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Young women: from left, Barbara, Carol, Betty Lou, Kathy and their mother, Betty. according to the script, she asked him if he could stand on his head. “No,” he replied. Said the script: Kathy crumples up letter and throws it away. “Wait a minute,” boomed Young. “In my family this would never hap¬ pen. If Kathy thought enough of her dad to write a letter about him, she wouldn’t change her mind just be¬ cause he couldn’t stand on his head. “Furthermore,” said Young, “the father wouldn’t just say he couldn’t stand on his head. He’d try.” Parents less agile than they used to be might take frantic exception to this reasoning. But Young, devoted father of four daughters (ranging from Carol, 21, through Barbara, 17, and Betty Lou, 11, to the aforemen¬ tioned Kathy, 9), would try. Thor¬ oughly indoctrinated with “family spirit” at home, he constantly strives to instil that quality in Father Knows Best, in which he plays papa to a mere trio. So the script was changed, and in that particular episode Young will be seen trying to stand on his head. Such last-minute revisions of the show’s high-priced plans surprise nobody. Robert Young, actor, has been quick at improvising ever since his leading- man days at Lincoln High in Los Angeles. A Lincoln legend tells of the time Bob, beating on the iron door of a stone castle in “Sleeping Beauty,” knocked the whole wall down. With¬ out missing a line, he pulled the prop door back into position, held it with one hand and kept strik¬ ing it with the other. “Ah,” he ad libbed, “that yon barricade wouldst fade away through the power of my love, as it seemed to me in a dream I just had.” The heroine of that epic was Eliza¬ beth Louise (Betty) Henderson, who, some years later, became Mrs. Robert Young. To Kathy, the fourth daughter born of this union, is credited Father Knows Best, a 1949 radio show which went visual last October. “I was always telling people at M-G-M things Kathy had done,” says Young, “and it got so they’d ask me if I had any new Kathy stories. “One day I told Eugene Rodney, my partner in an independent pro¬ ducing company, that Kathy and I had an argument, and that I hgd tried to end it by telling her: ‘Never you mind. Father knows best.’ Well, you don’t know Kathy if you think that ended it. ‘Why does father always know best?’ she wanted to know. ‘Why doesn’t Kathy know best some¬ times?’ “I thought Gene would die laugh- 18