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F4AZIJS BY CHUCK CROMER AND TERRY DUGAS Of The Gamecock Staff Musical events dominate this week's menu but one of the year's top academic gatherings and a fine dramatic production add spice. The History Department and American Negro slavery are teaming up this week for what should be the in tellectual event of the year. The Time on the Cross Bostick Conference will begin Friday and continue through Saturday. Participating scholars will discuss slavery from a historical, economic, and literary viewpoint in light of some starlting new research. The conference is open to the public. The Department of Theatre ahd Speech is presenting one of the most disturbing expressionistic dramas of the growing regimentation of man, at 8:15 p.m. November 6 through 9 in Drayton Hall. "The Adding Machine" by Elmer Rice is the story of Mr. and Mrs. Zero, who live in a commercial-industrial society where the adding machine is master. A week of widely varied musical entertainment starts tonight and Friday night as the rocking soul band, "Soundtraque," appears in the Golden Spur. The shows, sponsored by the Contemporary Sounds Committee, begin at 8 p.m. and are free to USC students with an ID. In a different key, the USC Baroque Chamber Group will hold its first concert at 4 p.m. Sunday in Fraser Hall. The Chamber Group consists of Jerry Curry, harpsichordist, Constance Lane, flutist, and Larry Timm, oboist. They will perform Baroque works by such composers as Teleman, C.P.E. Bach, and Handel. The USC Percussion and Jazz Ensemble will perform at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Fraser Hall. The University Union will sponsor a free concert in the Carolina Coliseum Friday, November 8. Larry Coryell with the Eleventh House, a mult-progressive jazz group, and Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, a blues-folk duo with over thirty years of performing experience will be featured. With Homecoming Week behind us, we can look forward to International Week beginning November 4.' In the years gone by, this was always considered a highlight of the semester. However, because of student non-interest and poor publicity, this gala event has remained as a memory of what it once was. A list of the events are on the first page. Do you want to go to Copenhagen, Denmark? For only $492 you can spend eight days there from January 5-13, 1975.The trip, sponsored by the Trips and Expeditions Committee, will include bed and board, roundtrip airline ticket, and sight-seeing tours. A deposit of $100 is required by November 5. For more information, con tact the Travel Center in the Rusel House. The Student Activites Advisory Council is sponsormng an activites fair on Green Street, November 4-8. Every campus organization has been invited to man tables, program events, pass out literature, or just answer questions. It will be an opportunity for each student to inquire about the organizations that interest him. At 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, November 6 in Humanities 214, Professor Paul Feldman of the English Department will discuss Mary Shelly's classic Gothic no,vel, Frankenstein. The discussion will emphasize the merits of the novel itself. Dr. Dan Hollis of the History Department will sponsor a showing of the classic D.W. Griffith movie, Birth of a Nation, at 2 and 4 p.m. Monday in the Russell House Thatre. Festival opener "Citizen Kane," presumably a caricature of William Randolph Hearst, though Orson Wells himself denied it, is at once a clever parody of the "front page" movies, a mystery film probing the secrets of its hero's complex personality, and an Begins Nov. 3 Forties films fe The golden period in Hollywood shown. between 1940 and 1946 when stars The entire C were born and great motion pic- Film Festival i tures were made will be relived on and friends of ti campus drring November and to be reserved December as part of a special Alumnii Associ "Films of the Forties" series. The Carolina Community Film Presumably Festival, sponsored by the College director Wellei of Arts and Letters and the USC Citizen Kanee Alumni Association, will show six Citize Kane 1 films beginning Nov. 3 in the parody of the" Williams-Brice Auditorium, on of the thirties Pickens Street between Green and probing the se College Streets. complex per authentic Ai The programs will be at 8 p.m. on Horatio Alge Sundays from Nov. 3 through Dec. revelation of it 8. Each program will be in troduced by a distinguished USC money and I faculty member whose life work assurance of I has brought him into contact with "Rosebud," w the film he discusses. the films toge ambiguity--ifi To be featured are Citizen Kane, swer to the corn Nov. 3, introduced by Benjamin subject, it is c Dunlap; The Philadelphia Story, Yet, the posi Nov. 10, Introduced by Morse tinually intrigt Peckham; Sullivan's Travels, Nov. Citizen Kane 17, introduced by Dan Hollis; My and written by Darling Clementine, Nov. 24, in- Welles, Josepi troduced by James Dickey; The Corningore, H Blue Dahlia, Dec. 1, introduced by Agnes Moorehi Matthew Bruccoli; and The Big Sleep, Dec. 8, introduced by James George Cu B. Meriwether. PhiladelphIa S The films are a combination of love among th4 comedy, drama, westerns, and amusing a: suspense and romance, returning get mixed ui to the screen such great stars as parvenues. Th Humphrey Bogart, Veronica Katherine Hep Lake, Orson Welles, Joseph (Cotten, e'ngaging role Katherine Hepburn, Carry Grant, spoiled post-det Joel McCrea and Walter Brennan. Hepburn's firs As part of each program a news mined to pre reel summary of major events marriage to a during the war years will be Jimmy Stewari authentic American tragedy, a revelation of the empty glamor of money and power without the assurance of love. It is the first film in the USC Community Film Festival featuring "Films of the Forties." atured in festival get involved as class-conscious irolina Community reporters. s offered to alumni Sullivan's Travels, written and ie University for $5, directed by Preston Sturges, is a through the USC vindication of popular art, and, ation. among other things, a perfect vehicle for Veronica Lake's a caricature of peculiar charm. Joel McCrea, the 4ph Hearst, though film's hero, finds more than he i himself denied it, bargains for in attempting to s at once a clever acquaint himself with poverty. front page" movies My Darling Clementine, the , a mystery film story of Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday crets of its hero's and the shootout at O.K. Corrall, ;onality, and an was filmed by the master of ierican tragedy, Hollywood westerns, John Ford r in reverse, a Starring in this aiim are Henry e empty glamor of Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature and Walter Brennan. iower without the Starring Alan Ladd, Veronica wve. The symbolic Lake and William Bendix, The bich seems to hold Blue Dahlia is a richly at ther, is at best an mospheric and brutally bizarre does offer an an- example of film noir, aided by the plexity of the film's inimitable verve of Raymond nly a partial one. Chandler's screenplay. iibilities are con- The Big Sleep presents Bogart at ing. his best, as detective Philip ,produced, directed Marlowe. 'No collaboration bet Orson Welles, stars ween director Howard Hawks, Cotten, Dorothy William Faulkner, Raymond uth Warwick and Chandler, Bogart, and Lauren had- Bacall could have resulted in anything but legend--which is kor's delightful presumably what Warner Brothers tory suggests that had in mind. a rich can be zanyMuiprga a long as you don't Muiprga with ambitious A program o1 baroque music will is comedy features be presented by the newlu-formed burn in her most University of South Carolina as an exquisitely Faculty Baroque Chamber Group .Cary Grant plays Sunday. t husband, deter- The program, open to the public vent her second and devoted mainly to music of the in upstart boor. baroque period, will be at 4 p.m. in and Ruth Hussey F..-.. Hall