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family. While Diana was gone, Kirk received a wire from Hal Wallis offering him the part of Walter in "The Strange Love Of Martha Ivers." Impulsively, he tossed his extra cuff links into a suitcase and went West. His manner of announcing this to Diana was typical. He wired, "Look where I am — in Hollywood. Explanation follows. Love, Kirk." Diana joined Kirk as soon as possible. For awhile it looked as if they were going to have to glue a few empty Wheatie boxes together as shelter, but they finally found a wonderful, rambling old house high in the Hollywood Hills. Kirk has built picket fences and painted them, and has cut enough firewood to barbecue an elephant. Diana has selected rugs, drapes and upholstery fabrics, and has picked up some attractive antiques to supplement the things she had shipped out from New York. However, her domestic plans are subject to occasional postponement be cause Diana is set for a film career of her own after her fine work in "The Sign Of The Ram" for Columbia. Before Diana was tested and signed, Kirk liked to hold forth at great rate about woman's place being in the home, about her duties to civilization, and her responsibility to the younger generation. A domestic life, he insisted, was the proper role for womankind. A friend teased him about this pronouncement, after having seen Diana's sensational screen work. "How does that square with your fancy ideas about frau and fireside?" Kirk was asked. Kirk merely looked surprised . . . and owlish. "But Diana is different," he said. "She has talent. She has a great gift. It would be a mistake for her not to exercise her ability to the fullest extent. I think it's wonderful for her to have a career. Career women frequently make the best mothers." Then he grinned. Who knows, Diana and Kirk Douglas may become the first Lunt and Fontanne of the American screen. Lay Off Teenagers! Continued from page 35 badgered by parents or teachers or by professional lecturers or columnists or even scenario writers. "If they really wanted to, they have plenty to gripe about," Barbara asserted. "How would you like to be patronized with the regularity the bobby-soxers and teenagers are? Too many people think all they have in mind is swooning, jitterbugging and accenting hep — and it's hep I mean, not hip. In the last three years I've heard much to assure me there is rebellion in the ranks of young people. It's rebellion against the cheap, the tawdry, the vicious and the unclean. Rebellion against any attitude of their elders that misinterprets their seriousness about life." Barbara became eloquently resentful at what she termed a tendency on the part of too many elders to lump delinquency and teenagers together. "Every so often someone comes out with a big bleat about a kid who's strayed from the narrow, who's done something terrible, who's stolen or killed someone cr committed some frightful social crime," she said. "And the result is that all teenagers get a black name, and the cry goes out across the land, 'American youth is demoralized,' and the name-calling starts." It is her belief the youth of today are not greatly different from the youth of past generations. Sports and music and entertainment and dates are enjoyed just as much as ever. But today's young people, she insists, don't like to have their elders look at them as though they could possibly be thinking of anything but hell-raising. "I'm not saying they don't get into trouble," Barbara declared, "but they're just as serious about their lives as older people are. Maybe more so. At least they're making sounds that indicate an effort toward understanding national and international affairs. It's solid-sending, I say, even when it's interspersed with talk about a 'drip' or a 'goon.' I think the professors are right — those professors who have really studied the teenage group — that it's a matter of muscles. If the muscles are okay, so are the mind and the manners." And Barbara asks the self-answering question: Where, but in the U. S. A., can you find better muscles than among the young people— "so firm, so round, so fully-packed?" She stressed the point that the young people of today know how to take care of themselves, and they will not tolerate a "don't-do-this, don't-do-that" atmosphere at home or in school. "Can you blame them?" she said. "They know only too well that constant scolding is likely to develop furtiveness, and that is fatal to charm in young or old. Certainly they neck. Why not? It's the only way they can be sure there isn't something wrong with them that even their best friends won't tell them about. "As for the girls, they can tell a wolf at 80 paces without hearing his howl. Though they're curious, they have no insistent desire to have a wolf for a pet." The half light of the early evening gave a softness to Barbara's fine hazel eyes and honey-colored hair and edged the contours of her broad face. In repose she could've easily been a Glamour Girl. But she was almost never still. Whether she was discussing her latest pictures, EKO's "Blood On The Moon" or Enterprise's "Caught;" whether she was talking about her engineer husband, Carl Schreuer, and their little four-year-old daughter, Susan; or the lives and times of teenagers, her eyes and down-curved mouth and flickering hands were all expressive of a restless intelligence. Her restiveness, however, is not the type that leaps at you to evoke a possibly neat response. 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