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"THE CHINA "MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1959.

A VITAL QUESTION THAT NO PARENT DARE IGNORE

How do YOU rate

THE beaches stretch golden

before us as endless as these August days which gild them.

And who la that strufting and posturing in the foreground proudly advertising what a springtime of dioly ing has done for him? Is father! Anybody's fatherl

But consider the cool," calculating eyes that study hlm.

The eyes of those pretty teenage girls and their tonky, youthful escorts. Do they see father in the same foud Hght thut he so hupplly regards hằn- self-eny, sparkling as the summer sea, to whom the years have odded-nothing- but o churning sophistication und a soft-voiced understanding?

Do they see any of the adult generation like that? Or do they just winer

the baking, bulging ridiculous debris of parenthood before them and try hard ló pretend they are not with us?

Here is a quiz which will tell you exactly how you rate in those teenage eyes today. -

If you are sitting alone and glum, contemplating an abandoned winklu shell, It may explain why,

1 To your horror your

Yount

daughter turns up at a party wearing make-up. You HAYO told her that you wouldn't allow this. What do rua do?

(u) Ask her there and then, in the hearing of others, to talke

tuff.

(b) Ignore it and speak to her

later about it.

(*) Take her to one side 1stdi quietly ask her to take it off.

2 If your son or daughter brought Rome friends honte In the evening, would you:

fit) Try keep out of their way? (b) Slay with them und make 0 special nt- to entertain

tempt them?

(c) Say hello Dad then

drift off?

Would you feel it Your duty to know what cor- respondence your teenage chfldren had?

(a) Yea.

(b) No.

4 Would you let your son of 18 know how much mones

. You were esrolog?

(*) Yes,

(b) No.

5 What about the facts of

Iltel" Do you think:

(a) It's the teacher's job to

instruct them?

NOW CHECK

YOUR

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4. a3, di.

b. 02, 1, 3,

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9. a3, 6-2,

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17. al, b-2,

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10. d, b1.

20. ami, b3.

OVER 50: You, oro rotural with teenagers, You see their problems anil understand why-- they sometimes behave in the difficult way they do. They like having you around.

30 TO 49: You rote as the "Average Adult." Helpful and understanding at umos (after all, you went through It all yourself) but occasionally just not seeing their point of view--- as you probably know only too well!

29-AND UNDER; You are noi

really interested in the problems

with a teenager?

But for all of us must come that moment of truth

(b) They should be left to find it out for them- selves?

(c) You ought to make sure yourself that they are informed?

6 If your growing son hold Some very strange ideas you very much disliked, would you:-

(a) Tell him flatly you won't stand for It?

(b) Ignore him-to show he can't annoy you that way?

(e) Unobtrusively provide

(b) You are an out-of-date 17 Do you think a teenager's

old fugey who just gets

in their way,

(c) They Bink you're not too bad on the whole, although You SPITIC

5. times irritate them. (d) You're not really sure

ut all.

12 Would you say that trouble

with

тол

teenagers was comi

(a) In all societies?

(b) Only in our type of

society?

choice of reading should

be supervised?

(a) Yes.

(b) No.

(c) Only rarely.

18 There may come

time

when your son or daughter will ako more notice of some vile adult outside the family than they do of you, What would you do? (a) Stop them meeting, (b) ignora the whole

-matter,

..

(c) Criticise the person

evidence of another 13 Do you think that a boy, 19 Would you agree`ibat girls

point of view?

Would you be satisfied if your teenage child be- haved exactly 0.5 you

wanted?

(0) Yes,

(b) No.

8 Would you say that most teenagers were afflicted with:-

(u) A superiority campin (b) An interiority complex.

9 At what age do you think

children should be allowed

to have a say in choosing their own clothes?

fa) 10 to 12.

(c) Not until

(b) 13 to 16.

carning,

they

are

10 Why do you think young girls want to wear make- up?

11

(a) It helps to give them-

selves confidence.

(b) They ke to do

the

ranc no their friends. (c) They want to attract a

boy friend.

How do you think you rate In the eyes of a teenager?

(a) On the whole you are

a sympathetic person who sees their point of view.

aged 15, absould be allowed

to come bome at any time ko Ukeat

(a) Yes.

(b) No.

14 H your boy wanted

fo

lake a job you disapproved of, would you:-

(u) Refuse point blank

because you know he will change his mind Inter on?

(b) Threaten him?

(c) Produce

to disown

alternatives

but dve bim the choice?

15 Have you ever, in public,

3

called teenager by a nick-name he las asked you not to use?

(a) Yes.

(b) No.

16 Why do you think adsleg-

• BY. THE

селів

KO often question accepted opinious on Im- portant malters?

(a) They are naturally re

bellious against) authority.

---(b) They believe

that

young ideas are best. (c) They need to think out

important Issues themselves.

