Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1960)

r YOUR NEEDLEWORK Send thirty-five cents (in coin) for each pattern to: Photoplay Needlework, P.0. Box 123, Old Chelsea Station, N.Y. 11, N.Y. Add for each pattern for 1st class mailing. Send additional 25 4 for Photoplay’s 1960 Needlework Catalog. For the Spring and Summer Catalog of Printed Dress Patterns, send additional 25^. 7036 — Neat tops in Maternity Misses Sizes 10-12; 14-16 included. Motif and directions. 818 — To keep baby snug and warm. Diagrams and transfers for 35^2 x 43^” crib cover. A sure-cure for mid-winter blues is sewing, says Eleanor Parker, now in M-G-M’s “ Home From the Hill.” 7027 — Embroider Gay Nineties fun on mats, towels, cloths. Transfer of 18 motifs 31/2x3%" to 4%x4%". 7186 — Little girls love pinafores. Children's Sizes 2-8 included. Pattern, embroidery transfer, directions. She stopped for a second, then finished. “I gave him a bath and he was fine the next day. But I cried for a week.” And she remembered how, while the other children were playing, she was already working — as a child model. A friend of her mother’s, who was a designer and buyer for a department store in New York, had seen Tuesday’s photograph in a family scrapbook and remarked what a good model she would make. Times were hard and Tuesday convinced her mother it would be fun. So her mother agreed, and soon she became one of the most popular young models in town. Yet, just a few years later, she had to stop because, she remembered, she became unpleasingly plump — something which gave her friends another opportunity to laugh. And so her mother continued to struggle alone, to bring up Tuesday, her sister Sally and her brother David. How far has Tuesday traveled emotionally from the loneliness and unintentional non-conformity of her childhood? Hollywood has found her a colorful personality, but popularity has not erased those early times of difference and struggle. Tuesday has been depicted as a funobsessed, tempestuous teenage partygoer. Yet, I learned, she would rather go from a party than to one. “One of my favorite things,” she insisted, “is to be alone. When I’m alone, I can think.” She leaned forward, put her elbows on the table, and cupped her face in her hands. “Sometimes I like to be alone for a couple of days at a time,” she said, “just thinking, writing, reading, drawing or maybe just cleaning the dishes. Or driving up a new street that I never drove on. “When I go to a party, where a lot of people sit around gossiping,” she said, “I leave and I feel kind of empty. So why waste time going to a party when you could have started what you really wanted to do a lot earlier?” Unbidden, Tuesday burst out laughing. “I had a wild passion, the other night,” she squealed joyously, “to go out and get a box of crayons! Isn’t that funny — I wanted crayons and a coloring book! I just wanted to do something simple and fun.” “Tuesday never talks about love,” her mother once told me. “She’s had little crushes, yes, puppy love crushes that lasted two or three weeks, but never anything more serious.” “But I’m lonely,” Tuesday said. The words were like a forlorn echo. “I’m always lonely — for people. I like the warmth of people. Some people don’t generate any warmth. There are very few who actually do. I’m always seeking that kind of person. This, of course, is when I want to be with people.” I told her I understood what she meant. Then, there was a silence and, looking down at my watch, I noticed it was getting late. “I must be going now,” I said. “But thank you for talking with me.” And she smiled and then led me across the wide, green-carpeted room, past a beautiful fireplace, and on to the front door. “Goodnight,” she said quietly, then added, “But do you think the whispers about me will ever stop?” “I hope so,” I said. I really didn’t know. . . . —WILLIAM TUSHER SEE TUESDAY IN U-l’s “THE PRIVATE LIVES OF ADAM AND EVE” AND “BECAUSE THEY’RE YOUNG” for col. she’s on cbs-tv, tues., 8:30-9 P.M. EST, “the MANY LOVES OF DOBIE GILLIS.” SEE HER IN U.I.’S “SURVEY: THE TEENAGER” AND “SEXPOT GOES TO COLLEGE” FOR A. A. 66