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Page Two THE DAILY TAR HEEL Sunday, February 7, 193 Gijc Dailp Ear eel The cScial newspaper of the Publi cations Union Beard of the University cf North Carolina at Chapel Hill where it is printed daily except Mon days and the Thanksgiving, Christ mas, and Spring Holidays- Entered as second class matter at the post office of Chapel Hill, N. C, under act -of March 3, 1879. Subscription price, $4.00 for the college year. - Offices on the second floor of the Graham Memorial Building. Jack Dungan... ..Editor Ed French. .Managing Editor John Manning Business Mgr. Editorial Staff EDITORIAL BOARD Charles G. Rose, chairman, Don Shoemaker, R. W. Barnett, Henderson Heyward, Louise Pritchard, J. F. Alexander, Gilbert Blauman, William Uzzell, Dan Lacy, Kemp Yarborough, Sid ney Rosen. FOREIGN NEWS BOARD E. C. Daniel, Jr., chairman; Frank Haw ley, Robert Berryman, Elmer Oet tinger, C. G. Thompson, John Acee, Claiborn Carr, Charles Poe. FEATURE BOARD Ben Neville, F. L. Joyner, E. H J. G. deR. Hamil ton, Jr., Philip Co'sti. CITY EDITORS George Wilson, T. W. Blackwell, Morrie Long, Tom Walker. William McKee. W. E. Davis, William Blount, Jack Riley. SPORTS DEPARTMENT Thomas B. Broughton, Jack Bessen. LIBRARIAN E. M. SpruilL HEELERS Donoh Hanks, J. H. Mor ris, Joseph Sugarman, W. R. Eddie man, J. D. Winslow, A. T. Dill, W. O. Marlowe, E. C. Bagwell, R. J. Giala nella, W. D. McKee, Harold Janof sky, S. A. Wilkins, L. C. Slade, Jr., F. C. Litten, Fred Wolf, J. B. Straus, J. S. Newton, Jr., W. H. Lazarus, John Easter, Fred Dossen bach, N. H. Powell, A. C. Barbee, W. R. Weesner, W. R. Woerner, : Vermont Royster, R. J. Somers. Business Staff CIRCULATION MANAGER T. C. Worth.. BUSINESS DEPARTMENT Assist- ' ants: R. D. McMillan, Pendleton . Gray, Bernard Solomon. ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT Jimmy Allen, manager; assistants: H. A. Clark, Howard Manning; Bill Jones, H. Louis Brisk, Joe Mason, ' Joe Webb, Dudley Jennings. COLLECTION DEPARTMENT John Barrow, manager; assistants: Ran dolph Reynolds, R. H. Lewis, Jim Cordon; J. W. Callahan, Henry Emerson. - Sunday, February 7, 1932 A Third Party? The announcement of a war on unemployment by the admin istration yesterday brought nu merous organizations and finan cial experts to the presidential call, among them Harry L. Ste vens, commander of the Ameri can Legion. The Legionnaires, to the number of over one mil lion members, are pledged to support an unemployment relief L .Wn- drive to be known as the "War on Depression," which will in volve a general house to -house solicitation of business men and manufacturers in an effort to inciuce them to put at least one more man to work in their es tablishments. This venture is the result of more than ten weeks of preparation, involving the participation of each of the ten thousand posts maintained by the Legion throughout the country. xis move, as weu as oiaer re- ;be . agked Her interpretation cent publicized activities of the wag even and her performance Legion; leads political observers smoothly satisfying, until her to note the ascendancy of this change of mind and course, jn vast organization to a" plane : of. Noras last act, when she rose political significance. The stand somewhat above the level of the of the Legion on the prohibition two preceding acts. She accom question, in which it favored plished her best in the face of a sii to Congress fo?tiying liandicap for in her last repeal ;pr -modification of . the j interview with Torvald, Milton A. I'l. !Jis "... ,t' At. i . mi.:!'. Lil ;m 1 t . iJxewa jjroniDiiion law, to me several ' states with the request that each state submit this question- to 'the' voters thereof,'' is held particularly significant; in that it ifrvolyes the first organ ized, stand: of a constituent against' the existing dry laws. Whatever is the aim of the Le gion, it is apparent that its in fluence on' poliiics has assumed definite proportions. With a membership representing the cream of the politically minded younger men of the nation, such a rise is not improbable. The group is unified, it has common interests, and it possesses an or ganization capable of carrying to completion any venture for the common welfare of the group, me L.egion has naa a taste of politics, and its palate has not been displeased. The evolution, of a third political par ty from this group is hot an ab surdity. D.C.S. A Doll's House, by Henrik Ibsen- at the Playmaker's Theatre, February E. Davis. With Mary Margaret Russell, Milton Williams, Marion Tatum, Whitner Bissell, Gilbert Stamper, Lillian Hottenstein, Rebekah Moose, George Howard, Donald Howard, Betty Emory, and Oscar Stillman. Setting by Mary Dirnberger, lighting by John Neuner, music by Harry Lee Knox with Elizabeth Quinlan. (Performance of February 5 reviewed.) Reviewed by James Dawson The play. Not the most hap- this department. Possibly due py choice of vehicles for the to his discomfort