dPhe Batlp iMaraonVol. 40, No. 54 Z-149 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1940 Price Three Cents^^Magic CombinesTricks^ MediocrityRathje Sole Woman inFreshman Cast; MurrahBad in Second Role.By ERNEST I.EISERThe first of the three performancesof (I K. Chesterton’s “Magic” to bepresented by a DA Workshop castlast night was a curious combinationof both excellence and mediocrity.It was good because the play itselfis good. G. K. Chesterton was ableto penetrate the Workshop amateur¬ism every once in a while to flashforth in the brilliance of convincingmysticism. “Magic” is a fine exampleof how a fantastic comedy can beworked into excellent entertainment,(iood PrologueIt was also good because the pro¬logue was beautifully executed. Be¬hind a gauze screen, to the accom-jianiment of Mozart’s Concerto in E.Major, the spirit of the play wasbrought out, in its lightness, and yetin its mysticism. Unfortunately, theplay never reached the same level aft¬er the prologue.“Magic” was good because of theskill of two of the novice actors. Castas Dr. Grimthorpe, Robert Millertilled the role of the scientific agnosticconfronted with something incompre¬hensible to him, with a dexteritywhich would have done credit to aveteran. In the minor role of Hast¬ings, Jeffery Mongerson was convinc¬ing and sincere.SpottyBut the play was also unfortunatelyspotty. Although it almost rang truemany times during the three actsafter the prologue, just as you wereabout to be convinced some flaw inaction destroyed the whole moodwhich had been built up.“Magic” was bad because of theacting of Charles Murrah. With fa¬cial retchings and vocal indigestion,•Murrah, the only veteran in the cast,managed to make the part of theDuke laughable because of the es¬sential coTiiedy of awkwardness, notbecause of the es.sential comedy of thestupidity of the character he wassuppo.sed to portray..Margaret Ann RathjeIf we had been able to hear pretty•Margaret Ann Rathje, we think shemight have been effective. But herstage movements were all we couldget, and they weren’t effective. Mar¬shall Patullo, as the hard-boiled•American business man, certainly wasmore the schoolboy than the part de¬manded, and when he broke under thestrain of the unknowable, it was morelike a bad boy flying into a tantrumthan a man going mad.The other actors, John Cook, as theminister, and William Godsave as theconjurer, were better than average,but still not good enough to keep themood from breaking down.Demarest Polacheck, as director ofthe all-freshman, all-novice cast, de-.serves credit for whipping his new¬comers into line after only two weeksof rehearsal. However, his plottingof the action was not good, and thepace of the whole play, after the pro¬logue, was too slow.Boynton SpeaksAt First Meetingof English ClubPercy Boynton will be special guestat the first meeting of the newly or¬ganized English club, Friday at 3:30in Ida Noyes Hall. All members of theEnglish department, undergraduates,graduates and faculty, are invited.Tea will be served at a cost of onepenny per person.Bruce Vardon presided as chairmanat an organizational meeting last Fri¬day. About twenty students attended.Donald Bond and Howard Carter arefaculty sponsors for the group.“The purpose of the club is to givestudents and faculty a chance to knowoach other. This is not to be an oldwoman’s sewing circle or a literaiTguild,” Vardon stated. “We propose tomelt the ice-bergs in the English de¬partment. And we hope to have alarge turn-out at our bi-monthly meet¬ings.” OrganizationsForm StudentRelief GroupRepresentatives of nine student oi--ganizations will meet in the Chapelbasement Friday at 4:30 to organize astudent relief committee. The organ¬izations represented are YWCA, DailyMaroon, ASU, Inter-Fraternity Coun¬cil, Chapel Union, Hillel League, Cal¬vert Club, Inter-Club Council, and In¬ter-Church Council.The committee which was organ¬ized by Bob Boyer representing Chap¬el Union and Bob Koenig from theInter-Church Council, intends to con¬tinue the work of the Refugee Aidcommittee of last year. Last year’scommittee raised the equivalent of$7,000 in cash and board and roomdonations which was used to helpsupport ten refugee students to whomthe University gave one year scholar¬ships and for relief work in :>painand China.This.year the war in Europe hascomplicated and intensified refugee re¬lief. German, Austrian, Jewish, Czech,Polish, Spanish, Chinese, and possiblyFinnish refugees will have to be con¬sidered. The distribution of fundsamong these groups is one difficultproblem facing the committee.Rita Ransohoff who directed therefugee aid campaign last year willbe present at the meeting to giveadvice based on her experience.Design MirrorProgram Cover;Win TicketsFame, fortune and four tickets toMirror await the lucky artist who de¬signs the winning cover for the pro¬gram of this year’s show. Generaltheme of the show around which thecover design may be built is a boattrip to South America.The first act takes place on boardship, the second, in Rio de Janerio.The settings alone should suggest nu¬merous ideas to anyone with a fertileimagination.Judging, to be done by the MirrorBoard and Director Randall, will beon the basis of originality, appropri¬ateness, and practicability of design.It must be suitable to a two-toneprinting in black and white, since itwill be used on advance publicityposters as well as on the programcover.February 1 is the deadline. De¬signs may be submitted to any of theMirror Board members: the Hutchin¬son twins, Jane Myers, Janet Geiger,and Mary Haines; to Doris Daniels,head of the Score Committee; to RuthSteele, Publicity Chairman; or may beleft in the D. A. office in MitchellTower.Discuss “The Catholic iand Art” at TeaIA Calvert Club tea will be held at4:30 this afternoon