Radio and television mirror (July-Dec 1951)

Advertisement Seen ? 88 While everyone's busy making New Year reso,„ lutions that they'll probJOAN LANSING ably not keep beyond a concentrated week or two, let's settle down for a look at a new "point of view" you'll have no trouble keeping up with all year long. What's this peerless "point of view"? Just turn your television dial to your local American Broadcasting Company channel and viewwhat's-new in the program line. Great, eh? You bet it is, because the greatest names in entertainment are right there to give you hours and hours of pleasure. For the kids, your local ABC television channel comes up with zippy programs such as SUPER CIRCUS, with ringmaster CLAUDE KIRCHNER, lovely MARY HARTLINE, the CIRCUS BAND and many colorful CLOWNS. . . . DICK TRACY is seen in weekly thrilling episodes; BUCK ROGERS and his daring exploits are here, too . . .as well as the swell ACROBAT RANCH show with "UNCLE JIM" ... and the dog-gonnest program of all, cheerful CHESTER THE PUP. For the "grown-ups," the ABC television "point of view" features high-light shows such as THE PAUL WHITEMAN GOODYEAR REVUE, with EARL WRIGHTSON and fabulous guest stars . . . SHOWTIME . . . USA, featuring the theatre's most famous performers . . . HOLLYWOOD SCREEN TEST, with NEIL HAMILTON and starting-stars and starlets . . . THE COLLEGE BOWL, a musical comedy series starring the irrepressible CHICO MARX and Company . . . BEULAH, starring ETHEL WALTERS in comic situations . . . THE BILLY ROSE SHOW, offering punch-packed programs of Broadway life . . . CAN YOU TOP THIS . . . LIFE BEGINS AT 80, emceed by JACK BARRY . . . the rousing ROLLER DERBY . . . JOHN REED KING'S gay CHANCE OF A LIFETIME ... the favorite FIRST NIGHTER program . . . DON McNEILL'S TV CLUB with the whole gang . . . STOP THE MUSIC with bouncy BERT PARKS . . . DON AMECHE welcoming you to HOLIDAY HOTEL . . . BLIND DATE, festively femceed by ARLENE FRANCIS ... I COVER TIMES SQUARE ... the grand LIFE WITH LINKLETTER . . . the highly-scored PULITZER PRIZE PLAYHOUSE . . . THE STU ERWIN SHOW, "THE TROUBLE WITH FATHER" . . . and many exciting others that give you a choice "point of view." Be sure to check your newspapers' TV. logs for exact time and day. ctoooUaoSioq By JOAN DAVIS After carefully reading and considering all the wise and interesting solutions which readers sent in answer to Mrs. D. C, who asked whether she should follow her Army husband to another post or remain in her present home so her teen-age daughter could have the security of school and friends, I feel that Mrs. James B. Christopher, of Pacific Grove, California, offered the soundest advice. Radio Mirror's check for twenty-five dollars has been sent to Mrs. Christopher. Now, here are other problem letters I've received, and my answers to them: Dear Joan Davis: I have the following problem: My husband and I have been married over two years. We have a baby girl. I am twenty-one and my husband is twenty-eight. He is a good husband and father. I would like some more children but my husband does not want any more. Everytime I mention another baby he says no more for me. What can I do? Or what should I do? I do not like to bring up one child alone. Our daughter is fifteen months old already. I don't know whether his being twenty-eight years old has something to do about his not wanting anymore children or what. Could you help me solve my problem? Mrs. E. S. Dear Mrs. E. S.: I think that perhaps you are overstressing the necessity for haste in raising your family. After all, you're very young — and so is your husband, although his twenty-eight years seem a large number to you! I do agree with you that an only child is often a lonely child, can become a child who finds it more difficult to adjust to the world in later life than one who has had to share with brothers and sisters. On the other hand, I do feel that it's unfair to bring children into the world when one is not able to provide adequately for them. Perhaps your husband would prefer to wait a little, to be sure he can give his children the security he wants to give them, before adding to the family. Inasmuch as your one child is only fifteen months old, I do think that you shouldn't feel the matter is a pressing one — let your baby enjoy her babyhood before another one comes along. Dear Miss Davis: My husband is kind in every other respect but he is jealous. If a salesman comes to the door and I buy something from him it's not the article I purchase, nor how much I paid for it — the fact is that I've spoken to another man, and for hours, sometimes days, my husband maintains absolute silence. Whenever we are invited out to a party my husband will not go, nor will he give me permission to attend. Occasionally I feel that I should take part in some gathering; but having to go alone completely spoils the occasion for me. When we do go anywhere together I am uneasy because I know that my every move will be watched. If I make the slightest friendly remark or even smile at anyone of the opposite sex, it ends up in having the wildest accusations hurled at me; and I am charged with wanting to do things which actually never even entered my mind. These are not healthy surroundings in which to rear children. Why do I stick? For the sake of the children, and the hope that if I continue to do my best he will someday realize that all the sunshine in the world for me is right here with my husband and family. Am I right or wrong? A. L. Dear A. L.: I think that you need advice of a kind other than what I can give you. Jealousy — at least so deeprooted and unreasonable a sort as that which you describe in your husband — is a disease. Your husband needs the help of a person trained in mental and emotional disturbances — a doctor, psychiatrist, family counselor, or someone of the sort. Ask your family doctor for advice; or perhaps your minister can suggest the proper person to go to. Or there may be a family counseling service in your town. This is in a sense a medical problem, and thus one on which I'm not competent to advise you. Dear Joan: Where can I find the self-control and will power to hide my dismay when company comes over and I still have the cows to milk, supper to get, the children to wash and put to bed, to say nothing of dishes When A Girl Marries is heard M-F at 5 P.M. EST