Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1955)

Your Years Become You (Continued from page 42) “Don’t you think the hospital will have turkey dinner for him, too?” “I suppose so. It’s just the idea to let him iow someone cares enough to show an terest.” To say that I was surprised is an under.atement — not that Rock hasn’t been kind id considerate before. Only until now, > has never been able to show, to exess his feelings in any way, even to me. For that matter, lately I’ve seen all nds of changes in my son. Being the jirfect host at my Christmas dinner — tually his party since the guests were jck’s friends — was not the least. He used to be quite indifferent to par;s, even disliked large gatherings of any rt. But lately he is having more fun :ixing with people at my house and at s. Yet he hasn’t developed, and I don’t filieve he ever will, into the handshaking lad to see you, what did you say your me was?” kind of a person — partly beuse he dislikes small talk, partly because : hasn’t completely outgrown a shyness, ! rticularly toward women. This is also ne of the reasons why most of his dates :ie connected with the film industry and ^ually from his own studio. However, in telling me about his dates, :j>ck has eased up considerably, a sharp Intrast from his onetime reluctance to 11 me more than their names. Once this t me into a most embarrassing situation, ough I’m still not certain who was most inbarrassed — Rock, myself, or the two rls involved. I At the time, Rock was still in the service, ||| a naval air station somewhere in the |iilippines. One day he sent me forty >i liars and a short note advising me to ie part of the money for a new dress for itself, the rest to buy some roses for incy. Two weeks later he got a very sweet id very surprised letter of thanks from e girl. Two weeks after that I got a most ematic note: “Mother, you sent the roses 1 the wrong Nancy!” I ‘That’s what you get for not telling me >re about your girls,” I replied. “How ould I know which one you meant?” To hastily make up for my mistake, I ught “the other Nancy” a very nice acelet and mailed it to her with a sec(d note from Rock. Fortunately, this was only time he dated two girls with the sne first name. Naturally, to me, his mother, there’s a i£|nificance in everything Rock does. I n more conscious of the little things easily (erlooked by someone not as close to him * I am. His manner of dressing, for in£ince. i As a youngster, he liked any outfit— as lig as it included yellow corduroy pants! |1 high school, he still hated white shirts Ed ties. And until recently sports clothes vre his favorite dress. Imagine my surf se when he came back from his trip t Europe this summer looking like sometng straight out of Esquire. joing along with this new change, I t him white shirts at every opportunity ttil at last he protested. He had so many, ‘ couldn’t even get them in his wardrobe. 'ien I asked him what he wanted for t ristmas, he insisted, “Anything but v>ite shirts.” fet, as Rock has learned to relax, he Ts passed the peak of clothes-conscious^3s. Not that I think he’ll ever go back . yellow corduroy pants, but he is growffl! more casual in his manner of dressjfl'. a.s weH as in his outlook which, I t1!*) is very becoming. I .4 New! Exciting! Glamorous! This Gorgeous Yearbook Is Really Hollywood In Review It’s better than ever! It contains more news and pictures about all the stars of Hollywood than ever before. Yes, tbe exciting, new 1955 edition of Photoplay Annual is sensational. It’s a treasure-mine of information about the stars ... a real Who’s Who in Hollywood. 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