in the library ofIda Noyes. After tea Father ThomasMcGlynn of the Dominican House ofStudies will lead an informal discus¬sion on “The Catholic and Art.” All ,Catholics on campus are extended a jcordial invitation to come to IdaNoyes to the meeting.Plans for a skating party whichwill be held under the North standof Stagg Field some time this weekwill also be announced. All membersare warned to dig up their ski suits,get their identification tickets fromBartlett Gym, and be ready for anevening on skates. I LevarieMusic GroupsPlan Concerts,May FestivalA number of concerts to be givenduring the course of the year, in¬cluding performances by the orchestraand Collegium Musicum and a musicfestival in May have been announcedby the Music department.The first concert to be given will bepresented by the Collegium Musicumin February. The program will in¬clude the “Missa Pange Lingua” bythe 16th century Dutch Composer Jos-quin Despres and Mozart’s MissaBrevis in D Major. Neither compo¬sition has been done in Chicago be¬fore.March ProgramThe Collegium wdll present anoth¬er program early in March, consist¬ing of Johann Sebastian Bach’s “St.John’s Passion”. This composition isto be presented in its entirety with anEnglish text now being prepared bythe Music department. The perform¬ance will be presented in the unpre¬tentious style of Bach’s day, withsmall orchestra and chorus.After the last concert of the Uni¬versity of Chicago Symphony Or¬chestra last December, FrederickStock, conductor of the ChicagoSymphony Orchestra and a memberof the faculty in the Music depart¬ment, suggested that a music festivalbe held at the University some timein the Spring. According to his sug¬gestion, a festival has been arrangedin May consisting of three pi’ograms.The first, by the Collegium Musicum,is to consist of the first, fourth, andfifth of Bach’s Brandenburg Concer¬tos. This program is to be under thedirection of Sigmund Levarie.Second Festival ProgramIn the second program, the com¬bined orchestra and Chorus, underthe direction of Mack Evans, will pre¬sent a program of the works of threemodern composers: Zolton Kodaly,Ralph Vaughn-Williams, and LiliBoulanger. All of these compositionsare to be presented for the first timein Chicago. The third program willbe the comic opera “The Armourer”by the 19th Century German com¬poser Lortzing. This opera, receivingits first Chicago performanct, will be(Continued on page three)YW Gives SnoivhallLunch at Ida NoyesAn appetizing luncheon in a winterwonderland is on the program forThursday, when the YWCA’s “Snow¬ball Luncheon” will be held at IdaNoyes. Meat loaf and tomato sauce,great white scoops of “snowball” rice,fruit salad and marshmallows, rolls,a new dessert concoction known as“snow pudding”, tea and coffee, andliberal helpings of gaiety are allfeatured on the menu, and everyonewith 35c honestly or illegally ob¬tained is cordially invited.The entire .second floor of Ida Noyeswill be decorated for the occasion, andluncheon guests may eat in any roomthey choose, singly or in parties.Reservations should be made at the“Y” office campus phone 1073, in IdaNoyes.Marge Brown is chairman-in-chief,assisted by Marjorie Woodrich, menu;Ruth Ahlquist, service; Betsy Kuh,decorations; Lorna Hodges, tickets;Elizabeth Herlinger, publicity; Vir¬ginia Nichols, table setting; andLouise Cummins, cleanup. Browder CancelsUniversity SpeechHold Two For$4500 Bursar’sOffice RobljeryTwo bandits were held last nightfor the robbery of $4500 from theBursar’s office last Wednesday. EarlUnderwood, 24, confessed to the crimeand named Henry Carmen as a con¬federate. Carmen was still beingquestioned last night.Pick Up UnderwoodUnderwood was picked up when thepolice wei’e looking for his brother,suspected of a loan company robbery.It was not until he started boastingabout all his crimes that the policefound his connection with the Univer¬sity job.“Besides the University office werobbed 10 gas stations, 20 loan offices,and a groceiy store in the last fewmonths,” Undei'wood claimed, after hetold police that he was the brains ofthe gang. “I always did the planningand the preliminary scouting,” he con¬tinued. “They say I have a photo¬graphic mind because I can look overa room or building once and remem¬ber every detail”.Buy AirplaneThe bandits were found to havebought an airplane and foUr new au-tomoBiles with their loot. “We alllived big,” Underwood explained.“After every job w'e’d all get newsuits and threw the old ones away toavoid identification. After the Uni¬versity of Chicago job I purchased anairplane, paying $800 down. I alsobought a $1500 automobile. Althoughmy brother Lester got $1200 lastweek, he was broke by Monday.”Labor CouncilSponsors TalksOn City ReliefRelief is the general topic to betreated by three speakers at a meet¬ing of the Labor Problems Counciltomorrow at 3:30 in Social Science122. The three are Mrs. Clara PaulPaige of the Chicago Relief Admini¬stration, Sidney Hyman, and A1 Han¬del of the University.Mrs. Paige is director of FamilyService for the Relief Administration.She will speak on the relief situationin the city at the present time—whatthe chief problems are, and how theyare being met.Hyman is secretary to Paul Doug¬las, professor and alderman. Generalrelief trends, and what can be done ina political way will be his theme. Hy¬man is a graduate student, and hasbeen active politically.Handel is secretary of the JointStudents’ Social Workers Union oncampus. His part of the program willbe to relate the relief problems to thestudent, and to tell something of hisunion.There will be a period for questionsfrom the audience. This is the thirdgeneral meeting to be sponsored bythe Labor Problems Council whichwas formed last quarter.Poetry Club HearsEditor—NovelistThe Poetry Club will meet