in the role, he Playmakers, A Doll's House is, was unable to get inside ' the as most sophomores know, a im'nd of the husband, and his thesis play with a dead. thesis, The problem of woman's libera - tion is not. one to profoundly move the audience that sits in the Playmakers theatre. For a student of dramatic history, it is not hard, of course, -to recon- struct the temper of the time, j and to understand just what sort of splash this play made in! er Qr not Mrs. Linden was sin the sociological sea. But the 'cere in her avowal of love for Playmakers were faced with a.Krogstad. In every other min problem of a different calibre, ute of her performance she was Theirs was the task of making good. She submerged her own interesting a play whose merit! mind beneath the mind of her is only half on the side of art and drama. Of necessity, then, the art, the drama of the piece had to be stretched to cover the bare places left by the removal of the social problem. , It is per haps not too much to say that the play, per se, was boring. Yawns, from a society whose women no longer find matrimony a form of sanctioned prostitu tion, constitute the only reaction that could be expected. The players : As well cast as any Playmaker production of the last five years, the play was carried through with that spirit of interest which has always been characteristic of the or ganization. The persons in the cast were interested in the piece, which gave it something it could not otherwise have hadN The name of Ibsen has been one of power in the Playmakers' group, I and they have once before done it justice. This periormance - was no fall from grace, in spite of the choice of plays;. There , , . , , all the actors were what might have been expected. The cast ing was done with what re sembled good judgment, with few exceptions. Mary" Margaret Russell, as Nora, brought to bear on her job her past experience on the Playmaker stage, and, this de partment might venture to guess, the aid and advice of her husbandV who is as old a Play- maker as she. Whatever the means, the end and result was as niro Hit. nf wnrV as rnnlH Williams fell decidedly below his worst of the play theretofore. Mrs; Russell, whether intention ally or not, pleasingly minimized the importance of the symbolic representation of Woman which was Nora's,-, and was simply flawless as an individual. And this she achieved in the face of a misfit play. Her character, however, was not a misfit. She moulded herself to meet its de mands, and the result was her strong, handling of the mind of Milton Williams, as Torvald, was miscast, in the opinion of Ruth Chatterton uses her din ing room only when there is company. When she is not en tertaining, dinner is served on a card table in an upstairs sitting room. ' There is, no crisis in Europe. George Bernard Shaw. Presented by the Carolina Playmakers, ' 4, 5, and 6, 1932. Directed by Harry performance climbed from peak!osity was immediately gratified to peak, sometimes reaching Lveri - similitude, but more often coasting below it. - Marion .Tatum, as Mrs. Lin- den, was at her best in some time. Only once did she fail toty into a reading of the most make her character clear, when ; she was not certain as to wheth- character. Dr. Rank (Whitner Bissell) was a surprisingly convincing j oia man. ne was ieeDie, siow, and bent to the proper degree. ! His character was not over" 'drawn. He was given sonal ovation. Gilbert Stamper was a satis- factory Krogstad. He has be- come the regular heavy of the x lajo, ,afl avoid being standardized there by. Lillian Hottenstein made Anna so convincing that it was several minutes before this de partment recognized her every day self beneath the nurses's clothes Rebekah Moose was good as the maid until she had oc casion to speak, when her accent belied her character. The two boys; George and Donald How ard, were splendid replicas. Per- fectly natural, they were nicely cast and completely un-selfcon- scious. - The setting : The one set was designed by Mary Dirnberger. It went in for a wealth of detail in the matter of furnishing, with its lamps, glass bells, divans, and footstools. It failed in Qnly one thing, the establishing of r the cozy atmosphere that Torvald was continually commenting upon. It succeeded in getting' the effect of depression and j gloom. The lighting was splen- J didly done by John , Neuner. The music was well placed, and the illusion of the playing from the stage was well achieved and held. Mrs. Russell's dance was nicely designed and effectively executed. The whole piece was directed with nice attention to detail, with the exception of one or two bits of business that jarred the effect of the illusion. In Tor vald, the director's hand was somewhat too obvious. In the other people of the cast, it was smoothly hidden, and their busi ness was smooth. Torvald had been forced into a mould that did not fit, and the marks of it showed in his strained actions, which, though