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In the Spur Norman Blake, who has bacb Johnny Cash. Bob Dylan. Kris I Joan Baez, will perform with his o tonight and Friday hi the Golden Victoria by' Unive A week-long return to the art and life of the Age of Queen Victoria will take place at Usc, Nov. 18-22. Sponsored by the College of Arts and Letters, the"Victorian Festival" will provide interested participants with a general view of the period. This interdisciplinary sym posium will involve many departments within the University, including English, general studies, physics, history, music and religion. All activities connected with the "Victorian Festival" are open to the public. Numerous lectures on all phases of Victorian life will be given through out the week and a special highlight will be the celebration for George Eliot's birthday on Friday, Nov. 22. A,high tea will be held following the day's activities featuring hostesses in period costumes serving such Victorian dainties as cucumber sandwiches, and seed cakes. The tea will be at 4 p.m. in the 17th floor lounge of Capstone House. Virim ed musicians as by the Univers Kristofferson and Committee, the wn band at 8 p.m. Blake's new Spur. Sponsored traditionals. Bo n era exa 0o rsity depa In addition to the several lec tures planned throughout the week, the Gund Collection of Western Art will be on display at the Columbia Museum of Art. The week will begin with an afternoon lecture on "Victorian Counter-Culture" by Dr. Morse Peckham at 3:30 p.m. in the Williams-Brice Building, Room 231. Monday evening will feature Dr. George Curry presenting "The World of Dickens," a group of readings and a limited number of free tickets will be available to the public. On Tuesday, Dr. Kevin Lewis will lecture on "Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse" and the at tractions of the monastic life from Gray, Wordsworth, Arnold, and Dowson. The lecture will begin at 3:30 p.m. in Humanities, Room 202. "The Cultural Implications of Nineteenth-Century Art" will be given at 8 p.m. Tuesday by Dr. H. R. Sullivan, also in Room 202 of Humanities. Wednesday activities will bein with .the multi-media pr.ductio Ity Union Contemporary Sounds concert will Include cuts from album as well as bluegrass th shows are free to USC students. rnined rtmen ts of "Salome" and a lecture by Dr. Benjamin Dunlap. The film begins at 3:30 p.m. in Williams -Brice Building, Room 231. Ni neteenthh century music will be the topic of the evening lecture at 8 p.m. in Humanities, Room 202. Dr. Luise Peake will discuss "Music in Victorian England," which will feature many of the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan. At 8 p.m. Thursdmay, Dr. Richard Rempel will lecture on "The Boer War: The Great Crisis In Morality and National Prosperity in Victorian: Britain." . The lecture will be held. in 'Humanities, Room 202. Prior to the tea on Friday will be a lecture on "Victorian Women" by Dr. Carolyn Matalene, followved by a series of dramatic readings by and about Victorian women. These readings will be conducted in costumes of the Victorian pe-o. The lecture and readings will take place In the Keystone Room of Capstone. FIAiJS0 BY CHUCK CROMER AND TERRY DUGAS Of The Gamecock staff Although the semester is bogging down in the mire, relief is available through a varied slate of entertaining events. Probably the finest musical concert of the semester will be the Paul Winter concert at 8 p.m. Monday in the Coliseum. The concert combines jazz, classical, and particles of rock music in its repertoire. Sponsored by the University Union Cultural Series, the concert is free to USC students and $4 to the public. The Cinematic Arts Committee is sponsoring a week long comedy festival in Russell House Theatre. Opening the festival is Luis Bunuel's The Discrete Charm of the Bourgeoisieat 7 and 9:30 p.m. tonight and Friday. Bunuel, probably film's greatest living satirist, in his younger days, savagely attacked society and life. His later years, however, have mellowed Bunuel's approach but not dulled his wit. The Discrete Charm is an exceedingly funny film that destroys the most sacred beliefs of society by laughing them to death. Society, sex, religion, and death all are targets of Bunuel's wrath. The film won the Academy Award in 1972 for Best Foreign Film and is considered his masterpiece. On Monday night, comedy of the forties will be highlighted with a Three Stooges short followed by Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein. It is con sidered A. and C.'s best film and co-stars Bela Lugosi. On Tuesday night, the two driving forces behind comedy in the thirties are highlighted in Laurel and Hardy's Sons of the Desert and the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup. On Wednesday, the fifties will be spotlighted with some of the later Three Stooges comedies and Bob Hope and Bing Crosby's Road to Utopia. All four nights offer a different style of humor and all the films are very funny. The . downtown theaters are resting up for the Christmas rush but a few new releases are coming to town. The much delayed sequel to the adventures of the "Twentieth century Sir Gawain" has arrived in The Trial of Billy Jack, opening at the Fox Theatre. The "Twentieth century Beowolf" has returned in the epic Walking Tall, opening at the Palmetto. The age of the folk-hero is upon us. Back in the musical field, Norman Blake is a fine musician who will display his talents on campus this week.. Combining bluegrass and folkrock, Blake's band will perform at 8 p.m. tonight and Friday night in the Golden Spur. With exams approaching, everyone will need to have a last laugh so you might as well laugh at Steve Martin irn the Spur Wednesday and Thursday nights next week. Martmn, once a writer and regular performer on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and The Tonight -Show, will keep you asking the question, "Is this guy nuts?" See for yourself. For those who have the afternoon free, the Depart ment of Theatre and Speech Reader's Theatre will have a one hour presentation of "Prophets and Peacocks: The Unlikely World of FlannerrO'Conner" at 12:05 p.m. Tuesday November 19 in teRussell House Art Gallery. The full production was presented on October 28 at Booker T. Washington and was well received. 'Te Composer's Guild of the MWusic Department closes out the week's events with a rentation of "I Had No Idea You Were A LUving Cmposer" at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday Nov. 20 in the Rnssell Huse. Art Gaaery