today at4 in Wieboldt 205 for the third time.Jessica Nelson North will speak on“Obscurity in Modern Poetry,” andwill conclude with a question and dis¬cussion period. All students are wel¬come.Mrs. North was editor of PoetryMagazine and is now on its advisorycommittee; she has written both nov¬els and books of verse including “ThePrayer Rug,” and “The Long Leash.”Basketball DanceChuck Towey’s orchestra, withMarge Grey as vocalist, will playin the Reynolds Club following theDe Paul basketball game next Sat¬urday evening. The Coffee Shopwill be open immediately after thegame for refreshments. Department of JusticeChanges Trial Date ofCommunist Head,Earl Browder will not speak inMandel Hall tonight! The CommunistClub, late Monday evening was in¬formed that Browder’s trial was shift¬ed from yesterday to today, and thathe could not be in Chicago at thattime.Refund MoneyAlthough the Communists askedthat the people who had bought tick¬ets keep them until a future datecould be set for Browder to speak, theadministration insisted that they re¬fund the money to all ticket purchas¬ers who asked for their money back.Browder had previously spoken atYale and M.I.T., but had been re¬refused the platform when he want¬ed to speak at Harvard and Princeton.The University administration hei’e,though it had expressed disagree¬ment with his viewpoint, had per¬mitted him to use Mandel Hall tospeak to a student and neighborhoodaudience.Though there had been murmurs ofdisturbance anent his speech here,there had been no organized protest,such as there was at Yale, accordingto press photographs.List of DatesLate yesterday afternoon, LorraineLewis .said that she did not knowdefinitely when Browder would beable to come, but that the CommunistClub had submitted a list of dates inthe near future when Mandel Hall wasfree and asked him to wire as soon ashe knew which he would be able toaccept.By Monday, there had been over 325tickets sold in advance for thespeech, which was to be on “Americaand the Imperialist War.” Under theDean’s office decree, the money forthese tickets must be turned back tothe purchasers.Browder’s speech was scheduled aspart of a drive to raise money forbail for “protection of Communistcivil liberties during the present cri¬sis.”Issue StatementThe Communist Club, through pres¬ident Lewis, issued the followingstatement:“The Communist Club regrets toannounce that Earl Browder’s speechon the campus will be delayed. Mr.Browder’s trial for the charges lev¬elled against him by the Department(Continued on page three)Student ForumTeam DebatesFor Third TermStudent Forum’s debating team willdefend the affirmative of “Resolved:That Roosevelt should be elected fora third term” against the debatersof Creighton University of Omaha,Nebraska this evening.Chicago, represented by Louis Bar¬ron and Joe Molkup, will meet JohnF. Kerrigan and Joseph Soshnik ofthe Creighton Intercollegiate Debat¬ing Team at 8 o’clock tonight at theMid City Workers’ Forum, 1328 W.Madison Street. The debaters, thouifhthey do not expect to change the des¬tiny of the nation, will undoubtedly,keep audience and speakers on thealert defending their partisan loyal¬ties.The Forum will hold its regularmeeting at 4 this afternoon in Lexing¬ton 5 to discuss the Bull Session whichit has been sponsoring over CBS.Mirrior TryoutsMirror asks that anyone whowishes to dance a specialty num¬ber (not chorus girls) and thosepeople interested in singing, evenif not in the Skull and Crescentshow, come to Mandel at 2:30 nextTuesday when tryouts will be held.Those who try out will have timeto “work up” or “brush up” any¬thing they have on mind for theshow.Page Two THE DAILY MAROON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1940Daily ^HaromtFOUNDED IN 1901MEMBER ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESSThe Daily Maroon is the official student newspaper of the Uni¬versity of Chicago, published mornings except Saturday, Sunday andMonday during the Autumn, Winter and Spring quarters by TheDaily Maroon Company, 5831 University avenue. Telephone: HydePark 0222.After 6:30 phone in stories to our printers. The Chief PrintingCompany, 148 West 62nd street. Telephone Wentworth 6123.The University of Chicago assumes no responsibility for anystatements appearing in The Daily Maroon or for any contractentered into by The Daily Maroon.The Daily Maroon expressly reserves the rights of publication ofany material appearing in this paper. Subscription rates: $3 ayear ; $4 by mail. Single copies: three cents.Kntered as second class matter March 18, 1903, at the post officeat Chicago, Illinois, under the act of March 3, 1879.RCPRESENTCD FOB NATIONAL ADVEBTISINO OVNational Advertising Service, Inc.College Publishers Representative420 Madison AVE. new York, N. Y.CHICASO ' BOSTOB ■ Los ANSILIS • SAM FRANCISCOBOARD OF CONTROLEditorialRUTH BRODY WILLIAM H. GRODYHARRY CORNELIUS DAVID MARTIN, ChairmanALICE MEYERBusinessHARRY F, TOPPING, Business Mgr.ROLAND I. RICHMAN, Advertising Mgr.BUSINESS ASSOCIATES.lohn Bex, Herb Gervin, William Lovell, and Julian LowensteinEDITORIAL ASSOCIATESDcmarest Polacheck, William Ilankla, Pearl C. Rubins, John Stevens,Hart Wurzburg, Marian Castleman, Ernest LeiserNight Editors: Dick Himmel, Ruth BrodyAssistant: John CorcoranExtremes and DegreesA timely warning against emotionalism ap¬peared in the first part of yesterday’s BullSession. The writer, who is chairman of ourlocal ASU, called attention to appeals to hys¬teria in the poster “There Stands Finland.”This poster is displayed on an unofficial bul¬letin board.The dangers of mass hysteria and unthink¬ing action in these times of chaos are scarcelyin peril of being stressed too strongly. Wemust guard against emotionalism in whateverforms it may take. We must be aware of thefact that