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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, April 27.1960
'The Alchemist' Opens Tonight
Larry Sneegas, Lawrence junior, Joyce Malicky, Baldwin junior and Sidney Berger, Brooklyn, N. Y., graduate student are shown here in dress rehearsal for the satirical comedy, "The Alchemist," which opens tonight at the University Theatre and will run through Saturday.
The Ben Jonson farce has the universal theme of the follies and gullibility of humanity; specifically pointing at the manners and customs of Jonson's 17th century.
About 400 college and university teachers are expected to attend the combined meetings of the Central Renaissance Conference and the Midwest Modern Language Assn. here tomorrow, Friday and Saturday.
Tickets are on sale at the box office and the Kansas Union for $1.50. LD. can be exchanged.
400 Due for Language Conference
The meetings open tomorrow night with the Humanities Lecture, "King Lear and the 'Fierce Dispute,'" by Prof. Alfred Harbage of Harvard University at 8 p.m. in Fraser Theater.
book, "The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy," published in 1860.
Curtain time is 8 p.m.
THE RENAISSANCE conference meeting Friday morning will feature papers on Jacob Burckhardt and his
Merritt Y. Hughes of Wisconsin University will speak at 3 p.m. Friday in Fraser Theater on "The Miltonic Scene."
Both groups will attend a banquet and the University Theatre production, "The Alchemist," Friday night.
The Renaissance Conference will have a business meeting and discussions Saturday morning.
MODERN LANGUAGE Assn.
meetings will be Friday and Saturday.
In charge of arrangements for the meetings are Dean George R. Waggoner of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, president of the Central Renaissance Conference; W. P. Albrecht, chairman of the department of English and president of Midwest Modern Language Assn.; and William Gilbert, associate professor of history and secretary of the Renaissance Conference.
Television may yet unify Yankees and Southernners—against Westerns —Fletcher Knebel
"DON'T FORGET"
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TONIGHT WED., APRIL 27
Beginners 7:30 Intermediate 7:00
ROOM 306 STUDENT UNION
$1.00 FOR 5 LESSONS
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