SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1929
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Russell and Durant Debate Here Nov. 7 Matches Brilliant Pai
Both Speakers Have Establish Reputation for Clear Thinking
Thinking
Bertrand Russell and Dr. Will Duart, who will meet at the opening of the course Nov. 7, to debate the topic "Little Modern Education - Failure?" are
Doctor Durum, well known to Kansas students, has made two appearances before University crowds last week. He spoke at the honors convocation. In both instances his sparkling terse style have given him speeches even better than he writes.
The Independent said of his certain mobility of tone chameleon the attribubition of feeling to feeling is course of that mobility of tone, he has an extraordinary gift for language. Add to these qualities a renown command of effective speech, as combination difficult match."
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Public improvements have increased materially in Kansas in the past four years, according to figures compiled by John Stutz, executive secretary of the Lodge of Kauai municipalities, at headquarters, here at the University.
With the exception of bonds and light service, nearly all municipally owned utilities have increased. These include public libraries, plants, public libraries, miles of pavement, areare in public parks, fire fighting equipment, audiophiles, and more.
privately owned light plants have nearly doubled in four years; private tourists can have grown; and the number of swimming pools increased.
Fall Prepares to Leave
Will Go South to Regain Health to Fight Sentence
Washington, Nov. 3, (UP)—Former Interior Secretary B. Fall, after making public for the first time that he had been removed from E. L. Dohman's heir received from E. L. Dohman's heir.
Record of October Is Highest
Rainfall is 5.42 Inches
The rainfall of 5.42 inches is the heaviest for October since 1913, and is almost double the normal amount on June 14. The Monthly Metropolitan Summary sent out Nov. 1, by Clark S. Spaliburry, obbjct administrator of Kanson Metropolitan Station.
Since Year 1913
Rain fell in measurable amounts on 11 days which is four more than the average rainfall of the month, which was 1.55 inches fall on October 28. The relative humidity of 20.6 per cent is almost 14 in October and has been stable for October since 1923. There were five forgy days during the winter when the snow has not been erased since 1923.
SOCIETY
"Daily temperatures during the mal" said C. J. Joyney, meteorologist, "but were not high enough to give any outstanding record." The mean temperature for the months above the normal for October. The music.
Goldbergmer, From Denning, Irene Bergman, Alice Gallup, Marjorie Luxton, and Katherine Fitzibell, at Kansas City; Pauline Scholl, at Odesa, Ms.; M. Josephim Simmings, and Helen Gibson, at Holton; La Verne Gibson, at Ruth Hillnings, at Lydon; Genovieve Clarke, at Blue Mount.
Martha Jane Urchin of the Alpha Chi Omega house was called to her home in Hamilton by the death of her uncle.
B. J. Kernes and Gladys Griffith,
of the Alpha Chi Omega house,
are spending the week-end in Tupelo.
At home, they eat lunch, spend the week-end at her home.
Murice Seibert, of Marion, was a guest at the Phil Delta Theta house Friday.
Delta Sigma Lambda guests the week-end are Don Rhodes, and H C Jameson, of Topeka; Edward C Cooper, of Emporia; Walter Sand-
at the Memorial Union building, about 35 guests were present. Out-of-town guests were Miles Marlo and Amanda McClure; Madeline poka; Miss Mary Ellen Nelson, of Elksburg. The evening was spent in Halloween stunts, and dancing.
Tau Na Tau sorority will entertain with a bridge tea for the new pledges this afternoon at the house. The tables will be decorated with autumn flowers, Mrs. W, A, Church, housewoman, will act as hostess.
A football game and a cross-country run between Kansas and Nebraska, were the main features at the Wesley Foundation party at the Iowa State football scores in each event were a tia. Eris Fitzsimons was referee. A color scheme of Kansas and Nebraska University colors was used, and Keenna Armstrong in charge of decoration. Evelyn Armstrong had charge of the refreshments.
This Week at the Theaters
--al nugel in "Tender Loin"
Tuesday: Al Jackson and May Me-
Avoy in "The Jazz Singer"
Wednesday: Barbara Roof and
Christopher Bellell in "Belloon"
Thursday: "The Horse Lover"
Friday: Pauline Garen and Jack
Richardson in "Eager Lips"
Saturday: Typhon in "Phantom
Social Calendar
The Patee
Monday: Delores Costello and Donald Nagal in "Tender Loin."
The Dickinson, Sound Pictures Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday; [Un']
Mormon and Mack in "Why Bring Thing Thursday, Friday and Saturday" "The Lady Lies" with Walter Huston.
Varsity, Sound Pictures
Monday, Tuesday: Ruth Chatterton in "The Charming Singers."
Saturday: Ken Maynard in "The Lawless Legion."
on the Camphrew School,
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday:
Nancy Corcell and Hal Skelyn in "The
Dance of Life."