appeals to hysteria may come inmanifold disguises: as patriotism, as prudence,as benevolence, as justice, as humanity. Theymay take shelter under such distinguishednames as “liberality,” “radicalism,” and “con¬servatism.” Whenever we hear these emotionalnames being called we should be careful. Weshould look behind the words to see what theymean.There is more than one side to emotional¬ism. For instance, many people consider thewriter of yesterday’s Bull Session strangelyexcited about propaganda in the Finlandposter. Not very long ago, they remind us,the ASU managed to display dramatic signspleading the cause of the Spanish government.Now, the issue of Finland is a much sharperone, they say. It is a clear-cut case of the in¬vasion of one small sovereign state by anotherlarger one. These people see more heated pre¬judice than reason in the sudden objections to“There Stands Finland.”But perhaps the writer of yesterday’s BullSession would reply to the objectors that theinternational situation is far more tense nowthan it was a few years ago when it stillseemed possible to save republican Spain. Hemight say that regardless of who is right orwrong in this matter, this country’s peace isso delicately balanced that showing sympathyfor either side would upset our security andpush us on the path towards war.If he made these answers, the writer wouldhave to assume first that it would be possiblefor people to suppress their feelings about in¬ternational affairs and to restrain themselvesfrom expressing reasons for these feelings,This of course would involve restrictions onfreedom of opinion, thought, and expression.It would do away entirely with displayingposters on international affairs. We do notbelieve the chairman of the ASU would liketo be led into the position of recommendingsuch limitations of civil liberty, even if theselir'.itations were based on the precariousnessof the nation’s security.Secondly the writer would have to showthat our trying to remain aloof from even anyopinion about this struggle would be sufficientto keep us from being dragged into it. Wedoubt that he could prove such isolation pos¬sible.The Bull Session says that the emotionalappeal of “There Stands Finland” symbolizesrecent controversies between the Maroon andthe ASU. In a sense, though not in the one in¬tended, this is true. The Maroon, it states,has “begun to jump into the fracas—bitingand gouging if need be—but jumping nonethe¬less, and lambasting as much as possible inorder that no one might accuse them of sub¬versive activity or even ‘old-fashioned’ regardfor justice and tolerance.”These are very passionate terms for adescription of the Maroon’s condemnation ofthe resolutions passed at the late ASU con¬vention, but they are supported by no validrefutations of our arguments. This is quite astrong way of reporting the Maroon’s impliedattitude that it would be possible for the ASUto condemn an aggressor and show a degree ofsympathy for a victim without necessarilygoing to war about it.But the value of the Bull Session’s warn¬ing remains. Whatever degree of sympathy wemay want to show, we must be sure as pos¬sible that our desires are not carried away byemotion; that we are not tossing away oursecurity. University students, even more thanother citizens, are dutybound to resist thesway of propaganda.Traveling BazaarBy DICK HIMMELCorrectionThe column which appeared in this space yesterdaywas not written by me as bylined. I never touched ituntil columnists Florian and Ruml finished writing ityesterday. I hope those people who had orchids andgrapes to give me, will transfer same to the Phi Uhouse, quick.Bitters, No GinAt a lavish Skull and Crescent dance the other nightCoach Shaughnessey was one of the faculty guests. Onthe dance floor was his attractive U High daughter.When it came time for the Mirror contest. Shag wasintroduced from the bandstand. As he was being calledup, the orchestra played Wave the Flag wildly and thecrowd echoed applause thruout the not very cloisteredCloister Club.In the middle of all this rumpus, Janice, Shag’sdaughter, remai-ked caustically to her mother, “W’avewhat flag? Haven’t they heard. We don’t subsidize.” IShe was quieted quickly and decisively by her mother.If Shag feels any of the same bitterness inside ofhim which his daughter spouted, it isn’t very surprising.Yet he conceals well any resentment toward the Uni¬versity he might feel. We have been a hard experiencefor Shag. W’hen he came here he was a successfulcoach with a good reputation. Now he has to buildthat reputation up all over again.The sports world is watching eagerly to see whetherit was Shaughnessey or Chicago which sent this Uni¬versity down the gridiron drain. However, it maycome out, I hope that the cheers and warmth thatgreeted Shag at the dance Saturday night can removea little bit of the bitterness that he holds inside of himand that his daughter expresses in public.Beati and the GirlsThe Skull and Cre.scent dance profited about a hun¬dred bucks which is nice, but what is nicer is remember¬ing the bluesinging contest which .Mortar Board BeatiGaidzik won. All five of the gals were of the low throatyvariety and every one plenty good. Cynthia Dursermerand Beati were singled out as the two with the mostapplause, .\ftcr a second counting Beati was the win¬ner.Almost anti-cliniatically, Beati donned a long blondewig at the end of dance and watched fraternity eyespop...Dink MacClellan’s date, Jean Kruder and RoyStanton’s woman Ruth .