- vil's Disciple" which was given by Play Production. Now the same de- partment offers the Michigan Reper- tory Players in another Shaw sa- tire, "The Apple Cart," which will be offered as the fourth produc- tion on the summer play bill, Au- gust 7-10. A political extravaganza, "The Apple Cart" is a vehicle for Shaw's sharp satire and benignant deviltry. Again, he speaks candidly about subjects that are usually approached with tact. With Shaw, intelligent conversation is cerebral horseplay and in "The Apple Cart" he makes a conversational piece of keen satire sound like gay nonsense. Written in 1930, the plot deals with the English monarch in con- flict with his progressive cabinet-and' Shaw has a delightful holiday in de- picting the cabinet meetings and the situations that arise. But sand- wiched in among the gaiety, he de- livers as sound a speech in support of monarchy as one will ever hear; he abuses the capitalists, the common people and the politicians liberally and in the last act he upsets the transquility of the English nation completely by letting the American Ambassador announce that the U.S. has decided to renounce the war debt, abolish the Atlantic Ocean and rejoin the British Empire! The final curtain falls on a King going un- happily in to his dinner showing plainly that the magnanimity of: the Yankees has gone too far! Johnson Asks TerminalPay WASHINGTON, July 1--()P)-The touchy political question of some $3,000,000,000 in proposed terminal leave payments for 14,000,000 war veterans was tossed at President Tru- mran today by Senator Edwin C. Johnson (Dem., Colo.). Johnson instructed clerks of the Senate Military Committee to ob- tain an immediate report on* the terminal pay bill from the Budget Bureau, the White House's fiscal spokesman. Previously the Budget Bureau had informed Congress that the terminal pay plan was "not in accord with the program of the President." The House ignored. this when it passed by an overwhelming 379 to 0 vote the bill to give all wartime enlisted personnel the same terminal leave pay granted office b Five Foreign Movies ToiBe Shown Here. The Art Cinema League has im- ported five foreign movies, typical of their countries of origin, which will be shown throughout the July and August summer session. The first motion picture will be a French production entitled "Heart of Paris." Michele Morgan and Rai- mu will star. The film will be shown with English sub-titles on July 10, and 11 in the Rackham Auditorium. Mexican and Russian productions will be second and third in the sum- mer season program. Delores Del Rio will play the lead in the 'Mexican film "The Wild Flower" to be given July 18 and 19. "Marriage" and "Jubilee," one-act plays by Anton Chekov, plus "Christ- mas Slippers," an excerpt from Tchi- kovsgy's2Opera will be shown July 25 and 26'. Two French productions will close the summer session of Art Cinema "The Heart of a Nation," to be given August land 2, will star Raimu, Charles Boyer, and Michele Morgan. "Pepe Le Moko," to be given August 8 and 9, will star Jean Gabin. Helicopter Test Held Costumiere. Scene Builders Begin Work Visiting designer-technicians a: the costumiere for the summer the tre arrived this week-end to take t their work with the Michigan Repe tory Players. Miss Lucy Barton, author of we known books on costuming, and hey of the Department of Dramatic A at the University of Arizona, has i turned to act as costumiere for b fourth season with the Michig, Repertory Players. Miss Barton w be assisted by students taking Cc tume Design in summer courses a: by her small staff of regular assi tants. One of the most interesti: rooms in the League is the costur room, where yards of material of f colors are molded, under Miss Ba ton's direction into costumes for t: players. Scenery for the Repertory pla will be constructed under the dire tion of Dean Currie, of the Depar went of English, Mount Holyoke C lege; Robert Mellencamp, Depar menit of Speech, at the Universit and Herbert Philippi, ofhthe Depar ment of Speech of the University Missouri. These three stage craft d rectors will be assisted by studer in stagecraft. Alma teurs Get 'Angel Street' Patrick Hamilton's mystery pla "Angel Street" is predicted to the most performed of all plays summer theatres this season, b cause the play has just been releas for amateur theatres. The play popularity on Broadway and on to made it unavailable for amatet theatres before this spring. "Angel Street" is not a regulati high-pitched mystery thriller th employs sliding panels, faces in t. windows, and bodies in the close' It is a claustrophobic tale of Londc in the gaslight era, skillfully elabo ate in writing and menacingly quip in tone. Author of the equally successf "Ropes End," Hamilton's dramat works are more intellectually sati fying than more obvious thrillers. MacArthur Leaves TOKYO, Monday, July 1-(P)- General MacArthur left by airplai today for the Philippines Indepe: dence Inaugural July 4. The par included Mrs. MacArthur, their sc and four military aides. Season Ticket Sales Continue This Week Season tickets for the summer plays are selling briskly, according to reports from the Mendelssohn Theatre box ofice, but good seats are still available in all price sections. Season tickets will be sold through- out this week, and next with tickets for single performances going on sale the following Monday morning. Box office hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Possibilities for air-bus service for Ann Arbor and other Detroit area towns came closer to reality with the beginning of experimental operation' of heliocopters last week at Willow Run airport. f M _r_ leave pay granted off icerb. Run airport. h. and four military aides. m -11 THE DEPARTMENT OF SPEECH PRESENTS I The Michigan Repertory Players in 5 Outstanding Plays Distinguished Authc ors PAPA IS ALL by' Patterson Greene JULY 10 - JULY 13 Repeated this season by popular request, this en- tertaining comedy about a despotic parent is an instant hit with all audiences. It has the charming background of the Pennsylvania Dutch region into which is woven a tremendously funny plot of out- witting tyrannical Papa. Thequaint and amusingly tongue- twisted Dutch dialect provides continual comedy. JULY 10-AUGUST 19 The Perfect Summer Entertainment! COMEDY - MYSTERY - MUSIC ANGEL STREET. by Patrick lamflton JULY 31 - AUGUST 3 0 Written with infinite craft and dexterity, "Angel Street" is a tingling thriller of London in the gaslight era. The excitement in the play is direct and forth- right with the mental workings of the hunter and the hunted as the mainsprings of the action. It was proclaimed on Broadway and on tour as one of the most successful mystery melodramas of current theatre. Sea'son, Tickets Now On. Sale 4.80 $4.20 $3.00 (tax included) 'Box Office Open Daily 10 A.M.-5 P.M. PIGEONS AND PEOPLE b George M.1Cohan JULY 17 - JULY 20 4 "Pigeons and People' is an hilarious comedy writ- ten to set people laughing. at their own weaknesses and idiosyncrasies, and there is no one more able to write such a play than the inimitable and widely- beloved George M. Cohan. Tickets for individual playsgo on sale July 8 $1.20 - 90c-60c Operetta $1.50 -$1.20-90c THE APPLE CART by George Bernard Shaw AUGUST 7 - AUGUST 10 0 To honor the distinguished author, who on July 26th is celebrating his ninetieth birthda , the Depart- ment of Speech will present its second Shaw play of the year. Rated as one of his most magnificent dramas, "The Apple Cart" is a political extravaganza written in 1930 and still pertinent to present day political situations. THE BARTERED BRIDE by Bedrich Smetana In Cotnjunction with the School of Musie AUGUST 14-AUGUST 17 - and AUGUST 19 0 For the twelfth consecutive season, the School of Music will collaborate with the Department of Speech in the production of a famous operetta. "The Bartered Bride" is one of the most delightful comic operas, full of vivacious melody and abounding I I..- 'I II I is :