Legend Marcel Marceau visiting campus

IU is being visited by a man of few words. Internationally recognized as the reformer and rejuvenator of the art of mime, Marcel Marceau will continue to give short lectures and workshops at the Department of Theatre and Drama today.\nMarceau began his career as a mime in France, but gained fame in the United States while performing in New York. Citing a few of his inspirations as Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel of Laurel and Hardy fame, Marceau now leads a school for mimes in Paris.\n"We knew that he would be a great inspiration to our students and that the public at large would enjoy hearing Marcel Marceau speak," theater department administrator Marilyn Norris said.\nMarceau will give a second free lecture at 4:30 p.m. today in the University Theatre. Marceau said in a television interview that he believes the essential component to learning mime and incorporating the art into the framework of an actor is in the "grammar" of gesture and attitude.\n"He has become a major educator," said Charles Railsback, the undergraduate theater adviser. "Some people look at this as its own form, but it's spectacle. This ties us to the beginning (of theater). In the very beginnings, visual communication was vital. He's the expert"