\hlquist are look alikes if youtake away the hair.. .to Jane Tallman and anyone elsewho thought I was with Lillian Luter. I wasn’t...Itwasn’t even Ellie Tatge.Bull...Ask the Daily Times’ Carl Larsen how he gotthat cut on his head. That’s one story his paper didn’tcarry...My brothers, the Betas had my quiet toleranceuntil they ousted from office the treasurer, who .stays inschool partly on the basis of the meals he got in returnfor his work. That’s carrying a purge a Little far.The treasurer didn’t walk out with the rest of us onlybecause he didn’t have the financial independence.Seems a little too dirty for me not to get mad about.. .ZBT was in a state of utter confusion last Friday. Inthe morning Johnny Culp called them to let them knowtwo men had bid their house whom they hadn’t bid.They were Jerry Schiedler and Harry Fisher. ZBTslooked at each other and then at their rushing lists andfound no Schiedlers or Fishers. After a quick meetingZBT cheerfully black-balled the two men. Later theylearned that these men could not decide which house topledge and they found that if they bid a house whichdidn’t bid them, they could pledge at any time. Yester¬day after a Psi U-Beta tussle, Schiedler went Beta...ZBTs tell another good story about the rushing that PiLam was doing in .Mandel Hall before the Hutchins’speech. Ed Horner was being accosted by three PiLams who were talking so fast they scarcely heard his“no’s.” Five minutes before “de land” appeared thefreshman toddled across the street and pledged. Yes¬terday morning he traded his pledge pin in on a 1940Buick. . .Charles Darragh called in to tell me how col-lossal the Courtier will be today, including a slam at mewhich is unusual. They’re doing a Maroon parodywhich might be good. I’m going to read it. What thehell, it’s free.No Red Baiter, HeYesterday Dean Randall spent the afternoon listen¬ing to members of the Communist Club, ASU, andYouth Committee Against War object strenuously tothe po.sters which soon will appear pleading for Finnishrelief. Said the boys, “Putting the posters on Uni¬versity bulletin boards would be a breach of neutrality,get the United States into war, and set this Universityup as a war-monger.”Of the nice little boys Dean Randall a.sked an ob¬vious question; “Well, you backed Spanish relief. Thisisn’t any different.” Mr. Randall got any obvious an¬swer: “Mr. Randall, you just don’t understand.” Evi¬dently Mr. Randall doesn’t because he isn’t doing any-I thing about it. Breckinridfj(eTalks atLaw Lecture Today on theQuadranglesSophonsiba P. Breckinridge, Sam-ual Deutsch Profes.sor Emeritus ofPublic Welfare Administration, willgive the third in the Law School’spublic lecture scries for the WinterQuarter. Her topic will be “The So¬cial Worker and the Courts.” As usualthe lecture will be given in Law Northj at 3:30. Professor Breckenridge wasrecently named as one of the out-I standing women in Chicago by theI Business and Professional Women’sI Club which included her in a list oftwelve, which it compiled.I 0Finds University‘’^Most Refreshings^j Chicago students’ interest and keen-I ness in academic subjects is visitingj Profe.ssor of History Wilbur K. Jor-j dan’s outstanding impression of the(University. “It is most refreshing,”! he says.I However the students themselves; or the old timers of the faculty mayI wrangle over the merits of the “New,Plan,” the relative superiority of Chi-I cago .students appears obvious to Pro-' fossor Jordan.j Dr. Jordan comes to the UniversityI for the Winter Quarter from Clair-! mont and Scrijips Colleges in Cali-Ifornia. Calvert Club. “Catholics and Art”.Rev. McGIynn. Ida Noyes.Poetry Group. “Obscurity in Mod¬ern Poetry”. Jessica Nelson NorthWieboldt 205, 4.Zoology Club. Prof. William F.Windle, Northwestern MedicalSchool. Zoology 14, 4:30.Earl Hrowder. Sponsored by Com¬munist Club. Mandel Hall. Cancelled.“Magic”. Reynolds Club Theatre8:30.Survey of Fre.shman English. 7 to8:45. Inquire at Cobb 202.Read the MaroonClassified.■>461 UnivrrHity. Private home, beautiful quietritom for huNineKH woman or atudentI3.56-I4.50. Mid. 2171.A word to the wise is suiiicientQuality-wise and price-wisepeople buy Klein'sFiner MeatsKlein'sFiner Meats1030 East 55th St.SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO"PHONE ORDERS"FOR PROMPT DELIVERY—•PHONE FAIRFAX 03S4-5“Serves the CampusCommunity"The Daily MaroonWILL PAYlOcIifor a September 29th, 1939copy of the Daily MaroonWhat? He won't be here?^ YTell, That s too bad ~ ~ ~But you can still spend jiITHE EVENING NOT STUDYING BY COMING TOTHE DA WORKSHOP'S MAGIC EITHER TONIGHTOR TOMORROW NIGHT AT REYNOLDS CLUB iTHEATRE.ond o girVs got to do something withher evenings.IiII Tickets 25c 8:30\THE DAILY MAROON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1940 Page ThreeTop Law StudentsStudy at WashingtonCandles and'GarlicBy GEORGE T. PECKUshering in a week full of novel¬ties, a puffy-eyed, pasty-faced, youngEnglishman by the name of Benja¬min Britten stepped forward shylyamong the players of the IllinoisSymphony to present, for the firsttime in America, his first piano con¬certo. He attacked the piano, stopped,and struggled to get the attention ofConductor Albert Goldberg. Then hetugged away at a key that had stuck,mumbling “terribly sorry”. The em¬barrassed titters of the audienceturned into delighted chuckles whenthe key resumed its normal attitudean<l with unaffected calm, he ex¬plained: “I am sure it wasn’t I whodid it.”* * *A broad smile offstage seemed to.say a few minutes later that allwould go well. And it did. If his per¬formance lacked technical brilliance,his first movement charme<l immedi¬ately with its bright contrasts, itsrollicking hor.seplay, and its rich pi-anistic color. But then he comes fromthe bailiwick of John Ireland andHarold Samuel. The waltz and ariawhich followed achieved a surprisingwarmth, punctuated by the piano’snose-thumbing. The final march wasnaive and, as Mr. Britten relates inhis highly literate program notes,“somewhat jingoistic”.