PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILYv *rFTVMT%&,Xr irrTytre vtkrA ?AGE FOR U~rr*n6A 1r.A.R. RA= .R 1 UEnDAY, JULY 6, 1954 NATURE PLAYS HAVOC: Flood, Drought Hit Iowa, Colorado Area Crops 4- By PAT ROELOFFS Special to The Daily DENVER - Mother Nature is playing havoc with crops through- out the mid Midwest this summer. Thirty foot floods caused by torrential rains in almost the whole state of Iowa are ruining farmers' hopes of a near normal production. In Colorado, the worst drought in a decade is causing major alarm, especially in the eastern half and Denver areas. Light winter snows and less than two inches of total rainfall this summer have caused grazing lands in, eastern Colorado to turn into miles of dust dunes. Daily dust storms have caused some farmers to leave the state for less parched lands in Texas or Kansas. Hay Crops Lost A total loss of mountain hay crops has been reported by ranch- ers in the Denver area. Only a small crop of grazing land hay is Raid Test Shows Siren Deficiencies CHICAGO A - The nationwide air raid test alert June 14 showed weaknesses in several siren alarm systems in Illinois, Gen. Robert M. Woodward, state civil defense director, reported Monday. Woodward reported to the Fed- eral Civil Defense Administration in Washington that the exercise generally was successful both in performance and in uncovering various weaknesses. le said the aircraft warning alerts were received by all coun- ty sheriffs within three minutes from the time the Air Force gave the first signal. The state police radio network flashed the signals. "Unexpected results of high ex- cellence were attained by the ama- teur radio operators throughout the state," Woodward said. "This reserve of communications sourc- es, operating at no cost, ivill al- ways form a valuable asset to civil defense." Woodward said the role of sirens in spreading the warning will re- quire further study. He added:; "The siren is an alarm for per- sonnel in the outdoors. expected according to agriculture experts in the area. Crop losses have caused much alarm among cattle ranchers who fear that unless some drought re- lief through an immediate hay buying program is had, huge foun- dation herds will begin liquidating in early July. The hay buying program, favor- ed by farmers throughout the drought area, according to a poll conducted by the Rocky Moun- tain Farmer's Union, would entail purchase of hay from favorable areas at a reasonable price. A good number of farmers have also agreed that a state hay buy- ing program in cooperation with the Federal Government, with coming from both sources, would reduce delay in the drought battle. Fear Socialism Colorado's cowboy Governor Dan Thornton fears the govern- ment hay buying project would border on socialism. In the cities, a restriction on use of water for watering lawns and gardens has been enforced, with fines up to $100 resulting if residents do not comply with wa- tering-hour rules. City parks are gradually turning brown as a re- sult of constant 90-100 degree temperatures. Farmers in the little populated eastern wastelands of the state watch western skies constantly in a hope that the daily accumula- tion of black clouds will mean rain. As a weatherman puts it, how- ever, Colorado clouds are only teasers, and little hope for a quick end to the drought is in sight. .Lydia Courte Sets Concert Tomorrow A weekly meeting of the Cercle Francais, to be held at 8 p.m. to- morrow in the Hussey Room of the League, will feature a recital by pianist Lydia Courte. Mme. Courte, wife of the Stan- ley Quartet's violist Robert Courte, will presen tworks representative of French piano literature. Includ- ed in the program are selections by Courperin, Faure, Debussy and Poulenc. Prof. James O'Neill of the ro- mance languages department will describe the cultural background of the music performed. The concert is open to the public and free of charge. Me . Medicine KALAMAZOO (I)-Develop- ment of a form of hydrocorti- sone that can be injected di- rectly into a vein for fast emer- gency action was announced yesterday. The Upjohn Co., which de- veloped the product, said many clinicians have requested the hormone in such fofn to com- bat adrenal gland failure or shocklike states resulting from severe injury, emergency sur- gery, overwhelming infection or acute allergic drug reaction. Direct injection into a vein provides much swifter action than when it is injected into a muscle or taken in tablet form. Coming Events TODAY Short Story Teaching "Teaching the Short Story" will serve as the center of a panel dis- cussion, part of the conference series for English teachers, at 4 p.m. in Auditorium C, Angell Hall. Prof. Donald R. Pearce of the English department, Olga Persch- bacher of Union High School in Grand Rapids, Clara Laidlaw of Michigan State College and Palmer C. Holt of Benton Harbor High School will lead the discussion. Australia Talk Research Professor Emeritus E. E. Dale of the University of Okla- homa history department w ill speak on "Australia: Observa- tions and Impressions" at 4:15 p.m. in Auditorium A, Angell