Mountain Views News, Pasadena Edition [Sierra Madre] Saturday, December 2, 2017

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Playhouse: 1947 Radio PlayMiracle on 34th Street 

 Pasadena Playhouse, the 
State Theatre of California, 
presents the original 1947 
radio play of Miracle on 34th 
Street, on its 70th anniversary 
for a limited engagement of 14 
performances from December 
14 to 23, directed by Cameron 
Watson. 

The cast includes Peri 
Gilpin (‘Roz Doyle’ on NBC’s 
“Frasier”), Beth Grant (Beverly 
Janoszewski on Hulu’s “The and their imaginations to 


Mindy Project”), and award-completely realize a story. And 
winning film, TV and stage now in 2017, seventy years 

actor Alfred Molina (Raiders later, the eyes of our audience 
of the Lost Ark, Enchanted get to watch what went into 
April, Long Day’s Journey Into producing the performance 

Night at Geffen Playhouse, Red live, which its original listeners 
at Mark Taper Forum) as Kris never got to see.” 

Kringle. As was often the case with 
Miracle on 34th Street will be mid-century entertainments, 

directed by Cameron Watson, once a property became famous 
who helmed the recent revival and popular in one medium, it 

of Tennessee Williams’ Cat On was played out across many – as 
A Hot Tin Roof at Antaeus was the case of the very popular 
Theatre Company. This Ovation Miracle on 34th Street. Darryl 
Recommended production F. Zanuck, the head of 20th 
broke box office records and Century Fox, originally insisted 
was awarded a Critic’s Choice that the film be released in May 
by The Los Angeles Times. 1947, thinking that movie going 

 The story of Miracle on 34th was at its height in warmer 

Street is well known: when weather – and the promotion 
a department store Santa kept secret its Christmas theme. 
claims he’s the real thing, it This is a special holiday 
takes him all the way to the attraction for the 2017/18 
Supreme Court. Pasadena Centennial Season of 
Playhouse Producing Artistic the Pasadena Playhouse, 
Director Danny Feldman said, Producing Artistic Director 
“What is much less known, Danny Feldman’s inaugural 

is that this story was very season. Tickets are now on sale 
popular as a radio play, when at pasadenaplayhouse.org and 
all of America used their ears by phone at 626-356-7529. 

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PASADENA CITY MEETINGS 
Regular City Council Meeting 
CITY COUNCIL MEETING MONDAY DECEMBER 4 

Public Meeting 6:30 P.M.
Council Chamber, Pasadena City Hall
100 North Garfield Avenue, Room S249 
PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE (Chair John J. Kennedy, Tyron Hampton, Steve Madison, 
Gene Masuda) 
Meets December 4 at 4:15 p.m. Pasadena City Hall, 100 N. Garfield Avenue, Room S249 
(Council Chamber, 2nd Floor)
FINANCE COMMITTEE (Chair Mayor Terry Tornek, Victor Gordo, John J. Kennedy, Margaret 
McAustin)
Meets December 11, the second and fourth Monday of each month at 4:00 p.m., 100 N. Garfield 
Avenue, Room S249 (City Hall Council Chamber, 2nd floor)
MUNICIPAL SERVICES COMMITTEE (Chair Margaret McAustin, Tyron Hampton, Terry 
Tornek, Andy Wilson)
Meets December 12 at 4:00 p.m., Pasadena City Hall, 100 N. Garfield Avenue, Room S249 
(Council Chamber, 2nd Floor)
LEGISLATIVE POLICY COMMITTEE (Chair Terry Tornek, Steve Madison, Gene Masuda)
Meets December 12 (Special meeting) at 6:00 p.m., Pasadena City Hall, 100 N. Garfield Avenue, 
Room S245/S246 (Council Conference Room, 2nd Floor)
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE (Chair Victor Gordo, 
Tyron Hampton, Steve Madison, Andy Wilson)
Meets December 19 at 5:30 p.m., Pasadena City Hall, 100 N. Garfield Avenue, Room S245/S246 
(Council Conference Room, 2nd Floor)



SOUTH PASADENA CITY MEETINGS 
Regular City Council Meeting 
Next meeting December 6.
Meetings are held on the first and third Wednesday of the month, at 7:30 
p.m., in the Amedee O. “Dick” Richards, Jr., Council Chambers, located 
at 1424 Mission Street. 
Planning CommissionMonday at 6:30 p.m.
Amedee O. "Dick" Richards, Jr. Council Chamber 
1424 Mission Street 
Staff Liaison: David Watkins, Planning and Building DirectorPhone (626) 403-7223 
Design Review Board 
Thursday at 7:00 p.m.
City Council Chambers 
1424 Mission Street 
Staff Liaison: Edwar Sissi, Assistant PlannerPhone: (626) 403-7227 
ALTADENA TOWN COUNCIL MEETINGS 

Regular Council Meeting 

The Altadena Town Council meets on the third Tuesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. 
in the Altadena Community Center located at 730 E. Altadena, Dr. (directly west of 
Altadena Sheriff’s Station). Altadena Town Council meetings are recorded and televised 
during the month on Charter cable channel.

