Daily Independent Journal from San Rafael, California • Page 20

Prison TV Drama Is Tribute To Dead Man By JOHN F. KEARNEY Presented last night over television station KQED, written, directed, performed and filmed entirely by inmates of San Quentin Prison, evolved into something more than just another story about penal life. It was a memorial to Cary Johannesson, 27, editor of the prison newspaper, a man whose own private cage slammed shut Aug. 28 when he hanged himself in his cell. Shortly before his death he had talked with Richard Queirolo of Mill Valley, a commercial television cameraman, and had baen pleased when an idea he had for a film about prison life was accepted.

On Aug. 27, Johannesson spent a long time talking over the project with Rick Cluchey. author of a stage play already produced by the San Quentin Drama Workshop. Cluchey approached by Queirolo some days later, decided he would write a play in Johannesson's memory. decided to capsule into half an hour, the life of this man who was at San Quentin eight years to the day when he decided to end it Cluchey said afterward in a television interview.

the play bears the same title as my stage production, its only similarity is that it is about men in Four men are together in a cell. Communication has gone beyond the bounds of ordinary human comprehension, into the world of fantasy where the thin line beyond reason and sanity is vague and out of focus. reason for writing this television play is to show that when you keep men out of the world of freedom and cut them off, something happens inside. They lose a little something every said Cluchey, who was in San Quentin 11 years before being released on parole seven weeks ago. Technically, the production is good considering the crew ran into sound difficulties.

The fact it was made at all is in itself unique. Cluchey said he believed it i was the first time in penal history that a play about prison life had been made in a prison by prisoners and put over a television station. It was created by the combined efforts of the prison's drama workshop and the new film group. Queirolo said it was hoped future projects of the film workshop would include making training and initiation films. Student Paper Wins Honors The Carillon, Dominican Coliege student newspaper, received a first class rating of excellent yesterday from i Associated Collegiate Press of I the University of Minnesota.

The rating, earned in competition with papers of similar size, is for issues edited last year by Mary-Louise Peterson of Westport, who is now a senior and editor of the yearbook. Firebrand. The tri-weekly tabloid is the product of the journalism class instructed by Mrs. Lillian Mill Valley. Two Burglaries In Tiburon Area Two burglaries were reported yesterday in Tiburon.

At 12:30 p.m., Mrs. Molly Holsinger, 525 Comstock Drive, told Tiburon sheriff's deputies she had arrived home to find a portable television set was missing from the front room. Deputies found pry marks on a bedroom door. At 11:30 p.m., Mr. and Mrs.

Robert W. Gunn, 698 Hilary Drive, returned home and found drawers open in their bedroom. They told deputies that someone had taken $50 in cash, a gold necklace with a cross containing one diamond, a handful of change and a ladies wristwatch. They had been away from home all day, they reported. Auto Goes Off Waldo Grade Bank A Corte Madera woman and San Francisco man survived yesterday when their northbound car went off Waldo Grade near Rodeo Avenue at 1 a.m.

and rolled down the bank. The driver. Gene Flor Verzosa. 31, cf San Francisco, and passenger. Janet Mikelson, 20, of 19 Pixley Avenue, Corte Madera, were reported in good condition today in Marin General Hospital with cuts and bruises.

California Highway Patrol reported the car hit the center guard rail and veered off the highway, rolling down the bank. Public Hearing On Center Set The Novato City Council set 8 p.m. March 7 as the date for the public hearing on whether or not the city should purchase a site for a new civic center. The date was accidentally omitted from the story of the city council meeting in the Independent-Journal yesterday. Lead has been mined at Galena, 111.

since the 18th century. Sex Education Forum Slated A afternoon-evening conference of the Sex Information and Education Council of the United States wlil be held tomorrow at Katharine Branson School in Ross. Speakers will be Dr. Esther Dickinson Schulz, associate director of educational services for SIECUS; Paul W. Cook, superintendent of A a im School District, and John Chandler, special consultant of the National Association of Independent Schools.

The conference will begin with lunch at 12:30, followed by lectures and an informal discussion with the speakers. jlnftfpptthriit-flrmrnal, Feb. 16, 1967 21 by Fairfax police and Vjun booked at the Marin County Jail Rnnlrinn lc charge of brandishing a DOOKing IS firearm in a threatening man- San Rafael insurance agent ner- posted bond of $550 and Chester G. Laws, 41, of 14 was released. Warner Court, wounded in the Laws was wounded Feb.

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