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4IA THE The brewer tion with. remind you . College "Pi All week, like you 'w like me. If there's a program ir join up. Ii support th up any liti and bring:i Thanks,3 see you then. Janice Pryor, Mary Wibking andf Martha Lehder, top to bottom, portray three of the rasishing courteasians featured in "A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum." These four faces of the slave Pseudolus, below, portrayed by David Hollingsworth, range from a sly smue co panic in the USC Theatre production. The musical comedy depicts the frantic efforts of Pseudolus to win his freedom by playing Cupid for his master Hero and the lovely courtesan Philia. 4a ASE HELP SNEXT WEEK BIGGEST OF CAREER." sof Budweiser, in coopera ABC Radio, asked me to that April 22-27 is National ch In!" Week. 11l over America, students il be filling up litter cans nofficial "Pitch In!" Week your campus community, there isn't, you can still enational effort. Just pick r in your path next week ito me. ANHuRn-B.uscH. INC. * sT. LOUIS 'Funny'] To Dra Zany gags and rowdy comical situations created 2,100 years ago will be staged Tuesday when the musical comedy "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" opens at Drayton Hall. Based on the works of Roman playwright Plautus who lived from 254 to 184 B.C., the play is presented by the University Theatre and the Department of Music. Curtain time is 8:15 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday, the longest play run in the history of the university. Tickets are $1 for students and $2.50 fro the public and reser vations may be made by calling the University Theatre box office. A huge Broadway success in the early sixties with a 28-month run, the musical comedy was actually written by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart, a pair of modern day comedy writers who also turned out material for Red But tons, Bob Hope, Sid Ceasar and Art Carney. To write "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," Shevelove and Gelbart compiled farcical situations from nine -plays by Plautus, who in his lifetime authored some 100 comedies. Set in Rome, the plot revolves around the frantic efforts of the slave Pseudolus to become a free man. To do this Pseudolus must please both his master, a young Roman named Heor, and his master's aging father Senex. Unfortunately both Hero and Senex want the same bargaining prize the lovely girl Philia. The plot is complicated by the fact that Philia, currently in basic training for a courtesan's career, already has been promised to Miles Gloriosus, a Roman soldier e P" t ihing' Co ton Tues( on his way home from war. S Directed by Jim Patterson with musical direction by Fred Teuber, I the play features David 'I Hollingsworth as Pseudolus, John d Russell Weatherford as Senex, and li Joyce Hurley as Philia, and Harold c Author, Pt To Discuss Penelope Gilliatt, internationally known author, playwright, and film critic will discuss the problems of converting a short story into a screenplay at 8 p.m. Sunday in the Russell House Theatre. Gilliatt authored the critically acclaimed film Sunday, Bloody Sunday and a new collection of short stories, Nobody's Business, and is currently film critic for The New Yorker magazine. In preparation for her visit, Sunday, Bloody Sunday will be screened free of charge at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Russell House Theatre. The film stars Glenda Jackson, Peter Finch, and is directed by John Schlesinger. The screening is open to faculty and students only. Gilliatt's appearance is. spon sored by the. University Union in JONES could have some bearing in the timing of Jones' decision and any politically-motivated action that followed. For if, as has been suggested, there was a good bit of anti-Jones sentiment on the Board prior to his A1 lINT lay tockton as Hero.. The setting of three houses on a .oman street was designed by 'erry A. Bennett. Costuhes were esigned by Erwin Wertenberger, ghting by Jack Shirk, and the horeography by Phillis Nelson. fywright Films Penelope Gilliatt issociation with Columbia Fine Films Committee and the South carolina Arts Commission. Gilliatt's lecture is free and )pen to the public. From Page One decision, Mungo's re-election may have forced a turnabout in any secret strategies. Since Mungo's 3pponent, William N. Bowen, was being actively supported by Solomon Blatt, a self-admitted adversary of the USC president, his election to the board position could have enhanced the anti Jones powers. However, since Mungo was elected, this might have facilitated the semi-private sessions West and Blatt had directly following the Jan. 16 Board elections, assuming they did discuss the possibility of removing Jones from. office. Outdoor Cafe Opens The outdoor European-style cafe opens today on the fringe between the Humanities Office Building and the pool. A student art show will be presented and, tomorrow, concerts by the Department of Music will be performed during class breaks. English Professor Benjamin Dunlap and some of his students worked all day Tuesday to create the fence and theatrical stage between the office building and the 2arking lot. 'India Imports 2019 Devine 5 Points IO-3o* / IL .