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"They know the score in politics, in the latest atomic research, in the jockeying of diplomats just as they know it in football and baseball. But they have a sense of humor, too. Marriage is the goal of the girls. Like their mothers before them they want husbands who are generous, attractive, industrious, amusing and who don't eat pretzels in bed. There is no pretense about them and always they know what they want. The phonies in the Desirable Male Derby are scratched before the race begins. That's as true in Wilkes-Barre and Topeka as it is in Hollywood and New York. "They're not looking for the money of an Astor or the physique of a Doak Walker or the line of a Yale cheer leader. You know what? They want nothing less than a composite of these characters — but the motivating factor must be love. Absolutely. Perhaps lasting love, too. Who knows?" With her trim, well-rounded little figure— weight 112, height 5 feet, 3y2 inches, Barbara Bel Geddes might serve as a model for intelligent youth. Average youth, too. She has an odd idea. She thinks it possible for an average girl to live an average life and still be a movie star. She likes her home better than a night club, thinks it fun to figure out the right kind of decoration for the living room, listen to the newest records, indulge her talent for painting, read plays and novels and biographies curled up in a big chair, play with Susan. She resents being catalogued, typed, and, unlike many stage stars who scorn Hollywood while basking in its golden pastures, is honest enough to declare she's completely infatuated with movie-making. She has a notion teenagers also are resentful of being catalogued. "The girls and boys are supposed to talk a mysterious gibberish of their own, but it's the product mostly of cartoonists and gag men and Tin Pan Alley troubadours and Broadway wisecrackers. Cartoonists, in particular, are the worst offenders. They make teenagers out a bunch of nitwits, without sense, without poise, without character. What bothers young people most of all is being misunderstood. "They use slang, of course, but no more than their fathers and mothers did in the days when 'Twenty-three, skidoo' and 'Oh, you kid' were the rage. They clip some words short, like 'natch' for 'naturally.' They used to say 'hubba hubba' which could mean anything, and 'character,' which could mean anybody. A boy friend or a girl friend is still called 'the one and only' and a conceited boy is often referred to as 'big time operator.' " But Miss B.G. refuses to believe they go to such extremes of parroting the gagmen by calling a soda a 'moo with goo,' or a boy and the girl he's dated as 'a Jackson and his drag,' or a good dancer a 'jive bomber' or a superman in reverse 'a stuporman.' Jane Powell with Joey Adams, night club comic, during Manhattan visit. "That's cartoon talk," insisted Barbara. "The real hep teenager doesn't go in for it, except as a burlesque of the cartoons. The teenager, more than anything else, wants to be natural." Barbara believes, incidentally, that young people want their characters on the screen to be natural, to be realistic. She thinks the chief reason for the appeal of many foreign pictures to the teenage population lies in their simple realism Her own credo as an actress is to be real and natural, not something like a fugitive from a fashion magazine. With her lively, earnest gestures she finds it stimulating to see American youth facing and solving its problems in its own idealistic way. "Too long we imbibed the prejudices and inhibitions of our elders," she said. "Now the kids are doing their own thinking. I notice they read newspapers diligently — probably much more diligently than their elders did at the same age. And I think you'll find them less extreme in their fashions than their elders were at the same age. I've yet to see an oversized bow tie on a teenage youth, and though bobby-sox make legs look square and stocky they're to be preferred any day to high button shoes." As for all the supposed concentration on jive — well, to Barbara it's mostly exaggeration. She denies that lessons can be studied to the accompaniment of jive records. Anyone who could absorb math or English history with a jive record spraying discords would have to be, she said, deaf, dumb and dopey. And teenagers "are none of these." Though Barbara's film contract allows her to do a legitimate play each year, she has not yet taken advantage of that clause. Nor does she see any likelihood of doing so any time soon. Last Summer she rejected, without any hesitation, two of Broadway's most promising parts for the new season — the role of Anne Boleyn, opposite Rex Harrison in "Anne Of 1,000 Days," and a stellar part in Jean Paul Sartre's "Red Gloves" with Charles Boyer. She prefers California. So do Carl and Susan. They like the climate, the casual style of living, the people — particularly 64 SCREENLAND