Miami Hurricane, February 05, 1932

              The Miami ® Hurricane
the official student publication of THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
VOL. 6
Coral Gables, Miami, Florida. February 5, 1932
No. 17
Current American Literature, Its Sources Discussed By Zona Gale, Noted Novelist
Woman Author Is Impressive In Winter Institute Lectures
DR. LUIS BARALT, Sr. ON VISIT TO MIAMI
"How Far Must Literature Reflect Current Taste” was the theme of the third week of the Winter Institute of Literature as deftly discussed by one of America’s foremost writers—Zona Gale.
Miss Gale is a delightful personality whose fine sensitiveness and intellectuality immediately impress themselves upon the observer. Her charming manner, clear voice and concise speech gave added weight to everything she said though her lectures needed no support.
On the subject of “Literature and Current Taste”, Miss Gale observed that the whole aspect of the literature of today seems to be a reaction to the changed situations in which we find ourselves—a period reaction she termed it. The disillusion following the recent war and the present depression, as well as other current happenings have provided subject material for many novels.
But it is the business of the writer to report all of life, not merely the current energy, the “contagion” of the moment. For it is not the material which will be of importance and interest in future years, it is the ‘style’, the handling of the material. Just as Dickens, moved by indignation at the corruption in the public school system, created his immortal “Oliver Twist”, so modern writers, perhaps, will give birth to great works. Readers of tomorrow will care little about the politics of the book, as we care little about the public school system in Dickens’ time. It is the insight, into character emotions, into life itself, that lives.
Modern literature has been infinitely transcended by the use of the commonplace — a use which Miss Gale believes has come to stay. It is a manner of handling detail that has never been used before, one which possesses a certain extension in the power of vision. The writer has come to feel an acute sensibility to the sheer routine of life. The new method has revealed a new aspect in mind never before detailed. Though the material has always been there, it has never been seen.
The old way, Miss Gale continued, was blurred romanticism, which, though it was amusing, was not absorbing in its truth. The new is acute, almost brittle. The literature that is to come will see yet more clearly and sharply, and will dare to say everything. Though fiction today rivals the newspapers in writing “all the news that’s fit to print,” the fiction of tomorrow will say even more.
Miss Gale drew an interesting comparison between the artist and the writer. The artist must, she said, depict something more than merely a record, the obvious. The writer is in the same position. For his writing, to live, he must have an extension of his vision of life. To write a record of that which ts happening is a five-finger exercise for beginners. There must be more, and a writer is a writer by 'irtue of being able to interpret
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Famed Cuban Diplomat and Wife Here To See Their Son, Miami U. Prof.
‘Finest Concert of Year,” Is Opinion Of Audience At 3rd Sunday Symphony
LEADERS IN DEBATING
TRYOUTS ANNOUNCED
Sterling, Helen Flanagan, Please Big Crowd By Presentation*
Dr. Luis A. Baralt, of Havana,
Cuba, one of the outstanding Cubai| diplomats of the present day, is visiting with Mrs. Baralt as guests of friends in Miami. They
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will spend two weeks here, in order to have some time with their son,
Luig A. Baralt, jr., professor of Latih American relations at the University of Miami.
Dr. Baralt has many years of | governmental and diplomatic work in Cuba and South America to his \ 7ona Gale nocel,st «*0 lectured at
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the L nicer si ty or Miami this week, hhe physician at Bellevue Hospital, j ,s Mrs yifUam L	private life.
New York, after which he was pro-1_______________________________;____1
fessor at Columbia University and COLLINS ADDRESSES College of the City of New York.
After the Cuban declaration of P.A.S.C. COMMITTEE
independence, Dr. Baralt returned to teach English at the Institute of
Havana, and was later sent by the . “God has made us neighbors, Cuban government to Peru as let justice make us friends.” minister plenipotentiary, where he served seven years.
Dr. Baralt is one of the expert; in the educational field of the League of Nations, and has spent several summers in conferences
Thus Mr. Linton Collins, prominent Miami attorney and son of j Judge Collins of the Criminal Court of Records, presented his ideas for a Pan American court as a step in the maintenance of with other experts at Geneva, world peace at a Pan American
Switzerland. His home is now in France, though he and Mrs. Baralt have spent the past few months in Havana, and will return there for the remainder of the winter.
SHAKESPEARE PLAY
committee meeting held at the university.
There have been many attempts to bring abopt friendly Pan Amer? ican relations, such as the court of equity established by Roosevelt and the Pan American conference PLAYERSTOPRESENT in Washington, he said. But what
| is needed is a court of arbitration situated in a logical position. Mr.
| Collins suggests Havana for the | seat of this body.
Mr. Collin’s plan in outline is as | follow's:
A—One judge to serve ten years,
------ appointed by the United States.
. and who could not participate in The Wing and Wig Club will p0]jtiCs.
present a Shakespearean comedy,! B_j Eleven members, with a Midsummer Night’s Dream, some- Canadian at the head, time in the middle of March, was	2 Eleven members in the
the announcement made yesterday second half with a Latin at the by Miss Opal Motter, director of | head Dramatics at the university.
The Debating Society met last | Thursday to hear the results of a series of tryout debates and to discuss following meetings.
The debaters are planning a number of home debates, the first of which will be February ?0 with I Rollins. In the week of March 14 the debaters will begin a trip tak mg them to the leading colleges of Florida.
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The judges for the debating tryouts were Dr. Close and Mr. Straw-inski. Their decisions were first place, Meldrim Thomson; second place, Lucille Mutchler; third place, Henri Kate Gardner and fourth place, George Baer. Meldrim Thomson and Henri Kate Gardner will present the affirmative and Lucille Mutchler and George Baer the negative.
