TV Radio Mirror (Jan - Jun 1955)

THIS GORGEOUS BOOK IS REALLY . . . HOLLYWOOD IN REVIEW It's better than everl It contains more news and pictures about all the stars of Hollywood than ever before. Yes, the 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. This colorful and glamorous year book is THE book-of-the-year — as far as Hollywood is concerned. Get your copy of this prize book before they are all snatched up. Here is what you get in this great yearbook: NEWS EVENTS OF THE YEAR— 20 exciting pages in pictures and text covering the month-by-month weddingB — separations — divorces — births — awards — scoops. PERSONALITIES OF THE YEAR— Stories and pictures of Robert Wagner • Janet Leigh. Tony Curtis • Debbie Reynolds • Rock Hudsun • Marilyn Monroe • Guy Madison • Audrey Hepburn • Audie Murphy. LOVE SCENES — Beautiful full-page scenes of the stars from ten top shows of the year. DANCERS OF THE YEAR— Action pictures and biographical sketches of Cyd Charisse • Vera-Ellen • The Champions • Taina Elg • Leslie Caron • Mitzi Gaynor. PERFORMERS OF THE YEAR— Here you get portraits as well as action shots from their big pictures, plus the autographs of Marlon Brando • June Allyson • Van Johnson • Judy Garland • Robert Mitchum • Gary Cooper • Burt Lancaster • Ava Gardner. ALL-TIME FAVORITES— Beautiful pictures, plus thumbnail sketches of Alan Ladd o Susan Hayward • Dean Martin • Jerry Lewis • eanne Crain • William Holden • Eleanor Parker • Chirk Gable • Betty Grable • Victor Mature • Virginia Mayo • Robert Taylor • Barbara Stanwyck • Richard Widinark • John Wayne. SONGSTERS OF THE YEAR— Doris Day • Howard Keel • Jane Powell • Bin« Crosby • Danny Kaye • Rosemary Clooney • Frank Sinatra. PORTRAIT GALLEKr— Full-page pictures of Esther Williams • Elizabeth Taylor • Montgomery Clift • Jeff ('handler • Stewart Qranger and Jean Simmons • Ann Blyth • Charlton Heston • Piper Laurie • Scott Brady • Jane Russell • John Derek. ASCENDING STARS — These are the names that are making news. Some have just flashed into sight — some now Bhlne with an extra radiance — Terry Moore • George Nader • Edmund Purdom • lack Lemmon • Richard Burton • Barbara Rush • Susan Cabot • Jeff Richards • Steve Forrest • Doe Avedon • Audrey Dalton • Race Sentry • Rubs Tamblyn • Sarlta Montlel • Elaine Stewart • Jeffrey Hunter • Elroy Illrsch • Rhonda Fleming • Pat Crowley • Ben Cooper • Lorl Nelson • Robert Stack • Julia Adams • Suzan Ball • Maria English. ONLY 50C— WHILE THEY LAST This sensational Yearbook sells out practically as soon as it is put on sale. Don't be disappointed this year — only 50c at newsstands or mall coupon with 50c — TODAY. TpHOTOPLAY Dept. WG-555 | I 205 E. 42 St.. New York 17, N. Y. ' Send me postpaid a copy of PHOTOPLAY | I ANNUAL 1955. I enclose 50c | Name ■ t * Picas* Print V I I Address i City State I ! ' I !i! pain of dope addiction, nor in looking at death and destruction pouring from a bottle. Our expanding economy, says Jack, is another reason for the increase in teenage trouble. He feels that it is new wealth which, at this time, youngsters have not yet learned to handle. "In my high school days," Jack says, "the entire student body boasted of only a handful of automobiles. Today, almost every student has a car, or can get one. "In addition, teenagers have incomes which far surpass anything we had during the thirties. Today the average teenager earns $30 a month during a school semester. During the summer, that figure goes to $36. I think the earning part is great. What alarms me is what they buy with it." This new wealth brings problems. In time, Jack feels the youngsters will learn to handle it. But, in the meantime, they tend to splurge. Their problems often begin when their ready money is spent on liquor: "The combination of alcohol and automobiles can't help but lead to trouble." Automobiles are another part of the problem that go hand in hand with the wealth. "When I was in high school," Jack recalls, "we seldom roamed away from our own back yard. But an automobile goes everywhere. It's difficult to keep a parental eye on the kids when the entire city becomes a back yard to roam in." "Wine Gulch," a hill in the Los Angeles area, is an illustration of what the autoliquor combination can create. "Wine Gulch," as it is called, is a remote area in the Los Angeles hills. It has become a nighttime rendezvous for youngsters, their