Henry Albach, LIIB, 28, editor of *The Lawrence Democrat*, will speak at a student forum at the Trinity Lutheran Church, 1245 New Hampshire, at 9:45 a.m. m. today on the subject, "Respect for Authority."
Read the Kansan want ads.
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SECTION OF THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Lawrence, Kansas. November 3, 1929
Vol. No. XXVII
A Modern Fable
A Modern Fable
Dynamo, by Eugene O'Neill
Horace Liveright, New York, 1929
Reviewed by Stella Brookway
"Dynamo" was first produced as a play in the spring of this year. It was presented by the Theatre Guild at the Martin Beck Theatre, New York City. In this last month it has appeared in book form.
When a man writes a play, which excites as much discussion as "Strange Interlude" it is only natural that his next product should be looked forward to with much wonder. "Dynamo" is the latest offering of Eugene O'Neill and it is inferior both in plot and treatment to "Strange Interlude."
Eugene O'Neill has gone scientific. He has taken the conflict between the worship of God and Science to its forefront.
A few days before "Dynamo" appeared as a play in New York City, Mr. O'Neill told how he happened to write it. On a visit to Ridgefield, Connecticut, he saw such a machine in the power house which generates electricity from the water of the New England rivers. He said that there was something in the machine which suggested a new God "just as stone images of the past symbolized the old gods." In speaking about the play Mr. O'Neill says this "Dynama" is a "symbolical and literal biography of what is happening in a largely forgotten of the Americas but that will big down at the roots of the skeletons of today as I feel it." The names of the next two plays are "Without Ending of Days" and "I Cannot Be Mad." Mr. O'Neill says that these will be even greater than "Dynama."
"pyramuno" is a fable in modern style with all the
doubrites of "Interludism."
Rueben Light, the son of an old style and strict minister is forced to leave his old faith by his mother's betrayal of his confidence. He turns to the scientific god manifested by the great electric dynamo. In the last act the youth prays to the dynaome to protect him from the sins of the flesh and to reveal to him the path which he should follow.
Neither the plot nor the characters of "Dynamo" are consistent. The characters in "Dynamo" speak and think aloud. The double dialogue is a pet of Mr. O'Neill's. The reader wonders what the true personality of Rueben Light is. He is sometimes ordinary and compounded with her darker, more complicated and "walk about, not to and from." The atheist in the play is portrayed clearer than any of the others but even he is exaggerated and unreal. His wife seems to be an incarnation of the dynamo, large and imperious. She is usually humming in a monotonous similar to the drone of the dynamo. Rueben Light father
"Dynamic" has seven fine scenes. The one in which the mother of Ruben light betrays her son's guilt is one of them.
"Dynamo" is an effective myth but as a drama of human life it departs from all reality. In the last scene of the play a murder and a suicide happened on the stage. The murder passes unnoticed and all that the suicide excites is a cursing of the mechanical monster which caused the death.
O'Neill has gone through several periods in his writing. He spent some years at sea and wrote of it. Then he took up the case of the underdog and now he writes of the struggle between fundamental-
"Dynamo" reveals the confused state of mind which Eugene O'Nell seems to be in. He has gone "Strange Interude" himself and does too much of his private thinking aloud.
At this time many people are preaching of the danger of worshipping the machine age. In writing his drama of this problem Mr. O'Nell portrays it as a conflict between the God of the Old Testament and the god of the machine but neglects the fact that some nineteen hundred years ago a man lived in Jerusalem called Jesus Christ. Perhaps if O'Nell had remembered that was a new Teestee who have solved his problem in an easier manner than showing their souls into an electric dynamo.
There is too much of the dime melodrama in the stage directions of "Dynamo," too much thinking scornfully, and "arguing tormently within himself." Some of the speeches of the athlete recall the collisions with his foe, while others celebrate. Sinclair Lewis several years ago. There is too much of the "Defy God to strike me dead" attitude in the
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They Stoop to Folly By Ellen Glasgow
Doubleday and Doran. 1929. $2.50
Relativity — not Einstein's brand, but of morals fashion in sinning, is the raison d'etre for this book of Elena Glagoway, apparently a writer on the subtitle. Perhaps the dedication will serve to indicate the attitude the author intended to provoke in the reader: "In acknowledgment of something about Eve, this book that communicates the chivalry of men."
And now you are interested to know what that “something” is. And have the chivalry of women recommunicated? Maybe you will find the satisfactory solution to these and other main issues in the “battle of sex,” but probably not. That is an it should be. We must not rob future generations of the pleasure of debating sex superiority by leaving them irrebuttable arguments. Nevertheless, most of us are inclined and need to do so. In this book, to reform and refine the natures of the men within their reach. The story is really diverting with some well-defined character sketches thrown in for good measure. A greater recommendation than this, however, lies in the fact that even a concentrated dose such as results from a reading of the novel does not leave in its wake the contemporary state produced by the “realism” of many contemporary novels.
