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SIX MtDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday. August 7. I9SB Family Council Around Hollywood By ALINE MOSBT United Pre is Correspondent Sure: Our boy keeps grow ing hostile. Freda: I dare not tell Steve the whole story. . Slave: For the. third time this year, our only child, a boy of 15, has stolen money from the house and used it to run away from home, only to return a few days later. Each time, we have hushed the matter up. forgiven him and tried without success to find out why he does these things. I'm afraid the same sort of thing is coming on again, and I would like to know some way to head it off. I try my best not to make things hard for him and not to irritate him, even though he constantly irritates me. I have never been able to get him to run an errand willingly. On several occasions, when he showed a surly attitude, I with drew my request. Now, I avoid making them. He often arrives late for meals, keeping me wait ing hut T restrain mvcplf and say nothing. When I used to dis cuss his report card with him, he seemed to resent it, and now I just avoid the subject. No mat ter what I do or do not do, he grows more antagonistic all the time. Freda: Things are even worse than my husband be lieves. I do not begin to tell him all annoyances that the boy causes me. My husband knows about the three times he stole money to run away, but he does not know about all the times the boy has charged things at stores to me and even borrowed cash that I had to repay. I think the main trouble is Steve's temper. He knows he has a bad one. and he can t talk to the boy because he can't trust his temper. That is why I can't tell Steve anything, and have to duck most of the situations. If Steve manages to restrain him self from having a violent but burst, the he goes into prolong ed fits of despondency. If he could better control his feelings, we might have a better chance to handle the boy. Tha Coucil: If Steve sins with his bad temper, Freda may be making an even more destruc- : Hollywood UP.) At last Hol lywood has a new star, Anthony Perkins, who admits he gets a kick out of be ing a celebrity, fan mail included. Most of the Marlon Bran do-type new comers from New York t?, f.C i television go lifiiiii 'fi aV'Tni i 1 into seclusion when they be- They avoid movie premieres, often refuse to be interviewed by the press and run from their fans. But young Perkins, a Gary Cooper type who is expected to be a top star by next year, is a refreshing change. He answers his own fan mail, loves being photographed by the press, doggedly goes to all the premieres and happily awaits the day when his face will be known so well he won't have any pnv- Alina Moebj come film actors. tive mistake by making to much allowance for that temper. Quite evidently, she swallows too much because of her exces sive dread of a verbal flareup. But it might do the boy a great deal of good to be witness to such flare-ups. For then it might dawn on him that his father is not down on him, but just a njan given to verbal explosions. A growing boy can be sub ject to very painful insecurities, and a stern or harsh-spoken fa ther may create a terribly tor turing effect on such a boy. It clearly does no good in this case for the father and mother to evade relatively harmless verbal explosions while allow ing obvious tension and resent ment to continue. The boy must be made to understand that his father is one of those people who is happier with himself if he occasionally explodes. It is vital that he understand that his father also explodes at other people and that he can deeply loaf a person whom he may have shouted at on occasions. False delicacy on the part of bath father and mother is hurt ing their boy. Bring things out into the open and clear them up. It would be better to punish the boy for his transgressions and let him start anew than to keep him condemned to unceasing, silent disapproval. Copyright 1956, General Features Corp.) "I think it's terrible when actors don't enjoy all this, Perkins said. ''Why not be en thusiastic? Being a star can be as much fun as yon want. This work can kill you if you don't enjoy it. Perkins actually was reading his fan letters and preparing to answer them (most actors don't) when I found him in his dess- ing room at Paramount. "Look at all these nice let ters." enthused Perkins as he sifted through his mail. "Once after a TV show I got 650 letters in one day. It takes me a long time to answer them, but I think I should, if people . take the trouble to write." The tall, gangly actor has brought smiles to Hollywoodites ever since he left his succesful New York TV and stage career to co-star with Gary Cooper in ''The Friendly Persuasion," one of the year's top pictures. The joke around the Cha teau Marmont, an apartment hotel where actors usually live when they come out from New York for jobs, is that Perkins won't join the gang at beach parties unless a magazine pho tographer is along. He thinks movie premieres are "horrible" because he isn't recognized at them yet. "The masters-of-ceremony at premieres say 'Hello, Lex, Hello, Lana,' but when they come to me they don't know my name," he mourned. "It's very embarrassing. You leave thinking you're not really in the movies." Movie-goers will know Perkins is in the movies by the end of the year. He currently is play ing the title role in "The Jim Piersall Story" about the base ball star who suffered a nervous breakdown. Next he does the title role at Paramount in "Joey," a part that brought him recognition on television. While I was talking to An thony, Katherine Hepburn rac ed by on her bicycle. She re fuses to talk to the press, and her set is closed to all visitors. 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