Each person that competed will have a chance to debate at home— both as member of the team and as the alternate. These groupings for the affirmative are as follows: Miss Gardner and Mr. Thomson, Mr. Parker, alternate; Miss Lasky and Mr. Miller, Mr. Thomson, alternate ; Mr. Lewis and Mr. Parker, Miss Gardner, alternate.
For the negative they are: Mis3 Mutchler and Mr. Baer, Mr. Flei-schaker, alternate; Mr. Friedman and Mr. Weiss, Mr. Baer, alternate; Mr. Fleischaker and Mr. Baer, Miss Mutchler, alternate.
Reception In Honor
of Zona Gale. Colum
Midsummer Night’s Dream To Be Given by Wing and Wig Next Month
C—General Laws
1.	Interpretation of treaties.
2.	Interpretations of sentences.
3.	Settling disputes.
This would be a great step
The play will be presented with j full symphony orchestration by the University Sympohny Orchestra, conducted' by William Kopp.
This will be the first time the play has been presented in the south toward tbe establishment of world with symphony music. Bertha Fos- peace .. ^yg Mr Collins, “but it ter will conduct the chorus. The Bes tbe y0Uth of these counplay will be an outdoor production, trjgs to majje ¡t successful.” given on some undesignated Miami ;
Beach estate. Franklin Harris is j	"
manager for the production.	Kite-P ow ell ; Quince, James Lyons;
Bottom, Robbie Robertson; Snug, The time for the different acts garje Howard; Flute, Andy Shaw; are as follows; 1st time, not given; | gnouti Frang Puglisi; Starveling, 2nd, 21 minutes; 3rd, 30 minutes; Wa]t gvehU; Titania O, Aileen
4th, 10 minutes; 5th, 28 minutes. goot|,- Helena, Nina McAllister;
The cast of Midsummer Night’s Hermia	Trombetta; Puck,
Dream, as presented by the Wing j yiola Burnette ; Oberon, Lucille and Wig club, is:	Mutchler; Pease Blossom, Virginia
Theseus, Tom Grainey; Hippoly- j Hastings; Moth, Priscilla Sweeting; ta, Josephine Ross; Philostrate, Mustard Seed, Marguerite Sweat;
— — Cobweb, Wanda Dawson; Other Fairies, Sortelle’s Dancing Class
The University of Miami society will give a reception honoring Zona Gale and Padraic Colum, Saturday at 8:30 p.m. in the Woman’s City club rooms on the mezzanine floor of the Columbus hotel. This is the second of a series of affairs given to honor lecturers on the Winter Institute of Literature program, and the public will be welcome.
A short program will include talks by Miss Gale and Mr. Colum in response to introductions by Professor Orton Lowe, head of the University department of English, and organizer of the Institute of Literature. President B. F. Ashe will greet guests, and musical numbers are being arranged by Miss Bertha Foster, director of the University Conservatory. Judge A A. Godard, president of the society, will preside.
By Pauline Lasky
The best concert presented this season by the University of Miami Symphony Orchestra was given Sunday afternoon in Miami High School auditorium, with William J. Kopp conducting. Mr. Kopp’s sensitive direction of the program, which included compositions of Mozart, Haydn, Weber, Massenet, and Sterling, was particularly adapted to the interpretative powers of the orchestra.
The most splendid achievement of Sunday’s program was the “Military Symphony” by Haydn. This composition, in four movements, gave the orchestra great opportunity for beautiful harmonies and delicate tones. The first movement marched forward with precision;- the allegretto was a delicate piece with beautiful interpretation from the violins; the minuet, with its simple dance melody, and the finale presto ended this number.
W. S. Sterling conducted his own "Octette”. It was dedicated to Mrs. Hannah Spiro Asher, who was at the piano during its rendition. Written in sonata form, the number is rather simple and sentimental, and the composer’s appearance as conductor of his own number delighted the audience.
Helen Flanagan, soprano, sang the complicated aria, “Ocean, Thou Mighty Monster” from Oberon, so well that the audience called for u repetition of the last half of the number. Miss Flanagan sang in clear, round, full tones that blended well with accompaniment.
The last number consisted of four pictorial compositions from Massenet. They were played in graceful and delicate form, yet spirited enough to show the joy and love of the art that the musicians took in their rendition.
Santo Domingo Will Have Representative Here For Conference
University Student Is Injured In Motor Crash
James Mool; Egeus, Mitchell Cas-anoff; Lysander, George Harvey;
Demetrius, Wade Stiles or Steve j and train.
J. Bernard PahLs, student at the University of Miami, suffered severe cuts and bruises last Thursday night when his automobile overturned at West Flagler and 31st Ave. Pahls received emergency treatment at Jackson Memorial Hospital. The accident was caused by the sudden stopping of the automobile ahead, forcing Pahls to ; swerve sharply.
The secretary of Pan American Relations at the university has just received an acceptance of an invitation to attend the Student Conference here from the National Association of University Students of the Dominican Republic.
The letter, from Rafael D. Santana y Santana, Secretary, and Enrique Pla Miranda, President of the association, said in part:
“. . . the National Association of University Students has received with great approval the kind invitation of the Association of University Student* of Miami, and at the same time it earnestly desires that the Pan American Congress of April may be the first concrete and happy step toward a positive understanding of the student problems of both Americas.”
This is the first definite accep-! tance of the university’s invitation to the Congress that has been re-I ceived from a Latin American , country, although many have come from American and Canadian colleges. Many more acceptances are expected in the near future.