Hall. Linguistics Discussion Prof. Hans Kurath of the Eng- lish department and editor of the Middle English Dictionary and the Linguistic Atlas will talk on "Some Problems in the Methodology of Area Linguistics" at 7:30 p.m. to- day in Rackham Assembly Hall. * * * TOMORROW English Loan Words in Spanish "The Phronology of English Loan Words in Spanish," a talk by Prof. Lawrence B. Kiddle of the Spanish department, will continue the Lin- guistics Institute series at 12:10 p.m. in the League. Speech Assembly Prof. Clyde W. Dow of the Mich- igan State College Communication skills department will speak on "Trends in Graduate Research in Speech" atr3 p.m. in Rackham Amphitheater. The speech assembly is spon- sored by the speech department. Near East Lecture Prof. Robert J. Braidwood of the University of Chicago Oriental Institute will discuss "The Back- ground of Civilization in the Near East: The Terminal Food-Gather- ing Stage" at 4 p.m. in Auditorium B, Angell Hall. The talk is part of the Near Eastern Lecture series given under the auspices of the Near Eastern Studies department. Piano Recital Lois Gauger, Grad., will give a piano recital at 8:30 p.m. In Rack- ham Assembly Hall. Her program will include Mo- zart's "Sonata in A Minor, K. 310," Schumann's "Carnival, Op. 9" and Griffe's "Sonata." IN HAMLET: Kane To Perform as Gravedigger By SUE GARFIELD ' Whitford Kane, eminent Shake- spearean actor and lotIg-time fa- vorite with the Department of Speech summer theatre audiences, has returned to Ann Arbor to play his most famous role: the First Gravedigger in Shake- speare's "Hamlet." Under the direction of his life- long professional friend, B. Iden Payne, Kane will play in "Hamlet" tomorrow night through Saturday in the first of the speech depart- ment summer play productions in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theater, Michigan League. T h e Irish-born actor-director started his stage career at the turn of the century in England repertory companies. Since then he has played the role of the FirsthGrave- digger with more than 20 of the greatest Hamlets in the last 50 years. Buried 35 Ophelias In a recent interview Kane spec- ulated that he must have buried more than 35 Ophelias in his pro- fessional acting career. The numer- ical discrepancy can be explained by the fact that few Hamlets re- tained the same Ophelia for any length of time. "Shakespeare, like acting, has always been a kind of disease with me," commented Kane. "In my early days on the stage, whenever I saw a new 'Hamlet' announced I always rushed to see it-I had to see every one," he said. Kane's prize possession is a set of handsomely-bound "Complete Works of Shakespeare," first owned by his actor-cousin, Hugh Kane, in 1857 in Belfast, Ireland. He has seen well over 40 Ham- lets play the top tragic role, a- mong whom have been Osmond Tearle, Godfrey Tearle, the Irvings, Forbes-Robertson, F. R. Benson,1 Martin Harvey, William Mollison and John Barrymore. According to the actor-director, in the old days when "Hamlet" was announced for production, it simply meant that someone was going to play the part. The in- terest centered entirely on whether it would be a good or bad indi- vidual performance. However, "in the early 1920's when the staging was changed from the old 'over-elaboration' to the 'near-modern' simplicity of to- day, the whole company went into an uproar," said Kane. The modern Elizabethan stage in Lydia Mendelssohn Theater al- DAILY i OFFICIAL BULLETIN (Continued from Page 2) ing presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Mu- sic degree. Exhibitions Clements Library. Rare astronomical] works.y General Library. Women as Authors.' Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. Egyp- tian Antiquities-a loan exhibit from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. Mchigan Historical Collections. The University in 1904. Museum of Art. Three Women Paint- er. Events Today Square and Folk Dancing. Everyone welcome. Tonight. Lane Hall, from 7:30 until 10:00 o'clock. Lutheran Student Association-Tues- day evening discussions 7:30 p.m. at the Center, Hill and Forest Ave. Prof. Ger- hard Lenski, Dept. of Sociology, will be the speaker this week-"The Relation- ship of the Home and the School." Coming Events Departmental Play, auspices of the De- partment of Speech. HAMLET, by Wil- liam Shakespeare. 