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[THE CHINA MAIL,
TETREADS--that's all I ever seem
HONEYMOON "Rto marry, Lana Turner once
TO HANGOVER
Then she acts her triumph!
CONCLUDING THE TORMENTED
LIFE OF LANA TURNER
said to me Za
course.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1958.77
between marriages, of
"By the time I get around tactics and not be rushed, Pre- to falling in love with my vlously she had married her husbande Arak und got AC- man," she went on, "they quainted afterwards, not only know all about This time the reversed the - marriago, They're shop process. They travelled around worn,. cynical, and dis. America and Europe together. illusioned about it."
I said: "Then why don't you pick an eligible bachelor next time?"
"Where?" she asked wearily "Just And me one. Just And
The result was almost ses die- astrous as if she had followed the usual routine.
Truc, she as a fading star and ho as
fast-rising Actor garnered publicity from their association which Was -un- me one!" Certainly, a list of doubtedly useful to them, But the marital misadventures of Lana Turner's four husbands by the time they did get mor
zled, in Turin, Italy, they makes a formidable- and alrondy know each other only Betwen too well
frightening statistic.
them they made 10 separate
The feruit was inevitable: trips to the altor for the justice divorce. Ho bickered. Sha of the peace) before they got bossed him around, He was
pround to Lána,
The husband she married on Poor but on the way up, She the rebound from Tyrone Power, as rich but ever so gently un who
had married Christian, was
millionaire
Topping.
You
B
Linda fun-loving named Henry J.
The bliss
the slide.
The slide
I think it was the smash-up. of her marriage to Lex Barker which finally convinced Lana Turner that it was no uso try- could almost say that their primrose path to the ing any longer.
There were too
many loose marriage bureau was littered
her life lying around with lost husbands and discard- ends
she ed wives, for this the new for her to hope that
was fourth try for marital bliss for could ever plek them up again, She decided that she would not both of them.
even bother.
Not that the bliss seemed to inst very long. It started in a blaze celebration and merry- making. With their signatures still wet on the marriage certi Acate, they rushed aboard Allanlle ner-for Topping was taking Lane to Europe to see some midget-car racing la which he was interested.
an
She began mixing with the Con- scamy set in Hollywood, vinced that she would probably never be a great star again, she became less choosy about her paris,
Her child Cheryl, clinging even more closely to her than ever, found herself fobbed" off of more and by the presence
call mung
They posed for photographs and made the usual statements more people around the house. She found what the psychia- -which were now undoubtedly
would probably becoming a little stereotyped for trists both of them about how happy "compensation" they felt and how much they her lessons at school, or makina
love. were in
Then Topping rang for the steward;
trouble.
by
Cheryl had an accident while
and thai riding
brought
"Ah," said Topping, "this is the moment when the honey mother moon really begins."
and daughter cloac again for a time. But when
But for Lana it was once Lona went back to work, and more to lead sapidly to a hang-, parties, Cheryl ran away from In actual time, it took school and hoted up in a seedy four years to reach the divorce hotel in downtown Los Angeles. It was at this point that court, but they were sipping
over,
their drinks in separate places Johnny Stompanato came into long before that. In the mean- Lena's life. time, Lana had conceived--and She knew he was a hoodlum. She knew he had carried a gun Just a baby.
her for Los Angeles gangsters. She Her disappoinment over
record both with mitigated Was
by the knew he had presence of her daughter, the police and with women,
more shopworn, in
joas
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the age of eight, grown to adore several ways than any man she her mother with an affection had ever known.
almost strong enough to be a fixation.
"Mom," she once asked Lana,
why are there always so many
..
The irony
Not
different uncles around the Who else needed her? house?"
films, anyway, For she hadn't After the break-up with had a hit for a long time. Topping, Lana took-time-out-to That is where the irony camer wrestle with the problems of in. Because, though Lang
her career in Aims, which had Turner did not know it, she was been taking something of on the brink of one of her beating in the Interim.
greatest triumphs in films.
Fashions
Do you smack your child when he flies into u tempér? Or do you Ignore him? The answer you give raises another' question.
STAND
YOUR
Are you fit to be
"Ow good a parent
are you? Do you OTO contemplate your fanilly and ask your- self: "How am I doing? Am I better than other parents or am I worse ?" The questions on this page have been prepared by the Sunday Express Psychologica) Consultant. They are based on the results of modern research into what a child needs from its home life- and what coddling it would be better off without.
