Modern Screen (Dec 1949 - Nov 1950)

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After she finished Harriet Craig, Joan Crawford took her brood -Christina, Cynthia, and Christophe Ranch. By SUSAN TRENT ■ You can be twenty-one and feel like a hundred when someone tries to drag you out to the tennis court and all you want to do is sit in the sun. Maybe it isn't normal, but it happens. And there are people of forty-one who are so full of joie de vivre that they'll make you droop like an old washcloth after they've raced you round the swimming pool. Blame it on the metabolism. More than likely, it's just a state of mind. Joan Crawford, for one, is an example of how much the state of mind can accomplish. Of course, it'll be a long time before anyone pushing a wheelchair will ask Joan if she wants a lift, but even so, there are younger women. Younger women who act twice her age. Maybe it's her children who keep Joan young— the four of them, Christina, Christopher and the twins, Cathy and Cynthia. Joan's not the kind of mother who sits back and thinks she's having a gay time because her children are laughing. When they're having fun, she's in there with them, sharing it. Lately she's given up a lot of her extra-curricular activity just tfi be with them. She cooks, she buys their clothes, she invites Christina's Brownie troop over to her Brentwood home, and she spends -her free afternoons in the pool turning her twins into (Continued on page 93) Joan sha res every game, every experience with each of her children. Up at 6:30 a.m. for a set of doubles with I ma, she spins her racquet \o choose their side of the net.