automobiles, and their bottles. Recently, patrolling officers found two seventeen-year-old boys lying stupefied in the middle of the road. The bottles piled around them told their story. It was a wonder they had not been run over by some of their confederates. It was sheer luck that they had fallen off to sleep — for, if they had tried driving down the tortuous road, they surely would have skidded off the mountainside. "Their experimentation," says Jack, "could have led them to serious trouble — by that, I mean criminal behavior, the kind that wrecks futures. Separate records are not kept on the physical condition of delinquents in custody. If they are brought in drunk for burglary, or if they are doped up when arrested for armed robbery, the books show it as burglary and robbery. The statistics never show what their condition was when they were brought in. But any police officer will tell you there is a high correlation between the use of stimulants and the crime rate." What can we do about delinquency, a growing blot in our society? One idea is to replace lower-principled behavior with something higher. This takes work and imagination on the part of teachers and parents. "I once knew a mother," says Jack, "whose two youngsters loved to play with matches. She substituted a twentyfive-cent box of jack-straws. The idea worked." The same principle applies to teenagers. If they want to get out from under the observation of their parents, then send them out— but guide them. This plan has worked very well in Los Angeles, where the DAPS (Deputy Auxiliary Police) teen-age clubs are sent with counselors, each summer and winter, to city camps high in the San Bernardino Mountains. They swim, hike, ski, and skate, are kept busy in healthy recreation. The entire problem of juvenile delinquency is a complex one. The lack of foresight on the part of the youngsters is not the only cause. Broken, poor, or unhappy homes contribute to delinquency — but they don't have to. Jack Webb's own success is proof of that. And the additional causes overlap. There is no telling which is most important, or where one begins and another ends. The expanding economy, for example, provides money for spending; automobiles are commonplace and carry youngsters out of range of their parents' observation; liquor is bought; they feel they want to "belong"; they think they will be excused for their first mistakes; they think they are not being observed; they "experiment"— and Wine Gulches are born. Who is responsible? The parents, the teachers, the teenagers themselves. Parents can make more time for their children, help them to substitute something worthwhile for their wild behavior. It takes thought and imagination, but it pays off. "I remember an acquaintance of mine," says Jack, "who had a thirteen-year-old son and a fourteen-year-old nephew. They were fine kids alone. But, when they were together, the world had to beware. One summer, when the nephew visited for a week, the parent hit on this idea: He filled two jars full of nickels. Every time the kids got in trouble, he took out a nickel. At the end of the week, they were to get whatever was left over. They behaved like angels. "The most important thing that came of this was a new hobby. The kids had to keep occupied, so they started to build a boat. They kept out of trouble the rest of the summer by finishing the boat." The parents should make more time for their family and home. Jack, for example, insists his wife will be a homemaker, not a performer in his new "Pete Kelly's Blues," as has been rumored. "One showbusiness career in any family is enough," he says. And both teachers and parents should encourage constructive behavior in teenagers; make an attempt to replace the bad with something good, as illustrated by the "nickel" and "jackstraw" examples. "But in the last analysis," says Jack, "the decision to 'experiment,' to do right or wrong, is up to the individual teenager." And his plea to today's young generation is: "Look to the future." JUNE . . . MOOTS . . . TUNE What could be a more timely "rhyme" than next month's full-color portrait of Jackie Gleason and Audrey Meadows plus a life-size story about your favorite "Honeymooners"? . . . Then — for the first nautical note of the season — a shipload of pictures and prose about Arthur Godfrey's Mariners June TV RADIO MIRROR at your newsstand May 5