8:00 p.m., July 7-10, Lydia Mendelssohn Theater. EDITOR SAYS: Papers Need As Well As I By BAERT BRAND A charge that "the American people sit down each day to a feast of news and arise ill-nour- ished" was leveled against news media by Barry Bingham in a July article of the The Quill, a magazine published by Sigma Del- ta Chi, National Journalism Fra- ternity. Bingham, editor of the Louis Courier-Journal, said that there are 54,000,000 newspaper subscribers in the country, along with 110,000,000 radios and 27,000,000 television sets churning out mammoth por- tions of news to the public daily. Although in this paradise of in- formation we are exposed more than ever before to news of hap- penings all over the world, he added we have no great under- standing of what those happenings really mean. Bingham cited evidences of pub- lic ignorance revealed by the Gal- lup Poll on news events. Poll Cited "In the fall of 1951, the name of Dean Acheson seemed to be on everybody's lips," he stated. "Yet Gallup found in October of that year that 34 per cent of hte public could not identify Acheson." Other figures revealed by the Gallup questioners show that in 1951 again, 45 per cent of the per- sons asked were not familiar with the phrase "cold war." And in 1953, after three years of the Kore- an War, 56 per cent could not identify Syngman Rhee. "We can blame part of our troubles on the times in which we live," Bingham declares. "The modern American who wants to be well-informed needs to be a sort of combination of Leonardo da I To Explain rint News Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Al- bert Einstein." This offers a grave challenge to the press because a democracy such as ours can succeed only when it rests on a base of informed public opinion, he says. Two Solutions Suggested Bingham suggested two main ways of meeting this challenge to journalism. One is to revive the editorial page which, he says, is not read as widely as it once was. The other way, Bingham pro- posed, is to develop the interpreta- tive news story. Women's Role Talks Slated Two events will highlight the Woman in the World of Man lec- ture series tomorrow. Dr. Joseph M. Lubart of the Co- lumbia University Psychoanalytic Clinic will speak on "Emotional Growth and the Family" at 4:15 p.m. in Auditorium A, Angell Hall. A panel discussion on "Patterns of Today's Family Dynamics" will take over the spotlight in the eve- ning session beginning at 7:45 p.m. in Auditorium A, Angell Hall. On the panel will be Prof. Ro- bert C Angell of the sociology de- partment as moderator; Prof. Mor- ris Janowitz of the sociology de- partment; Alice K. Leopold, Di- rector of the Women's Bureau of the United States Department of Labor; Dr. Ralph D. Rabinovitch, Chief of the Children's Service of Neuropsychiatric Institute; and Dr. Lubart. WHITFORD KANE ... famed Shakespearean actor who "buried" 35 Ophelias ,. . SPECIAL SALE on COTTON PAJAMAS (Seersucker and Broadcloth) Formerly to $5.95 now $2.95 COLLINS Liberty at Maynard lows for a cut in playing-time, to two-and-one-half hours, without dis- carding any of the characters, Kane explained. Payne Directs "Payne is directing the play so that the speeches, entrances and exits almost overlap, leaving out many of the unnecessary pauses," he said. From watching and participating in the rehearsals, Kane feels that Nafe Katter, Grad., as Hamlet, and Richard Burgwin, Grad., as Claudius, do an extremely profes- sional job in portraying their re-C spective Shakespearean charac- ters, although "the whole cast is good." Kane's first Shakespearean en- gagement was in 1900 at the The- ater Royal, Darlington, England. His starting success was Galswor- thy's "Strife" in the Repertory Theatre in Manchester, 1907. "Payne gave me more help there than anyone else ever has," he commented. Prior to the First World War, they were together in Chicago at the Goodman Memorial Theatre. Played in "The Critic" In 1915 the Shuberts produced 'U' Quartet t Plays Todfa First program in its summer ser- ies of concerts will be given at 8:30 p.m. today when the Stanley Quartet plays in Rackham Lecture Hall. Members of the Quartet are Prof. Gilbert Ross, violinist; Prof. Emil Raab, violinist; Prof. Oliver Edel, violoncellist; and Prof. Ro- bert Courte, violist; all of the mu- sic school. The group will play Beethoven's "Quartet in D major, Op. 18, No. 3," Raymond Chevreuille's "Quar- tet No. 5," and Beethoven's "Quar- tet in C-sharp minor, Op. 131." The program is open to the pub- lic without charge. The Quartet will perform con- certs later in the month in Grand Rapids and Flint. SPECIAL I; SALE OF SURPLUS RING BINDERS 1-inch Capacity. ..69c 1 12-inch Capacity 97c 2-inch Capacity $1.21 M ILL'SO. S R 1,L Le' 314 So. State Street Richard Brinsley Sheridan's "The Critic" with Payne and Kane in the cast. "The Critic" will be pre- sented on the Department o f Speech summer playbill, July 28- 31, with Payne playing his famous role of Mr. Puff. Another success for the Payne- Kane team came with Harold Brighouse's Irish play, "Hobson's Choice," which has just been re- leased in a motion picture version with Charles Laughton and John Mills. Local play production audiences raved about Kane's roles in the productions of "The Pigeon," "Ju- no and the Paycock," "Excursion," "The Shoemaker's Holiday," "Old Town" and "Excape" in the late 1930's and "The White Steed" in 1949. Since then Kane has toured with the Katherine Hepburn production of "As You Like It" and has ap- peared in numerous movies and television plays. Individual tickets for "Hamlet," which will start at 8 p.m. tomor- row in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, may be purchased from business manager Bruce Nary in the box office from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. They are priced at $1.75, $1.40 and $1. 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