Pasadena Chronicle, March 12, 1947

/ Drama Class Stages Laugh Hit March 20 Vol. 41, No. 6 Pasadena Junior College, Pasadena, California March 12, 1947 "Can't Take It With You" Production Stars PJC Student Group By Frank Weingartner With an extraordinary family’s philosophy of living, “you can’t take money with you, so enjoy life as you go along,” as its theme, Delta Psi Omega, nation¬ al honorary dramatic fraternity will present, You Can’t Take It With You, in Sexson Auditorium, March 20 and 21. This hilarious h r e e-a c t e r claims (such un¬ til aracters s grandfather, ho collects snakes, mother, writes plays ather who (fireworks one sister who is a ballet Greenstreet dancer. Almost anything can and does happen including fire¬ works blowing up, xylophone playing, snakes and playing darts. Student Leads Charlie Greenstreet will ap¬ pear as Grandpa in You Can’t Take It With You. His past per¬ formances are numerous. He took the part of the stage manager in Our Town, portrayed the bar¬ ker in Carousel and has appear¬ ed in several Theta Rho Pi ra¬ dio productions, as well as other Crafty Hall shows. Patti Penny, you will see as the mother in this play. She has starred as Mrs. Webb in Our Town, Ella in:; Charlie’s Aunt, Lenora in The Long Christmas Dinner. Patti was student direc- to of A Wedding. Kaufman and Hart, writers of this play are regarded as the two leading comedy playrights. You Can’t Take It With You has won the Pulitzer Prize Play awards and this same comedy was made into a motion picture several years ago. Board Investigates PJC Parking Problem Class Week Sponsored By the AMS Provides Many Student Activities Rounding off a weeq the pur¬ pose of which is to settle the question of which class is best, AMS1 will award prizes for the various contests testing the ques¬ tion at its assembly Friday, March 21. One of the main features of the assembly will be the presen¬ tation of a grand prize, a Rem¬ ington triple head electric razor, to the winner of the three week Whiskerino contest. For the four divisions of full growth, goatee, Van Dyke and mous¬ tache, the winners will receive Courtley shaving kits. An elec¬ tric razor goes to the leading frosh in the frosh peach fuzz di¬ vision. Jim Tsuchiyama, who won the miniature golf tournament Feb¬ ruary 27 with a total par of 96 will be given a chrome ash tray. Runner-up prize, a free pass for a week to any Lane Brother s golf course, is in store for C. J. Fenzau. The most difficult of all events scheduled will be a non-faterni- zation day set for Tuesday, March 18 from 8:00 a. m. to 3:00 p. m. The ban includes all men students and anyone not adher¬ ing will be judged by members of the AMS board. A bowling contest in which 24 men from each class level will participate, is to be held at the Pasadena Bowling Center, Thurs¬ day, March 20. All interested should sign up in the dean of men’s office by this Friday. To cap everything off, a Snake Dance and tug-of-war is calendar¬ ed for March 21. Each class pres¬ ident and representative will or¬ ganize his team for the tug-of- war. Thursday, March 20 is the date set for the mati¬ nee showing. The curtain will rise at 4:00 p.m. Admission for PJC students will be by stu¬ dent body book. For others the cost will be, ad¬ ults, fifty cents and children, Penny t w e n t y-f i v e cents. The curtain will ascend at 8:15 p. m., Friday, March 21 for the evening performance. The price is established at fifty cents for everyone, PJC students in¬ cluded. 3 New Buildings Going up Here Action Planned on Student Parking; Suggestions Made Acres of cars, pictured to the right, give mute evidence of the over-crowded parking condi¬ tions that prevail at Pasadena Junior College. “Parking is the greatest prob¬ lem facing our student body to¬ day.” With these words Jack Lamp, ASB president, announced to the Chronicle that he had tak¬ en official action on PJC’s park¬ ing problem by appointing an investigating committee. On campus parking became a major problem with the start of last fall’s semester. The num¬ ber of automobiles has risen pro¬ portionately with the huge In¬ crease in students. An extra row or two of chairs in over a hun¬ dred classrooms can accommo¬ date many extra students. As yet there has been no plan devised to stack cars on end or on top of each other in the student parking lot. Parking Citations The result has been an over¬ flowing onto the streets surround¬ ing the campus. And accompany¬ ing this overflowing has been the extreme annoyance of numerous citations for parking issued by the Pasadena City Police Depart¬ ment. Lamp stated that in the past few weeks several veterans had accosted him in the hall and complained that their 65 dollar budget would not stand 2 dollar parking fines. Suggestions In answer to the parking prob¬ lem Dudley Kenworthy, chair¬ man of the investigating commit¬ tee has submitted the following list of tentative suggestions: 1. Extend parking limit on the streets surrounding the campus; 2. Obtain extra parking area on the campus or on lots off cam¬ pus; • 3. Petition for the tempo¬ rary removal of the parking or¬ dinance on streets surrounding the campus. Kenworthy pointed out that if the student body would cooper¬ ate and keep the streets near the campus clean the nearby resi¬ dents would cooperate in the re¬ moval of the parking ordinance. Contest Open to Students Excavating Starts; Government Will Pay ASTRONOMY Evening Classes Held on Campus Sponsored by the Extended Day Division of PJC and the Adult Education Program of the State of California, a new series of popular radio talks on the stars under the title of The Back¬ yard Astronomer, will begin on March 16 over radio station KWKW. Informal Discussions The fifteen minute radio pro¬ gram, to be broadcast at 5:30 each Sunday evening, will consist of an informal series of discus¬ sions. Robinson Speech Event Takes Place April 23; Gash Prizes Offered An annual speech contest spon¬ sored as a memorial to Phil Rob¬ inson will be held on April 23 in Sexson Auditorium, Mrs. Irene Peters announced today. The speech contest will have as a topic: Problems of - Safety in School Life, and four awards are offered to winners. PJC students taking the top positions in the contest will receive from 25 dol¬ lars for first place to 5 dollars for third and fourth place. The speech contest is being sponsored as an annual event by the Robinson family in memory of their son who was accidental¬ ly killed on the campus six years ago. Expenses as Gift For the proposed erection of three new buildings on the PJC campus, excavation work be¬ tween the women’s gymnasium and the student union was well under way last week. The buildings are part of an educational gift from the govern¬ ment to help the nation’s schools provide more room for the re¬ turning veteran, W. B. Langsdorf, assistant principal, disclosed, and the buildings, surplus from the Santa Ana Air Base will be given to the school without charge. The government will also pay for all transportation involved, Dr. Langsdorf said. Three in All There will be three structures in all. One large cafeteria build¬ ing and another H-type, which will be used for the school of business and library. There will also be a smaller building to hbuse veteran’s drafting. The cafeteria is an exception¬ ally large structure, and will ac¬ commodate 1000 students at a time. It is designed to have ex¬ cellent kitchen facilities, includ¬ ing two walk-in ice boxes and a tremendous heating plant. When not in use, the cafeteria may be used as a study hall or as a place to get acquainted with fellow stu¬ dents. The present cafeteria in back of C building, will be completely closed, Dr. Langsdorf said. Fur¬ ther use of the building will be determined later. Ho Chron Next Week Ironically, a parking sign tells of 45 minute time zone for stu¬ dents with 53 minute classes. Because of the administra¬ tion ruling prohibiting extra¬ curricular activities during tri¬ ad week, there will be no Chronicle next week.