It not the correctness of individual answers that counts, but the attitude you reveal by your total score.
It is a quiz in which you · can't cheat for the possl- bility of cheating was taken into consideration when the. queations were prepared.
If your young boy took some money from a friend, would you
(a) Punish him at once and
soon make it up
(b) Keep him in disgrace
for a time 7
(0) Maxe him pay his friend back and give him odd Jobs to earn money with 7
Do you feel that "charse- ter it something that h born with the child or t mainly due to his upbringing T
... tá) Bom with him.
(b) Due to his upbringing,
3 At what age could you leave a child. with friends or relatives if you wanted to go on boliday?
(a) From birth.
(b). From two years old.
(0) Pram five years old
(d) From seven years old.
A Do you think children of
, diferent ages. In the same family should go to bed
(a) As tha sárne zime? (b) According
to
thair
ago?
(a) According to how well
•
a parent?
they have been behaving theinspives?
If a child of three had a tantrum, would you
(a) Snack (12
. (b) Put it if possible, in a
room by itself?
(c) Try to distract
attention 7
(d) Ignore it ?
ff Would you say that difcul-
ties in adolescence aro duo
(n) and company 7
(b) Being uisure of them.
selves ?
(0) Very often undestrable
rebellous feelings 7
its 12 Would
Ing boy
probably incapable of deciding on his profession for himself 7
(a) Yes, (b) No.
'g What would, you say was the point at paniching a child when I has dous wrong?
•
7
(a) To make sure the child
does not repeat offence.
the
(b) To make tha child reailse be has done wrong.
there were a new arrival. how would you deal with tho cider child T
(a Carry on as notma! (bi Give him special atten.
tion,
(a) Try to make him take a special interest in the baby.
8 Which would you say who the more important for a small child?
9
10
(a Regular beduime and
feeding.
(b) A constant heme
environment.
to) Regularly being looked after by the same person. Would you give pocket money
(at The child asks for it (b) Regularly 7
when
(0) When the child
earned it by doing some little job 7
your young child no Intentionally misbehaved in a restaurant, would you
(a) scold him for making
you conspicuous ?
(b) Pass off as of no
importance ?
(c) Blame
yourself
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having taken in there in the first place?
13 What to your attitude to the latest adolescent craze Do
, you may be laflicted with?
you try to
(a) Ignoro it?
(b) courage it i
to Encourage L?
14 How long would you say
boy or girl should live with his or her parença?
(a) Unch) they are 10.
(b) Unut they are married. te Until they have a job td None of these.
decessarily ?
IT IS ALL VERY WELL TO TALK
ABOUT OHILDREN, BUT WHAT ABOUT PARENTS 7
15 Would you say that by and 'targè parenta have a tougher ́timo thwa their children?
1
(a) Yes.
(b) No.
16 Do you think your own childhood was unhappy ↑ (a) Yea.
(b) No.
IT What would you say in your view was the most Impor tant quality in parents ?
(a) Pruviding a secure
environment,
(b) Being consistent in rewards and punishments. the (c) Seeing
child „„properly, fod and clothed. (d) Giving Arai moral
standarda.
The burglar gets
away with it
She had been given the part ONE night last week there was a sudden, frightening clatter from the
of the young mother in "Pegion kitchen, followed by deep silence. I rushed in prepared for almost
Place" who bas to handle &
certainly
Then, high on the saucepan, and shell with bristling back flue-brush tall, I saw our pd- venturous little cat Nelson, his glaring eyes fixed on the win-
+
UP COUNTRY by THURLOW CRAIG
18 When taking your child qua for a regular walk, do you
!
dreas len takana. (n) itin play clothes Y (b) His best clothes? (e) His ordinary clothes ?
teel that ather you 19 Do
mothers take their children out of winter clothes too goan T
(a) Yes,
th No.
20 What would you my wat the Ideal number of children:
(None
(b) One.
to Two or three,
Four or more,
AND YOUR SCORE?
(-3. (b)-3. 3.___(n)=1; {b}=1} \(0)=8;.
4. (alm1; (b)-3-(0);
(3.
4(4)-3; (b› = 1.
7. (a) (b)=3; (0)×3..
(a); (-3; (c) 1 (nii; (b); (c)-2,
21, (B)=1; (b)=3; {0}=}, 12. a thi3.
£5. (2)×3) (bv−1; (c)−2.
14. farm2; (b)×1; (0)=1;
15. (a1-1; (b) -3.
