Detroit College of Law - Forum Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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FORUMi'- D.C.L. NIGHT AT THE DETROIT REPERTORY THEATRE U account of the year 1929-30 would he complete without mention ot the Detroit College of l.aw night at the Detroit Repertory Theater. The first occasion of its kind, it proved tu be such a fine L .. evening that it is hoped the affair may be repeated in other years. xs:f,Q. ' 0 The presentation was one of especial interest In law students and attorneys. it being The Sabine lYonien, by the Russian playwright. Leonid Andreyeff. The whole story is highly satirical and humorous through- out, depiciting the trials and tribulations of the Sabine men, when the Roman soldiers, having founded an empire hy force of arms, seek to perpetuate it by taking to themselves some wives, and select the beautiful Sabine spouses, Hardened soldiers, who have campaigned so long that they have for- gotten the dainty methods of courtship, use the only method with which they are familiar, and swoop down upon the Sahines. taking the women by force, and carrying them off amid feminine shrieks and the wordy remon- strances of the husbands. .Xnclreyetif has an ax to grind, apparently, for he shows that the Sabine men. having elevated book-wisdom above all other values, have brought physical deterioration upon themselves, and a consequent inability tu meet the forceful rush of the burly Romans. It is only a matter of time when the stolen women have forgotten their husbands, and are blissfully estab- lished as the wives of their strong abductors. .Xfter the passage of a year or so, the Sabine men, armed with ponder- ous law hooks, and treatises in which they have exhausted all the known legal arguments against the crime of abduction, appear on the scene to re- claim their wives, not hy force, but hy entreaty and debate. The Romans. in the meantime, domesticated as they have never been before. have lost their former physical greatness, and are well on the way to becoming as soft and effeminate as the Sabine men. The whole play would probably point out .'Xndreyeff's notion of the deteriorating effect of domesticiation upon erstwhile strong men. Playwright .-Xndreyeff was a lawyer-an unsuccessful lawyer. The per- formance was in charge of the law students. and many D. C. l.. students took part in the play. lYinniett XYright, director of the Repertory, also took the prominent role of Scipio. Qther students participating were lilmer Tiny Broker as a Roman soldier, Dale Dohn as Paulus. Smith Ira Champlin as the Sahine professor, and Mott as one of the Sabine husbands. Jefferson Hoxie was chairman of the affair. Also of interest to law students was a one act play by Russell Mc- Laughlin, a member of the Detroit bar. and now dramatic critic on the Detroit News. He called his piece Hell and ably delineated the reactions of three former residents of the earth upon finding themselves confined to the darker and, reputedly. hotter regions. The entertainment was well attended and all in all proved a complete Success. Page One Hundred Eleven

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FORUM ANNUAL REUNION RlfL'NlON COKlMlT'l'l'fE NY, XYright, Cllillflllllll , UKlli'l'l'llNG 11ew i11 Reunions was staged this year. XVl1C11 the Zlllllllill event was held-in the Players l'layhouse, on East jeffer- iif' 'ma son .XX'C'lll1t'. the CYC'llll1g' ul April 25. It would so1111d like a shallow repetition to say the ahfair was the uhiggest a11d hest 'QM ever held. h11t i11 all iustice it lllllit he marked down as o11e of the o11tstan1li11g s11ccesses of recent years. livery phase of the party was handled wisely and etificiently. It was tl1e plan of the coniniittee to get away from the usual conception of the Re1111io11, and to lllillie the e11tertai11111e11t unique. So111etin1es we lose sight of the fact that the lQe1111ion is largely a get-together for students. alunini and faculty, and think more of CIltC1'tZill1!'llC'11t than we cl11 of YC-lllllflllgu and recalling the history a11d traditio11s of the school. This year the coni- 111ittee sought to solve that situation hy calling upon alumni and students to participate actively in the program. Followiiig a line six-course dinner, during which an orchestra troni the college furnished enjoyahle niusic, the chairs were pushed hack and attenti1'1n was centered upon the stage, where the speakers were assembled. The office of toastinaster was ahly and cleverly handled hy the Honorable joseph A. Moynihan. :X hrief trihute was paid to the ineinory of friends of the college who had passed on during the last year, hy the Honorahle John Y. Brennan of Recorde-r's Court. No college gathering heing complete without words froni our heloved Dean, YX'illian1 Krichhauni, who was called upon to extend greetings to the Page One Hundred Twelve