designed with all care, were not cohviheihg. The small audience was well pleased with the final result. The cast and the director suc ceeded' in hiding from them the social element of the now arch aic problem of Nora, except in spots where the sheer drama and art of the piece were not enough to cover the loss , that years have perforce . imposed upon certain of Ibsen's theses. When they could not get Clara Bow to play in "The Impatient Maiden,' Universal rapidly re wrote it and cast Lew Ayres in it. Ayres gets red ; in the face when talking about substituting for Clara in 'a picture whicji was based on a book called Impatient Virgin': ' The The Musical By T. Smith The Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra played a program at Duke university Friday night and proved again, perhaps more forcibly than ever before in the experience -of this writer, its right to rank among the fore most orchestras of America, which means of the world. Those who happened to have a special interest in such mat ters were frankly curious about the orchestra's new conductor, Eugene Ormandy. This curi - in the person of. a decisive and aggressive leader who possessed a perfect baton .technic and who jder way before the ensemble be has a musical personality that j came perfect. !js capable of instilling individu- f requently heard numbers with out resorting to unwarranted license or privilege in doing so. No greater tribute can be paid a conductor than this. Mr. Or mandy read a long and complex program' without reference to score. The first number on the pro gram was the Brandenburg Concerto No, 3 by Bach,- played fey the stringed choir 0f the or- Mr OrmaTidv's read- ing of this was in the purest 1 JUfcVXA WVJ V J wj 7 sparkling, with that clarity of diction that characterizes Bach, Mr. Ormandy built his perform- ance in a perfectly woven, sym- metrical balance tnat to be pro-, perly impressve must be almost subconsciously existent. One of-j ten hears the question of wheth- er Bach has anything really to offer the layman. To have heard this concerto would, be the finest answer possible to give. For the purpose of contrast the" air to the D Major Suite, more familiarly known as "The Air for G-string," was played be-1 tween the two movements that make up the concerto proper. From where this writer sat one might have wished for a bit more sonority in this movement, but certainly there was much of artistry. The presence of a masterful stringed choir was im mediately manifest, and if there had been any doubt concerning this young conductor, it must have been completely dispelled at once. , - The B Minor Symphony (Un finished) of Schubert was the second number on the program. In writing this symphonic bre vity, Schubert adhered strictly to the prescribed form of the classic school, but his melodies are distinctly those of roman ticism. Too often conductors try to conform these broad themes to the more limited con- fines of a mere thematic idea, or they go to the other extreme and makerthem sentimental. Mr. Ormandy was content to lead the orchestra rather than to conduct effusively music in this number, and to let . the melodies sing themselves in the natural, spontaneous, and graceful way that Schubert wrote them. The result was to bring a new and almost fresh beauty to a num ber that perhaps some in the audience had wished in advance might have been displaced by another symphony. In playing the symphony Mr; Ormandy followed accustom that has become a fetish with many conductors of making no break between the movements. Just why this should be done is not entirely clear. Even metropoli tan critics are generally agreed that an audience needs a moment of relaxation between the move ments of a symphony to 'put aside, as it were, what has gone before and to prepare for what is to come. In most symphon ies, as" in this one, there is no thematic continuity between the movements, and therefore no real reason or avoiding; the University McCorkle break which the composer indi- cates Strangely enough, this; most yy gouen l oat uy tne printing excellent orchestra experienced house of that fine old master its only noticeable slips of the printer , Thomas Mosher, who evening in the playing of this, made the world turn to Port-well-worn and time-honored nd, Maine, for best-quality work. The brass and woodwind choirs, having been silent dur ing the concerto, were cold and therefore perhaps1 excusably off pitch; but the 'cellos generally j played impeccably for the Bach ! number, and their intonation faults in the symphony were something of a mystery. TheJwmn five years second movement was well un- After the intermission the or chestra came back to the stage with two more trumpet play ers, two more percussion play ers, and two tubas added to the personnel, to play the Polka and Fugue music from Weinberger's opera, Schwanda the Bagpiper'. This was new music to the hearing to be very interesting and perhaps charming