Group to stage academic conference
By MARILYN McMULLEN Kansan Staff Writer
The first academic conference on the works of Gilbert and Sullivan will be held May 7-9 at KU.
John Bush Jones, professor of speech and drama, said the conference will cover everything from staging, consideration of individual plays, and a study of the original D'Oyly Carte production company.
Jones, director of the Mount Oread Gilbert and Sullivan Company, is directing "The Grand Duke," which will be presented in conjunction with the conference.
"The Grand Duke" was the last operetta that Gilbert and Sulli- van wrote together. Because of its bitingly satiric theme, it was rejected by Victorian audiences.
The conference is sponsored by the KU International Theatre Studies Center, and will be attended by representatives from England, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Guest speakers will include Frederic Lloyd, general manager of the London D'Oyly Carte
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Opera Company and Colin Prestige, editor of "The Gilbert and Sullivan Journal."
The 14 musicals written jointly by Gilbert and Sullivan will be discussed, said Jones, as well as the individual works of the two men.
Sir Arthur Sullivan, best known for his hymn, "Onward Christian Soldiers," preferred composing religious music to writing operettas. Sir William Gilbert, a lawyer by profession, made a name for himself in the London theater circles by staging his own productions.
A Gilbert and Sullivan exhibit will be on display at the Spooner Art Museum during the conference. Scene and costume sketches have been borrowed from the Victoria and Albert Museum and the D'Oyly Carte
the conference, there will be representatives from various Gilbert and Sullivan societies. All sessions are open to the public.
Opera Company. There will be a display of books on Gilbert and Sullivan at Watson Library. Besides the experts attending
Besides the experts attending
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Kurosawa's
YOJIMBO (7:00)
&
Toshiro Mifune as the fastest Samurai in the East. Full of Action!
Ichikawa's
FIRES ON THE PLAIN (9:00)
The ultimate statement on the inhumanity of war. Perhaps the best film to be shown on campus this year!
FILM SOCIETY
Union Aud. Non-Members $1.00 Members Free
They Were REBELS,
They Were IRISH,
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HARRISE CONNERY EGGAR
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Evening 7:10 - 9:45
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QUANTRILL!
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Evening Performance at 8:20 p.m.
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