WAY

by Beachcomber

for

MR. JUSTICE COCKLE- sald. We do not reerse, we said.

of those growing up. You have I CARROT to preside over Our lifex is spontinaneus, und

little idea, anyway, of what an extra special

inquiry into our Jestures is doktated by the

those problems are and will not the dispute between dustmen

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trouble to find out, They have and lilter-yardens as to what is intoxxeriontin rofhem of the

their doubts about you too,

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becaine adult and respon- sible sooner than boys? (a) Yes...

(b) No.

Still "The King"

From Henry Thody

CLA

Rome.

LARK GABLE, aged fifty-seven, now in Italy making his eighty-second film-"Or is it my eighty-third?" has a problem.

"Have I reached the age when I should stop kissing girls young enough to be my grand- daughters?" he asked me.

And the girl apccineally the old Gable charm. The years worrying him at the moment is it anything have only made his Sophia Loren. In "The Bay of looks more ruggedly masculine. Naples Sophin is Gable's co star and the script calls for

"I would like to make an- other film with plenty of clinches.

a serious love affair in it," he told me. "but

1 belleve I'm getting too old

to make love to young girls would have to be with an Joriously, that is, in a comedy older woman-ny, one in her |--that's different.”

thirties."

"Such as Ava · Gardner?" asked.

1

As I talked to Mr Gable or "The King," at Hollywood still reverently calls him-it was ap propriately u salting. On the edge of a swim- ming". pool in polm-studded The King has one firm rule. grounds, the grounds of a He refuses to discuss the rela luxury hotel in the hills above five merits and weaknesses of Rome. The trimmings included his former leading Indles, whose a full moon, real champagne, names rend like a Hollywood French and cool, music soft, and "Who's Who"-Garbo, Harlow, candlelight. Italian fans con- Crawford, Vivien Lelgh, Norma tinuously interrupted us. for Shearer, Claudette Colbert, "The King's" autograph.

Doris Day und all.

"Naturally I would like to do noother im with Ava. I enjoy~ Hollywood ed making 'Mogambo' with her."

Too Old?

But the King admits his casting with Jean Harlow the tragle platinum blonde who. Hollywood producers do not you may remember, died ко agree that Gable is too old for dramaileally. Was called love. They believe that Gable "chemical casting." That's cast- plus a sexy young girl star is ing which has physical reactions still sure-fire box office magic. amongst the customers in the That "Gable kisses Loren" is na stalis. Snancially lucrative as "Gable

describes the Sophla kisses Harlow was a quarter of Loren-Gable "Bay of Naples" a century ago.

team sa zimilar "chemical east- ing."

He

"But from now on I will only

Sophia will play the bare- kiss young girls in a comedy," footed Neapolitan girl she was the 'King' told me seriously. in real life just A few years "This will be my third comedy ago, before she hit the movie in a row. After "Teacher's Pet' jack-pot. Gable is an American I did 'But Not For Me with in Naples on business. He hates Carroll Baker, which has not everything about the place, from been released yet. And Carroll's pizzas to espresso coffee, until younger than Sophia, course." he meets Sophla.

I pointed out that in real life

Sophis is happily married to a man old enoughi

Hungry?

be her father. The short and tubby I asked Mr Gable if he had Signor Pointi who, in Inci, plans to retire. "No, I like mak- jooke, much older than the ing pictures," he answered. handsome and seemingly age- "Always have. But now I am a less Mr Gable..

tree-lance atid my

own boss, und only hake the sort of pic- lures I like."

"Oh, I know nothing about that," said the King' as he diplomatically changed the sub- Ject.

A Hollywood aide told me: The King' also can use the Clark Gable understandably money. I do not mean he is in has a secret fear. That after danger of golog hungry, but by years of playing the Great Hollywood standards he is not Lover, one day it be stays a rich man-not like Bing around too long female sighs in Crosby or Bob Hope. For yours the stalls will turn to sniggers, he was just on a salary and heavily taxed, also he has never been interested in business and ls investiments have not been too lucky."

His Reply

But say this is not likely in happen yet. Reason: Mr Ghole

running been.

So the 'King' will go on working, But I say to Mr Gable always -Do not be afraid of kissing

20 Why do some teenagers himself. At 1fty-seven he's still

spend. so long in day-what he has basically dreaming And

A great hunk of sun- young girla Uke Sophila (on the away from the real world, tenned, healthy, virile, muscular screen, of course). The fans man. With that same white are still more likely to swoon' toothed infecilous grin and all than laugh.

places, and ritterning to the small card because they are nylon lies and the limelite of reminded of herona, mòcòrding): poobtick" hexorbishans, of our to a mojed prychopathiatrist London Expruas varvays. Í hart. Whs about "tvermis, they metaforadiées "Axpress Serulce).

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(b) They are worried,

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