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beyond. Exact details of any relationship between our organiialions would of course MARTHA SCOTT ttiealre dream tinn season of Ihrce or four major productions, using, as in the past, the miisS distinguished performers, writers, directors and technicians in the American theatre. 2. Use of whatever plant facilities shall be in existence when the renovation has been completed iacludmg stage equipment, dressing rooms, QwetlS Got Off green rooms, rehearsal areas, scene construction and storage Yo rlVing dtdrt areas, ticket facilities, office space, conference rooms, etc. M.

C. Owens manager of 3. Use ot one ot the mree ex- i lorsliclin anoe snnp, was Dorn isting smaller theatres as a support through monetary-assistance lo the American dramatist. The theatre will allow those writers chosen in a nationwide search to present their work al various levels of Hrnmnri em Ihp sncciflc Dlans for i- renovating the existing struc- audience. ijsc this theatre is lure, nui uui jil-cus include.

1. Use ol the mainstage facility lor a period of approximately five months of each year, probably from December through May. during which time we would stage a subscrip- now projected on a year round basis. 4. Use of another of the small theatres, also on a year-round basis, as a place for a selected and select group of local writers to experiment wilh the definitions and styles ol transit from Chatum, to l.os Angeles.

-My birth is registered both in Chaium and "us Angeles, where I first touched ground," he says. Owens is a mosl unusual man. He has taught English and History at two major New Mexico universities and worked for the Atomic Energy Commission in computers for a year and a half. I've been in thi5 business for 15 Owens confides, got into it by accident and have slayed in it because 1 enjoy il and I'm successful I didn't plan lo be in this!" I i MATERNITY SHOPS JANUARY SALE CLEARANCE SELECTED MERCHANDISE IN ALL STORES! HURRY IN FOR THE BEST SELECTION SALE STARTS DEC. 26th SANTA ANITA FASHION PARK Dtamhn If 1174 ci(y Change of Heart for Many of Us rftf in ihr nru vfflr bur ihr mlmm ri Jlr.

uth-fir. Ilr it ttrnlfrmrri fujr Aii pirn ttnpr ur 11 ill mrtkr il nui ritiirnt jei-i rrqrfc nr. 4nr ffilo BY WILLIAM E. GOLDMANN Recent surveys indicate that most Americans look gloomily toward 197S and instead of excitedly preparing for national rejoicing on the 200th anniversary of Diir War of Independence, we are still numbed by the incredible series 61 national events that began with the assassination of John Kennedy, in 1953. Was that shocking event really only a little over 11 years ago? but Americans have always hwn great problem solvers given enough lime and money, we'll tackle any job, and often wilh great success, too.

So why is il now that we sec our current dilemmas as insurmountable? We're confused, of course, and grope for solutions to problems which themselves are difficult to define. Sn what's to be done? Space will permit the mention of Dnly a few of the areas where we may make some headway in 1975 to rescue that dismal year from its aura of hopelessness. one, we don't communicate. Our difficulty here is not just wilh uur families and friends, but in the greater arena of national and international politics. What we need is Iresh, iintrammeled English from our leaders explaining just what in fact is happening to us.

Too often we are given reports from our representatives thai are as though they were political morons and needed protection for their own noud. The fact is, the American people are far ahead Df their government on inosl issues, and always have been. So we musl resolve in 1375 to demand a modicum of linguistic and moral integrity from our leaders all it takes arc-postage stamps and a reasonably informed vote every two years. Our troubled marriage to material goods is about to eater the divorce courts The current generation of youth will probably not have 'more' than their parents. couched in the slippery of bureaucratic double-talk laced with words like "inoperable" and One gets Hie impression that our leaders don't trust the native gooil sense of Americans and that il the "ugly truth" were known to all, wc would be thrown into a state o( permanent despair.

Nonsense! What bothers the citizens 1 lolk to is that they have the uneasy feeling that Ihey are only given part of Hie information they need to act intelligently and further, they despise reins patronized. Second, our Iroublen marriage to material goods is about to enteT the divorce, courts. The U.S. is no longer the master of ils uwn fate and we had better gel used to that fact, The current generation of youth will probably not have "more" than their parents. Our belief that "more" was somehow better has been shattered in the last decade.

