Tuesday, May 20, 1930 ARMOUR TECH NEWS Page Three REVEEWS ESCAPE A play by John. Galsworihy Presented at the Goodman Theater The current presentation of “Es- cape” at the Goodman is un— doubtedly one of the best that the theater has ever staged. This play of Galsworthy’s is of a nature so as to interest one; the action is rapid, the story is modern in version, and all in all, the various elements are combined to form a really good production. As one would suspect by the fact that Galsworthy wrote it, the dia— logue in the play is excellent; it is crisp and witty; and the words are able to evoke both mirth and seri~ ous thought. “Escape” has a rather serious, underlying ideal to present, and the fact that it does do so is enough to commend it. This may be summed as saying that the play tends to prove that a man with decent instincts will have them controlling his actions no matter how serious the consequences may be. The play is well suited to the re- quirements of the Goodman thea— ter; for the scenes called for are ably staged by means of the sky- dome; the realism of fog is created most cleverly by means of this piece of illumination engineering. Likewise, the roles are well suited; Bohnen as the gentlemen convict has a part that well suits his whimsical nature; and the others that flit thru the nine episodes of the escape are equally as well handled. The play is essentially a vehicle for enabling the production of con- versation on the subjects that Galsworthy was trying to stimu- late; that is, while the plot struc- ture .is both engaging and rapid, the conversations in the various scenes is so brilliant that one can- not fall to come under the spell of it. Thru this conversation, the theme is developed; it is a most in— triguing one to watch and hear. The play is short in duration, last- ing but two hours but it will prove to be'itwo of the most mteresting’ ones ever spent. A. B. A AFTER YOU, MAGELLAN James Lays What a college man can do is answered in “After You, Magellan!” This book is written by James Leys, a Harvard man, who gives his ex— perience as an around—theuworld bum. Being one of the millions of college graduates who find that they have plenty of brains but no industrial ambition, he decided to race a classmate around the world with no money. So we start with James F. Leys and James Plumber to see the world and acquire nautical lore. Shipping as deckboys, stewards, quartermasters, or what have you, they were initiated into the profes— sion of the sailor. In citing their experiences on their first cruise, Leys tells of the many varied cus- toms of the sailors, of their habits, their likes, their dislikes, and final— ly, of their love affairs. Having reached Seattle, they next were tricked into shipping to Alaska, and we are told the tales of the far north sailor. Perhaps the ideas we have of the sailor are mistaken when we consider them to be roughnecks. After reading this book that narrow notion is for— ever destroyed. A strike of the sailors is started when companies on the Pacific Coast begin to hire Chinese sailors for very low pay. By doing this they did away with the necessity of hiring whites. But to hurry along, Leys gets on a China—bound boat and he relates incidents of the trip across the ocean along with his experiences abroad. Here we get a dig, a laugh, and to top it all, learn some things about China that the histories neg— lect to tell. From China, Leys goes to the Philippine Islands and here he is hired as a gang foreman. In telling of his strange trials with the con- trol of Chinese labor, we are given a different slant at the life of our fellow citizens abroad and broke. So on and on he traveled, until after a year of real life, the author returned to Harvard—to tell of his adventures. A. J. A. SENHOR Cl—lAlRiVlAN‘ Loyola, Valparaiso Beat Tech Net Team The Tech tennis squad lost their sixth match last Tuesday when Loyola upset to the tune of 7 to 0. All of the individual matches were lvery close, only one of them not going to three sets. RESULTS Singles: Zwikstra (L) defeated Winkler (A), 6-3, 6-0; O’Connor (L) defeated Scott (A), 2-6, 7—5, 6—3; Dwyer (L) defeated Eddy (A), (Mi, 6—2, 6-3; Nooleman (L) de— ‘feater Schirmer (A), 6—4, 1—6, 6-3; Frisch (L) defeated Johnston (A), 6—3, 6—8, 7-5. Doubles: Zwikstra and O’Con— .nor (L) defeated Winkler and Johnston (A), 12—10, 8-6. Dwyer and Nooleman (L) de- feated Eddy and Schirmer (A), 3-6, 6-2, 7~5. The Tech racqueteers lost an— other close match to Valparaiso last Thursday again to the score of 4 to 3. The matches were well played but Armour couldn’t over— come their 1930 jinx and win their first meet. RESULTS Singles. Knake (V) defeated Winkler (A), 8— 6, 6— 3; Geising (V) defeated Scott (A) 6—3 6 4; Eddy (A) defeated Merz (V), 6-2 6— 4; Hennig (V) defeated Schirmer (A), 1—6, 7—5, 6—3; Schultz (V) defeated Johnston (A), 6-1, 1—6, 10—8. Doubles: Winklcr and Johnston (A) defeated Knake and Merz (V), 1-6, 6—4, 6—1; Eddy and Schirmcr (A) defeated Geising and I-Iennig (V), 8-6, 6-4 The tennis team will attempt to win their first match of the season when they take on the fast “Y" college team at the University of Chicago today. cdynamics Visit Hotel Etccens Last Tuesday afternoon, May 13, the Junior Electrical Class went on an inspection trip to the Stevens Hotel. The trip was conducted by Prof. D P. Moreton, and was for the purpose of investigating the powér plant. The Stevens Hotel is one of the largest hotels in the world and as a consequence requires a large heating plant. The heating plant consists of seven boilers—«three 600 horsepower boilers and