♦ * ♦On the second curtain call, thecomposer-pianist waved a cheery sa¬lute to the orchestra, with a certainEnglish “I <lone it Ma” in his atti-tu(le. On the sixth, impres.sed, hebowe<l from the door.Next week, Mr. Solomon introducesnovelties from the too-little knownArthur Honegger and Darius Mil¬haud, balancing the evening with Mo¬zart and Franck.* * *•Another novelty of the week is thesecond appearance in Chicago ofBeveridge Webster, who will playtomorrow night, with Hans Lange inOrchestra Hall, the .second piano con¬certo of .Anis Fuleihan. Mozart, De-bussey, and the great Brahms-Haydnvariations complete the bill.« * •In the concert field, tonight’s i)er-formance of Kirsten Flagstad in theOpera House will justly draw as biga crowd as any of the season. Sheis to do a scene from Fidelio andlieder of Brahms, Richard Strauss,and Grieg. Jussi Bjoerling, Metro-))olitan tenor, will sing in the samel)lace Sunday afternoon.)»E « *Readers, I suppose, are becomingrather tired of the continual toutingwhich has been given the SaidenbergSymphonietta. Last time there washearty and reassuring applause froman accompanying critic for the ad¬mirable performance of Joseph Szi-geti. His exact style gave Mozart’sDivertimento in B Flat a bi'illiantrendering.True to his reputation for excellentprogram building, Mr. Saidenbergcompleted the evening with the solidlyexciting Sinfonietta in B Minor ofNicholai Miaskovsky, composeil inMusic Groiij)—(('ontinued from page one)sung to an English text prepared bythe Music depaidment.The orchestra rehearsals, held at7:30 every Friday in Mandel Hall,are open to the public. Although theorchestra is filled, good players, es¬pecially on stringed instruments, arealways welcome. School Sends Four toWork With GovernmentCommissions.For two years or more well-knownLaw Schools have been interested ina plan whereby some of their top¬flight students could gain experienceand training working in variousphases of the Federal Government.While some of the outstanding men inthe government service feel such aprogram would be of benefit both tothe students and the departments inwhich they worked, a number of dif¬ficulties have so far prevented anyrealization of the proposed plan.In spite of these hindrances, how¬ever, the University I^aw School hasfound opportunities for four of itsstudents to work with governmentcommissions. One, Tucker Dean, iswith the Bituminous Coal Commis¬sion in Washington, D.C. EdwardHarash is with the Anti-trust Divi¬sion in Chicago, while Fred Asch andJoseph Bari are with the Wages andHours Commission here.Credit ProblemBefore many placements of thistype can be made, however, the statusof such students with regard to CivilService laws must be established, andthe Law Schools must find somemeans of assuring proper supervisionfor them. If students thus placedj were employed only as clerks or inroutine work and if their supervisionwas un.satisfactory they would benefitlittle from the experience in the opin¬ion of the Law Schools. Thus, thequestion of how much credit a schoolcould give a student working in thisway is most important.Though these problems must bemet before the plan can be furthered,it is almost certain to be effected inthe near future, for such importantgovernment officials as Jerome Frankand Thurman Arnold support it.Daichf^s AuthorsLiter fir y CriticismArticle in BookDavid Daiches, instructor in Eng¬lish, is one of the contributors to therecently published “Books ThatChanged Our Minds,” a symposiumedited by Malcolm Crowley and Ber¬nard Smith. Daiches’ article discussesthe import of 1. A. Richards’ “Prin¬ciples of Literary Criticism”.Literary CriticismBefore discussing Richards’ book,Daiches presents a survey of the stateof literary criticism in the periodduring which Richards published “ThePrinciples.” After presenting theprincipal theories advanced by theEnglish .scholar, Daiches attempts toshow what effect Richards had on hiscontemporaries and successors in thefield of literary criticism.Summing up his evaluation Dai¬ches says, “Thus the influence of the‘Principles’ has been threefold. First,it has helped to eliminate obscuran¬tism from criticism. Second, it has,through no fault of Richards’, contrib¬uted to a common contempoi’ary con¬fusion between explanation of originand demonstration of value. Third, ithas provided new and important crit¬ical tools...”.Among the other contributors areGeorge Soule on Freud and “The In¬terpretation of Dreams,” Lewis Mum-ford on Spengler’s “Decline of theWest,” and Charles A. Beard onTurner’s “The Frontier in AmericanHistory.”PLEDGINGSigma Chi announces the pledg¬ing of Vincent Von Henke. Ellis CooperativeCelebrating Endof Initial YearThe members of the Ellis HousingCooperative at 5558 Ellis Avenue arecelebrating their first anniversary.Last year the co-op stai’ted on a nonetoo firm financial basis in a buildingthat was in a rather run-down condi¬tion. Since that time the co-op hasspent about $450 for improvements onthe building and has also been finan¬cially able to lower the average rentfrom $11.50 to $10. At the close of thelast quarter, an average of $8 individends was distributed to eachmember. Plans are also under wayfor the construction of a new recrea¬tion room.Many New MembersSecuring new members to fill va¬cancies has never been a problem inthe co-op. At the close of last year,the waiting list of prospective mem¬bers was considerably longer than themembership list. Part of this waitinglist was taken up by the new Univer¬sity Co-op at 5342 Ellis Ave. Anyoneinterested in being on the presentwaiting list should see Dan Glaser,the vice president. The other officersare; president, Leonard Edwards;treasurer, Hyman Minsky; and mem¬bers of the board of directors: JesseReed, Frank Lynch, and Alex Som¬erville.Browder—(Continued from page one)of Justice has been postponed fromyesterday till