36. (1)1; (b)=3 17. (a)=3; (b7-8; (c)-2: (dal.
15, (a)-3(b); (e)-3... 19. (a); (b)-3.-
20. (A)=1; (b)=1; (c)=3: Id=3
KEY-Under 30: You've ́s tot to learn. Have a few more children and let them. take it oup of each other),
* 36-45; A good average. You have troubles too. But you ahould see the children next door, they're just as bad.
Over 15-I wish you werd' my asather or father t
You
would think this pene frating din would scare away all the mice, voles, and shrews, but apparently it doesn't They are stupid things.
Just na stupid are the Barubs, always imagining that they hayo become orphans, and working themselves into a frenzy “unli The next day I hung up. they find their mothers agito piece of gristly beef and put out two pleces of bread and from midnight on, watched at
But she was well aware that wayward. daughter. She played any dreadful sight; but all I found were three saucepans on the floor and fashions in the cinema were it magnificently, She acted the ragged remains of a loaf. changing, that the bloom ut brillantly for the Arst time in
career-almost youth was no longer her princi- her pal asset, and that she would because she was playing the part need more than a shape inside a straight out of her own life, sweater to keep her fans in Would she have hold on to future.
Johnny Stompamato if she had It was on uphill fight, and realised that, with this role she dow that was always left open
she' sometimes
dla would be nominated or nn for him. grew Illusioned. When she found her- Oscar and be right on top of
I closed the window and took self too dispirited and depressed the Hollywood tree once more? Nelson upstairs, indicating that
bunch of Ah well, it is an academic she would collect
in future he could use my friends and take them off to question now.
bedroom window. Johnny Stompanato is out of Mexico.
One of them was a brown and her life.. But you cannot solve
From if he need only walk burnished actor named Lex a problem like him with a carv-down the sloping roof and jump, Barker, currently beating his g knife, All you get from two feet to the mountainside breast and swinging from arti- what her daughter, Chers! Into which the house is built, felal trees in the role of Crane, did the other week-endi Tarzan of the Apes.
In the most dreadful hangover Bader in the kitchen I replaced With Barker, Lana decided of Lana Turner's tormented the pans
and examined the tha* she would change her career,
toolmarks to the loaf,
hen he said Scotifs deserv
na
my bedroom window.
Night-racket
They, might have been made by a mamuding dog and this
This happens at night too, checiding, fore
particularly when there is 'a was worth live in. sheep country and the
moon, so there was a more or ewes are lambing..
less continuous biasing from. But no, wandering dog had
the nursery field below » the We had been reported.
garden. Twin' seta 'appear to 69 visitor the next
this year, with a mysterious
The night was still and cloud- the fashion night, nor did we on the "less, lit by a bright half moon, high proportion of black lambs
Ones far away in the hills, tootanarks in the leaf.
The owls were out in force, and On the fourth night a fresh onco I counted ive allhouetted heard a fox baying the moon. Jump of suet hanging for the against the clear sky, hooting had just begun to feel that my horse time. might be better employed tile on an 8 ft-high lios just away merrily in the
the cond cut as chestnut trees at the bottom of in brewing a zice strong pot ot vanished,
tea, the garden.
when a darki · shadow. though with a knife.
DREPARED
gilbert"
"arding"
mcaked into view by herbaceous border,
the
How long it had walled in the protective gloom of the trees. L do not know, but, the owls ind fallen silent. Now, furtive and fat with its belly hugging the * ground, it alunk down the moon-lit path, straight to the first place of bread This wOS soon polished off and my visitor, fox, went boldly on to the
tukk '-
Then, under the hanging meat he stopped, muzzle high, sniffing. He rose gracefully on to bis hind legs, with the forelegs carried like those of a kangaroo; but was still several feet; short of the prize.
A
Ho stepped dèllestelý rouhajla circle, balancing easily, and waving a lovely,.bushy brush. Suddenly be fexed powerful quarters and spring. Steel-like Jews snapped and the line wanged like 'a, fiddio-siring?. Thero was a dark streak down the path, and the burglay vanished with his booty,
Hard-pressed on
There are still no rabbitsin. our part of the world and the foxes on the point of breading are hard-prossed for dood. T
ald and bolleve that nowadays most of their diet. constate of roode berrien mieg Escortgis and forthe AERE
I'vó naver before Board of fox walding a bouse for good, bus we are probably the only pledpla around here who ever"Seri ile ground-floor, window wide open WOLVO put stops to that
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