The world's resources are limited, and as the developing nations require more for their own needs, our share is sure to drop. Hut if wc can look beyond despair we may lind ourselves faced with (he painful bul fruitful uossinilily of rethinking cur value system. Do more things really lead to happiness? Does walking more, and doing without Ihat Ihird TV set really threaten your worth as a human? In the midst of shortages we may just have the chance to rediscover ourselves as a people. Having fewer means of escape, we will be forced to lake advantage of this exciting possibility. Third.

1975 will sec an intensification ol the impersonal forces that direct much of our lives. It is true that national and multi-national corporations make decisions (hat atfect our lives. And it is also Iruo that computer errors and bureaucratic foul can cause some temporary annoyance. Hut (he cardinal" issue here is we respond to all this. Wc can allow ourselves to be seduced into accepting an authoritarian regime to gain a small, temporary measure of security.

Or wc can fight, as so many have done uefoie, for a reaffirmation of our right to privacy and the rigid to direct as much of our lives us possible In any very important sense, the choice is ours Kor good or ill. wc will get llic A Meaningful Adjunct to Business of Living 1975 Hope: Rebirth of Theatre fur l7u- nru (lie grrmrn tfrallrigc lo Vorthu prtlidcrit ike rluKWnd nnytnuiF. lo her MFoci'qlpi ike nj hrr rump in reborn I'nmden'i f'fo fkr Plu tie. unj nnrnri Ifir fir.t teearrtrd Ikmler fit In I'hilnJelphia mill-am PiuMllfnrf in I7W. The flumjrtud u-n, ucjurtiMd in (PiW hy Miitrfal Sroll, prrridmt; Aijttd df Jifnry fnnrfn onJ ihr lair jfjnn.

(Mfrton Ihr oj nW-latt orr Mr. and f-ufhn fktfsnl, aj Helen Hnyri. Lttiytt Steele, iiierury nnViirr end tectelaiyi ami lentiliui Editor. By MARTHA SCOTT This is to congratulate the community Pasadena on its plans to restore the Pasadena Playhouse. Having been asked to explore the possibility of locating our organization in your city, we on the Board of Directors of the Plumstead Playhouse have agreed that we could nut be more eager or more honored than to become a part of the rebirth of institution with so tinguished a place in the history of the performing arts in this country.

We would like, therefore, to suggest the possibility of a creative af-r filiation. -A creative affinity already "exists: one of our goats, after all, is the revival of those plays that have given stature to the American theatre, many of which were written when the Pasadena Playhouse was one of (he most important theatres in the country, some of which may even have premiered on its stage. Bul the relationship is even more personal many of those Brighter Continued from Page Bl areas. There arc definitely go-7 ing to be more trees and perennial-type plants. And we'll add more lighting to this, too.

of course. We'll also have more f. lighting accenting the planters than there lias been." -Stone Ihen spoke of still other added safely and convenience elements. going to put in six wheelchair ramps in the parking lot area," he said, "as well as reserve parking places for the handicapped close to those ramps. We've got elevators inside thai the handicapped can use and we'll be adding facilities for those persons in i our restraoms.

--Additionally, we've redesigned benches around the top of the mall they're heavier and safer, and there wfli be more of them. We're putting benches out around the tSusstop as well. The bus stops at (he center entrance on the racetrack side." All of these alterations will be accomplished within the next 90 days, the Kashton Park general manager said, with the first signs of activity to be the resealing of the center's floor within 30 days. anyone has any other ideas," Stone concluded, "they should certainly write in. We welcome their suggestions." actors anil actresses who are members of the Plumstead Playhouse received their early training in Pasadena.

Others, including ine, have appeared in major productions on the main-stage of the Pasadena Playhouse. And several members of cur group are either present or former residents of Pasadena and are thus aware of the dynamic, almost tangible feeling of growth in the city, a very real progress that bespeaks the need for a professional theatre in the area and that bodes well for Its ultimate success. Should our group undertake a creative residency in the City of Pasadena, we would bring with us an unblemished record of critically and commercially successful productions seen by more than 500,000 people in cities across the country, thus beginning to implement our original goal of attracting back to the theatre the great disenchanted bulk of the American public. By continuing to make each of our productions an event rather (ban merely an evening in the theatre, we would hope to re-create the artistic vigor that was once the hallmark of the Pasadena Playhouse and to bring to the city theatre of such indisputable merit that its appeal would extend not only to the San rich but hungry area loo long h0me tor 'theatre i rusi, an an-denied a professional theatre of ciliary arm of the Plumstead Ir, (lit. larlTPl- ctill in I hp firnDOSul community of Los Angeles and stage and dedicated to giving theatre.