today, and he will notbe able to appear in Chicago at theannounced date.It is unfortunate that the highlyquestionable tactics of the Depart¬ment of Justice (strongly reminiscentof the days of the Palmer Raids) pre¬vent the University of Chicago stu¬dents from hearing today the mes¬sage that was so enthusiastically re¬ceived at MIT and Yale.We have been assured that Mr.Browder will name another date atthe conclusion of the hearings today.Tickets for today’s meeting may bereturned at the regular box-olficehours in Mandel corridor.The Communist Club will announcethe new date as soon as possible. Track MenCarry Torches;Light Up 63rdCandying torches down 63rd st. aspart of the ceremony celebrating in¬stallation of its new lighting system,Ray Randell and Dan Conner, mem¬bers of the University track teamnext Thursday will race along the{portion of the street acquiring thenew lamps. One will start at theIllinois Central tracks; the other atthe corner of 63rd Street and Cot¬tage Grove Avenue. As they runalong the street the system will lightup block by block. They will meet at63rd and Woodlawn and give theirtorches to Miss Isabelle Clerk whowill represent the Spirit of Light.After Thursday night the streetwill be the “great white way” of Chi¬cago, or at least that portion of itwhich runs from Cottage Grove av¬enue to the Illinois Central trackswill be, for the merchants in thatdistrict have purchased a privatelighting system. It will be the long¬est private lighting system in theworld, and it will be six times moreeffective than the system now in use.To suitably mark its installment,the Woodlawn Business Men’s Asso¬ciation together with the East 63rdStreet council are sponsoring a car¬nival of lights ceremony at the cornerof 63rd Street and Woodlawm Avenue.The affair will start at 7. Notablessuch as Mayor Kelly and AldermenSmith and Douglas will attend andConstance Bennett has been invited.One of the leaders of the merchantswho made the new system possible isMr. Albert Chapman, chairman of thejoint committee representing bothsponsoring organizations which wereinstrumental in carrying out theproject.Bi. Sci’s CampbellTakes Year’s LeaveDr. Dan H. Campbell, assistantprofessor of Bacteriology, has left fora year’s study at the California In¬stitute of Technology on a Rocke¬feller Foundation Fellowship. Camp¬bell had originally planned to studyat Professor Linderstrom-Lang’s lab¬oratory in Copenhagen but was pre¬vented from doing so because of thewar.Campbell, a former Frank G. Lo¬gan Research Fellow, is interested insome chemical aspects of immunology.Since 1938 he has been a memberof the department of Bacteriologyand Parasitology.Read the Maroon Disc andDescant* * ♦By FRIEDA WEITZMANMozart’s “Linz” Symphony, No. 36,bears the impress of Haydn’s influ¬ence strongly, yet it has a zest andvitality that is clearly Mozart’s own.Sir Thomas Beecham conducts theLondon Philharmonic Orchestra in abrilliant recording (Columbia Master-works Set M-387), only one of whoseexcellent features is a fine playingand warm tone quality of the horns. Agood recording to own.Here is a release that will makerecord history. The Bach Society pre¬sent the eminent ’cellist, Pablo Ca¬sals, playing the Bach Suites Nos. 2and 3 for unaccompanied ’cello (Vic¬tor Album M-611). The powerfulsweep and leaping rhythm of thesuites are well suited to the instru¬ment and, of course, Mr. Casals per¬forms the work masterfully. Themoods of the separate movements ofthe suites range from quiet reflectionas seen in the preludes to the quickliveliness of the bourrees and maje.sticemphasis of the sarabandes. Thethird suite contains a bourree whosemelody is familiar to everyone Thereare six records in the album.KENWAY APTS.6054 Kenwood Ave.1 and 2 room newlydecorated apartmentsFurnished - UnfurnishedVery ReasonableRatesWarning..A Cold Wave May StrikeAny Day NowIs your car ready to TAKE ITwhen the thermometer drops?We can save you time, moneyand trouble in preparing iorwinter driving. Coll or see ustoday for Complete Service.WALDROM’SDorchester 1004661st & ELUSMID-WINTER— Clean - Up - Sale —-BOOKS-SPECIAL TABLES - 98c - 2 for $1.5069c ~ 2 for $1 - 49c - 2 for 80cWonderiul Bargains-Too Good to Last Long!WOODWORTH'SBOOK STORE1311 East 57th St. Open EveningsFRI. JAN. 19 MIRRORPREVIEWCONTINENTAL ROOM ^ ☆ STEVENS HOTELGETYOUR DATESNOW SPECIAL STUDENT RATESTHE STARS of MIRRORGRIFF WILLIAMSand his orchestraPrizes tor the organization with thebiggest partyHelp Make It An ALL STAR LET'SSHOW SOMESPIRITNIGHTGET YOUR STUDENT TICKETS AT THE MAROON OFFICEPage Four THE DAILY MAROON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1940MAROON SPORTSThe ColumnBy DEMAREST POLACHECKWith the conference basketballtitle scramble one-third concluded theposition of the Midway squad at thebottom of the heap makes your scribewonder at past statements and proph¬ecies. My seat mate in the press boxat the Northwestern game shared myoptimism over the Maroons’ chancesbefore the game started. The fact thathe was the scout from Ohio Stateseemed to make my convictions alittle better founded—after that loss,I would have staked a somewhat bat¬tered reputation as a forecaster ofsporting events that we would takeIowa by at least ten points.Before the weekend came upon us,in an interview with the Chicagocoach, the public was informedthrough this space that the team wasattempting to diversify its scoringpower. So, in an effort to find outwhat it’s all about, let us examinethe scoring record to date.At the top of the list for Chicagois Joe Stampf, with nine field goalsand fifteen free throws for a totalof thirty-three points. Close upon hisheels are his two tall teammates,Lounsbury and Richardson, witheleven field goals and four free throwsfor the former and nine buckets andfour gift shots