Do not suppose that the realism is not obvicious present, however. No story attempting to give any sort of a slan at post-war conditions can evade any ties. The first character introduced muses thus, "I've missed the excitement we lived in during the war. For once, we were natural. We were trying to be too superior, and it is a relief, even to the men, when the awakening of our true art we call civilization. It was a relief to all to be able to think murder and call it idealism."
"Theummum bonum" keeps intruding into the foreground, but not reader needs to be a profound philosopher to be stimulated into a mental debate on the conflicting attitudes met in "They Slowed to
ON HALLOWE'EN
To get back to the central theme—the changing morals of the last few generations, with the emphasis on the rapid shifts subsequent to the war—"They" in the title refers to three women, the first of the Victorian Age, the second of a period somewhat later, and the third, a young girl at the time of the World War. Each of these were condemned by the virtuous as being "bad woman". What an expanse of lives between the mother and the woman lady pulled down on her head, and that meted out to the young woman of the present generation. Therein lies the rub that gives us pause.
I'm not afraid of ghosts and things
That will be coming soon
I even smile at witches
Riding on a crescent moon
Yet there's a sort of witchery
That scares me every time
Two shamelessly, bewitching eyes
Come smiling into mine!
Jim Callahan.
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Cy Plunker Settles Up
By Maxine Barrus
QUILT
"Wa'u, if here don't come of Cy Plunker," Jed Thompson burst with his audience into a mighty roar of laughter as a decrepit figure came into sight from around the Laird House corner. He had addressed his remarks to the group which gathered daily in front of the post office for what must have been the most intense one of the long-loufering post bags hurled from the 5:40 as it跌 arrogantly then Pincadeal.
"Cale'tle Cys' aim'st to take some time off. He's been work'd stinny out at Ramsey's for nigh' on four weeks now, 'S butt time he was havin' a spree, if I'm any judge贴k^known' in ferr forty year." This statement come from dim Barnes, the grocer, when the laughter has saliated somewhat.
"Pears to me he's already started his sire," said someone as the object of their speculation drew
"Beckon, TI git the fifty cents he owes me then. Never seen i'm forgit it die in my life, but I never see 'im pay one when he was sober either. Jist you wait till i've had somepaint' to drink an' if he don't come around 'n' pay ever twenty and twenty-cent bill he's got 'n' eat my but. An' n' unually has plenty 'o' fellowes round 'n' town heBound to, You can bank on that," remarked Jed Thompson.
Cy Pliunker was a sparse weather-beaten old man who had long been the laughing stock of Pindade for his old borrowing habits. He collected small sums from different men who had forgotten the transaction, Cy under the influence of alcoholic drink, made the rounds and paid his debt without omitting a single one. There was nothing unusual about his appearance. His weak eyes retired so far behind his puffy lids as they could and still serve as organs of sight. Perhaps his most outstanding feature was the flowing white mustache which contrasted noticeably with the rudiness of his face and the creamy beauless coat, but that was hastily contradicted by the slump of his shoulders and the make of his tall, brown corduroy cap. Pliunker was a nickname applied because it went well with Cy. The few town-folk did not call him "Cy" usually addressed him "Mr. Jamison," but every so often someone forgot and made it "Mr. Plunker." Apparently, however, Cy was unaware of his nickname, for he had never been known to
As he approached the group, weaving slightly from side to side, Jed Thompson was the first to greet him. "Howdy, Cy. Watchen been doin' fer yourself lately?" First time you seen in town for tenure a spell. Looks like you was havin' a celebration."
"Hi, felish. Jia fingered Id come to town for a change. Few sort 't' backed up to I guess Pmgh."
"Yeah," chided the grocer, "I know what you came in to town after, an 'twant' its change. You better hay off that stuff, Cy. You're gittin' old and yer systemn't gonna stand it. You can't be none more coulddate with yourself are very much more of internal pission! gitta chitcha in 'nuck's a foorth bitch."
"Well, medbs so," acknowledged Cy attubly, "but I never take "ough gin to hurt me." And he lum-
mous.
"Oh, no," came a chorus behind his back. "Cy never tested any more 'n a prescription does."
never tasted any more "n a prescription does."
Just then the rattle of the post office window was heard, and every man of them filed in to get his mail.
No more than three days later the little Thompson boy, having been duly washed and combed and sent early on his way to the school building in the outback, had met a girl with whom he was her mother, crying. She finally managed to understand between Robert's sobs that he had seen Cy Plunker or somebody dead in the road just past the old deserted house. Mrs. Thompson called Jesse and prayed for the vines and briefly told the news to him.
Grabbing his hat and hurrying out of the back door jed muddle, "Yeah, dead or dead drunk." He went next door and called Gabe Tucker. A crowd rushed in, and one man, also over Pineade's bumpy streets in Gabe's Ford truck. "It's probably got 'im this time," remarked Jed. "Jim Barnes was warnin' 'm th' other day, that
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