music. The opera was given its initial performance in Europe in 1927, Wfc r cidental music have been heard VAUAWkJ 111 XlllVX 1VU VlllO season. The Polka had all the fire and grace of that well known folk dance. The Fugue began in the conventional style, with a rather lengthy subject as- signed to the violins. The fur- ther it progressed, the more j bombastic it became, until finally the trombones, the French horns, and even the tympani (to the limit of their melodic range) were tossing the subject about. One was reminded of the Paris! Conservatory professor's re- mark that the, Cesar Franck famous D Minor Symphony ! could not be a symphony be- cause the theme was given to the English horn. But even though Weinberger departed from tra- his reputation to keep up the dition, he remained both clever payments on it. and interesting. One suspected Reunion in Vienna, by Robert' that Mr. Ormandy Was slyly in- Sherwood, has made its debut in terested in the possible humor the rental shelves. In the Broad of this instrumental situation. way production, Alfred Lunt The programmed Sorcerer's and Lynn Fontanne are stilE Apprentice of Dukas was , re- Paying to packed houses, moved and by popular request Liszt's Les Preludes was substi- Shift Scenes to Alfred Williams tuted. The fifth programmed & Company number, Richard Strauss' Till .Grosset & Dunlap has released EulenspiegeVs Merry Pranks, twenty-four of the world's best was moved up to fourth place, books : (as the ads say) all .to This prankish number by the match in color and binding, impish Dr. Strauss is always a Popular prices prevail, program "favorite. - Mr. Strauss 1 Included in the set is Ben refused to give a programme venuto Cellini's autobiography, for the rondo that he wrote here, Voltaire's Candide, Dostoievksy, but critics have pretty well es- The Brothers Karamazov, and tablished one. Even so. except comedies bv Oscar Wi'IHa : for one or two generally recog- nized dry spots in this score, , such a descriptive plan is not necessary for the enjoyment of the music. Quite enough of in- terest and beauty is to be found within the thematic motifs and the handling thereof. All this is , humorous in this number.' and there is much which ranges from j Chapel Hill was well repre rowdyism td mawkish sentimen-' sented by students, faculty, and mmyf was grapnicaiiy aepicxea by Mr. Ormandy. .The Liszt Preludes is another mtich played and popular sym phonic poem. It is one of the finest examples of the original intent of this new form. Like the Schubert svmDhonv: its reading rhay easily degewrate into sentimentality. Mr. Or mandy studiously avoided this, and his playing of "the work was fresh and vital in every respect. After the business of follow ing the musical characters of Messrs. Strauss and Liszt through the respective' . narra tives of these two composers, the audience found a welcome sur cease in the generously accord ed encores that were in the pure ly romantic vein. The encores were Johann Strauss' Blue Dan- THOSE NEW BOOKS The Book 3Iarket The Book Market ha3 gotten hold of a limited edition of poe- A il X 1 AT . . . books. These little volumes are hand-bound; hand-set; printed on hand-made van Gelder paper. Keates, Shelley, Dowson and Matthew Arnold are listed among the authors. It's sure fire dope that any of these book? will be listed as collectors' items From the shores of Portland's lovely Casco Bay we take hasty return to Chapel Hill and Eote this cheery announcement: The release date for Archibald Hen derson's latest and much-heralded book, The Life of Bernard Shaw, has been set for Febru ary 27. Aldous Huxley is on the looe again this time with Brave New World. His usual style, of course, but Friend Aldqus ' evT Prns Ins stuff on the books of Genesis. Edgar Walace has come out with a new mystery yarn, The Man at The Carlton. Other than to state that it makes for good reading, we refuse to dis close the villain. We think that the person who reads' any mys- tery yabJ the Qh- ,nef method of tartmf1,ath! 6 T f , " shows as rare bad taste as the eccentric soul who wears his socks outside of his trouser-legs. And that's that. And now for the rental li brary: People have been wondering where Tom Wolf's Look Home- ward Angel has disappeared, Here's the inside dope on the situation. Lewis Carr has it He says he's going to keep it and struggle through to the bit- ter end, if he has to mortgage Galloping Gus. ue Rimsky-Korsakoff's Flight of the Bumble-bee, Brahms" Fifth' Hungarian Dance, and Berlioz' Rakoczy March. The safe fresh originality marked the reading of these familiar Pieces. xown people. LOST One cashmere embroidered bag containing a leather purse, be tween the Carolina Inn and the Carolina Theatre or in the the atre. Finder nTp 12!. th6 Carolina Inn. (D PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS THOMAS-QUICKEL COMPANY 211 W. Main St. Durham . "COME IN AND BROWSE"
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