for the latter. Thesethree account for eighty-one of theone hundred and six points the teamhas notched up in its four conferenceengagements. Zimmerman and Jor¬genson have nine points apiece, withWagenberg, Stanley Charlton andFons bringing up the balance withthree, two, two and one points re¬spectively.As for opposition scoring, all teamsthe Maroons have faced have scoreda total of thirty-four points morethan the home five. The Chicago teamhas excelled in one department, sincethey are sinking a good majority oftheir free throws.Having seen the figures, we cometo the question: what is the explana¬tion for the cellar spot for a teamwhich on paper compares with anythey have played? Is it the coaching?Is it the lack of drive and speed ofthe players? Is it the fact that theyuse the wrong system of play? Arethey a bad team? What is the matter?To attempt to give a categoricalanswer to any or all of the abovequeries is foolish, but I am in a posi¬tion to advance my own opinion. TheMaroons are losing because they donot move as fast as the other teams,because they exhibit a tendency toreach an impasse on offense with aregularity which is disgusting. Thefact that they do not shoot enoughto wdn is occasioned by the fact thatthey do not seem to know how towork the ball inside the defense sothat they may shoot. Either they doknow how to do this, but they do notavail themselves of this knowledge, orelse the coaching is bad and theyactually don’t know what to doagainst certain types of defense.If they do know how to pierce theopposing defense, they still have onefatal weakness in that they are poorat getting possession of the ball offthe backboard. With three men oversix feet on the team, the play againstWisconsin, Northw'estern and Iowawas dominated by the smaller butmore adept members of the above-mentioned teams. This is one featureof their play which I found complete¬ly unexplainable and absolutely in¬defensible.But, as Mr. Hutchins pointed outlast Friday, if the team starts win¬ning the answers to the questions willbe given and the questions themselveswill disappear. No one hopes for thisevent more than yours truly. Hebert PlansTennis TourneyFor VarsityHopes to DetermineNumber 5 and 6 Berthson Team.Right now. Coach Wally Hebert’smain topic of cogitation is a doubleelimination tennis tourney, by whichhe plans to temporarily determine thenumber five and six berths on the var¬sity net squad for the next Spring. A;present he concedes four men firststring positions—Tally Shostrom, ArtJorgenson, and Jim Atkins have al¬ready won Major “C’s” in tennis andso are automatically rated as “A”men, and Cal Sawyier, though only aSophomore, rates a varsity be’tth be¬cause of his city ranking.The czar is quite encouraged withthe remaining fifteen members of hissquad of nineteen. “I could take anysix of them and make a first rate “B”team,” he remarked. The big problem,though is to find the two most out¬standing prospective netmen andshove them up to the select circle ofj the “A” squad.I Leading contender for the numberj five spot is Dick Norian, who played: number one on the 1939 “B” team.I Next in line is Bob Hill, who wasj number two. Following these two areJohnny Stevens and Bob Reynolds,numbex’s three and four, I’espeotivelyon last year’s second team. Then cameDon Brown, who was runner up toSawyier in the frosh tourney lastSpring, and Stan Levi, also one oflast year’s yearling crop. I-M BasketballStarts TonightMass basketball will get under wayin Bai'tlett tonight as the first of five11-game bills sponsored by the Intra¬mural department inaugurates theWinter Quarter I-M activity in eachof five fraternity leagues.The games are scheduled to beginpi’omptly at 7:30, and will be playedin three gi'oups; the second of whichstarts at 8:15, followed by the finaltilts of the evening, which are to takeover at 9:00.Wally Hebert and the Intramuralboard have decided that no freshmenai’e to be allowed to represent theirfraternities in basketball. They feltthat this move was necessary in orderto protect the various donnitory out¬fits.7:30 Phi Phi vs. Sigma ChiPhi Sig vs. DekeI’hi Sig “B” vs. U “B”8:15 I‘hi Psi “B” vs. D U “B”Phi Delt vs. Zete BeteA D Phi vs. Kappa SigmaPhi Gam “B” vs. Zeta Bete ”B”9:00 A D Phi “B” vs. Psi U “C ”Phi Gam vs. Pi LamPhi Kap vs. Psi UPhi Delt “B” vs. Phi Sig “B”Begin Program atIda Noyes Hall Water Polo TeamWins; Meets AlumniI Playing without the services oftheir regular goalie. Bill Macy, thej water polo team nevertheless trouncedj Whiting Park Monday night, 5 to 2,j in another rough game. Jim Ander-I son, ordinarily a guard, tended goalI during the game, while Bob SteinI took over Anderson’s regular position.(Jack Bernhardt paced the attack withtwo goals. Art Bethke, Joe Stearns,and Stein each registered once.Tonight the team encounters ateam made up of Chicago graduates.Included among the team are manyformer water polo captains and alsoBill Wilson, former national collegiateswimming champion. The game willbe played in the Bartlett pool.An After Luncheon Recreation Pe¬riod for men and women has beenstai’ted at Ida Noyes Hall. From 12:30until 1 every day in the gym facili¬ties will be set up for paddle aerialdart, paddle tennis, shuffle board, anddeck tennis.Another innovation will be thechess class coached by Miss Burns ev- Iery Friday afternoon from 3:30 to 5.'The class was organized upon a de¬mand from University students. Student's RomanceAdopted from English Opera"I Lost My Heart inHeidelberg"withMETZLER 6, PATRICK KNOWLESSONOTONE 66 E. VAN BUREN25c to 2—35c to 6:30Ida NoyesRegistration for instructionalcourses for the Winter Quarter atIda Noyes Hall, originally sched¬uled to close la.st Friday, will re¬main open until Friday, January19. 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