Actually, space" is a more operative term for what wc have in mind, thus any large rehearsal hall or playing area would suffice. Wc would also need the freedom to investigate the possibility of other projects under the imprimatur of the Plumstead Playhouse (including, bul not limited to: special arrangements to allow the students to perform alongside the professional actors in our mainstage productions and to work with our writers in creating new plays in the smaller theatres; the underwriting of mainstage appearances by the most important touring productions; the showcasing nf the outstanding work in the area smaller theatres) but whatever additional facilities these projects might require, if any. cannot be detailed until plans are more specific and imminent. And, of course, we would need a hospitahle welcome for our dreams, which are still as WILLIAM E. GOLDMANN mission for 75 government we deserve.

We need, therefore, lo reaffirm by our actions that good citizenship is our prime concern, not the pay off a I Hie marketplace in exchange for a good chunk of our morality. Fourth, we can no longer tolerate a double standard regard ing equality. Eittic-rall of our citizens have equal opportunities and equality before the law. or none of us do. This does tain, of course, that such a elcome would be extended.

A city that would resurrect a ihealm long since consigned to the sermons ot history, and that would give so much of its not I hat we are nil equal in (aleats and nbililies. tar from il. Hut Ihc access to these rights must be made readily available t'o all regardless a person's slalion in life. Now this will require a change in heart for many of us Will our old Yankee sense of fair play allow us to deny a promotion solely because a person is a woman, or a or physically If llicy can du the- job and arc qualified, they musl bo given equal treatment in the world af work We are a generous people surely we o.m make some headway in solving tins problem in 1975 Also, I'm certain thai Watergate did little lo confirm our faith in our law enforcement agencies in general, and our legal profession in particular. Bul remember, il was the same lepal system and lawyers that finally brought mil ttie 'truth, Public scrutiny will require changes in the operation of our judicial system but it is strong itiHl flexible and will not disintegrate while undergoing orderly, responsive cvolulion h'iuall)'.

our recent crises, lwlh foreign and domestic, have been traumatic torus. But once we gel out from under cur self-made rain cloud, we can use our bicentennial year for same national soul-searching. We can demand that a special Congress he held lo debate our nationjl priorities. What is it that we really want to do and become as a It never ceases to me loftv when we first proclaim- 1 ed nor goal of revita umg the or mi provide American thea re, of making I education, and 7 i- a ivn -in- nl 1,5 citizens, ror Hie degradal ions lu millions ol our senior citizens by our youth-oriented culture are appalling. And need not look to InUia for horrendous tales of hunger simply iook instead to our theatre brougnt once again iu inner cuii nnviousiy wwws a lime nevegoi and to -Appal, i'.

In a job to do amission iitav the new year be just the citizens get a crack at Ihc good challenge to make our dreams a life To what better task can we reality. time and encrgie HITS'1 liii! first wc must red i'di rale- our l.uid to the prin ciples ujuiTi which we were founded some two hundred years pray lhal wc niiiy re create Ihc excitement thai permeated this bountiful country SANTA jj ns i -S TOBACCOS The Unique C.wiinctto.... FASHION PARK, ARCADIA UPPiB UVEl After Christmas SHOE SALE SAVE UP 70 SHOW. GROUP Of KTTtR WOMUS SHOfS SUCH AS RED CROSS COBBIES AS IOW AS: FROWS12IT Regular to 126.94 FASHION PARK ARCADIA Phone 445-7821 AFTER CHRISTMAS SUPER i STARTS THURSDAY 10 A.M. ENTIRE STOCK COATS Long, Short, Moxi Pont Coati, Fur Trimmed OFF Regular Price PAKTY HOSE Regular 89( to 99' 2 pa.r 5 1 00 FLANNEL PAJAMAS Regular $099 ROBES Regular to M5 '6 99 NOW TO KNEE HIGH SOCKS Regular 59' each 1 FOR 00 SPORTSWEAR DEPT.

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