four 700 horsepower boilers. As a by— product of this heating plant they furnish steam to generate all the electricity they use and for refrig— erating and auxiliary purposes. The electrical equipment is quite considerable and consists mainly of two 750 K.W. generators driven by two large compound Corliss en— gines having cylinders 24 by 42 in. and 42 by 42 111., a 500 KW. gen— erator and a 350 KW. generator each driven by a Corliss engine. GEORGE JENIWNGS TO WRITE A SERA’ES 0F TENNIS NGTES This is the first of a series of articles on tennis by Georg/caquniugs, former student at Armour, farmer our» lain of the Armour tennis team, and present National Public Parks Tennis Champion. The articles following will 11!: of a similar ualm‘c on other points of the game. Scrm‘ug, using the back- huml stroke, and bullet/mg are some of (he topics to be given. BY GEORGE JENNINGS The first problem which con~ fronts a person when he plays ten— his is the selection of a suitable racket. I have found that a racket weighing 131/2 ‘ounces and slightly heavy in the head and tightly strung the best for my style of play. However, this has been found gen- erally true of all of the leading players with the possible exception of William Johnston who used a 14% ounce racket with a large handle. The. handle circumference should measure about 4 and 7/3 to 5 inches. The handle which is too large tends to cramp the style and slow up the movement of chang- ing grips, Keep Eye on Ball One of the principal ideas in learning the game of tennis is to keep the eye on the ball. This is true of any sport where a ball is used, and especially in tennis for each stroke depends on one’s abil— ity to watch the ball. The easiest; way to learn this is to practically see the ball on the face of the racket. By following this your game should improve 50 per cent. Next thing to be considered are the strokes and the proper method of executing them. This is rather a difficult task for many great play~ ers have written really fine books on this subject. The Forehand Drive I shall try to describe the lore- hand drive. The grip of the hand for this stroke is similar to the handshake grip and may be ac— complished as follows: Place the racket on- the ground with the face in a perpendicular position. Then pick up the rocket so that the leather fits into the base of the hand with the fingers and thumb encircling the handle. The thumb is placed between the first and second fingers. When this has been done there should be formed a straight line with the extended racket and the arm. When making a forehand drive the face of the racket should be slightly ahead of the wrist A fol- low through motion on this stroke tends to give “top” to the ball. Follow through is a very important item in tennis and should be prac— ticed to perfection. Most players find that at the end of their swing that the racket is pointing straight behind them. Stroke at Top of Bound When hitting the ball on a return some or other play the- stroke should be completed if possible be— fore the top of the bound of the ball is reached. I attempt this whenever possible for it tends to keep my opponent on the defensive rather then on the offensive. In summing up the drive the following should be remembered: 1. Keep the eye on the ball. 2. Left foot should be ad- vanced; feet spread wide apart; , knees slightly bent. 3. Swing racket well back keep— ing racket horizontal. 4. Shoulder sweeps forward as weight is shifted from right to left foot at the moment of impact. 5. Complete follow through with racket. 6, “Practice makes perfect." Feature Writer ‘ e f? G 'g G H r: 5 :3 _ 5 W U! A. ll {f—h E to Meet in Detroit June it The semi—annual meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers will he held in Detroit, from June 4th to 7th, inclusive. Professors M c C o r m a c k and Schommer, and John E. Tarman, president of the Armour Branch, expect to attend. At this meeting all the sponsors, student presidents, and department heads will be in attendance. The object of this session is to discuss ways and means by which the student chapters and the In- stitute can be brought in close re- lationsl There has been dissatisfaction on the part of. the Institute and stu— dents as to the relationship be— tween the parent body and the student chapters. The chapters felt that they re» "ceived too little attention from the parent organization. There has been no contribution from the stu- dents towards the advancement of the Institute. Two years ago Dr. Edward Bar— tow, Professor of Chemical Engi- neering at Iowa State University, was made chairman of the com- mittee on student branches and there were also two members of the Institute appointed to act as sponsors for the student branch. This has assisted somewhat in clearing up the relations between the two The Institute, however, feels that more can yet be done for the betterment of these con-1 ditions. 