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.
But friendly Perkins, son of the
late actor Osgood Perkins, af
fably invites all comers to watch
him work.
"I was really excited when
my picture got on the cover of I
Life magazine, he said eagerly.
"And now they've named a
sandwich after me on the Para
mount commissary menu: You've
really arrived when that happens.
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