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nounced that we would have some of her cake for dessert. I tasted it gingerly, expecting the worst. But it was fluffy and the icing was very good. "Hm! How did you make the icing?" I asked. "The recipe was right there on the box," she said, triumphantly. "See, I told you there was nothing to it!" Sometime during the summer, both Alice and Phyllis started to indulge in that favorite feminine pastime of primping in front of a mirror. Of late, they have become very interested in caring for their hair and their nails, and frequently, against my better judgment, I am called in as a beauty expert. A few weeks ago, little Alice announced that she wanted to let her hair grow until it hung all the way down her back. Her mother didn't see it that way, and insisted that it be cut. It is a little ragged around the edges, honey," I offered, meekly. I thought it was a tactful remark, but she still -gave me a look that would fry an egg. P.S.: she got her hair cut, for Mama can be forceful, too. Until this year, Alice has always bought identical clothes for the girls. But that won't do at all, anymore. Their tastes in clothes have taken off in different directions. Nor will it be possible for them to exchange clothes. The other day, Phyllis came to me with a frightful beef because her mother had made her wear a practically new dress that Alice had outgrown. "Why, that's a mighty pretty dress," I said. "But it's Alice's," Phyllis sobbed. "And Mommie bought Alice a brand new one." It would take the wisdom of Solomon to answer that one. But when I'm stuck, I simply pass the problem back to Alice from whence it came. That's basically a woman's fight, and Alice has always done a better job of solving problems like that than I ever could. When it gets too tough, there's nothing left for me to do but duck out to Lakeside Country Club for a round of golf. But all around me are signs that most of my lumps are still ahead. When my daughters grow up, they will present tougher and tougher problems for their old man to solve. And that day isn't far away. I got an indication of that not long ago, when little Alice got out some of her mother's old records and began singing duets with them. It naturally gave big Alice a nostalgic twinge for the days when she was making pictures. Both of the girls frequently come home from school and tell Alice that the kids were asking when their Mommie was going to make another picture. And little Alice, who likes everything about movies, keeps asking her if she really knows Betty Grable, and Tyrone Power. Those things have had their effect, I think. Alice has always been very forthright about her career. She didn't feel that she could make movies and raise a family, too. She wanted her kids to know her as a mother, and they have. For the past seven years, Twentieth has sent her at least one script a month, and she has sent them all back. 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