25MB Persons See Annual Open House An estimated crowd of 2500 per- sons attended the Open House Night held at the Institute on Mon— day, May 12. This estimate, which was based on actual count of per~ sons entering the building before 9 o’clock, exceeds by far any crowd which attended in previous years. The four largest clocks in the world are in the United States with Big Ben in London ranking fifth. A company selling rubber foot- wear in Norway gives an accident insurance policy with each pair. 11' Hrs in Look WELL WHETE SANKTARY BARBER SHOE” N. E. CORNER 315T & INDIANA AVE. Basement All of the power plant with the exception of the elevator equipment, is below the street level. When one sees the size of the plant it can easily be imagined that it extends four stories below the street. THEE BEES l“ CQLLEGE @RCHES’ERAS Plume Franklin 2025 ALUMNUS Francis M4 Baldwin, Arch, ’21, was recently elected president of the Architectural Sketch Club of Chicago at the annual meeting of the organization. K: K! a Mr. Ralph Adams Cram of: Bos— ton spoke before the Architectural students in the Burnham Library on Tuesday, May 13th. Mr. Reed introduced Mr. Cram, who talked in a very informal manner. He explained that the basic principle of human life was beauty. The ugly things are those that are in the wrong shape. This principle is applicable to many things other than artistic as politics and sci— ence. Mr. Cram defined art as ex— pression in a visible form in the universe. This expression of beauv ty was to be the work of the indi— vidual rather than the community. It is therefore a matter of self- expression. The Cro- Magnon man was the first one touched on by Mr. Cram in his historical leview His opin- ion was that the work of these people was the first example of human art. This was in the form of wall paintings in their caves. After them came a period of dark« ness and then the period of recon- struction, occurring about 4000 B. C. Mr. Cram rather whimsi- cally referred to the story of “Alice in Wonderland” when he said that one had to believe in some quite impossible things in order to enjoy life. During the Dark Ages of West“ ern Europe the art of Byzantium, Constantinople was at its highest The Moors and Jew: in Spain were able to keep alive the spirit by reason of the Pyrenees forming a bulwark for them against the balm barism of the rest of Europe. In Ireland at this time art was kept alive by illumination of manu- scripts. The present period, according to Mr. Cram, is the end of an Epoch rather than the beginning of one. This being the result of political and industrial revolutions. Previ- ous to the period of 1828 the work done in the States could be rated as merely moderate, whereas the work done after that period and up to 1878 was abominable and bar- baric, the worst since ll000 B. C. Mr. Cram said that this was put- ting it somewhat strongly, but they were his personal convictions. To balance this he explained that the last twenty years of American architecture was probably the highest of all the nations with the exception of perhaps the Scandiv fiavian countries. Mr. Cram is Supervising Archi— tect at Princeton University. He is a member of the National In- stitute of Arts and Letters, the American Institute of Architects, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the North British Academy of Arts and many other societies and clubs. He is the author of many books on architecture, principally on Gothic architecture on which sub— ject he is an authority. E. C. K. A. C. Soderholm, ’25, is now working with Sargent and Lundyl He attended Professor Freeman's evening school class of Engineering Economics. Fraternities Stage Nobel Pageant Theta Xi’s under the direction of E. R. Rowley. This was followed by the Phi Kappa Sigma skit, “Sailor Beware," directed by C. P. Boynton. S. K. D’s Win Prizes At 3:00 P. M. came the Triangle presentation, “The Rehearsal,” di— rected by R. F. Waindle who was also the sophomore rush leader. Immediately following this was the Sigma Kappa Delta prize winning stunt called “The Annual Scram— ble," depicting the activities during rushing week each fall, and di— rected by B. Rolfee with George Horras doing duty as barker. The Phi Pi Phl’s offering was the “Four Year Frolic" with Joe Bech— told as director. The last number of the series was “A Bull Fight," presented by the Delta Tau Delta’s and directed by H. D. Marshall. The judges were Dean Palmer, Professor Paul, Professor Wells, Bud Weldon, and Fred Attwood. The vote for the Sigma Kappa Delta stunt was unanimous. Glee Club to Sing on Radio Tomorrow The Glee Club has made ar- rangements for singing over the radio tomorrow night, Wednesday, May 21, through Station WCHI. They are scheduled to go on the air between 7:30 and 8 o'clock. The members of the chorus are to report before 7:30 on the eighth floor of the Illinois Women’s Ath« letic Club Building which is located at Pearson and Rush Sts. The pro- gram to be given will consist largely of those numbers given at the Annual Home Concert held last Thursday. Junior Chemicals See Birthing Powder Plant Last Tuesday, May 13, the Junior students of the Chemical Engineer- ing Department were conducted orL an inspection trip through the plant of the Calumet Baking Powder Company. The tour took place in the morning under the supervision of Professor Bentley. The students were taken throughout the plant and shown all operations, including the mak— ing of cans, treatment and. prepa- ration of the ingredients, their ap— portionment, packing, sealing and stamping. The students were also shown the control and research laboratory. California scientists have in- vented a machine which makes snow. Up here we achieve the same result simply by having the car washed. American metal furniture is popu— lar in Latin America. WAEAAWE @ LETTERHEADS. ENVELOPES, BUSINESS CARDS. ETC. 24 HOUR SERVICE PIONEER PRINTING SERVICE “K VA N 107 BUREN ST. ROOM 203 WABASH 215 8 THE AHAAAEWAfi 75 E. SlS'l' STREET NEAR MICHIGAN AVE IS KNOWN FOR QUALITY FOODS. @AFEAAERAA MEALS 28: AND UP 235 E. ONTARIO ST. iffiRfl€H®Nw FRATERNITY JEWELERS DANCE PROGRAMS AND FAVOURS CLASS RlNGS AND MEDALS an. ENGRAVED CALLING CARDS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS own as A CALL AND WE WILL our, SUP. 8656 CHECAGQ