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Bernard Shaw once saw the two roles played by Esme Percy at 17 and Dorothy Minto at 14, and said the work "for the first time became endurable." And I found a reference to a Pasadena Playhouse production in 1937 with an unidentified Romeo of 16 and Juliet of 14. These players turn out to have been Robert Willey and Anita Denniston--thanks to the Harvard Theatre Collection, which (bless it!) happens to have a playbill of the show in its holdings. The record would seem to go to the celebrated Fay Templeton, who a century ago had played Puck...
...Pasadena, Calif...
...attend an alternative school like the one in Pasadena [May 6]. Mine is the first of its kind in this area. Even though the school board voted to let us continue through next year, there are still those who cry for blood. Things like cursing, bare feet in class and smoking are not, in my opinion, substantial reasons for shutting down a school that has eliminated the teacher-student barrier and has helped many of us find ourselves and learn to reach others. Alternative schools may still be experimental, but we deserve a trial before we are condemned...
...teach in a school like John Marshall Fundamental School in Pasadena, Calif., would be a dream come true. There must be a waiting list for teachers...
...Today Pasadena parents can choose to send their children to any of the city's seven special schools and 32 elementary, junior high and high schools. There are special schools for dropouts and academic misfits ("We've stopped thinking of them as all dummies," says an administrator), and others for the mentally and physically handicapped. One school, operated jointly with the Pasadena police department and the California youth authority, offers special tutoring and job training for students who have been expelled from regular classrooms. Still another has high school classes at night for 300 teen-agers who work...