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VOLUME 48
elon college, N. C.
FRIDAY, APRIL 26.1968
NUMBER 24
Forum
Offers
Fine
Speakers
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DR. KEMP MALONE
DR. O. B. HARDISON
DR. PENN KIMBALL
DR. A. G. ENSTROM
DR. HAJO HOLBORN
DR.ROY LAMSON
DR. LOUIS LANDA
DR. W. L. LANCER
DR. BOYD SHAFER
Arts Forum Plans Programs
OPERA TO BE GIVEN
ON WHITLEY STAGE
The Elon Players and
the Elon Singers are col
laborating in the presen
tation this week of Puc
cini’s great opera, “Mad
ame Butterfly,” in Whit-
Ifiy Auditorium this week.
The opera was offered
in a preliminary showing
on Wednesday night and
will be^ presented again
at 8 o’clock tonight and
tomorrow night. The show
promises to be one of the
finest of the series of
musical presentations
given in recent years by
ton singers and actors.
SINGS LEAD
an 'Durham, soprano,
. Jon senior music ma-
si- Burlington, will
g the leading role in
rtj„P’^®sentation of "Ma-
jje Butterfly” in Whit-
and tr. tonight
'"'‘tomorrow night.
The classic story of
“Madame Butterfly”
tells in word and song of
the American sailor.
Lieutenant B. F. Pinker
ton, who marries a geisha
wife known as Madame
Butterfly in Japan, all the
while planning the mar
riage as only a temporary
one.
After the marriage .ar
ranged for the sailor
through the efforts of the
American Consul, Lieu
tenant Pinkerton leaves
with his ship, and his Jap
anese wife waits his re
turn along with the child
that is born to their mar
riage.
The sailor husband fin
ally returns to Japan, but
he comes back with an
American wife, and this
brings sheer tragedy to
his faithful Japanese wife.
Linda Durham, who has
won high praise for her
musical accomplishments
at Elon, will sing the
role of Madame Butter
fly, while Jack Gotten will
appear in the part of Lieu
tenant Pinkerton.
Bob Gwaltney will have
the role of the American
Consul, who arranges the
wedding; Nelda Shaw will
appear as Suzuki, the
faithful servant of Mad
ame Butterfly; and Ken
Hollingsworth, has the
role of Goro.
The opera has been
produced under the di-
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Eminent Lecturers Featured
In Five-Day Cultural Series
Five days of cultural
opp rtunities will open to
students and faculty of
Elon College next week as
the student - sponsored
Liberal Arts Forum
stages its third annual
week-long series of lec
tures and programs de
voted to the studies of the
humanities.
This symposium of cul
tural programs, which
tops any similar program
offered in the two Caro-
linas this spring under
any academic sponsor
ship, will get underway
at 3 o’clock Monday af
ternoon, when Dr. Kemp
Malone, professor of lin
guistics and philology at
Johns Hopkins University,
will speak on the subject
of “Old English Poetry.”
This afternoon lecture
will be followed by a re
ception on the West Lawn.
Dr. Paul Murray Ken
dall, regents professor
of English at Ohio Uni
versity, who received
both undergraduate and
graduate degrees at the
University of Virginia,
will speak at 8 o’clock
next Monday night in Mc-
Ewen Dining Hall on the
topic of “The Persist-
enc6 of Biography* This
lecture will be followed by
a reception in the parlor
of West Dorm.
Dr. Osborne B. Hardi
son, Jr., a graduate of
the University of North
Carolina, who received
his doctorate from the
University of Wisconsin,
will speak in McEwen
Lecture Hall at noon on
Tuesday, April 30th, on
“The Current Crisis in
The Humanities,” which
is the first of these 1968
programs to center on the
humanities.
A second of the spe
cial humanities lectures
will be delivered by Dr.
Alfred G. Engstrom, who
is presently the Alumni
Distinguished Professor
of Romance Languages at
the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
His lecture, set for 3 o’
clock next Tuesday after
noon, will be on the gene
ral subject of “Gerard
de Nerval and the Dream
Gates of Ivory and of
Horn.”
After the Engstrom lec
ture on T uesday afternoon,
there will be a reception
and concert under the
oaks on the West Lawn,
followed that night in
Whitley Auditorium at 8
o’clock by a concert giv
en by Igor Kipnis, harp
sichordist. This concert,
to be jointly sponsored by
the Elon Lyceum series,
will be followed by an
other reception in West
Dorm Parlors.
Dr. Penn Kimball.Dr.
Hajo Holborn and Dr. Lou
is Landa, all of whom
speak on Wednesday, May
1st, will be featured on
the third day of the Arts
Forum week of Dr. Kim
ball, who is professor of
journalism at the Colum
bia University Graduate
School of Journalism,will
speak on “The New Poli
tics” in Whitley Auditor
ium at 11:30 o’clock on
Wednesday morning; fol
lowed at 3 o’clock that
afternoon by an address
by Dr. Hajo Holborn at
3 o’clock that afternoon
on the subject of “Leo
pold Ranke and the Foun
dations of Modern His
toriography.”
Dr. Louis Landa, an
eminent authority on the
literature of the Queen
Anne period, presently a
professor of English at
Princeton, who is also a
Fellow of the Royal His
torical Society, will speak
on "Celia in Lace and
Brocades: The Economic
Idea and Rationalism in
English Literature of the
Eighteenth Century” in a
lecture set for McEwen
Dining Hall at 8 o’clock on
Wednesday night.
Dr. Roy Lamson, di
rector of the distinguished
humanities and science
course at the Massachu
setts Institute of Tech
nology, will spiak on
“Humanities and Science:
Problems and Values in
American Society” in
Whitley Auditorium at
11:30 o’clock on Thurs
day, May 2nd, followed at
3 o’clock that afternoon
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