Medford mail tribune., November 03, 1957, Image 36

Pat Boone and Shirley Jones only hold hands in their film "April Love," but teen - age idol denies he refused to consider any kissing scenes.
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I he trouble with writing about Pat Boone, a writer com
plained recently, is that there s no opportunity for devel
oping conflict, there's no suspense. His career has been just
one triumph after another.
In the few years since his high-school graduation, he's just
kept going up. Now, at the top, he has in his pocket a contract
for the movies and another for network TV, assuring him the
inner peace known only to a young man on his way to collecting
four million dollars. In another pocket are the pennies that
accrue from his phonograph records, about four pennies for each
record sold. And in less than two years he has sold 13 million
of them! He is likely to become the outstanding entertainment
star of our generation. Most show-business veterans agree on
that, among them Bing Crosby, perhaps the outstanding star of
his generation.
The only conflict in Pat's story exists in his mind. He's afraid
he won't get enough opportunity to do good. He worries about it
constantly. Also, he worries that people will misunderstand" him.
He's afraid that his concern about being a model, clean-living
young man will be mistaken for a device to advance his career,
when it's the other way around. He values his success only
because it might set an example for others to live better thaa
they do. This sounds so idealistic, he's bashful about sayin it.
But he means it.
Pat set out to be an English teacher. He began to singi for
money because the money helped get him through school. Chen
his fame spread, he expanded his vista beyond the classram
and aspired to educational TV. Now that almost every man,
woman, and child knows his name, he's adjusted his sights again.
He wants to help set a high standard of behavior for a whole
generation of young people. That's a heady goal, but not too
Family Weekly, November 3, 1957