SAN MARINO COUNCIL MEETINGS 

City Council Regular MeetingWednesday DECEMBER 13, at 6:00 P.M. in the City Hall Council 
Chamber, 2200 Huntington Drive, San MarinoContact Customer Administrative Account cityofsanmarino@gmail.com. 


Peter Kalmus 'Being the

Take Virtual Walking Tours

Change' Talk, Book Signing

 Julia Long, founder and the city and its people. 
tour guide for Pasadena The tour will be followed Altadena Main Library’s 
Walking Tours, will lead by a visit to the Pasadena Community Room is set for a 
members of the Pasadena Museum of History to view presentation and book signing 
Senior Center on virtual the exhibition “Royals of today with author and scientist 

Peter Kalmus who recently 

strolls through Pasadena’s Pasadena: Rose Queen and 

published the revolutionary 

history the third Fridays in Royal Court.”

book, “Being the Change: 

December and January. The Effect of the 

Live Well and Spark a Climate 

 Each month will feature Transcontinental Railroad 

Revolution.” 


a new theme as Long uses on Pasadena Homes – Program will be held from interconnected predicament: 
photographs and stories Friday, Jan. 19, at 10 a.m. 4:30pm to 6:00pm overpopulation, global 
to enhance the virtual Much of the stained glass Life on 1/10th the fossil fuels warming, industrial 
tour, followed by an actual in historic Pasadena homes turns out to be awesome.agriculture, growth-addicted 
tour of a well-known local was designed and created at We all want to be happy. Yet economics, a sold-out political 
institution. The cost for the Tiffany Studios in New as we consume ever more in a system, and a mindset of 

frantic bid for happiness, global separation from nature. It 

each virtual tour is only $10. York and then transported 

warming worsens.also includes a readable but 

Reservations can be made to the west coast on the 

 Alarmed by drastic changes authoritative overview of 

at the Welcome Desk at the transcontinental railroad. 

now occurring in the Earth’s climate science. Part two offers 

Pasadena Senior Center, 85 This virtual tour will take 

climate systems, the author, a a response at once obvious 

E. Holly St. Members are a look at decorative arts in climate scientist and suburban and unprecedented: mindfully 
responsible for paying entry Pasadena in the late 19th father of two, embarked on opting out of this broken 
fees to museums.and early 20th centuries and a journey to change his life system and aligning our daily 
New Year’s Day in how the railroad and other and the world. He began lives with the biosphere.
Pasadena: A Look Inside forms of transportation by bicycling, growing food, The core message is deeply 
the Rose Parade and Rose during that period helped meditating, and making other optimistic: living without fossil 

simple, fulfilling changes. fuels is not only possible, it can 

Bowl Game – Friday, Dec. shape the landscape and 

Ultimately, he slashed his be better. 

15, at 10 a.m. Pasadena is connect early Pasadenans 

climate impact to under a tenth Peter Kalmus is an atmospheric 

best known worldwide as to the rest of the world. 

of the US average and became scientist at Caltech/Jet 

the home of the annual The tour will be followed happier in the process.Propulsion Laboratory with 
Rose Parade and Rose Bowl by a visit to the Huntington Being the Change explores a Ph.D. in Physics from 
Game. This virtual tour will Library, Art Collections the connections between our Columbia University. He lives 
provide a brief overview of and Botanical Gardens to individual daily actions and in suburban Altadena with 
the parade and its history view the exhibition “Tiffany our collective predicament. It his wife and two children on 
as well as a look into some Favrile Glass.”merges science, spirituality, 1/10th the fossil fuels of the 
of the lesser known stories For more information visit and practical action to develop average American. Peter speaks 

a satisfying and appropriate purely on his own behalf, 

about New Year’s Day in www.pasadenaseniorcenter.

response to global warming.not on behalf of NASA or Jet 

Pasadena and how it shaped org or call 626-795-4331. 

 Part one exposes our Propulsion Laboratory. 

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