Modern Screen (Jan-Dec 1960)

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at Tom Donahue, Station WIBG, Philadelphia, Pa. BY LYLB KENYON EISTGEL The Nation's Top Disk Jockeys pose a series of questions to see if you know your record stars. 1. Her real name is Clara Ann Fowler. She was born in Oklahoma, sang on local radio, became a top band singer. Biggest novelty was Doggie In The Window. Her latest record Charlie Murdock, " Goodbye Charlie on Mercury. Station WQAM, 2. His second name is also the Miami, Fla name of a car. He's 18, was born in Houston, Tex., has leading role In the film Take a Giant Step. One of his singles was But Not for Me. 3. He is the son of a Baptist Minister. There is royalty in his name. He has recorded for Capitol Records for 17 years, with hit records on every type song. His new record album is spirituals. 4. This trio is composed of 19-year-olds, boy-girl-boy. They met at a party, sang together for the first time; then formed the trio. A hit single was Come Softly To Me. Their latest is Mr. Blue. 5. His home town is Philadelphia. He started his career with Art Mooney as a vocalist and then became a winner on the Arthur Godfrey Show. His two big record hits were Here In My Heart and I Can't Get You' Out of My Heart. 6. He's a movie star. His real name is Arthur Gel ien and his musical interest is Jazz. His first record release became a millionrecord seller. The record was Young Love. 7. She collects stuffed animals. Her career started as a child TV singer. Accordion and piano are her favorite instruments. She's also a songwriter and is one of our current top vocalists. One of her hits was Lipstick On Your Collar. Buddy Deane, Station WJZ-TV, Baltimore, Md. 3" Paul Brenner, Station WNTA, ) Newark, N. I. i3pmH qi>£ .g spoomtJJij 3ifx 3dVJ 11)0 j -J ized John — his looks, his brain, his spirit. My thought is that in John she had found not only the one man in the world with all the strong physical attractions and the powerful individual personality that she could so easily fall in love with — but that she had found, too, unconsciously, the father who had been taken from her as a child, whom she'd always been seeking. "As for John during this period, well, he was having fun again, for the first time in a long time Career-wise, finance-wise, things hadn't been going too well for him these past few years, and he'd been depressed. Now, in Tuesday, he'd found a girl who could stimulate him, cheer him up. She was, very often, full of mischief, full of kooky ideas — and John went along with them, happily. He learned how it felt to really laugh again. He began to get the same kick out of life that he'd thought had gone from it, for good. For this reason alone, an observer could see how he might easily have fallen in love with Tuesday. Interestingly, Tuesday's mother, Mrs. Aileen Weld, was fully aware of what was going on between her daughter and John, and she gave her unqualified approval. "John's very protective," she said. "He's the kind of a man a young girl like Tuesday can look up to. He's enough like her so that she can feel as though he's one of her own — yet he's old enough to know how to handle her." And so it went, all happy and well for all concerned, right through the spring and summer of last year. Swipes at Tuesday But then, in September, the whole thing was ended suddenly — by John. "He did it to protect Tuesday," says one friend. "You can't keep a relationship like theirs under wraps forever — and gradually word of them began to get into the papers. The writers all seemed to think that John's position was 'amusing,' but they all took swipes at Tuesday. (A typical bit of reportage: Tuesday Weld is becoming a name in the American Cinema. She seems to have everything it takes to make it big on modern Hollywood standards — good drinker, lives it up and is only sixteen. Now if the kid can only get in a real good scandal, she'll be one of our great stars.) John didn't want to see her career wrecked. He knew how basically important it was to her, this girl who'd known little else but work since the time she was a baby. So he decided to get out of her life — pronto." "It dawned on John one day," says another friend, "that much as he loved Tuesday, the thirty-year difference in their ages was too great a difference. There was a time he'd talked of marrying the girl, the hell what anybody might say. "But now he realized that it probably wouldn't be that easy in the long runfor either of them." Some people insist that John didn't eve say good-bye to Tuesday. Others will tell you that he phone' started to tell her that he'd decided to g to Europe — immediately, and that he hur. up on her when she started to cry an plead with him to let her see him again. At any rate, he left. And everyone waited to see how Tues day would take the shock of his leaving. . . That television interview It was two nights later when, a fev minutes before program time, she showec up at the television studio. Paul Coates, the interviewer, looked a her once, and then again. The girl was barefoot, her hair was uncombed, she wore a low-cut dress tha has since been described as a "burlap nightie"; she appeared to be lost, as if ir a trance of some kind. "Miss Weld?" Coates asked. "Yes," said Tuesday. "Is this a joke?" asked Coates. "What do you mean?" Tuesday asked. "Do you always dress this way for TV appearances?" Tuesday shook her head, slowly. "No,'' she said. "I was home. It got late. This is what I was wearing. This is the way I decided to come . . . You look upset. You are. I hope it's not my fault. . . ." On the air, a little while later, Tuesday upset Coates even more. She stuck a piece of hard candy in her mouth as the program began, and she sucked on it throughout. She fiddled endlessly with the straps and hem of her dress. She spoke softly, mumbled her answers and, more than once she took up to a full minute to decide that "I really didn't understand that question." At one point, when Tuesday did understand the question, the dialogue went like this: COATES— "Would you ever like to settle down and get married?" TUESDAY— "No." COATES— "Why not? Don't you want to have children someday?" TUESDAY— "Huh-uh. I don't want kids. I don't like them. Not me." And Tuesday began to smile strangely . . . for deep in her heart she knew she was telling the truth, that somewhere along the line something had happened to her that had destroyed the basic instinct of womanhood for a mate and children. She knew, in her heart, that whatever else — whatever kicks were in store for her — she would always remain unfulfilled. . . . END Tuesday's seen in Because They're Young, Columbia, and The Private Lives of Adam and Eve, U-I. Little Girl Lost (Continued from page 49) firmly to a secure, normal future like other children. Her parents believe that Evelyn may have been born with some magic about her. Her parents are Edith and Emery Bernauer, and Evelyn was born twentyfour years after they were married. At first it was probably a shock to the middle-aged couple to learn they were going to have their first baby. Then they remembered that very often 'change of life' babies are supposed to be set apart from other babies. These babies were often more beautiful, more brilliant (even with a touch of gen ius) than other babies. Special, indeed. Their little baby arrived and she was everything they'd dreamed of. Evelyn was always very bright, very precocious. She did everything faster and better than other babies. She walked sooner, talked sooner, and raised in the completely adult world of two older and rather intellectual parents, she had a chance to develop this precociousness. Also, she was thoroughly worshiped by her parents. Their lives now revolved around her. Emery Bernauer's father, Rudolf (from whom Evelyn got her name), was a big theater owner, had been a writer of stage hits, among them the librettos of The Chocolate Soldier and May Time. Emery Bernauer was a writer, producer and director of musical shows in Europe. An uncle of Evelvn's is Desmond Leslie, a