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By CHUCK CROMER and TERRY DUGAS Gamecock Staff Writers The top attraction this week is the appearance of the British band, Caravan, at 8 and 10 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday nights in the Golden Spur. There is no charge to USC students with an ID. The show is being presented by the University Union Contemporary Sounds Committee. To help promote the concert, London Records, in association with Tunes 'n Things, is giving away 50 of Caravan's latest record, "Caravan and the New Sym phonia." For the details of the giveaway, attend the concert in the Spur. The Columbia theatre season opens with three major produc tions running next week. "Purlie," the black Broadway musical comedy will open Monday for a five day run in the newly renovated Drayton Hall. Based on Ossie Davis' play, "Purlie Victorious," the play is set in a small Georgia hamlet and centers on the conflict between Purlie Victorious Judson, a "new fangled preacher man" and 01' Cap'n Cotchipee, a white haired plantation "massa..', for the ownership of an ancient barn-church known as Big Bethel. The comedy was well received on Broadway and combines raucous humor and spectacular music and dancing. Tickets ar $1 for students and $2 for faculty. Reservations can be made by calling the Drayton Hall box office at 2551. Workshop Theatre opens its eighth season Tudeday with the musical "Godspell." Based on the Gospel of St. Matthew which, unfortunately will scare off some people, the musical is a thoroughly enjoyable series of stories gleaned from the Gospel. What many people forget is that the Bible is full of entertaining stories and "Godspell" highlights the best with song and dance. Individual tickets are $3.50 for students but a season membership costs only $10, entitling the holder to see the seven Workshop Theatre productions, "Godspell," "Little Women," "Prisoner of Second Avenue," "Little Foxes," "Winnie the Pooh," "The Crucible," and "Blythe Spirit." For a different type of musical entertainment, the University Union also will be sponsoring a 50's styled sock hop Monday night in the Golden Spur. Music will be by "Glenn Rice and his Fabulous 50's Review" and prizes will be awarded for the best dressed, best dancer, and biggest bubble. The lecturecircuitalso is starting up as the history department opens with a lecture Friday and a major et Oct Oct feah colloquim Saturday. Department Professor Robert Weir will lecture on "John Laurens: The Patriot as Ex tremist." at 2:30 p.m. Friday in room 205, Currell College. Laurens was one of the most influential South Carolinians during the American Revolution, the lecture will highlight both his own response to revolution and the response of dedicated people to revolutions in general. A colloquium, "South Carolina in the Revolution," with speakers from the entire Southeast, will begin at 9:30 a.m. in room 295 Currell College. An exhivit of German writers, artists, and scholars driven into exile by the Nazis will be in the Russell House Art Gallery beginning Monday. The exhibit w a sprepared by Prof. Wolfgang Elfe of the foreign language department at USC and Prof. John Soalek of the Germanic language and literature department at SUNY-Albany. The fall droughtof good films is beginning to break as two major new films open in Columbia Friday. That's Entertainment, a collection of the most fantastic dancing and musical numbers ever presented on screen, will begin its run at Dutch Square Friday. IL HomVI( 10-"fAnEvef a ChUI!b 11- Cockfe I 2-noon-Ho A Ruby 8:00-tCa 'Purfie' opens Tickets are now on sale for the USC presentation of the Broadway musical "Purlie," which will be presented next week in newly renovated Drayton Hall. Included in the cast are the children of Columbia attorney Thomas Broadwater, above. Tickets are priced at $1 for all students and can be picked up at the Drayton Hall box office. Sre' siS 0S v a.