PCC Courier, October 19, 1960

'Arsenic and Old Lace’ debuts Friday Force set to open in total auditorium T PCC’s drama department will make its local debut this - - - - - week when it presents “Arsenic and Old Lace,” a comedy in VOL 13, NO. 5 PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA OCTOBER 19, 1960 three acts written by playwright Joseph Kesselring. The cur- - — - - — _ : _ tain will go up at 8:15 in Sexson Auditorium for the Friday Tryouts begin to pick queen for Rose Court Queen and princess tryouts for the 1961 Pasadena Tournament of Roses festivities were held yester¬ day and Monday in all women’s physical education classes. Women, attired in casual cam¬ pus clothes, paraded before a group of downtown businessmen, faculty members, student repre¬ sentatives, and two former Tour¬ nament of Roses princesses. THE FIRST round of elimina¬ tion for the world-famous event will be up to this non-partisan group, and their decisions will be announced as soon as possible. Identification for the candidates was strictly impersonal for the first round of judging, and every girl carried only a 5x8 card with her student code number marked on it in dark black ink. Primary judging is based main¬ ly on poise, appearance, and grace. As the contest continues personality, interests, grades, and other factors will enter into the picture. ALL CANDIDATES, according to the tournament rules, must be presently carrying at least 11 units of college work, and have a satisfactory attendance record. Grade point averages must be C or better and the student can¬ not have any grades of E or F and not more than one D during the period of tryouts. Since preliminary eliminations are held in the women’s physical education classes candidates must be officially enrolled in a physical education class of some type. Post-graduate and married stu¬ dents are not eligible to compete. Ultimately a queen and six princesses will be selected from the PCC campus to reign over the annual New Year’s Tournament of Roses festivity. — Courier photo by Fred Ireland Oh, for the delicacy of a bit of choice wine mixed HAVING carefully with a dose of potent arsenic. Polita FTJN, Marks and Charlene Way seem to know the recipe GIRLS? well as they rehearse for their parts in “Arsenic and Old Lace,” which will open in Sexson Audito¬ rium Friday night. Vacancies remain in Lancer cabinet for appointive jobs Experiments help curb usual traffic headaches The parking and traffic situation at PCC has been some¬ what improved this year due to some strategic manipulating on the part of Officer Sam Adams and his staff. More spaces have been provided and traffic flow has been regulated. According to Officer Adams, - 1800 stickers have been issued. There are 1200 spaces available and according to class scheduling and attendance averages the en¬ tire 1800 who have stickers can be accommodated. Applicants for the remaining appointive offices in PCC’s stu¬ dent governmen t have been screened and the students to fill the positions will be announced this week. “We have had an overwhelm¬ ing turnout,” said Civil Service Commissioner Ginny Syers. THOSE APPLYING for the various positions were interview¬ ed by Dean S. Luke Curtis, Miss Harriet Van Osdel, Ginny Syers, and the three representatives at large, Sandy Cassinelli, Terry Liercke, and Hossein Shirvani. and Saturday night performances. Holding the starring roles in the play are Polita Marks and Charlene Way portraying Martha and Abby Brewster, two old maid sisters who take to serving their friends afternoon wine spiced with arsenic. THE OTHER characters in the stage farce are played by Linda Gaulding as Elaine Harper, Paul Stevens as Mortimer Brewster, Jon Middleton as Jonathan Brew¬ ster, Hugo Leckey as Dr. Ein¬ stein, and Phil Luther as Teddy Brewster. Characterizing the Rev. Dr. Harper is Frank Dane; Officer Borrette, Alex Franco; Officer Klein, Marshall Cohen; Officer O’Hara, Tom Grosso; Lt. Rooney, Dick Hampson; Mr. Gibbs, Joe Clement; and Mr. Witherspone, Larry Miller. DONALD Liercke is in charge of the production, with Dave Tucker acting as student director. Originally a big hit in New York, the play featured such great stars as Josephine Hall, Boris Karloff, and Peter Lorre. Later a motion picture was made from the stage version starring actor Cary Grant. ADDING TO the fun and hilar¬ ity of the crazy Brewster family is brother Teddy who, believing himself to be former President Teddy Roosevelt, periodically bursts down a flight of stairs shouting in his loudest voice a spirited cry of “Charge!” A light-hearted romance be¬ tween younger kin Mortimer Brewster and his fiance, Elaine, is interrupted by the unusual an¬ tics of Jonathan Brewster and his character friend, Dr. Einstein, who together plot fantastic schemes. Political talk set for Tuesday Forum “Political Parties or Pandemo¬ nium” is the theme of this week’s Tuesday Evening Forum speaker, Dr. Arthur Larson. Dr. Larson has a background — Courier photo by Bob Motorist Jim Reed tries to explain to Officer Sam Adams that there just isn’t any other place to park his tiny Citroen, but the school patrolman won’t change his mind. Crowded parking lots are only one of the problems facing PCC’s current traffic system. GUESS WHO’LL WIN AN INNOVATION this year is the creation of a small car area. This is an area of 85 spaces al¬ lotted to foreign cars measuring 13’3” or under. “We know of no other college campus with ’such an arrangement,” said Officer Adams. Motorcycles and scooters also have a designated area this year in which to park. These require no sticker, and offer adequate space for students with motor¬ cycles. STUDENT PARKING is re stricted to the Hill Avenue stu¬ dent parking lots only. Faculty, administratice, clerical, and main¬ tenance personnel are provided with adequate parking in speci¬ fied areas. There is a small amount of fac¬ ulty parking occupying a portion of one of the Hill Avenue lots. This restriction of student park¬ ing has eliminated cars moving around buildings and blocking driveways. OFFICER ADAMS’ staff of stu¬ dent parking attendants is doing a commendable job of directing traffic and preventing confusion in the lots. One thing is certain and that is that no car without the author¬ ized and duly-issued sticker at¬ tached to the windshield is al¬ lowed to park in the lots. Anyone not having a sticker and parking there regardless will be given a citation. These tick¬ ets are handled by the Pasadena Municipal Court. The positions offered were so¬ cial affairs, secretary of speech, elections commissioner, religious activities, secretary of drama, sec¬ retary of awards, departmental activities commissioner, and sec¬ retary of music. Recommendations from the in¬ terviewers then went to the ASB Board where final voting was done on the applicants. ALL POSITIONS except that of commissioner of pep are set up on a semesterly basis, and the offices will be open for new lead¬ ership in the spring for those in¬ terested in serving as a student leader. Newly inaugurated this year is a foreign student’s commission¬ er who will serve PCC’s foreign population. This office was cre¬ ated upon the suggestion of one of last year’s representatives at large. Its purpose, reports Commis¬ sioner Syers, is to bring about a greater unity between the large number of foreign students at¬ tending school here. •Hazing ban Dr. Catherine Robbins has is¬ sued a memorandum reminding all PCC students, organizations, and institutions that any form of hazing is banned by State law in California. Activities in¬ volving any kind of physical treatment of pledges or others are especially subject to prose¬ cution. which includes law practice, teach¬ ing law, college administration, and acting as Under-Secretary of Labor, and director of the U.S. Information Agency. He has authored several im¬ portant books, including “The Law of Workman’s Compensa¬ tion,” “Know Your Social Securi- Dr. Arthur Larson . . . political expert ty,” and “What We Are For.” He is now director of the World Rule of Law Center recently es¬ tablished at Duke University. Dr. Larson received his doctor of civil laws degree from Oxford University in English, where he was a Rhodes scholar, and he has been made a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. In 1952 he re¬ turned to England under a Full- bright research grant to study the British national insurance sys¬ tem.