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GROPING YOUTH IN CONTRASTING ENVIRONMENTS — IP mm . mm mS illjpr ROBERT WAGNER \ DON MURRAY ALAN LADD ONE FOOT IN HELL” AND “THE LIVE WIRE" IN ANOTHER YOUNG AMERICANS IN PARIS EXPERIMENT IN BOHEMIAN LIVING, BUT WITH SURPRISING RESULTS The population explosion the world over, with its resultant educational and social upheavals, and job problem, constitutes a present that is of growing concern to adults, but it is particularly a puzzlement to youth facing a future of promise and threat, of opportunity and challenge. Thus, with a studio that keeps in step with chang- ing times, one is not surprised to find on its 1960 program feature attractions that place the accent on the many facets of contemporary youth’s demeanor, lhat there is a public and exhibition eagerness for screenplays of that type is apparent, for instance, by the clamor for a sequel to last year’s “Blue Denim.” Among the 1960 productions dealing with youth are two scheduled for filming this Spring and for domestic release in the late Summer. They are David Weisbart s The Live Wire” and Walter Winger’s tentatively titled “Dud Avocado”. “The Live Wire”, in which Robert Wagner heads a cast of young people, with a role custom-made for his sparkling talent, is based on a Garson Kanin play. Actually, it has a comedy vein running through it, dealing with the ambitions, frustrations and amorous gropings of a group of young actors and actresses who buy a Quonsei hut from the Govern- ment, when they find that even their combined funds are insufficient to meet an apartment rental. The youngsters, with “live wire” Wagner as their leader, set up their home in the Quonset hut on East 49th street, near Second avenue, in New York. There they live while awaiting their chance in the theatre or television. Meantime, they maintain them- S ^jA y working as soda “jerks”, models, etc. Dud Avocado ’, on the other hand, concerns less serious-minded youngsters: an American teenager Continued on page 74 AN ARTIST’S SKETCH OF PARIS’ LEFT-BANK WHERE AMERICAN AND PARISIAN ’TEENAGERS AND BEATNIKS CAVORT IN “DUD AVOCADO’’. 73