'Threepenny' Benefits Aid Southern 'Courier'

Tickets went on sale yesterday for the benefit performances Friday and Saturday nights of Threepenny Opera. The Gilbert and Sullivan production is being held over to raise money for the Southern Courier, a newspaper initiated by Harvard and Radcliffe students to report objectively civil rights activities.

Timothy S. Mayer '66, director of the Brecht-Weill musical, said yesterday that the show, which had a full house for each of its original seven performances, still had an audience in those people turned away last week. "We'd like to help the Courier," he added.

As now planned, the Southern Courier which will be based in Atlanta, will print three editions a week, one for each of the three states--Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi--in which it will be distributed.

Peter Cummings '66, president of the Courier, said yesterday that the newspaper will primarily print civil rights to "fill the information gap for both the Negroes and whites of the South."